About
Made by a DM, player and designer
who got tired of fighting the sheet.
Steward is a fan-made character companion for D&D 5.5e / 2024 tables. It started as a personal attempt to make character creation clearer and table play faster.
01 / Who made it
Not a software company.
One person, with care.
I am not a software company. I am a DM, a player, a designer and a father building this with care, testing, A.I. collaboration and a lot of respect for the game.
Steward is free because it is meant to help tables, not lock them into another subscription. If it helps yours, support keeps the ink flowing.
02 / How A.I. was used
Better said plainly
than left to be guessed.
Steward is built in close collaboration with A.I. tools for code, structure and iteration. The art was made the same way.
Made with A.I. tools
- Code, structure and iteration, in close collaboration.
- Every image on this site, by one person with no art budget.
Made by a person
- The design decisions.
- The rules understanding.
- The testing at real tables.
- The stubbornness.
The table scenes were meant to be photographed with real players around a real table, and producing that turned out to cost more than the project has. The honest alternative was empty boxes, not a commission.
It is not meant to stay that way. The goal is a project where the work is done by people who get paid for doing it. Past the running costs, the first money support brings in pays human artists to replace this art, piece by piece, starting with the ones you see most. When a piece gets redrawn by a person, that person gets named in the ledger, like anyone else who worked on this. Naming what the art is today is the only way that promise means anything.
Made in collaboration with A.I. Thought with love and passion.
03 / The part that is hardest to see
How the rules
get checked.
Every mechanic is verified against the 2024 rules before it is written into Steward, not after. Where a rule is ambiguous it gets read again rather than guessed at, and the reading gets written down, so the same question is not re-argued six months later.
- checks on the rules engine, on every change
- 2,500+
- checks on the interface, driving a real browser
- 1,700+
- reference character sheet, built by hand
- 1
- failing suites allowed in a release
- 0
Underneath that, Steward runs two automated test suites on every single change: over 2,500 checks on the rules engine and over 1,700 on the interface, the second driving a real browser the way a player would. One character sheet, built by hand, is kept as the reference. If a change moves any of its numbers, that is a bug, not a new result. Nothing ships with either suite failing.
This is the part that is hardest to see from the outside, and it is the reason the app can promise that the math is checkable. When Steward gets a rule wrong, and it will, the fix is written as a test first so the same mistake cannot come back quietly.
04 / Lines that stay drawn
What Steward
will never be.
Weighing it against D&D Beyond? Here is the straight answer.
- Official, or pretending to be.
- A replacement for your books or your DM.
- A subscription with playable content behind a paywall.
- A data-hungry platform. Your character is yours.
Legal and copyright noteSteward is an unofficial fan-made companion. It is not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast or D&D Beyond. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. It uses SRD-safe content, paraphrased guidance and user-entered data where appropriate. Full details on the legal page.
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