Drawing, Markers & Effects

Everything on this page is something you add on top of the map: a sketch, a note, a spell template, a piece of furniture.

They differ in one useful way — some are for your players, and some are only for you.

Drawing

You can draw on a map to highlight an area, add environmental effects, or sketch a dungeon.

Drawing

Tap or .
Draw with a finger, a stylus or a mouse.

Changing colour, size or style

Tap or a second time.
Pick a colour, size or style.

Styles are freehand, line, rectangle and ellipse.

Erasing and undoing

Tap , then tap a stroke to erase it.
Tap to take back your last stroke.

Snap to grid

Tap snap to snap drawings to the grid. Freehand never snaps.

Scrolling while drawing

Use two fingers to pan and zoom without leaving the drawing tool.

Which layer you draw on

This is the part worth getting right.

Draw on the object layer and your players see it.
Draw on the DM layer and only you do.

So a highlighted room is an object-layer drawing, and a note about the trap in it belongs on the DM layer. Drawings stay editable, and can be moved between layers afterwards.

Markers

A marker is a pin on the map that holds a note. Use them for room descriptions, read-aloud text, traps and anything else you want to find again mid-session.

Adding a marker

Tap .
Tap to add one.

Or just double-tap the map to drop a marker where you tapped.

Editing and deleting

Tap an existing marker twice.
Choose Edit or Delete.

Marker settings

Field	What it does
Name	Floating text above the marker
Label	The character drawn inside it
Color	Its colour
Shape	Marker, pin, circle or label
Size	Tiny through huge, relative to the grid
Content	The text you read when you tap it
Hidden	Hides it from your players. On by default
Locked	Stops it being moved by accident

Markers are hidden by default, which is usually what you want — they are your notes. Reveal one when the party finds what it describes and it appears on the player screen too.

A marker can also point at a page or another entry, so tapping it opens your prepared text instead of holding a copy of it.

Measuring

The measuring tool draws a path and tells you how long it is.

Two counting methods:

Type	How distance is counted
Grid	Counts the cells crossed, as tabletop rules do
Precise	True geometric distance

A measurement can be left on the map, so a planned move or a spell’s reach stays visible while people argue about it.

Area effects

An area effect is a spell template anchored to the map — a fireball’s sphere, a breath weapon’s cone, a wall of fire’s line.

Shape	Sized by
Sphere	Radius
Cylinder	Radius
Cone	Length, aimed by angle
Line	Length and width
Square	Width
Cube	Width

Each has a colour and opacity, and can be hidden from your players or locked in place.

An area effect stays where you put it. For an area that follows a creature instead, use an aura — see Tokens.

Tiles and asset packs

A tile is scenery: furniture, doors, props, decals, overlays. Anything on the map that is not a creature.

Tiles come from asset packs you import or download from the Package Manager. Place one, then size, rotate and layer it like any object.

Two things make tiles more than decoration:

A tile can carry a light, so a brazier both appears on the map and lights the room around it.
A tile can carry a reference, which makes it tappable — opening a page, a creature or another entry.

Tiles can be locked so they stop moving once the scene is dressed.

What players see

A quick summary, since this is where most confusion starts:

Thing	Players see it?
Drawings on the object layer	Yes
Drawings on the DM layer	No
Markers	Only when not hidden
Area effects	Yes, unless hidden
Tiles	Yes, unless hidden
Measurements	Yes, unless hidden

Where to go next

Battle Maps — layers, grid and background.
Line of Sight & Fog — hiding the map itself.
Import and Export — getting asset packs in.