The War Board, step by step

1. Press Everything on the bar and choose War Board.
2. Press Maps folder... and pick the folder of map images on your computer.
3. Search the tray by name and press a map to open it on the board.
4. Press Tokens folder... and do the same for your token pictures.
5. Press + Scene to save what is on the board right now, fog and tokens and all, and Copy to make a second version of it.

1. Press Grid to open the aligning bar.
2. Match: drag a box across a few of the map's own printed squares and the grid matches what it finds.
3. Drop: type a square size in pixels and the grid drops straight on.
4. Turn: give it an angle in degrees for a map that was scanned at a slant.
5. Gridless for a picture with no squares in it at all, and Undo for the attempt you did not like.

1. Reveal paints the squares the party can see, with a brush.
2. Room reveals a rectangle in one drag.
3. Hide puts squares back into the dark.
4. All and None do the whole map at once, which is how most nights start.

1. Choose Tokens to select and move them.
2. Give one a label, a colour, and a size of one, two or three squares, or a free size in between.
3. Set an owner: dm, or the name of a seat at your table, and that player may move their own.
4. Give it sight in feet, and Darkvision when it has it. Normal, Dv 60 and Dv 120 are one press each.
5. Player's art puts the picture from that player's own sheet on their token.
6. Make a token... builds one out of any picture: drop a file, drag one out of another browser tab, or paste one, then crop it round and put a border on it.

• Measure drags a ruler across the map in squares and feet. Escape clears it, and it is yours alone: nothing is sent.
• Draw gives you a pen, a line, a box, a ring and a written note, in eight colours and three widths. DM only keeps a drawing on your screen; otherwise it reaches your players live once the map is pushed.
• Players lets a chosen seat draw as well, and Rub out clears what they drew.
• Area sets a size in feet, then aims a circle, a cone, a line or a cube from a press on the map or on a token. Shared templates reach your players; DM only keeps them here.
• Ping says look here: press the map and everybody at the table sees the ring.

1. Press Lighting to turn it on, and set the ambient light: Dark, Moon, or brighter.
2. Drag a wall to block sight, and use Gap to put a doorway in one.
3. Press the map with Light to drop a light, or pick a preset: a candle, a lamp, a torch, a hooded lantern, a bullseye lantern, or the light of a spell, each with its own bright and dim range in feet.
4. Type your own bright and dim numbers, pick the colour of the flame, and press On token so the light travels with whoever carries it.
5. Undo wall, Remove light and Clear all take it back.

1. Press Battle map and it becomes a Campaign map. Press it again to switch back: nothing is lost either way.
2. A campaign map holds pins instead of tokens. Choose what a pin opens: a note, a page, another map, or a piece of text.
3. Tap the map to place one, and drag a pin to move it. The search box finds the note, page or map you want it to point at.
4. Party here drops the party marker, and Clear marker takes it off again.
5. Set the scale in the bar: so many pixels to so many miles, kilometres, feet or metres, and the ruler reads in that.

1. Set the light on this map from the box on the bar: Light: the clock, or hold it at Dawn, Daylight, Dusk, Night, Sepia, Storm or Underdark.
2. Left on the clock it follows the hour in your world: dawn from five in the morning, daylight from seven, dusk from six in the evening, night from eight.
3. Tick To the table to show the light of day to your players as well as to you.
4. Untick Day and night to turn the whole thing off on every map.

The hour it follows is the one on your calendar, and dragging that clock past dusk darkens the pushed map on every seat. The calendar, and the clock walks that end of it.

1. Open the maps tray and scroll to Starter maps.
2. There are three: Parchment grid, Dungeon stone and Grass field.
3. Press one and it opens with the grid already lined up.

The Grimoire draws these itself rather than carrying pictures of them, which is why they cost the download almost nothing. They are bare tiles: no props and no trees, so put your own on top.

1. Put an mp4 or a webm in the same maps folder your still maps live in. There is nothing else to set up and nothing to convert.
2. Open the maps tray and press it. A small film mark beside the name is how you tell a moving map from a still one.
3. It plays under your grid, your fog, your lights, your tokens, your pins, your shapes and anything you draw, exactly where a still map sits.
4. Press Pause on the board's toolbar to stop it on the frame you want, and drag the scrub beside it to run it forwards or back.
5. Everything else works as it always did: Grid aligns on the moving art, Reveal and Hide paint fog over it, walls and lights sit on top of it, and Draw leaves your ink where you put it.

Pausing and scrubbing move the picture and nothing else. The fog you painted, the tokens you placed and the ink you drew stay exactly where they were, so you can stop a burning room on the frame you like and keep running the fight on it.

1. Press Push to table and the map goes to every paired Satchel.
2. Their phones get the map, the grid, the fog you revealed, and the tokens they are allowed to see.
3. Press it again after a big change. A seat reading board out of sync is telling you something never landed.

1. Press Screens on the header bar, or find it in the Everything menu.
2. Open the ones you want, each in a window of its own: the party view, the muster and the fight, your book, or the clock and the calendar.
3. Drag each window onto whichever monitor you want it on, and size it to that screen.
4. Every window follows this Grimoire as you work, because they are views of one state rather than copies of it: what you change here changes there.
5. Close any of them whenever you like. They come back where you left them the next time you open them.

The party window is the one to put on the television: it shows only what your players may see, the same half the second screen shows, so your ink and your hidden figures stay on your own screen.