🎮 GM layer

The GM layer is a space reserved for you: everything you place or draw with the GM layer active is visible only to the master and stays invisible to players. Use it to prepare an ambush, mark a hidden monster or note something without revealing it. It's the equivalent of other VTTs' "hidden layers".

How to turn it on

In the toolbar, View group, you'll find the 🔒 GM layer button. When it's on:

• The pawns you place are created GM-only: players don't see them (neither in the /gioca view nor on the /stage second screen). You see them marked, typically semi-transparent and with a padlock, so you can tell at a glance they're hidden.
• The drawings you make with the pencil are also created GM-only (see the pencil page).

Telling apart what's yours only

So you don't confuse GM-only pawns and strokes with normal ones, the GM layer's context panel has a dedicated transparency slider: adjust it as you like to make GM-only elements stand out on your screen. It's a visual setting of yours; it changes nothing for players.

Making a hidden pawn visible

A pawn placed on the GM layer isn't locked there forever: on the selected token you can turn the GM only flag on or off. Turning it off moves the pawn to the normal state and — if you're LIVE — it appears to players. It's the right move to reveal the ambush at the right moment.

Ideas for use

• Place an ambush's enemies on the GM layer during the scene, then remove GM only when they strike.
• Mark with a generic pawn a point of interest that only you need to remember.
• Draw on the GM layer the path of a trap or a reminder, without players seeing it.