Characters

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Party roster

The Party card lists the characters. The selected character sets what the character detail card shows.

Open player tab is an ordinary link, so a middle-click or the “Open in new tab” menu of the browser also works on it. Spectator tab is a button. It always opens a new browser tab, and it has no link menu.

Character summary card

The Sheet tab of the sidebar shows a summary card of the selected character. It has what a GM reads during play:

• the name, the race, the HP bar, and the Damage and Heal controls
• the level line with AC, initiative, speed, passive Perception, the proficiency bonus, and XP
• the spell slot lines
• the level-up banner
• Checks and saves, a grid with a button for each plain ability check and each saving throw. A click rolls it through the dice tray. A solid dot marks a proficient save
• the counters of limited resources, such as Second Wind
• the Conditions block, with exhaustion
• the 18 skills, one line each with the bonus. A click rolls the skill

Open full sheet at the top of the card opens everything else. A Player tab bound to a character shows the same card and the same button.

Full sheet

Open full sheet at the top of the summary card opens the sheet the width of the page, in the way the combat screen takes the page. The party row menu (the three-dot button) has Open full sheet too, and the C key opens and closes it in Play mode. With an empty party, the button hides and the C key does nothing. The map, the party dock, and the sidebar hide while it is open. The bar along the top has Back to the map and one tab per party member. Left and Right move between the tabs, and Home and End go to the first and last. Back to the map or Escape closes it and puts focus back on the control that opened it. In a text field, such as the inventory search, Escape clears the field and leaves the sheet open. A switch to Build mode or a fight shows that mode, and the full sheet comes back on the return to Play. At phone width the view bar at the bottom of the screen hides while the full sheet is open.

The full sheet has four tabs.

Sheet contents

The top of the sheet shows the name, the race, and a tall HP bar the width of the card, with the current and maximum HP above it. Under the bar, the GM gets a Damage button, an amount field, and a Heal button. The amount field sets how many HP each click moves. It starts at 1, and each Damage or Heal press sets it back to 1. An empty field, or a number below 1, disables both buttons. The level line gives AC, initiative (Init), speed, passive Perception (PP), the proficiency bonus (Prof), and XP. The tooltip of Init names the disadvantage of exhaustion, as the initiative roll of a fight uses it.

A caster gets one line per spell level, such as “1st”, then the pips, then the free count, such as “3 of 4”. A filled pip is a free slot. A spent pip is a hollow ring, dimmed and struck through. A click on a pip spends or restores a slot. Each line names its count for a screen reader and in its tooltip, such as “Level 1 slots: 3 of 4 free”.

While a character has a level to assign, an ability score improvement, or a class feature choice left, a banner at the top of the sheet says so, such as “Ready to level up: 1 level to assign.” The GM’s Level up button opens the full sheet. For a pending level, it then opens Assign a level. For an improvement or a feature choice, it moves focus to the +2 ability or Choose button of the Progression block. A Player tab shows the banner with no button. The party row of the character shows a Level up mark at the same time.

The Character tab of the full sheet adds these items to the summary:

• the ability scores with their modifiers, which replace the quick-roll grid
• the six saving throws, with the bonus of each
• Add pool and the edit buttons of custom resource pools
• the Progression block, with the hit-dice pool
• the Features section, with one card for each class feature, race trait, and feat. A class feature with a claimed choice has a Change button for the GM. Cancel in its dialog keeps the current choice
• the castable spells

A dot in front of each save or skill shows how trained the character is.

A key under passive Perception shows the solid and the ringed dot.

Some class features change these bonuses. Jack of All Trades (bard 2) adds half the proficiency bonus, rounded down, to every check without proficiency. Remarkable Athlete (Champion 7) adds half, rounded up, to a STR, DEX, or CON check without proficiency. Aura of Protection (paladin 6) adds the paladin’s CHA modifier, at least +1, to its own saves, and the GM applies the aura to allies. Diamond Soul (monk 14) makes every save proficient, so every save shows the solid dot. Reliable Talent (rogue 11) counts a d20 face below 10 as a 10 on a check with a proficient skill. The tray still shows the face it rolled, and the log line names the lift, such as “Reliable Talent, 4 counts as 10”. A save, an attack, and a check without proficiency get no lift. Primal Champion (barbarian 20) raises STR and CON by 4, to at most 24. The raise shows in every score and bonus, and the base score in the stat editor stays as it is.

