The app aims to help with the chores that come with the oldschool style of the game, without removing its fun. Me and my friends started the campaign Tomb of annihilation, and the idea came up to make something to help track with the amount of resources and encumberment. The app is therefore specifically tailored for the jungle exploration but could be used to help with any kind of adventure and is especially useful for hex-crawlers alike.

Live app example

It is build using R Shiny. The database is incorporated in Firebase.

To start using it you either have to link the app to your database or create your project at firebase. You also have to create a project in google console and allowing authentication on the set url. If you run the app locally use localhost:5555 (Change the port number accordingly).

There are two files you need to create:

• secret.R
  • store the secrets from Firebase and google (for reference look at dummy file)
• dm.R
  • here you store the ID of the game master. He also needs to create a character with DM as name.

You also have to change the redirect path triggering on logging out or if the token expires. The path is found in global.R:

Shiny.addCustomMessageHandler('mymessage', function(message){window.location = 'http://localhost:5555';});

The easiest way to run the app is to have Rstudio from where you can lunch and edit the R code.
You could run the app by running runApp.R as a R script, given you have the lyberis installed (you can find them at the top in global.R).

If you do not have R it is possible is to build a docker image

docker build -t trackit .

and launching the container.

docker run -p 5555:5555 trackit_1.0