Building Technology to Enhance Your Tabletop RPGs

NerdFarm^TM is a premium tabletop technology builder, focusing on creating a Virtual Tabletop, SRDs, and other tools for modern tabletop RPGs.

ConfirmedCritical^TM

What if one tool could do it all?

The first premium, "game-system-aware", completely ad-free VTT, Campaign Manager, Character Manager, and GM Assistant; all in one.

Combine features of your favorite tools into a single platform that understands your rules, handles complex mechanics automatically, and seamlessly supports Pathfinder, Starfinder, D&D 3.5, Cypher System, and more.

Libre SRD

The Ultimate Open Game Reference

Our effort to create a single point of reference to find every Open Game SRD for any game system without clutter or distractions.

Providing pristine, accessible, and fast references for players and GMs who want quick access to the rules they need, when they need them.

How It Began

NerdFarm^TM is a US based company founded and run by tabletop gamers, for tabletop gamers. What started as a small personal project to allow a single GM to run his D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder games with remote players, well before the age of virtual tabletops, Zoom/Google Meet sessions, and Discord. Multiple groups of players kept insisting "this needs to be a product". And the idea for ConfirmedCritical^TM was born.

The original version was very bespoke to one game, built for a single GM's needs. This obviously wouldn't work. It was decided to start from scratch, and rebuild it into something that could be used by any GM to run whatever kind of game they want.

Our Values

We believe there is no one way to run a game, there is no one single ideal game system, and no one-size-fits-all playstyle. So long as everyone at the table is having a good time, then we say that's a good game.
We also believe that games should be open to all. So a decision was made in the beginning that we would not support any version of D&D after 3.5/Pathfinder. We would however, be open to supporting other; smaller game systems, so long as they remained open. This is a position we've held years prior to the WotC OGL 1.1 controversey of January 2023.

The Core Team

Will Rivera (he/him)

Chief Architect

The founder, lead developer, and chief architect of NerdFarm^TM and ConfirmedCritical^TM. Openly and unashamedly AuDHD, and proudly mixed-race Hispanic. Will has been playing tabletop games for 30 years, starting with AD&D 2nd Edition. Eventually becoming the "Forever GM", he prides himself on being able to run any game, and able to quickly understand even the crunchiest of systems. At this point, the list of systems he hasn't played or ran is shorter than the ones he has.

Both a self admitted min/maxer and rules lawyer. Will is able to abstract rules into their complex parts very quickly. Even still, he feels that roleplay is just as important as rolling dice.

He has 21 years of experience in the tech industry for companies large and small, including the telecom, SaaS, and FinTech sectors. Along with being one of the many engineers who had the privilege of contracting for NASA, he documents his engineering journey at rivera.engineer. Will's passions in life are TTRPGs, home automation, woodworking, and caring for his cats.

Nikki Robinson (she/her)

Senior QA Engineer

Nikki has been playing tabletop games for 18 years, starting with 3rd Edition D&D and includes other systems like Pathfinder, Starfinder, Monster of the Week, Invisible Sun, and more.

Nikki has over 10 years of experience as a QA engineer for a handful of companies, large and small; Including one of the largest tech companies in the world.

She's an exceptionally analytical person who's able to find even the smallest flaw in a complex system. She ensures the ConfirmedCritical^TM actually does what it's supposed to do.

Her passions in life are reading, gaming of all kinds, and her cats.

Dan Huynh (he/him)

Senior Data Engineer

An extraordinarily intelligent engineer with a background in data structures and systems. His role is to ensure the speed and integrity of our databases and data flow. He has 17 years of experience across multiple organizations and industries, from organizing big data for major retail giants to FinTech companies.

Dan has been playing tabletop games for over 17 years. Including Warhammer, D&D 3.5, Shadowrun, Invisible Sun, Cypher, and more.

His passions include painting, gaming, anime, and manga.

Anya Grady (she/her)

Data Editor

Anya has a storied history of blending her disparate careers, ignoring the status quo, and measuring the strength of leadership by their answer to the question “how fired would I be if”. After ten years of teaching the fundamentals of a dead language (and occasionally the basics of stage combat), she is adapting those skills to the rubber duck world of coding, data editing, and technical writing. She enjoys the process of breaking complicated concepts into their component parts, examining the fiddly elements of an esoteric spell, and rendering knowledge accessible to all who would enjoy the use of it.

Steeped in all flavors of nerddom for the last 21 years, Anya has run multi-year campaigns where she balanced the triumphs of minmaxers with the fun of those who made their characters based more on vibes. She’s also played in an improvisational one-shot where the GM lit her character sheet on fire because her pun was better than his.

She’s a ravenous learner, predisposed to go straight down the rabbit hole. Her passions in life are too many to tick off on fingers and toes but include bugs, etymology, whatever her current creative project, and hitting things with sticks.

