Campaigns & Modules

A campaign is your own container for one ongoing game. A module is a bundle of content made to be shared.

That is the whole difference. Both hold the same kinds of things — pages, maps, encounters and entries — but a campaign is where you work, and a module is what you install.

	Campaign	Module
Made by	You	You or someone else
Comes from	Created in the app	Imported or downloaded
Holds	Your notes, maps, encounters, party	Published adventure content
Deleting it	Removes its content	Removes everything it brought

Campaigns

A campaign holds the material for one table, plus the state of the game you are running: the current map, the loaded maps, and the initiative order.

Creating one

Open the library, go to Content → Campaigns, and add one. Give it a name and a description.

The current campaign

One campaign is the current one at a time. That is the campaign the game screen, battle map and player display are driving.

Switch it under Settings → Current Campaign, or from the campaign list.

Switching changes what Load Party finds, which maps are to hand, and where new content is filed.

Campaign settings

Each campaign has its own settings for play. Open them from Settings → Current Campaign → Campaign Settings, or from the menu on the campaign’s detail screen → Campaign Settings.

Changes are kept only when you tap Save.

Party

The characters Load Party adds to combat. Tap Add Party Member and pick them from the library — you can pick several at once. Drag to reorder, and swipe to remove one.

• Any entity can join. Player characters are the usual members, but NPCs, companions and sidekicks can be added alongside them.
• Order is kept. Load Party adds members in the order listed.
• Some members remember their state. Entities of a standalone type — player characters in D&D 5E — keep one combatant between sessions, so hit points and conditions carry over. Any other member joins with fresh stats from its entry each time.
• Nobody is added twice. A member already in combat is skipped, so loading the party again after adding a latecomer is safe.

Once loaded, player characters in combat also feed the 5E encounter difficulty rating. Both are described in Encounters & Combat.

Random Assets

Modules the app draws artwork from when it places something that has no asset of its own, such as a status effect’s aura. An asset matches by its name or one of its tags; when several match, one is picked at random.

Tap Add Module to pick from your installed modules. Leave the list empty to turn this off.

Note

Both lists store links rather than the items themselves. If you delete a party member or a module and later import it again, the campaign picks it back up. Links that no longer point at anything are skipped.

Modules

A module is content packaged for distribution — an adventure, a compendium, a rules supplement, an asset pack.

Modules arrive two ways: Settings → Package Manager downloads published ones, and Settings → Import installs a .module file you already have. See Import and Export.

A module carries its own name, author, version and description, so you can see where content came from and whether an update exists.

Caution

Deleting a module deletes everything it brought with it. Content you created yourself belongs to your campaign, not to the module, and is not affected.

What goes inside

Both campaigns and modules hold the same building blocks:

Item	What it is
Page	Written content — notes, read-aloud text, house rules
Map	A battle map
Encounter	A prepared fight
Group	A folder, for structure
Reference	A shortcut to something else

Pages

Pages are the prose half of an adventure. Write your session notes, room descriptions and handouts here.

Pages are written in a rich text editor, and links do double duty: a link to /monster/goblin opens the creature, and a link to /roll rolls its own text. See Writing Content.

Groups

Groups are folders. Use them to give an adventure chapters and a campaign sections.

Groups nest, so you can go as deep as you need.

Note

Deleting a group does not delete what is inside it. The contents move back to the top level of the campaign or module.

References

A reference is a shortcut. It points at something else — a creature, a map, a page — and shows up in the tree with its own name.

This is how one thing appears in two places without being copied. The goblin defined in a compendium can also be listed in the chapter where it ambushes the party.

References are soft links. If the target is deleted, the reference is left pointing at nothing.

How this relates to the library

The library holds all your content. Campaigns and modules organise it.

Nothing is duplicated: filing a creature into a campaign does not make a second copy of it. See How it works.

Common questions

Where did my new content go?

New content is filed into the current campaign unless you say otherwise. Check Settings → Current Campaign.

Can content belong to both a campaign and a module?

Yes. Content records where it came from, and can sit in both.

I deleted a module and lost content

A module owns what it brought. If you edited one of its entries, make a Copy first — the copy is yours and survives. See The Library.

Where to go next

• Import and Export — installing modules and exporting your campaign.
• Encounters & Combat — the party and encounter difficulty.
• Battle Maps — maps live in campaigns and modules too.