Help for DMs

1. 1Open Players, then Settings. Under Campaign details, fill in the Summary, Cadence, Venue and House rules, and press Save. Newcomers read this on their invitation.
2. 2Open Characters, then Character sheets. Under Sheet templates, press Install D&D 5e (2024). Once, for the whole campaign.
3. 3Give each player a character: see Get every player a character.
4. 4Open Players, then Players & invites, and the Invites tab. Press Invite a player, then Create invitation link, and send each link to one person.
5. 5Open Players, then Sessions, and press Suggest dates to the players.
6. 6Back on Home, add one person or place under Quick add. A name is enough.

Tip: Before your first game, read Lines and veils under Sessions, The group. It is easier to agree before anything has happened.

1. 1Your menu has eight rows, one per job: Home, Game night, Characters, Share, World, Library, Players and Money & items.
2. 2The pages inside a row are the buttons along the top of each page.
3. 3Along the top: Search (or Cmd/Ctrl+K), Help and Account, plus Inbox if you sit at more than one table.
4. 4On a phone, the bar holds the first four rows. More has the rest.

Tip: Switch off pages your table never uses under Settings, Menu.

1. 1On Home, type a name under Quick add, pick a Type and press Add.
2. 2Open the page and press Edit. It Saves as you type. Type [[ to link another page.
3. 3Summary, tags, type and picture sets the short line, tags and picture. Add pictures builds a gallery; Make this the portrait picks the main one.
4. 4Page history shows every change.
5. 5Want your own details on pages, like Wants or Rations? Add them under Settings, Custom fields.

Tip: Every new page starts DM only. Nobody sees it until you reveal it.

Every page starts DM only. You then show it to The whole party or One player at a time. A player who cannot see something is not shown a lock or a gap: it is simply not there.

You can also hide one passage inside a page that is otherwise shown, and reveal that passage to one person.

You can hide a page again (Hold to take this back from everyone), but a player may already have read it. Who has read it tells you.

Tip: Never type "[secret]" into shown text to hide something. Hide the passage instead.

1. 1Open Share, then Reveals.
2. 2Under Reveal one entry, search for the page and open it.
3. 3Choose The whole party or One player at a time, then hold the button (Hold to show everyone, or Hold to show and the player's name). Holding, not tapping, stops mistakes.
4. 4Under More ways to reveal: Show many at once ticks several pages and who sees them; Reveal by chapter reveals what a book adventure's party has reached, as Name only or Full entry; See it as a player shows the campaign exactly as one player sees it.
5. 5Under Check what has been revealed: Who can see what, Who has read it and Reveal history.

Tip: On game night you can reveal from the board too: hold Hold to reveal <name> to the party on a pinned card.

1. 1Open Players, then Players & invites. The tabs are Players, Invites and Helpers.
2. 2On Invites, press Invite a player. Fill in Their name, Their email if you like, the Role and when the Link expires, then press Create invitation link.
3. 3Press Copy and send the link to one person. Whoever opens it takes the seat.
4. 4Players lists who is seated, their character and role. Remove takes someone out.
5. 5Helpers lets a player look after one job, such as maps, quests or shops, without being a DM.

Tip: A helper can read the hidden text on everything their job covers. Choose with that in mind.

1. 1Install a template, once: Characters, Character sheets, then Install D&D 5e (2024).
2. 2Make the character: add a person in People, tag it "pc" so it sits under Player characters, then reveal it to that player.
3. 3The player presses Claim your character on Home, chooses it, presses This is my character, and builds.

Tip: Or do it for them: on Character sheets, press New character sheet, choose For a player at this table, pick the player, and press Make the sheet and open the builder.

1. 1Characters, Character sheets lists every character: players', spare characters and NPCs.
2. 2New character sheet asks Who is it for: For a player at this table, A spare character nobody plays yet, or An NPC.
3. 3Open any sheet to read it, change it, or Print this sheet.
4. 4Give to a player hands a sheet to someone seated; Take it back as a spare character undoes it; Copy as a spare character duplicates one.
5. 5Retire the character they play now moves a sheet to Fallen and retired.
6. 6Library, Party spells lays every character's spells side by side.

Tip: Only you can see a spare character.

