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Shared Characters — what your GM sees

When a player shares a character into one of your campaigns, you get a read-only summary of its current stats. This page covers exactly what's visible — and just as importantly, what isn't.

For the player-side controls, see Party — sharing from the Character Sheet.

Who can see a shared character

Only the GM of the campaign it was shared into. Sharing is per campaign — when a player shares a character into your campaign, no other GM, and no other member of the party, gains any visibility into it. The player stays in control and can stop sharing at any time.

The Character Summary

Tap any shared character's card in the Shared Characters section of your campaign to open its summary. You'll see:

Name, level, and player — the character's name, their level, and the username of the player who owns them
Concept — if the player has written one
Hit points — a bar plus the exact "current / max" numbers. The bar is green at 60% health or above, amber between 30% and 59%, and red below 30% — the same coding used everywhere in the app
Defenses — Guard, Toughness, and Resolve

If the character is also shared into another of your campaigns, a Multi-campaign badge appears with a count. It's a heads-up, not a warning — and it never names the other campaigns, since they may belong to a different GM.

The summary is strictly a view. There's nothing you can edit here — a player's character always belongs to the player. During a live session you can propose an HP change, which the player accepts, adjusts, or dismisses themselves — see Scenarios.

What you don't see

The summary shows only what the player agreed to when they shared: name, concept, level, the three defenses, and HP. It does not include the character's individual attribute scores — Might, Agility, and so on. Those stay private to the player; you see only the three defense numbers derived from them.

How current is it?

The summary loads the character's latest saved state each time you open it — including any HP changes the player has made. It doesn't update live while the screen is open, though: if the player changes something mid-session, go back and reopen the card to see the new values.

If a character disappears

If a player stops sharing a character (or deletes it), its card leaves your campaign and its summary shows "Character not found or no longer shared" with a Go Back button. Nothing's broken — the player has simply withdrawn it. Any loot you'd assigned to it quietly returns to unassigned.