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DMKit Roadmap

This document outlines post-v1 features and platform improvements. Items are grouped by theme, not strict release order. Nothing here is scheduled — it is a reference for prioritisation conversations.

v1 Scope (Current)​

The stories FE0–FE20 and BE1–BE11 define the v1 feature set:

  • Campaign, World, Location, Area CRUD
  • Entity library (Characters, Items, Hazards)
  • Factions, Quests, Session Notes
  • Player Characters
  • Battle map with token placement, movement, and state (HP, conditions)
  • Travel routes on world canvas
  • AI world map generation (Amazon Bedrock)
  • Campaign export / import (async, JSON snapshot)
  • Authentication via AWS Cognito

Near-Term​

Small, high-value additions that extend v1 features without architectural changes.

Combat & Encounter Tools​

  • Initiative tracker — ordered turn list on the battle map; drag to reorder; auto-advance on end-turn
  • Encounter builder — pre-configure a token layout and entity set; drop the whole encounter into an Area at once
  • Dice roller — inline dice roller (e.g. 2d6+3) tied to a character's ability scores; roll history per session
  • Condition reference panel — hover a condition badge to see its rules text

Entity Enhancements​

  • Entity templates — save a Character or Hazard as a reusable template; instantiate into any campaign
  • Bulk entity import — paste a stat block or upload a CSV to create multiple entities at once
  • Character portrait upload — direct image upload for Character and PlayerCharacter profile images (extends BE7/FE10 pattern)

Quest & Session Note Improvements​

  • Quest timeline view — visualise quests by status on a horizontal timeline
  • Session note search — full-text search across session note summaries
  • Linked quest progress — mark individual objectives complete from the battle map sidebar

Map & Canvas​

  • Fog of war — toggle revealed/hidden zones per Area for player-facing view
  • Area grid overlay — configurable square or hex grid with snap-to-grid token movement
  • Distance measurement tool — click two points on the canvas to get distance in feet/squares

Medium-Term​

Larger features that require new backend stories or significant frontend work.

Multiplayer / Real-Time Collaboration​

The v1 architecture has forward-looking hooks for this:

  • userId (nullable FK) on PlayerCharacter — each player owns their character
  • No-op WebSocket endpoint at GET /v1/ws — the connection infrastructure is in place
  • role claim on JWT middleware — RBAC plumbing exists

What this unlocks:

  • Invite players to a campaign by email; each gets a scoped Cognito account
  • Players connect via WebSocket and see live battle map updates (token moves, HP changes, condition toggles)
  • DM controls which Areas are visible to players
  • PlayerCharacters are owned by the player, not the DM; DM has read-only view

RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)​

  • Roles: owner (DM), player, spectator
  • player can edit their own PlayerCharacter; read campaign entities; cannot modify world structure
  • spectator is read-only across the board
  • Role is stored on the Cognito JWT and parsed by the existing middleware; no auth rewrite needed

Campaign Sharing & Templates​

  • Share a campaign as read-only — generate a shareable link; recipient can browse but not edit
  • Publish as template — export a campaign to a community template gallery; others can import it as a starting point
  • Campaign duplication — server-side clone without going through export/import JSON (faster, no file download)

Notifications​

  • In-app notification feed — quest status changes, new session notes, player character updates
  • Email digest — weekly summary of session notes and quest updates (SES)

Long-Term​

Platform-level bets that require meaningful new infrastructure or product decisions.

Mobile App​

  • React Native client sharing logic with the web frontend
  • Offline-capable PlayerCharacter sheet — sync on reconnect
  • Push notifications for session start, initiative turn alerts

AI Dungeon Master Assistance​

  • Session recap generation — summarise session notes into a narrative paragraph (Bedrock/Claude)
  • NPC dialogue suggestions — given a Character's disposition and faction, suggest dialogue options
  • Quest hook generator — given campaign entities, suggest new quest hooks
  • Encounter difficulty estimator — given party level and token set, estimate encounter difficulty

Marketplace​

  • Community-contributed campaign templates, entity packs, and map backgrounds
  • DM-to-DM sharing of Factions, entity libraries, and Location sets as importable bundles
  • Monetisation path: free tier + paid premium templates

Advanced Map Tools​

  • Multi-floor areas — Areas stacked vertically with a floor switcher
  • Dynamic lighting — token line-of-sight calculations; walls and doors block visibility
  • Weather and ambient overlays — visual effects layer over the canvas (rain, fog, fire)

Data & Analytics (DM Tooling)​

  • Campaign statistics dashboard — session count, entity usage, most-active quests
  • Character progression tracking — level history, HP over sessions, condition frequency
  • Export to PDF — printable character sheets and session summaries

Infrastructure Scaling​

  • Concurrency control — ETag / If-Match header support on PUT endpoints to prevent lost updates under concurrent edits
  • Soft delete archival — periodic job moves rows with old deletedAt values to an archive table to keep the main tables lean
  • Read replicas — RDS read replica for analytics and export queries once write load justifies it
  • CDN for entity images — CloudFront distribution in front of S3 for character portrait and map image delivery