Local First
Everything stays on your machine.
Local-first creator tool
Design Legendary. Keep It Local.
Homebrew Forge turns custom fantasy card ideas into organized projects, playable decks, printable exports, and source files you control.
Private by Design
Your projects. Your data.
Built for Creators
Powerful tools, zero friction.
Source alpha guide · macOS · Windows · Linux
Citadel of the Waning Light
HF
Legendary Location
At the beginning of your turn, you may look at the top card of your deck. If it is a creature card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
Where last light lingers, hope is reforged.
Case Study
Forged for Creators
Homebrew Forge began from a simple belief: the best custom card ideas deserve better than scattered screenshots, fragile notes, and one-off exports. It is a modern, offline-first workshop for designing, iterating, and sharing card projects with confidence.
Built for Creators
Powerful Tools. Thoughtful Details.
Intuitive Card Editor
Craft cards with structured fields, variants, and real-time preview.
Organized Projects
Keep cards, assets, sets, decks, and collections in clean lanes.
Built-in Playtest
Test interactions, compare variants, and keep iteration grounded.
Export Your Way
Prepare images, print assets, decks, packets, and handoff files.
The Making Loop
How Homebrew Forge Works
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1. Create
Design cards and assets with focused authoring tools.
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2. Organize
Build sets, decks, collections, and project libraries.
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3. Playtest
Simulate choices, inspect variants, and refine balance.
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4. Export
Prepare printable and shareable files from local source truth.
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5. Iterate
Return to the forge with better data and better decisions.
Source Alpha
Roadmap
Homebrew Forge is actively developed with creators, for creators.
Explore the Roadmap-
v0.3Foundations
- Card editor and validation
- Project and asset management
- Export images and packets
- Local playtest engine beta
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v0.4Expansion
- Advanced templating
- Deck and collection support
- Import from external data
- Public docs cleanup
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v0.5Refinement
- Rules engine improvements
- AI-assisted tools
- Better export options
- Accessibility polish
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v1.0Mastery
- Plugin system
- Packaging and signing
- Cross-platform release
- Creator-ready docs
AI-Assisted Build
AI Assistance. On Your Terms.
Homebrew Forge is also a working case study in AI-assisted software craft: intent becomes a plan, the plan becomes code, the code is tested visually, and the shipped result gets written down.
Optional, local, and private.
Your Prompt
You provide ideas, constraints, and taste.
Local Context
The agent reads the repo before acting.
Suggestions
Copy, mechanics, workflows, tests, and fixes.
Apply or Edit
You review, refine, and keep control.
Under the Hood
A Shared Product UI, Local Source Truth
Technical layers
packages/editor owns the shared React product UI across web and desktop. packages/forge owns schemas, renderer, importers, exporters, and asset-pack logic. packages/runtime-service owns the route contract, while packages/desktop wraps the app in the no-port Electron shell.
Design system
The North Star is Arcane Workshop: parchment, brass, obsidian, dense creative-tool layout, accessible contrast, visible state, and enough fantasy atmosphere to feel purpose-built without becoming a game menu.
Current alpha honesty
The product is real and broad, but still source alpha. Public packaging, signing, repo cleanup, and contributor onboarding are the next gates before this becomes a general download.
Open the Forge
Ready to Forge Something Legendary?
Follow the public source-alpha path, inspect the work, and let your own agent walk the repo with the right project boundaries.