The table screen

The play area is one full-screen map with everything else floating over it. Here’s what each floating piece is and how to open it.

A rounded dock at the top-centre of the screen. It’s the main tool picker — hover any button and its name appears underneath. Which buttons you get depends on your role: observers see four, players see a subset, GMs see all of them.

Typical contents: Select, Grid Options, Basemap Options, Fog of War, Lighting Tools, Scene Lighting, Measure Mode, Wall Tool, Drawing Tool, Add Token, VTT Settings, Help, Effect Tool, Height / 2.5D, Overlay Tiles, Scene Control and Save Scene.

Bars that float over the map

Piece	Who sees it	Where
Observer Mode pill	Observers	Top-centre. A reminder that you’re watching, not playing.
Table audio — track name chip	Players and observers	Top-centre. Confirms your browser really is playing the GM’s broadcast.
Viewing as name badge	GM	Bottom-right, above the map controls. Amber, because the map isn’t showing you reality — see View as.
Combat Carousel	Everyone, during combat	Just below the toolbar. The turn order as a row of portraits — see The turn tracker.
Game Paused	Everyone	Full screen, while the GM has the table paused.

Bottom-centre is kept clear on purpose: that’s where card resolution, results and your card hand appear, so nothing else parks there.

The map controls

Bottom-right: a Minimap with a tall column of view buttons beside it (zoom in, the current zoom as a percentage, zoom out, fit, centre). At the foot of that column is a chevron — click it to fold the cluster away, and click it again to bring it back. Full detail in Moving around the map.

It’s the same cluster you’ll find on boards, World Maps, the Map Foundry and the links graph.

GMs get three more buttons in a strip directly under the minimap:

Button	What it opens
Eye	View as — render the map as a chosen player or token sees it (View as). Turns amber while a perspective is active.
Pause	Pause or resume the game for the whole table. Turns amber while paused.
Broadcast	Table audio — conduct what everyone hears (Table audio).

All three are also on the canvas right-click menu, so you never have to travel to the corner mid-scene — which is also the fastest way to reach them if you’ve folded the cluster away.

The right-edge dock

A round Panels button sits in the top-right corner. Hover over it (or click it) and a column of buttons fans out beneath it. Each one opens (or closes) a panel that slides in from the right edge:

Chat · GM · Card Stack · Assets · Companion · Actors · Widgets · Feed · Audio · Notifications

While a panel is open, the top button takes on that panel’s icon. Click it to close the panel, or click the panel’s own button in the column again.

The scene sidebar’s tabs

Open the GM button and a row of small icon tabs appears along the top of the panel:

Tab	Who	What’s in it
Layers	GM	Show, hide and reorder the map’s layers.
Tokens	GM	Every token in the scene, with groups — see The token list & groups.
Scene audio	GM	Tracks attached to this scene.
Players	Everyone	Who’s here, and their roles.
Session	Everyone (in a room)	Session lifecycle, voice and video.
Game Log	Everyone (in a room)	The table’s roll and event history.
Actions	Everyone	Targeting and resolution panels.
Combat	Everyone	Initiative and the combatant list.
Status	Everyone	Conditions and resources for the selected token, plus its playable cards.
Console	GM	The command console.

GMs open on Layers by default; everyone else opens on Players.

The GM Scene Control sheet

GMs get one more panel: Scene Control in the toolbar slides a GM Scene Control sheet in from the left, for putting a different scene on the table. See Switching scenes.

Getting on the table — roles and first load.
Moving around the map — pan, zoom and the minimap.
Keyboard shortcuts — the single-key tool switches.
Tabletop settings — cursor, movement, targeting and measurement options.