Lanternwright

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Prop Press

One HTML file to double-click. Works offline, with no account and no internet.

Newspapers, letters, wanted posters and more for a tabletop game, ready to print.

The sample newspaper and wanted poster tell the same small story, about a missing goat.

Prop Press in a browser: on the left, cards for the three props the demo includes and a list of the seven more in the full version, and on the right a sample front page with a blackletter masthead and the headline Prize Goat Vanishes on the Eve of the Harvest Fair. Click to try it
A look-around version of Prop Press. Every prop and style can be clicked, and the seven marked “in the full version” are the ones you buy. The text is read-only and nothing is saved, printed or sent anywhere.

Prop Press has not launched yet. Typing in it, printing and the exports come with the free demo and the full version, once there is somewhere to get them.

A letter prop in Prop Press: a lighthouse keeper's letter in a script heading and serif body on aged paper, signed with a flourish and closed with a red wax seal, with the three demo props and the seven in the full version listed beside it.
A formal letter with a wax seal.
A frontier-style wanted poster on torn, weathered paper for a goat thief named Jory Thrush, with a silhouette where the portrait goes, a list of crimes and a reward in silver marks, and the same prop list beside it.
A wanted poster, from the same sample story about a missing goat.
A lighthouse keeper's letter shown twice: on the left as designed, in a script typeface on aged paper, and on the right in readable mode, in a clear serif with dark ink on plain paper.
Readable mode next to the letter as designed. It carries through to printing and every export. Sample text again.
Prop Press at phone width: a three-step getting-started box, then cards for picking a prop, such as a newspaper front page or a letter or sealed note.
Prop Press at phone width. It's easier to use on a bigger screen.

Prop Press makes newspaper front pages, sealed letters, wanted posters, bounty boards, shop receipts and annotated maps for a game, each in two styles. Fill in a short form, watch the page update while typing, then print it, save a PNG or send it to Foundry VTT. The whole thing is one HTML file that works offline.

What it does

  • Ten props, two styles each. A newspaper front page, a letter or sealed note, a wanted poster, a bounty board, a single bounty notice, a shop receipt, a map with notes, an envelope you cut out and fold, a town proclamation and a tavern bill of fare.
  • Fill in a short form and watch the page change. Character counters, and a live preview of the actual page while typing.
  • Warns before any paper gets wasted. US Letter or A4, with a fit check that says which field won't fit.
  • Hide what the players can't read yet. Mark words and they print as a black bar, or in a cipher a table can break with a pencil. The words reach no export. A separate sheet, for you, says what is under each bar.
  • Cut it up. Cut lines for 3 to 6 pieces, over a prop that still prints on one sheet. Cut along them and hand out a handout the players have to put back together.
  • It remembers your world. Set your newspaper's masthead once and every new one starts there. Every prop a table sees again can make the next one of itself, keeping the shop's name and raising the number.
  • Print it, or don't. Save a PDF, export a PNG at any width (with alt text to copy), or send it to Foundry VTT as a journal.
  • Project files. Save a prop, images and all, and open it again later.
  • Readable mode. A clear serif, dark ink and plain paper for players with low vision or dyslexia. Plus light, dark and high-contrast themes, and it all works from the keyboard.
  • Template packs that can't run code. They're signed by whoever made them and checked on your device.

What it doesn't do

  • No AI text or image generation.
  • It doesn't order printed copies.
  • It isn't a Foundry module yet; it exports journals to import.
  • Safari is untested, and so is printing from Firefox on paper.
  • No account or cloud sync.

Who it's for

Game masters who want handouts that look like they belong in the world, without desktop publishing software or a subscription.

Where it stands

Coming soon

Works now

  • All ten props, in two styles each, including an envelope you cut out and fold
  • Print, PDF, PNG and the Foundry VTT export
  • Session packets: a whole night's props in one print job
  • Hidden words: a black bar, or a cipher, and the key stays yours
  • Cut it up: cut lines for a prop the players put back together
  • Props that remember your world, and make the next one of themselves
  • A printer check that says which setting is wrong
  • Paper wear, burned edges and handwriting
  • Readable mode, and signed template packs
  • Numbers that read as numbers in every style, even the old blackletter one
  • A town proclamation and a tavern bill of fare, both built in rather than a pack

Still to do

  • Export sizes for Owlbear Rodeo and Roll20
  • A Gaslight pack: police reports, telegrams, calling cards
  • Paste an Obsidian note and get a prop from it
  • Safari in the automated tests
  • A store page, and the screenshots to go on it

The look-around demo below is on this page. The full version will be one download you keep, and updates will be included.

As of

Join the waitlist

One email when Prop Press is out, and that's it.

Email to join the waitlist

Or write to support@lanternwright.com with “Waitlist: Prop Press” as the subject.

What it keeps, and where

Nothing made in it leaves the device, and the page's security policy blocks every network connection it doesn't need.

Goes online only for: Update check (on by default, and you can turn it off).

The full Prop Press privacy section

Runs on, and what it'll cost

Runs on
Desktop browsers (the automated tests run in Chromium and Firefox). One HTML file: double-click to open, works offline.
Cost
A free demo with three props and full-quality export, with no watermark. The full version with all ten props is a one-time purchase, and every update after it is included.

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