Passive Perception is 10 plus the Perception bonus. Compare it against a hidden thing when nobody says they are looking.

A click on a save or a skill rolls it with a d20 and the whole bonus. The roll goes through the dice tray, but the tray stays closed, and the dice and the modifier that you set up in the tray stay as they were. The log shows the parts of the number: the ability modifier, the proficiency or expertise, and any condition chip that adds to the roll.

Guidance and Resistance add to one roll only. The first check or save that they change removes their chip. In the Library, the spell form marks this kind of spell with One roll only.

The DC is the DC field of the dice tray. Type a DC there once, and each save or skill that you roll from the sheet reports success or failure against it, in the toast and in the log, as in “against DC 13 from the dice tray”. The field keeps what you typed until you clear it. An attack or a death save compares against its own target and leaves the field alone. With the field blank, nothing judges the roll, so compare the total against the DC that you have in mind. The d20 mode of the dice tray applies, and the log names the die that it dropped.

The Conditions block shows the chips and the held spell with its Drop control. While the character is at 0 HP, it also shows the death-save tracker with its Roll and Stabilize controls. The tracker shows the same pips and words as the combat screen.

Expertise doubles the proficiency bonus for a skill. The Expertise features of the Rogue and the Bard grant it. When such a feature unlocks, a prompt offers the proficient skills. The Rogue’s prompt also offers thieves’ tools, which the Rogue class grants at level 1. Expertise in thieves’ tools shows in the class features list, and the app has no tool check to apply it to.

The picks show in the class features list with a Change button. An unclaimed grant waits in the Progression block as a pending feature choice with a Choose button. The Set expertise button is a manual grant with no maximum, for a subclass or homebrew feature that the class catalog does not model. The button shows to the GM for any character with at least one skill proficiency, and it offers only the proficient skills, plus thieves’ tools when the character has them. The line “No expertise chosen” shows only for a character with a class feature or a feat that grants expertise.

Creation and progression

Creation picks a class, a race, and a background, and offers the skill choices of the class. The class list leaves out a skill that the race or the background already gives, so an Acolyte Cleric picks two skills other than Insight and Religion. A Half-Elf also picks two abilities other than CHA that gain +1 each, and two skills of any kind (Skill Versatility). A Dragonborn picks the damage type of its Draconic Ancestry and resists that type. A Dwarf picks its tool proficiency from smith’s tools, brewer’s supplies, and mason’s tools. An Elf (the High Elf) picks one cantrip from the wizard list. The cantrip joins the spellbook, casts with INT, and does not count against a class cantrip limit, so a fighter elf casts it too. From these choices, the sheet assembles the proficiencies: saving throws, skills, weapons, armor, tools, and languages. Every list stays editable afterward. The Edit dialog of the character also changes the two Half-Elf ability picks, the Dragonborn ancestry, and the High Elf cantrip, and the scores move to match. A High Elf that forgets its race cantrip in the Spellbook tab loses the pick, and the Edit dialog picks a new one.

These race traits change rolls by themselves:

The app applies Lucky to the weapon attacks, death saves, saves, and checks that it rolls. A spell attack and a roll in the dice tray by hand still need the reroll by hand. The save traits apply to the saves that a spell or a creature action asks for, and to the save at the end of a turn that can end a spell’s condition. A creature action, such as a breath weapon, is not magic, so Gnome Cunning does not help against it. A save that the GM calls at the table from the sheet still needs the advantage set by hand. The remaining race traits are text on the sheet, and the GM applies them: the Dragonborn Breath Weapon, Stonecunning, Trance, Naturally Stealthy, Halfling Nimbleness, Artificer’s Lore, Tinker, Relentless Endurance, Hellish Resistance, Infernal Legacy, and Extra Language. The app adds the Savage Attacks die to a melee critical hit.

