Running a session

Once the map is built and everyone’s arrived, the job changes. This section covers the controls you reach for while the game is running — moving the table between scenes, checking what your players can see, taking a checkpoint before something risky, conducting the music, and keeping the log honest.

Tip

Most of these live in the scene sidebar. Open it with the GM button on the right edge of the screen, then pick a tab across the top.

The GM’s map controls

Three of your controls don’t live in the sidebar at all — they sit with the map controls in the bottom-right corner, and each one is also on the canvas right-click menu:

Button	What it does
Eye	View as a player or token.
Pause	Pause or resume the game for everyone (see below).
Broadcast	Table audio — conduct what the table hears.

Pausing the table

Press Space, or click the Pause button in the map controls, and the game pauses for everyone. Players get a full-screen Game Paused card and the table stops accepting their actions; your own board stays visible and workable underneath, with a Resume game button on the pause card.

Resume the same way: Space, the Resume game button, the Pause button in the map controls, or Resume game on the canvas right-click menu.

Note

Pause is live-session only, and it survives scene switches — pause during a break, change the map, and the table is still paused when you come back.

During play

View as a player or token

See the map exactly as one of your players — or one token — sees it. Check the view →

Switching scenes mid-session

Move the whole table to a different map, with a cinematic fade on every screen. Switch scenes →

Saving & rewinding

Take a checkpoint before the risky bit, and roll the scene back if it goes wrong. Save and rewind →

Managing players

Promote, demote, kick and ban — and what each role can actually do. Manage the table →

Sound and words

Table audio

Broadcast a track to everyone, auto-play each scene’s soundtrack, and cue music privately first. Conduct the audio →

Voice & transcription

Start the live session, join the table’s voice and video, see who’s talking, and capture a transcript. Go live →

Handouts

Show the table a wiki page, an entity or an image — as a reveal, or quietly. Share something →

Player journals

Notes you own, in the real wiki editor, during a session and between them. Keep notes →

Game log & chat

The room’s game log and the full chat, both reachable without leaving the map. Keep the record →

Related

• Virtual tabletop overview — everything the table can do.
• Rooms & sessions — the room your table lives in.
• Building the map — the prep side of the tools.
• Combat — initiative, rounds and turns.