Everything here works with no account and no signal. Gnash ate the manual so you'd get this instead.

1 · Put it on your phone

The Satchel is a web page that installs like an app, so it opens full screen and works offline.

Android (Chrome):

1. Open the Satchel in Chrome.
2. Tap the three-dot menu in the top right.
3. Tap Add to Home screen, then Install.

iPhone / iPad (Safari):

1. Open the Satchel in Safari.
2. Tap the Share button (the square with the arrow pointing up).
3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.

After the first visit it opens with no internet at all. Your characters live on your device, in this browser; nothing is uploaded anywhere.

2 · Make a character in three minutes

1. Tap + New Character.
2. The Study opens (the full-screen editor; the pencil on the Sheet tab reopens it any time). Type a name, pick a class and level.
3. Tap Standard array 15 14 13 12 10 8 to drop in ready-made ability scores, or set your own with the + and − steppers.
4. Saving throws and skills: tap a skill's dot to cycle it (blank, proficient, expert). AC and hit points figure themselves out unless you switch them to manual.
5. Close the Study. That's a playable character; everything else can wait.

3 · Bring a character from D&D Beyond

You carry your own data: D&D Beyond shows it to you, you copy it, you paste it here. The Satchel never talks to D&D Beyond behind your back; every step happens in your own tabs.

1. Make the character public first (this is the step everyone misses): on your character page open Manage (the gear), then Character Settings, and set Privacy to Public. Your data page only answers for public characters.
2. Copy your character's link: the page's own address, something like dndbeyond.com/characters/12345678.
3. In the Satchel, tap Import and paste the link (the Paste button does it in one tap). The Satchel cuts the number out and opens your data page in a new tab.
4. That tab shows a wall of code (your character as raw data). Select all, copy.
5. Come back and tap Paste again. Done: the Satchel imports it on the spot.

If the new tab shows Forbidden or an error instead of the wall of code, the character isn't Public yet; that's step 1, and the Satchel will say so plainly if you paste what that tab gave you.

Text from your import (spell, item, and feature descriptions you own) stays on your device; the table only ever sees your rolls and your name.

After the first import, the Sheet tab grows a Refresh from D&D Beyond button. When you level up over there, one tap opens your data page; copy, come back, paste. The Satchel updates the sheet in place and keeps every note, handout, and roll you made here.

Doing it by hand instead: visit character-service.dndbeyond.com/character/v5/character/YOUR-NUMBER yourself (the number from the end of your character page's address), copy what appears, and paste it into Import.

4 · Bring a character from Foundry VTT

1. In Foundry, right-click your character in the Actors sidebar and choose Export Data. That saves a .json file.
2. In the Satchel: tap Import, then Choose a file and pick it (or open the file, copy everything, and paste).

5 · Rolling dice

1. Tap any ability, save, skill, or attack on your sheet and it rolls, with your bonus already in.
2. Advantage or disadvantage: set Adv / Normal / Dis on the dice tray first (the leather strip at the bottom; pull it up for loose dice and your roll history).
3. The tray's log keeps the night's rolls. Sweep clears it; it asks first.

6 · The Fight tab

1. Damage, Heal, and Temp HP live inside the big hit-point plaque. Tap, type the number, done.
2. At 0 hit points the plaque turns into death saves: tap Roll Death Save, the successes and failures mark themselves. Healing brings the plaque back.
3. Conditions: tap + on the condition rail to add one (poisoned, prone, and the rest). Tap a condition chip to read its rules or clear it.
4. Spell slots and hit dice sit below as coins; tap to spend, and casting a spell from the Spells tab spends the slot for you.
5. Short Rest and Long Rest wait at the bottom and do the bookkeeping.

7 · Join your DM's table

If your DM runs Gnasher's Grimoire (the free DM app), your Satchel can link to it live. Your rolls appear on the DM's screen, and their handouts land in your Journal.

1. Tap the wax seal in the top left corner.
2. Your DM opens the table and reads out a short code, something like EMBER-42.
3. Type it in and tap Join. The seal glows when you're linked, and the Satchel remembers the code, so it rejoins by itself next session.

