The Board
The Board is the canvas where you bring all your tabletop tools together in a single workspace. Instead of opening one page at a time, you drag the tools you need — Dice, Player Tracker, NPC sheets, Generators, Timer, Notes and the rest — as blocks onto a dotted surface, move and resize them however you like, and save them to your account to find them again next session. It's meant to be your "director's console": everything at hand, nothing to reopen. Like all the tabletop tools it's free and runs in the browser, without spending credits.
What it's for
The Board solves a practical problem: during a session you need several tools at once (the initiative order, the dice, your notes, maybe a quick generator). On the single pages each one lives on its own; on the Board they coexist on the same screen and — importantly — they can pass data to each other (see below). It's the only place where you can build your table to measure.
Two tools exist only here, with no page of their own: the DM helper (AI mini-chat) and the Document reader.
How to use it
- Open the Board from the Tools suite.
- Press + Add and pick the tool you want from the palette: it appears as a block on the canvas.
- Move a block by dragging its title bar; resize it by dragging the bottom-right corner.
- The block you're using automatically comes to the front, so its controls never end up hidden under other blocks.
- Add as many blocks as you need and arrange them as you prefer.
Each block works exactly like the full-page version of the same tool.
Shared setting
At the top of the Board there's a setting selector (Vulcania, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Generic) that applies to the whole canvas: every generator and world-dependent tool reads it from there. You set it once and it applies to the entire table, instead of choosing it block by block.
Making blocks talk to each other
The real advantage of the Board is that blocks pass data along. The typical flow:
- In the Enemy generator you draw a creature and press the button to send it to the NPC sheet.
- From the NPC sheets panel you forward it to the Player Tracker.
- The Player Tracker adds it to the initiative order, ready for combat.
The Campaign block can also send the characters and NPCs of your adventures to the Player Tracker. These links work only when the blocks are on the same canvas (that is, in the Board): on the separate pages each tool starts empty, and that's expected.
Saving: local draft and account save
The Board protects your work on two levels.
- Automatic draft (refresh-proof): every change is saved in the browser. If you reload the page or close it by mistake, you get the block layout and their content back as it was.
- Save to your account: give the board a name and press Save. This keeps it on your account so you can find it again another time; the selector at the top lets you choose among saved boards, and you also get New and Delete. An indicator tells you whether there are unsaved changes.
The automatic draft is tied to the single browser/device; to find a board elsewhere use Save to your account.