Manual · DM

Encounters

Prepare and start an encounter, track creatures and characters, reveal information and finish with XP.

The encounter

• Prepared until you press Start. The party sees nothing before that. Fight keeps a round counter and turns; Scene has neither. Free movement turns a running fight into a scene; Roll initiative turns it back.
• The round counter counts what you type or roll. It is the only clock; no duration is tracked anywhere.
• Creatures' hit points live here (Damage, Heal, Temp). Characters' hit points come from their own sheets, read-only, and so do their conditions.
• What the party knows of a creature is three steps: Hidden (no chip, no token), Seen (an unnamed token), Named. Details adds Type, AC, HP as bloodied only, Resistances and Conditions. Nothing reveals itself; the log records each change.
• Seating a character puts it at initiative 0, revealed.
• End encounter offers Award N XP each (an offer on each seated sheet; unrated monsters are left out and the tooltip says so) and Next: , the next prepared encounter in the same adventure.
• Notes — yours only. A campaign file's own lines for the fight land here too.

The map has its own battle maps reference. For imported encounters, see Importing from Game Master 5.