For creators
A few things on OpenRift are built for people making Riftbound videos and streams: card art on screen without showing your browser, tier lists you can share, and a card lookup your chat bot can answer. All of it is free, and nothing needs to be installed.
Stage
The Stage puts Riftbound cards in front of your audience. It has two outputs: a full-screen show you run on this screen, and a transparent overlay for OBS.
You can build the card queue on the Stage itself, or start it from somewhere else. Every deck menu has a Present entry that walks the deck zone by zone, and a tier list can go up as a board you reveal live. The queue is part of the URL, so a set you use every week can simply be a bookmark. If you are signed in, you can also save your settings as presets.
The full-screen show
The show fills the screen with nothing but the cards, so you can capture or record it directly. You pick the background in the show's settings: black, or green or magenta if you record now and key it out in your editor later. Everything is driven from the keyboard:
- →↓Space
- Next card
- ←↑
- Previous card
- HomeEnd
- First or last card
- T
- Show or hide the card text
- F
- Show or hide the thumbnail strip
- P
- Push this card to the OBS overlay
- O
- Show the tier board on the OBS overlay
- ?
- Show the key list on screen
- Esc
- Leave the show
Modifier presses are left alone, so your browser and window shortcuts keep working while the show is up.
The OBS overlay
The overlay sends single cards, or a ranking that fills in as you talk through it, to a transparent browser source in OBS. Setting it up takes a few minutes:
- 1
Open the Stage, switch the output to OBS, and copy the browser source URL
You need to be signed in for this. The link is created for you on your first visit, and you can replace it with a fresh one at any time.
- 2
Add a Browser source in OBS and paste the link
Set its width and height to your canvas size, usually 1920 by 1080. The source is transparent, so it sits over your scene with no background of its own.
- 3
Pick the corner and the card size
Both are in the OBS tab, with a live preview of exactly what your audience sees. You can also turn on a name and stats plate, or a QR code pointing at a deck.
- 4
Keep the Stage open on your phone during the stream
Step through your queue with the arrows beside the preview, and clear the screen when the segment is over. A ranking goes up from the show itself: open a tier list on the Stage and switch on Board on OBS.
The browser source link is unique to you, so keep it off screen and out of screen shares.
Tier lists
Drag cards from a set onto a board and rank them from S down to D. When the board looks right, share it as a link, or download it as an image for a thumbnail or video.
The link works for anyone, signed in or not, and unfurls in chats with the board as its preview image. On a phone you pick a tier from a menu instead of dragging, so you can build a list there too.
Card lookups in chat
Add one command to your chat bot and viewers can look up any Riftbound card without leaving the stream. Someone types !card viktor and the bot answers with the card's type, domains and stats, plus a link to the full card page. A printing code works too, with or without the dash.
If nothing matches, the bot links to a card search for what they typed, so even a typo lands somewhere useful.
The lookup is free, with no account or API key needed. It reads the same catalogue as the rest of the site, so fixes to card data show up on the next lookup.
About the card data
I maintain the card catalogue myself, so a brand new set can take a few days to fill in, and now and then a printing is missing. If a lookup comes back empty for a card you know exists, tell me about it and I'll fix it.
If any of this ends up in a video, I'd appreciate a link back.