Documentation and help

The Guide

The Guide helps you find the entry you need right now. Search for a term in the search bar or browse by category. A suggestion takes you straight to the relevant knowledge panel.

Guide start view with starting categories and search bar — Starting categories | search bar and category quick button

Find an entry with the search bar

A cropped view of the Guide’s search bar — Search bar in the Guide

Enter a rules term or a short question in the search bar.

A cropped view of the Guide’s starting categories — Starting categories in the Guide

Choose a suggestion or a category if you need one.

The ‘Handaxe’ entry chip in the weapons list

In the results list, tap the name of a chip, such as ‘Handaxe’. Its knowledge panel opens directly in the Guide; only the separate ‘i’ opens the Tooltip Panel.

The result stays in the Guide. To see a complete entry, visit the ‘Dissonant Whispers’ knowledge panel in The Knowledge Panel chapter.

Browse without a specific question

Quick menu showing categories and its four-tile button — Quick menu and its button on the search bar

Tap a starting category. The four-tile icon on the right of the search bar opens the same starting point as a quick menu above the search bar.

In the weapons list, tap ‘Handaxe’. The title opens its knowledge panel; the adjacent ‘i’ shows a brief view in the Tooltip Panel.

A prepared offline copy lets you read your collections without a connection. Learn about offline mode.

Use the quick menu

Complete search bar with the four-tile button on its right — Quick menu on the right of the search bar

Tap the four-tile icon on the right of the search bar. The quick menu opens just above it without leaving your current entry.

In the ‘Categories’ tab, choose another topic, such as ‘Weapons’. From the list, tap an entry title to open its knowledge panel.

Switch to the hourglass icon for ‘History’. You can reopen a recently viewed entry there. The list stays empty until you have opened one.

Use the quick settings

Quick-settings bar with four numbered groups: collections, ruleset and language, reading font and animations, and theme — Open collections or show them beside the Guide; sign-in and a suitable plan required | Choose ruleset and language; additional rulesets depend on your plan | Adjust reading font and animations | Change theme: Day, Evening, Night, or Tavern

Reset the conversation

Reset conversation button on the left of the search bar

Tap the reset symbol (↺) on the left of the search bar. This clears the current conversation and returns you to the start screen.

Your saved collections and entries remain intact.

Tip

With a keyboard, focus the four-tile quick-menu button and press the down arrow to open it. Use the arrow keys to move between tabs and entries; Escape closes the menu.

Four-tile quick-menu button on the right of the search bar — Quick-menu button on the right of the search bar

The Knowledge Panel

A knowledge panel gives you room to read an entry. Its topic and title come first, followed—depending on the content—by key values, the description, sources, and links to related entries.

Dissonant Whispers knowledge panel with title, circular value displays, and details — Example: Dissonant Whispers

Read a knowledge panel

Search bar with a typed term and three suggestions above it — Search bar and suggestions in the Guide

Enter ‘Hide’ in the search bar and tap the specific ‘Hide’ (action) suggestion. Its knowledge panel opens directly in the Guide. Entry-chip titles and underlined terms also open their destinations; a chip’s ‘i’ is reserved for the Tooltip Panel.

Not every knowledge panel shows the same values. ‘Dissonant Whispers’ highlights damage and range in round displays; the other spell details and rules text sit below. Weapons, monsters, and narrative entries show different selections, so read the details beneath the circles and the full text too.

Underlined ‘Invisible’ term in the rules text

Scroll through the description. Tap an underlined term, such as ‘Invisible’, for an explanation. You can expand long class sections and tables with their labelled control.

The separate information segment of a chip opens the same panel as a tooltip without losing your place in the Guide. Learn about the Tooltip Panel.

Tip

An entry and its knowledge panel are not the same thing: the entry is the content; the panel is how it appears in the Guide or Tooltip Panel.

The Tooltip Panel

For a quick look at a term, open it in the Tooltip Panel. The Guide stays at your place behind it, so you can return after reading.

View linked panels

Tap an underlined term in a knowledge panel, such as ‘Invisible’, or a chip’s ‘i’ segment. The related tooltip opens over the Guide.

Read the values, text, and any expandable sections.

The back arrow appears after you open another view inside the panel.

Understand a panel

Start with the small category label and entry title at the top of the knowledge panel. In ‘Dissonant Whispers’, they show ‘Spell’ and the spell’s name; its school and level follow below.

The round displays summarise damage and range in this example. Compare them with the details box underneath, which also lists the saving throw, effect, casting time, and components.

Close the Tooltip Panel with the ‘×’ at the top right to continue reading at the same place in the Guide.

Tip

Tap a chip’s separate information segment to read details in the panel. The main part of the chip takes you directly to its knowledge panel in the Guide.

The Collection Panel

The Collection Panel keeps what you need for your game close at hand: personal and shared collections, books, backpacks, and changing values. You can quickly return to your knowledge panels from there.

Open a collection and book

Tap the book icon in the bottom bar to open the Collection Panel.

Tap the collection card you want, then open the book or backpack card inside it.

Tap the name of an entry chip in the open book. This opens its knowledge panel directly; the separate ‘i’ shows the tooltip.

The actions you can see in a shared collection depend on your role and permissions.