1. 1Open Characters, then People: every person in your world.
2. 2Create an NPC: describe Who is this? and get a full write-up, or Roll one from the tables.
3. 3Random NPC: one press, one whole person. Create this NPC keeps them; Re-roll tries again.
4. 4NPC stat blocks: stat blocks only you can read. Paste a stat block, press Read into the fields, check, then save.

Tip: A person's page has Create a stat block for when someone swings at them.

1. 1Open Players, then Sessions, and press Suggest dates to the players. Tick dates, set a Start time, and send.
2. 2Players tick what suits. Best dates sorts them; Check who can make it now recounts.
3. 3Open a date and Confirm this date. That emails every player and cancels the other candidates, so do it last. Call it off needs a reason.
4. 4Set how often you play sets your usual day, start, length, venue, the Fewest players to run a game, and reminders.
5. 5On a session's page, Before the game lists the fights, maps and reveals to prepare. After the game is where you write what happened.
6. 6Mark who turned up after each game.

Tip: Confirm a date automatically confirms once enough people say yes.

1. 1Press Run the game on Home, or open Game night, then Run the game. It opens tonight's session, or a list to pick from.
2. 2Ask players to press Join the game.
3. 3Pin who and where: type in Search the campaign (or press /). Cards collect under Kept handy. The word on each card says whether it is safe to turn the screen around.
4. 4Reveal a card to the table: hold Hold to reveal <name> to the party.
5. 5Advance time moves the clock on and ends spells that run out.
6. 6Atlas, Library, Reveal by chapter, Handouts, Money & items and Chat open in a new tab, so the board stays put.
7. 7On a phone, the bar holds Search, Reveal area (uncover part of a map), Fight, Roll and Atlas.

Tip: Pins stay on the device that made them, so pin on the device you will run from. Press ? for every shortcut.

1. 1On the board, the fight block (press I) has three steps.
2. 2Who is fighting: press Add the party. Type a monster in Monster, set How many, and press Add monsters. Or press Use a saved fight.
3. 3Roll initiative: press Roll for the monsters, and type in each player's total.
4. 4Start the fight. N is next turn, P goes back.
5. 5Press a name to apply Damage, Heal, Temp HP or Add condition, or to Open the stat block.
6. 6When it is over, hold Hold to end the fight.

Tip: Players see names, whose turn it is, and Unhurt, Hurt, Bloodied or Down. Never HP or AC.

1. 1Open Game night, then Encounters.
2. 2Pick one From the book (search by title, area or monster), or build your own under Find monsters.
3. 3Set your party's Characters and Level. The fight reads Low, Moderate or High. Suggest a fight for this party builds one for you.
4. 4Save for later keeps it under Saved fights.
5. 5Run this fight opens the board with the monsters already in the tracker.

Tip: A saved fight shows on the board under Use a saved fight.

1. 1Open Game night, then Adventure. Pick a book, a chapter, an area.
2. 2Press Add to my story. My story keeps your stops in your order, across books, with Your note for this stop.
3. 3Now playing marks where the party is; Next moves on; Done ticks a stop off.
4. 4An area shows its people, The fight, The map and From the book on one screen.
5. 5In Prep, Add to this scene the people, handouts and fights you want ready. On the night, Load into the tracker and Reveal to the table are one press each.

Tip: Players never see this page.

1. 1On a picture, a map or a handout, press Show to the table.
2. 2Choose Everyone or Only the players I tick. Tick Players keep this afterwards if they should find it again. Press Show it now.
3. 3It opens on their screens at once and stays until you press Stop showing.
4. 4Share, Shown to the table is the log. Open the table display opens a page for a TV.
5. 5Share, Handouts: add a file, then choose Who can see it.

Tip: A handout stays private until you change who can see it.

1. 1Open World, then Atlas. Maps are shelved by book and chapter. New map adds one.
2. 2Open the map. Map setup holds the base image (Replace the base image).
3. 3Draw an area makes regions. Reveal with brush and Hide again with brush paint fog away or back.
4. 4In Map setup, press Make the players' copy, then press Show this map to the table.
5. 5Show on this screen takes the map full screen with your markings hidden. Drag the window to the TV first.