The class sets the hit die, and the class with its subclass sets the caster type. Max HP comes from the hit die plus the CON modifier per level. The Hill Dwarf (Dwarven Toughness) and the Tough feat add 1 and 2 HP per character level. A Draconic Bloodline sorcerer adds 1 HP per sorcerer level.

Spell slots follow the 5e table. A multiclass character combines its casting classes on the combined-caster-level table.

A character with no class still works. Its HP then follows a flat growth curve, and it gains no proficiencies.

The total XP of a character follows the SRD table.

The sheet header shows the total against the start of the next level. A character made at a higher level starts at the XP where that level begins.

Enough XP does not level a character with a class on its own. Each earned level waits as a pending level. The GM assigns it to a class, either the current class or a new one.

The proficiency bonus, cantrip damage, and the encounter budget follow the assigned class levels. So a pending level does not raise any of them until the GM assigns it. The roster reads “(Lv 4, +1 to assign)” and the sheet header reads “Level 4, 1 level to assign” while that level waits.

An assignment does these things:

• It grows HP by the hit die of that class.
• It adds a hit die.
• It advances the spell slots. A new spell level arrives full, and a slot already spent stays spent.
• On an ability score improvement level, it leaves a pending choice: +2 across one or two abilities, up to 20, or a feat by name.

Both choices can be undone from the same block. The feat list shows a built-in feat that the character does not qualify for as disabled, and it names the prerequisite. An example is Grappler for a STR 8 Wizard. The prerequisite of a feat that you wrote in the library is display text only, so you enforce it.

A class feature with choices, such as the Expertise of the Rogue, prompts when its level is assigned. A choice with only one possible pick applies with no prompt. A cancel keeps the grant pending, and the Choose button in the Progression block offers it again.

The hit-dice pool can be spent. The Spend button in the Progression block spends one die outside a rest, and it asks first, so a click in the middle of a fight does not heal by mistake.

Fighting styles

The Fighting Style feature of the Fighter (level 1), the Paladin (level 2), and the Ranger (level 2) waits in the Progression block as a pending feature choice. Click Choose and pick one style. The class features list shows the pick with a Change button. A character with the feature from two classes takes a different style each time.

The attack log line names Archery, and the hit line names Dueling and Great Weapon Fighting.

Disciple of Life

A Life Domain cleric adds 2 + the spell slot level to each target of a healing spell of 1st level or higher, such as Cure Wounds or Healing Word. An upcast uses the higher slot. The heal line in the log ends in “, Disciple of Life +N”. A spell that rolls no healing dice (Lesser Restoration), a revive, and a stabilize get no bonus. The class features list on the sheet shows the feature from cleric level 1.

Class feature pools

The app gives each character a resource pool for every class feature that has a count of uses. The class levels and the ability scores set the size of each pool, so you do not type it in. A new level adds its uses unspent, and a class that the character no longer has takes its pool away.

Custom pools

The GM can add a pool for any count of uses that the class list does not give, such as the charges of a wand. Click Add pool below the resource list of the sheet, and set the name, the number of uses, and Refills on. A Long rest pool refills on a long rest, a Short rest pool refills on either rest, and a No rest pool refills only when the GM restores it with the plus button. Each row shows its rest in brackets. The pencil button edits a custom pool, and the bin button removes it. A class feature pool has no edit button, because the class levels set its size and its rest.

Subclasses

A class can take a subclass from its subclass level.

The Progression block shows a Choose button for each class at that level, and a Change button after the pick. The assignment of the subclass level also asks for the pick. Only the GM can set a subclass.

The list offers the SRD subclass of each class. The Fighter also offers the Eldritch Knight, and the Rogue also offers the Arcane Trickster.

The Eldritch Knight and the Arcane Trickster cast spells. Each one learns from the wizard list with INT, as a known caster with no rituals. The slots follow the third-caster table below, and a spell can be no higher than the top slot level.

In a multiclass, each of these subclasses adds a third of its class level to the combined caster level. A class with no slots yet at its own level does not join the combined table. So a Fighter 4 (Eldritch Knight) / Paladin 1 keeps the Eldritch Knight slots.

