Hiding and revealing pins

Hidden by default

A pin you drop as GM starts hidden. You see it dimmed, with a dashed ring on the ground — the same language the map uses everywhere for your players can’t see this. They see nothing at all.

Reveal it from the pin’s card, the right-click menu, or the eye button in the Pins panel. Hide it again the same way.

Hidden means hidden

A hidden pin is not merely undrawn on a player’s screen — it never reaches their browser. Nothing they could do would show it to them.

If you would rather drop visible pins — mid-session, marking things the party can already see — turn Create hidden off in the Map Pins panel. It stays off until you change it back.

Reveal, don’t re-explain

Revealing a pin during play does two things: the marker appears on everyone’s map, and — if you press Show to table — it opens full-screen for the whole party at once, the same way a handout does. It also lands on the room’s handout shelf, so a player who dismissed it can find it again.

Players and their own pins

Players place pins too, and choose who sees them:

• Shared with the party — everyone at the table.
• Kept to myself — only that player and you. The party sees nothing.

Nobody can edit or move someone else’s pin. As GM you can see and manage all of them.

What this is good for

“We searched here.” “The door was locked.” “Come back when we have the key.” A private pin is a player’s own memory of the map, and a shared one is the party’s.