Tip: Players only ever get the players' copy, never your own view.

1. 1Open World, then Connections.
2. 2Add connection: pick From, the link and the other end, and Who can see it.
3. 3Family tree, then Show family tree for one person.
4. 4In a faction, set a Rank and press Save rank.
5. 5View as player (L) shows the web as one player sees it.

Tip: Tidy the layout redraws it. Anything you placed by hand stays put.

1. 1Open Settings, World calendar. Start from a preset or your own months, then set Today in your world and press Save calendar.
2. 2Open World, then Timeline, and Write down what happened with its date.
3. 3Advance the day or Set the date moves your world's today. Everyone sees it.

Tip: No calendar yet? The Timeline offers Want in-world dates? Set up a calendar.

1. 1Open World, then Quests, and press New quest. Fill in Name of the quest, Who gave it and Reward.
2. 2Reveal it to players like any page. A new quest is yours alone until you show it.
3. 3Mark it with Mark done, Mark failed, Drop or Reopen.

Tip: You run the log. Players mark nothing.

1. 1Open World, then My notes, for your own notes.
2. 2When a player shares a theory with you, open it and hold Hold to settle: they were right or Hold to settle: they were wrong.

Tip: A player's private notes are private from you too.

1. 1Library holds every rule, species, class, spell, item and monster in this campaign. Add an entry adds your own.
2. 2Books lists every book. Open one and choose Open to the table or Hide from the table, for The whole book or one part.
3. 3On a species, class or subclass page, Picture and description sets what players see in the builder.
4. 4Table generators roll random names, treasure, rumours and weather. Starter tables installs a set in one press.
5. 5Bring in content copies a campaign from World Anvil or Kanka. Everything arrives visible only to you.

Tip: Players see only the books you open. Check with See it as a player.

1. 1Open Money & items, then Inventory & money. Press Set up money, then Hold to turn money on. It installs the standard coins and gives the party and each player a purse.
2. 2Add an item: choose Who gets it, From the item list or Something not in the list, and How many, then press Add.
3. 3Choose an item in someone's list to Change quantity, Give to... or Remove.
4. 4Move money pays coins between people; Hand out loot splits a haul (Split evenly).
5. 5Every change is in History, with Undo.

Tip: Rename the coins under Settings, Coins.

1. 1Open Money & items, then Shops, and press Add a shop. Pick the place or person who runs it and the Markup %.
2. 2Open or close it with the hold beside Open / Closed.
3. 3Open is not the same as visible. If the party cannot see the shop's page, the shop says so: hold Reveal this shop to the party.

Tip: A player sees the price and confirms before anything leaves their purse.

1. 1Open Money & items, then Strongholds, and press Add a stronghold.
2. 2Between games, players set their actions under Downtime.
3. 3Before the next game, open the turn and hold Hold to resolve this turn. Write What the player is told for each order.

Tip: A turn closes 24 hours before the next confirmed session.

1. 1Open Players, then Chat. You can read every chat, private ones included.
2. 2Who is speaking lets you post as an NPC.
3. 3Roll in chat and tick Hide this roll from the players. Later, hold Reveal to the players.
4. 4Notify every player now sends a notification with your message.
5. 5To email everyone when somebody posts, open Settings, Chat emails, and tick Email everyone when somebody posts in Chat.

Tip: Hold Withdraw to take a message back.

1. 1Open Players, then Settings.
2. 2Campaign details, the banner and Chat emails come first.
3. 3Under More settings: This table (Players & invites, Public page, Menu), Your world (World calendar, Coins, Custom fields), and Export and delete (Export, Archive and delete, Start another campaign).
4. 4You at the foot holds your own name here, theme and notifications.

Tip: Export once now (Download as Markdown or Download as JSON), so you know the way out works before you need it.

• ·A new version is live - reload to keep everything working: press Reload at a quiet moment. An old tab is the usual reason something stops working mid-session.
• ·A player cannot see something: open See it as a player for them, then Who can see what.
• ·A player cannot claim a character: check the three steps in Get every player a character.
• ·A seat link is used up or expired: make a new one under Invites.
• ·A helper can read too much: their job opens the hidden text on everything it covers. Change it under Helpers.