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Play Mode

Updated July 2026

When your GM starts a session, the table goes live. This guide covers what you see and do as a player while it's running. For what your GM sees, see Scenarios.

Finding a live session

Tap the Play tab (the sword icon). It lists every campaign of yours with a session live right now:

Each row shows the scenario name, its campaign, and how long it's been running.
No sessions live? You'll see "No live sessions right now. When your GM starts one, it'll appear here."
Tap a row to jump straight into the session.

You'll also see a small amber dot on the Play tab itself whenever any of your campaigns has a session live, and a "● LIVE" line on that campaign's card in your Party tab — so you don't have to go looking.

The Play screen

This is where you spend a live session. Everything on it updates on its own as your GM makes changes — you never need to refresh.

Session header — the scenario name and how long it's been running.

GM Notes — whatever your GM has chosen to share for this scene. If nothing's been shared yet, you'll see "Your GM hasn't shared any notes yet."

Revealed NPCs — any NPC your GM has chosen to reveal to the table. Depending on what your GM reveals, you'll see just a name, or the name plus concept, HP, stats, and boons/banes. NPCs your GM hasn't revealed don't appear here at all — there's no placeholder hinting something's hidden.

Your Character — a quick-reference card for the character you've shared into this campaign: HP, Guard, Toughness, Resolve. Tap View Sheet → to jump to the full sheet. If you haven't shared a character into this campaign yet, this card tells you so (share one from the character's own sheet).

A small connection pill in the header shows Live, Reconnecting…, or Offline — the screen keeps showing your last known data either way, so a dropped connection never blanks the screen.

When your GM ends the session, the screen quietly shows "Session ended." with a button back to the Play tab — you're never bounced out mid-read.

Rolling dice during a session

Rolls you make appear as normal in your own dice popup. Everyone else at the table — your GM and other players — sees a brief notice of your result pop up near the bottom of their screen for a few seconds, then it fades. Nobody needs to ask "what did you get?"

If you roll a natural 20, your result gets a 💥 NAT 20 flourish that shows on your own popup and on everyone's notice.

Roll notices are momentary — there's no roll history or log to scroll back through. If you miss one, ask the table.

When your GM proposes an HP change

Your GM can't edit your character's HP directly — only you can. Instead, when they want to apply damage or healing (say, from an attack or a potion), you'll see a card dock in from the bottom of your screen:

It shows the amount, a reason if your GM added one (e.g. "Fire lash"), and what your HP will become.
Accept — applies it exactly as proposed.
Adjust — lets you change the amount before applying (useful if you want to factor in resistance or a boon your GM didn't account for).
Dismiss — ignores it, no HP change. For anything that would take you below 30% HP or is 5+ damage, Dismiss asks you to confirm first, just so a stray tap can't wave off something serious.

Nothing changes until you tap one of the three buttons — that's true even if you were away when it arrived; it'll be waiting for you next time you open the app. If more than one proposal is waiting, you'll see them one at a time with a counter (e.g. "1 / 2").

You control your own HP. Your GM can only *propose* a change — applying it is always your tap.

Sharing a character is what makes it visible in a session. If your Character card says you haven't shared one, do that from the character's own sheet first.

Roll notices and the HP prompt don't stack — if both show up at once, the HP prompt sits on top since it needs your response; the roll notice waits its turn underneath.