Placing effects

Adding an effect

1. Press E to open the EFFECT TOOL, then click + Add Effect.
2. Choose a category — Fire & heat, Weather, Water, Air & haze or Magic & hazard. The panel plays a small preview of whichever effect is highlighted, so you can see it before it hits the map.
3. Click the effect you want. The panel switches to Click the map.
4. Click where it should go. It appears there, named after the effect you picked, and is immediately selected for tuning.

Place a second Campfire and it’s named Campfire 2, so two fires never get confused in the list.

Tip

Everything you place is live for the whole table the moment it lands. If you’re prepping in front of your players, build the scene on its own page first — see scenes.

Managing what you’ve placed

Every effect in the scene is listed at the top of the panel under Effects (n). Click a row to select it; the effect’s square is highlighted on the map so you can see where it’s anchored, and the tuning controls appear below.

Each row gives you:

• an editable name — click it and type,
• Keep in a space — confine it to part of the map, covered in masking to spaces,
• Duplicate — a copy one square over, handy for a row of braziers,
• Delete.

Moving an effect

Drag it on the map. With the effect tool active, click and drag any placed effect and it follows the cursor; everyone else sees it move as you go.

For exact placement, open the Amount tab and type into Position X and Y instead.

What players see

Effects are part of the scene, not a GM overlay — players see them, and they come back when the scene is reopened. If an effect should only run for part of a fight, turn off Runs continuously on the Amount tab and give it a duration in seconds.

Related

• The effect library — what each ready-made effect looks like.
• Tuning an effect — make it thicker, slower, a different colour.
• Keeping effects in a space — confine it to a room.