Publishing and following characters
Every character starts private. Publishing gives it a page anyone can open, at a link you can paste anywhere.
Who can see your character
Section titled “Who can see your character”| Setting | Who can see it |
|---|---|
| Private (the default) | You, anyone you’ve explicitly shared it with, and people at your tables |
| Unlisted | Anyone with the link — but it never turns up in search engines or our sitemap |
| Public | Anyone with the link, and search engines may index it |
Private isn’t a locked door for your group: if a character is registered at a table, everyone at that table can see it, because they need to. It’s a door closed to the wider internet.
Publishing
Section titled “Publishing”Open your character and find the strip beneath the portrait. Where other people see a Follow button, you’ll see Publish….
Once published, the button reads Published and a Share link
appears — that copies the public URL (/c/…), which is the one worth
sending. The address bar shows an in-app URL that sends anyone not
logged in to the sign-in page instead.
Unpublishing puts it straight back. The public page stops working, it drops off your profile, and nobody can follow it again until you republish.
What’s on the public page
Section titled “What’s on the public page”The character’s name, portrait, system, and the details their sheet actually has filled in — so a Daggerheart character shows their ancestry and evasion where a D&D one shows race and armour class. Attached cards appear by name, grouped the way that character’s sheet groups them.
Journal entries appear too, but only the ones you’ve shared. See the character journal.
Following a character
Section titled “Following a character”On someone else’s published character, Follow does what you’d expect: their milestones — a level-up, a moment they chose to post — can reach your home feed, even if you don’t follow the person who made them.
You can only follow a published character. If you can see a character because you share a table, that’s not the same as it being public, and there’s nothing to follow yet.
Likes and views
Section titled “Likes and views”Likes are one per person, and you can take yours back.
Views count people, not visits. Reloading the page ten times counts once, and it never counts you looking at your own character — so “12 people have viewed this” means twelve people, not twelve page loads. We identify returning visitors without storing anyone’s IP address.
Neither number appears until there’s something to show. A page nobody has found yet says nothing rather than “0 followers”.