Starting combat & taking turns
The Combat panel, the Start Combat button, rolling initiative, and moving the turn along. Read →
Combat
Combat on the tabletop is a shared turn order everyone can see. The GM starts it, everyone rolls initiative, and the table works down the list round after round until the GM ends it.
The loop, end to end
Section titled “The loop, end to end”- Select the tokens that are in the fight — drag a box around them, or shift-click each one.
- Open the Combat tab in the scene sidebar (the crossed-swords icon) and click Start Combat. The button shows how many tokens you have selected.
- Roll initiative. Anyone who controls a combatant can roll for it with the small dice button on its row; the GM can roll for the whole encounter at once with Roll All, or type a value in by hand.
- Sort the order. Sort puts the roster in initiative order, highest first.
- Take turns. Next moves to the following combatant. When the order wraps back to the top, the round number goes up. Combatants marked as defeated are skipped.
- End combat with the End button in the panel header when the fight is over.
Combat is per scene, not per map
Section titled “Combat is per scene, not per map”The turn order lives with the running session, not with the saved scene. It survives refreshes and reconnects, and everyone at the table sees the same round, the same order, and the same active turn.
Nothing about combat is tied to one game system — initiative values are just numbers, so a spotlight order or a fixed order works exactly as well as rolled initiative.
Read next
Section titled “Read next”The turn tracker
The strip of portraits on the canvas that shows who is up next. Read →
Managing combatants
Roster rows, the GM’s right-click menu, defeated and hidden combatants. Read →
Legendary actions
The per-round pip budget for legendary monsters. Read →
Turn triggers & reactions
Effects that offer themselves at the start or end of a turn, reactions, concentration and auras. Read →