No internet at the table? Switch the pairing mode to same-room and trade the invite by paste instead; the Satchel walks you through it. Sharpest trick when the venue wifi is garbage: the DM turns on their phone's hotspot and everyone joins that.

8 · At the table

Your turn: when the DM runs a fight, the turn order appears under your header, and when it reaches you a big YOUR TURN banner takes over the top of the screen. Tap it to land on your Fight tab.

Handouts and whispers: anything the DM pushes (maps, letters, pictures) lands in your Journal tab under Handouts. A whisper is a handout sent to you alone; it says so on the card, and the rest of the table never sees it.

"Resting": if your phone dozes off, the table shows your seat as resting. Nothing is lost; the DM's table holds whatever you missed and hands it over the moment your screen wakes. Just unlock your phone and carry on.

9 · The notebook

1. Session Notes (Journal tab): tap + New and you get a page dated today, one per session.
2. Campaign Notes: tap + New Page for free pages you name yourself: villains, debts, the innkeeper's name.
3. Handouts are yours to keep: rename them, jot a note under each one, and tag them (type a few words like clues, maps under the handout). Tags become filter chips above the list.

10 · Backups (do this one)

Your characters live in this browser only. Clearing the browser's site data would take them with it, so give each character a lifeboat:

1. Journal tab, bottom bench: tap Export .satchel. That saves a small file holding the whole character, notes and all.
2. Keep it anywhere (cloud drive, email to yourself). To bring it back, or to move to a new phone: Import, then Choose a file.

That's the whole Satchel. Anything else, poke it; nothing in here bites. Except me. Signed, Gnash.

11 · Your Books (your own material in the Forge)

The Forge ships with the free SRD. If you own other material, or you wrote your own, the Forge can use it too. Tap Your Books on the shelf.

• Write an entry. Pick the book (or name a new one), pick the kind, fill in the form, tap Keep it in the book. A species with a speed of 25 gives a speed of 25. A subclass is the parent class, a name, and its features by level.
• Read a book you own. A PDF, an EPUB, a Word file, plain text, Markdown, a saved web page, or a 5eTools JSON file, read in this browser. A 5eTools file installs straight into a book (its species, backgrounds, feats, options, spells, items, armor, classes with their features and tables, and subclasses). Everything else is read page by page. The Satchel picks out what it recognises by shape (a spell by its casting time and range, a feat by its prerequisite, an item by its rarity line, a species by its speed, a background by its skill proficiencies, a class by its hit die, features by the level they name) and shows them as a list you tick, fix with the pencil, and keep. The raw text sits under the list: select any passage the reader missed and make an entry from it. The PDF is not stored; only what you keep is.
• Load a book file. One JSON file in the shape shown by See the file shape. If anything is wrong, the Satchel names the entry and says what to fix; nothing half-installs.
• Where it shows. The Forge's lists, the search, and the sheet. Entries from your book say so beside their name.
• Effects the sheet applies. A class or subclass feature can carry an effects line, a short list the sheet acts on by itself: resist cold; darkvision 60; speed +10; fly 30; skill survival; save wis; hp +1/level; ac +1; spell Gloamlight free; resource Salt Surge 2 short. A resource becomes a coin on the Fight tab that the right rest refills (short, short1 for one back on a short rest, long); prof, level, half, mod:wis or a per-level table 2,2,3 set how many. Reading a PDF fills this line in from the words when it can; check it. Anything the line cannot say stays words on the sheet for you to apply by hand.
• Search the whole book. When you read a book, tick keep the whole text and every page is searchable from the magnifying glass, with the page shown when you tap a hit. Remove it from Your Books whenever you like.
• Where it never goes. A book stays in this browser. It is not in a .satchel backup, it does not reach your DM's table, and there is no way to send it to anyone from inside the Satchel. Keep your own copy of the file.
• Remove a book and any character built from it keeps the names and shows a content not installed line until you load it again.