A change away from a casting subclass removes its slots, and it removes the spells that the character learned under that class. A later change back gives full slots. While a class has a subclass on its subclass level, that level cannot move to a new class.

The Spells block of the character sheet warns when a spell list breaks a subclass rule. The warning does not block the list, so a GM can allow it.

• The spell schools of each subclass. The Eldritch Knight uses abjuration and evocation, and the Arcane Trickster uses enchantment and illusion. The spells learned at class levels 3, 8, 14, and 20 can come from any school.
• The number of leveled spells that each subclass knows: 3 at class level 3, 4 at level 4, and 13 at level 20. Only the spells learned under the subclass count, so the wizard spells of a Fighter (Eldritch Knight) / Wizard do not.
• Mage Hand as one of the Arcane Trickster cantrips.

The same block warns when a Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Ranger knows more leveled spells than its class table allows, for example 7 for a Bard 4 or 2 for a Ranger 2. Only the spells learned under that class count. A warlock’s Mystic Arcanum spells of 6th level and up do not count. The warning does not block the list either.

Eldritch invocations

A warlock picks its eldritch invocations and its pact boon when it gains a warlock level in the Progression block. Only the GM can pick either one. The level-up asks for the pact boon at warlock level 3, and for the new invocations at each level that raises the count. It then offers one optional swap of a known invocation for another that qualifies. A pick that the GM cancels stays pending, and the Warlock choices pending row asks for it again, with no swap. The Invocations row shows how many invocations the warlock has and how many its level allows. The GM edit buttons set the boon and the invocations freely, with no swap limit, and list only the invocations that the warlock qualifies for. An invocation qualifies when the warlock level is high enough, the warlock knows the cantrip that it names, and the warlock has the pact boon that it names. The Pact boon row appears from warlock level 3. The Invocation rules list under the rows shows what each picked invocation does.

The spells that the invocations cast list on the character sheet and in combat. A spell that the spellbook does not have goes in its own Invocations group on the sheet. A once-per-rest spell in that group shows struck through while it is spent, and its tooltip says “spent” or “available”. A cast through an invocation uses the warlock save DC and attack bonus, and the log names the invocation, as in “Wren casts Mage Armor (Armor of Shadows).”

A Pact of the Blade warlock marks its pact weapon in the Inventory tab. Each weapon or bow row has a sword button, labeled Make (weapon) the pact weapon, that marks it, and the same button clears the mark. The marked row shows a Pact weapon badge. One weapon at a time is the pact weapon, and the mark goes away when the weapon leaves the inventory. Thirsting Blade and Lifedrinker read the mark.

The app does not enforce these invocation rules, so you enforce them:

• The creature types of Chains of Carceri, and its limit of one cast on each creature per long rest.
• The push of Repelling Blast. The board does not move a token by feet, so you move the token.
• The ritual casting of a warlock with Book of Ancient Secrets. The app offers the ritual box for a ritual in the Book of Shadows only, but a ritual that the warlock also knows as a warlock spell casts with a slot.
• How the Pact of the Blade summons the pact weapon, and the familiar of the Pact of the Chain with the invocations that use it. The pact weapon does not count as magical against resistance to nonmagical damage.

Pact of the Tome

A warlock with the Pact of the Tome keeps a Book of Shadows. The level-up that picks the boon asks for three cantrips from the list of any class, and the Book of Shadows cantrips row in the Progression block changes them. The book cantrips join the spellbook as warlock spells, so they use CHA and the warlock save DC. They do not count against the cantrip limit, so the Spellbook tab reads, for example, “Cantrips 5/5” for two class cantrips and three book cantrips.

A change of the pact boon away from the Pact of the Tome removes the Book of Shadows. Its cantrips leave the spellbook, and a cantrip that the warlock knew from a class before the book stays. To keep a book cantrip, forget it in the Spellbook tab and learn it again as a class cantrip before you change the boon.