Alyssa Malloy (she/her)

Data Editor

Alyssa has over 10 years of experience across award-winning film production (producer, screenwriter, director), university instruction in Film and English, and data editing. She holds an MA in English, an MFA in Dramatic Writing, and is currently mid-MBA in Marketing, which may or may not become a JD in Copyright and IP law next. At NerdFarm, she writes KB articles and keeps ConfirmedCritical™ copyright compliant. It turns out spending years writing contracts and navigating IP law on film sets is excellent preparation for making sure nobody accidentally steps on a trademark.

Alyssa has been playing tabletop games since the 1900s, starting casually with AD&D before D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder 1e fully activated her rules-lawyer brain. She has never min/maxed in her life, and instead builds characters entirely on chaos and vibes while taking obsessively detailed notes. Her crowning achievement is currently how she once spent three real-world years unknowingly carrying a lich's phylactery in her character's bag that was later used to kill that (stupid) lich.

Alyssa is an eternal student taking every side quest she can find, fueled by Monster, Nerds Gummies, and spite. Alyssa's passions include filmmaking, writing more fanfiction than is strictly healthy, and collecting ethically-sourced bones.

Open Positions

Junior Software Developer

Remote (United States)
Full-Time
$60,000 USD Annually
Entry Level

Help build ConfirmedCritical^TM and future NerdFarm^TM products. You'll ship features, fix bugs, take part in code reviews, and learn alongside our engineers. We don't expect you to know our whole stack; being comfortable with Git and at least Javascript or PHP is enough to start.

Tabletop RPG experience is a requirement for this role. You don't need to have worked in the tabletop industry, but you do need firsthand experience playing.

Apply

Note: We do not work with head-hunting firms, and have no plan on doing so any time in the near future. All inquiries from recruiters will be ignored.

Know Us Before You Apply

We publish our employee handbook openly, because you shouldn't have to wait for an offer letter to find out how a company actually treats its people. Read how we work, what we expect, and what you can expect from us.

Read the Employee Handbook

Our Interview Process

We intentionally keep our interview process short.

Long, drawn-out interview processes disproportionately favor people with large amounts of disposable time. We don't believe someone should have to invest 8-10 hours across multiple rounds of interviews just to be considered for an entry-level position.

Our process consists of two interviews and should take less than two hours of your time from start to finish, including both interviews combined.

We do not conduct five rounds of interviews, and we do not ask candidates to complete unpaid take-home assignments.

Interview Notes

Both interviews are conducted over video chat.

At the beginning of each interview, candidates should expect a brief verification step. Unfortunately, the rise of AI-assisted fraud, deepfakes, face swaps, and proxy interviewing has made this necessary.

Candidates will also be asked to share their screen during the skills assessment.

These steps are not intended to be invasive or punitive. We simply need to ensure that the person we are interviewing is the person participating in the interview and working through the exercise.

Round One: Getting To Know You (30 Minutes)

This is an informal conversation. We'll discuss:

Your background.
Your tabletop RPG experience.
Your professional experience.
Projects you've worked on.
What interests you about NerdFarm^TM.
Any questions you have about the company.

This is not an assessment disguised as a conversation.

We're simply trying to determine whether we'd enjoy working together and whether NerdFarm^TM is a good fit for you.

Round Two: Skills Assessment (60 Minutes)

The second interview is broken into three sections.

Existing Work and Experience (20 Minutes)

We'll discuss work you've submitted, things you've built, and experiences you've listed on your resume. We're interested in understanding:

Why you built or took on something.
How you approached problems.
Decisions and trade-offs you made.
Mistakes you encountered.
How you worked through issues.
What you'd do differently today.

We care far more about your understanding of your work than how polished it is.

If you submit examples of your work, expect to discuss them in detail.

Practical Exercise (25-30 Minutes)

You'll be given a single, realistic problem relevant to the role to work through.

This will not be a trivia quiz, a memorization exercise, or a trick question. But it will be a hard problem to solve for most people.

The exercise will be representative of the kinds of problems you might encounter at NerdFarm^TM.

You may use documentation, reference material, and AI tools during this exercise. We recognize that AI is now a normal part of modern professional workflows.

AI may assist your thinking, but it may not replace your thinking.

We need to see you solve the problem.

Using AI to explain concepts, look up documentation, or validate an approach is acceptable. Delegating the exercise to an AI system is not.

Throughout the exercise, we'll be paying attention to how you:

Break down a problem.
Ask questions.
Investigate unfamiliar concepts.
Communicate your thought process.
Arrive at a solution.

A perfect answer is not required.

Questions and Answers (10-15 Minutes)

This time is entirely for you. Ask us anything.

Questions about NerdFarm^TM, ConfirmedCritical^TM, the tools and systems we use, compensation, company culture, or expectations for the role are all welcome.

Interviews work both directions. You should be evaluating NerdFarm^TM just as much as we're evaluating you.

Get In Touch

Adding Your System

If you're interested in having your game system added to ConfirmedCritical^TM when it launches. Please fill out this form and we'll get back to you.

General Inquiries

For all general inquiries, please either email us or reach out on Facebook.

Legal Inquiries

For all legal inquiries, please contact us at legal@nerd-farm.com.