Help for players

1. 1Your menu has seven rows: Home, My character, Chat, Shared with me, World, Library and Sessions. Each row's second line says what is inside.
2. 2The pages inside a row are the buttons along the top of the page.
3. 3On a computer, the top of every page has Search (or Cmd/Ctrl+K), Help, My settings and Account, plus Inbox if you play at more than one table.
4. 4On a phone, the bar at the bottom holds Home, Character, Chat and Shared. More opens the rest, with Help & account at the foot.

Tip: What you can open is exactly what your character knows. Read freely: nothing you can see is a spoiler.

1. 1On Home, press Claim your character.
2. 2Choose your character and press This is my character.
3. 3Press Build this character. The builder has nine short steps: species, class, background and so on.
4. 4Press Next to move on and Back to go back. Save what I have so far keeps your choices without finishing.
5. 5On the last step, read Everything still outstanding, then press Write this character to the sheet.

Tip: Your character is not in the list, or the page says Your DM has not set up your character yet? That step is the DM's, not yours. Press Ask your DM in Chat.

1. 1Open My character. The Sheet tab is your sheet.
2. 2Press Roll beside a skill, save or attack. Add or take off applies a bonus to every roll below it.
3. 3Under hit points, type a number in How much and press Damage or Heal. Temp is temporary hit points.
4. 4Short rest and Long rest are at the top.
5. 5To cast, press Cast beside a spell and pick the slot. It shows under Active spells until you press End.
6. 6Download card saves the top of your sheet as a picture to drop in Chat.

Tip: Only you and the DM can see your sheet.

1. 1On your sheet, press Level up.
2. 2Work through the short steps: Roll the die or take the fixed hit points, pick a Subclass when it is offered, take an Ability score improvement, or a feat, and pick new spells.
3. 3Nothing is saved until the last step. Leave without writing walks away cleanly.
4. 4To add spells at any time, press Choose spells, tick the ones you want, then press Add to the sheet.
5. 5Change this build takes you back into the builder with your choices as they were. Anything you typed by hand is kept.

Tip: A choice missing from the list? Your DM may not have opened that book yet. Ask in Chat.

1. 1Open My character, then the Story & set-up tab.
2. 2Change the name, add a Portrait, write your Backstory, and press Save.

Tip: The rest of the table reads these on your character's page.

1. 1Open My character, then Inventory & money.
2. 2Items lists what you, and the party, carry. Coins shows what each person holds.
3. 3Choose one of your items to Give it to someone else, or to the party.
4. 4History lists every change, newest first.

Tip: Nothing here until your DM sets up money. If you see You have no purse to pay from yet, ask them.

1. 1Open World, then Shops. You see the shops the party knows about.
2. 2Open a shop. Under Items for sale, set the Quantity and press Buy.
3. 3Check the price and confirm. It comes out of your coins and the item turns up under Inventory & money.

Tip: A Closed shop still shows its shelf. It just will not trade.

1. 1Open My character, then Strongholds. The tabs are Strongholds, Downtime and Favours.
2. 2Between games, open Downtime. Under Your actions this turn, pick What kind of action, fill it in, and press Save as a draft.
3. 3The DM resolves the turn before the next game. What your actions got you shows the result.
4. 4Favours are advantages the party earned and can spend once.

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

1. 1Open My character, then My notes. Press Write a note.
2. 2Type What you noticed and press Write it down. Tick This is a theory if you think you have worked something out.
3. 3A note is yours alone until you share it. Open it and use Who can see it.
4. 4Ask someone to help lets another player write it with you. Add pictures under Pictures in this note.
5. 5Only the DM settles a theory. Share it with them and they mark it right or wrong.

Tip: What I have been told is everything the DM has revealed to you, in order.

1. 1Open Chat. It lists every chat you are in, the table's first.
2. 2Open one, type in Say something and press Enter.
3. 3To roll in chat, press Roll, then name the roll and the modifier. Everyone sees the result.
4. 4Reply and Edit sit on your own messages. Add a picture with the picture button.
5. 5To talk to one person, press Start a private chat, choose Who is in it?, and press Start the chat.
6. 6Press Notify me on this device to hear when someone posts.

Tip: The DM can always read a private chat. The chat says so.

1. 1New to you lists everything the DM has revealed to you, with what you have not opened yet marked.
2. 2Shown to you holds pictures and maps the DM showed the table. When the DM shows something live, it opens on your screen by itself.
3. 3Handouts holds letters, posters and files the DM shared. Press Download to keep one.

Tip: A picture stays on Shown to you after the DM stops showing it only if they ticked Players keep this afterwards.

1. 1Home has a chip for each kind (People, Places, Factions, Things, Lore and more) with a count. Press one to list them.
2. 2Every page links to the pages it mentions. Search finds anything you can see.
3. 3World holds Atlas (maps you have been shown, with only the ground you have explored), Connections (who knows whom, and a Family tree), Timeline (what has happened so far) and Quests (quests the DM has given you, and how each went).

Tip: Two players can read the same person and see different things. That is on purpose.

1. 1Open Library.
2. 2New to D&D? Press New to the game? Start here for the words you will hear at the table, in plain language.
3. 3Type in Search the library. Tick Search the text too to search inside entries, not just names.
4. 4Or browse By kind (spells, species, items) or By book.

Tip: You see the books your DM has opened to the table.

1. 1Open Sessions. Next game shows the date, the place and Your answer.
2. 2When the DM suggests dates, tick the ones you can make. You get an email when one is confirmed.
3. 3Under When I can play, set My usual week once and suggested dates fill themselves in. Add holidays under Add time away.
4. 4Add to my calendar gives you a link for your own calendar app.
5. 5The group shows who plays, Who is bringing what, and Lines and veils: things that never happen in this game, or happen off screen.
6. 6After a game, open it under All sessions and press Read the recap.

Tip: You can add a line or veil without your name on it.

1. 1On the night, press Join the game on Home.
2. 2Press Search and type a name. Anything the DM has revealed pins under What you know. Tap a card to read it.
3. 3Roll rolls dice. My character opens your sheet. Leave takes you back to Home.
4. 4When the DM starts a fight, the turn order appears by itself: whose turn it is, who is next, and for each creature only Unhurt, Hurt, Bloodied or Down.
5. 5Roll initiative on your own sheet and tell the DM your number.

Tip: The board is dark on purpose: it is built for a phone under a lamp.

1. 1Open My settings (top of the page, or More on a phone). Set Your name here and Theme, then press Save your seat.
2. 2Under Notifications, choose Email me the ordinary notices and Send them to this device as well, then press Save how you are told.
3. 3Play at more than one table? Inbox lists every chat with something new, across all of them.

Tip: Turn on for all my campaigns switches notifications on everywhere at once.

• ·A new version is live - reload to keep everything working: press Reload at a quiet moment. A tab left on an old version is the usual reason a button seems to do nothing.
• ·You cannot see something the others can: the DM shows things player by player. Ask them in Chat.
• ·Your character is not in the list: the DM has not set it up yet. Press Ask your DM in Chat.
• ·The sign-in link did not work: it works once, for about an hour, on the device that asked for it. Ask for a new one, or set a password. See Signing in.