The Book of Ancient Secrets invocation adds rituals to the book. The pick asks for two 1st-level rituals from the list of any class. To copy more rituals later, click Add ritual on the Book rituals row. The list offers rituals up to half the warlock level, rounded up. A ritual in the book lists with the other spells on the sheet, and it casts only as a ritual, with no slot and ten minutes more. The GM decides when the warlock finds a ritual to copy, and the app does not charge the gold or the time of the copy. A warlock who loses the invocation loses the rituals too, so the invocation picked again asks for two new rituals.

Mystic Arcanum

At warlock levels 11, 13, 15, and 17, the level-up asks for one warlock spell of 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th level. The list offers the warlock spells of that level in the library. A level left at None stays pending, and the Warlock choices pending row asks for it again. The Mystic Arcanum row in the Progression block lists the picks, and its GM edit button changes them.

An arcanum spell casts once per long rest at its own level with no spell slot. It lists in a Mystic Arcanum group on the character sheet, and with the other spells in combat. While it is spent, its chip shows struck through, and a cast refuses until a long rest. If the spellbook also has the spell, the app first asks How to cast: the arcanum with no slot, or a spell slot. The log names the feature, as in “Wren casts Circle of Death (Mystic Arcanum).”

Inventory and equipment

The Equipment tab shows nine slot cards around a plate with the character’s name and AC: Helmet, Armor, Gloves, Greaves, Main hand, Off hand, Ranged, Ring 1, and Ring 2. A card shows the item’s name and one short stat line, such as “AC 17, heavy” or “1d8 slashing”. Click a card to open its picker. The picker lists Empty and every item that the slot accepts, each with its full details, and Equip puts the chosen item in the slot. 5e armor has no Helmet, Gloves, or Greaves slot, so those three are a house rule. The item form marks their types with “(house rule)”, and a note under the AC row says so too.

One item fills as many slots as its quantity. So a single ring goes on one hand, and a pair of daggers can fill both hands. A two-handed weapon in the main hand empties the off hand. The Off hand card reads “Both hands on” the weapon, and it stays closed until the weapon comes out of the main hand.

The Coins row at the top of the Inventory tab has one field for each 5e coin: platinum (pp), gold (gp), electrum (ep), silver (sp), and copper (cp). Type a count and press Enter or leave the field to save it. The GM and the player of a bound tab can change the counts, and a spectator sees one line such as “25 gp, 7 sp”. A save that keeps gold as a “Gold (gp)” item moves that item into the gold field when it loads.

The Inventory tab also has a search box over names and descriptions, a type filter, and one collapsible heading per item type. Under each heading, every item is a tile with its name, one short stat line, a badge such as “x41” for a stack, and an “Equipped” mark for an item in a slot. Click a tile to show the item in the detail pane, which has its full effects, its description, and the edit, give, count, use, and discard controls. On a wide screen the pane sits beside the tiles, and on a narrow one it sits under them.

Only the GM adds an item. A player uses, gives away, and discards what the character carries. A new or given item joins an existing stack only when its name, type, notes, and every other field match. Otherwise it gets a row of its own, so a renamed “Dagger +1” and a plain Dagger stay apart.

A consumable with heal dice heals when a character uses it. Use one opens a dialog that asks who drinks it. The character who carries it is first, and any other party character can take it, so a character can pour a potion into a downed ally. The tray rolls the heal with no target, and a heal above 0 HP ends the dying state. The log and a toast show the heal and the new HP, so the result shows on the full sheet too, where the tray is hidden. A dead character cannot take a potion, and the potion stays on the stack. In a fight, on the turn of the character who carries it, a potion costs the action. The app does not check that the two characters stand on the same tile.

The heal dice belong to the item, so a renamed potion still heals. To make a custom healing item, such as a Troll Draught that heals 3d6, add a consumable and set Heals when drunk. A consumable with no heal dice is a plain consumable, and Use one only takes it off the stack. A potion from an older save that has no heal dice gets them on load when its name matches one of the potions above.

An edit keeps the item equipped, because it is the same item. A type change that its slot cannot accept takes the item off. When the last of a stack is removed, the item comes off.