Organise content

Plus button for creating a place to store entries

Tap the plus at the top of the Collection Panel. Then choose ‘Book’ or ‘Backpack’ as a place to keep entries.

Open the book and tap ‘Add entries’ below its chips. An empty book offers the same action in its empty card.

A chip points to an entry. You can edit general entries of your own only with DME in the editor.

Select several entries

Select multiple entries above an open collection

Open a collection with a book. Above the books, tap the icon with two checkmarks (‘Select multiple entries’).

Selection bar with Copy, Move, and Remove

Tap the entries you want in the book. The bar shows your selection. Use its arrow to choose another book and move the entries there, then check their chips. If there is no destination book yet, create one first. Copy and Remove are available alongside it when your permissions allow them.

Tip

A book or backpack stores links to entries. Each knowledge panel remains an entry in its own right.

Look Up Rules

Have a rules term on the tip of your tongue? Enter it in the search bar. A matching result opens its knowledge panel with the full text and source.

Search for a rule

Type the rules term into the search bar at the bottom. Suggestions appear only while you are entering text.

Choose the matching suggestion or result chip.

Search bar with ‘Hide’ and three suggestions above it; ‘Hide’ is labelled as an action — Search suggestions above a filled search bar

After typing ‘Hide’, tap the ‘Hide’ (action) suggestion. Read its rules text in the open knowledge panel and scroll down to the source if needed.

If several results match, choose the entry you mean from the suggestions.

Tip

The search bar searches existing entries; it does not invent an AI answer. If nothing matches, try a shorter term or a category. Check the language and ruleset in quick settings if needed.

Browse the Guide

You do not need to know what you are looking for yet. Choose a category and follow the entries that catch your interest.

Browse from a category

‘Weapons’ starting category in the Guide

Tap ‘Weapons’ on the start screen. The Guide then shows a results list grouped by weapon type.

Open an entry.

The search bar and category quick button give you a new starting point whenever you need one.

Tip

The category quick button remains beside the submit button even while you are browsing a topic.

Compare Details

Do two rules sound similar? Open their knowledge panels in turn and compare the titles, key values, and sources.

Compare linked details

Enter ‘Hide’ in the search bar and tap the ‘Hide’ entry labelled ‘Action’ in the suggestions. Its knowledge panel opens immediately.

Use linked terms or chips to see further details.

Tooltip history takes you back to the previous view without losing your original place in the Guide.

Tip

For similarly named entries, the category, ruleset, and source line help you choose the right version.

Save Knowledge Panels

Keep the entries you use often close by: place the right knowledge panel as a chip in a book. Next time, open it straight from your collection.

Put an entry in a book

Open the Collection Panel with the book icon at the bottom. Tap its plus to create a collection, then use the plus in that collection to add a book.

Open the entry you want from a search suggestion, chip, or link directly as a knowledge panel in the Guide.

Plus button for adding from a knowledge panel

Tap the plus at the top right of the knowledge panel. In the next dialog, choose the collection and a book you can write to. You can also use ‘Add entries’ in an open book. Check that the chip appears in the book.

The chip is a direct route back to the entry; later changes to the knowledge panel are not frozen as a copy in the book. For arranging chips, see Organise Equipment.

Personalise a saved chip

Dialog for display name, picture, and Save

Enter a personal display name or tap ‘Choose image’. ‘Original image’ restores the initial picture. Tap ‘Save’ and check the customised chip in the book.

The name and picture change only for this chip in your book. The original knowledge panel stays unchanged.

Tip

Save the entry in a book you can write to. Some shared books are read-only.

Organise Equipment

Pack a character’s equipment into a backpack. A book works well for broader reference lists. Chips in either one lead back to the original knowledge panels.

Keep equipment in a backpack

Plus button for creating a backpack in a collection

Open the collection and tap the plus above its books. Choose ‘Backpack’ if you mainly want to store equipment.

Open the backpack and tap ‘Add equipment’ below its chips. Choose the items you want in the picker.

In the open backpack, tap the name of an equipment chip, such as ‘Longsword’. Its knowledge panel opens directly; the separate ‘i’ opens the tooltip.

Backpacks and books are places to keep entries. Their chips still refer to the original entries.

Sort entries in a book or backpack

Open a book or backpack that contains entries. Tap the three dots on its card and choose ‘Sort’.

Book chips automatically grouped by spell level and type

Check the new group headings: spells appear by level and other entries by type, such as weapons or equipment.

Remove sorting to return to manual order

To set the order yourself, choose ‘Remove sorting’ from the same menu. You can then drag chips to the positions you want in the book or backpack.

Automatic grouping and manual dragging are alternatives. Dragging chips is disabled in the grouped view.

Tip

Open a stored chip to check weight, properties, and other details in the original knowledge panel.

Create a Character

Your character grows one decision at a time. Guided creation helps you along. Review everything before saving, and your character will then have a knowledge panel of their own.

Create a character

Open the collection you want and tap the plus above its books. Choose ‘Character’ in the dialog.

Choose ‘Guided creation’ to build your character chapter by chapter with ‘Back’ and ‘Next’. Or choose ‘Show everything’ to open the full editor.

Work through avatar, origin, class, and values in the Character Builder. Tap ‘Next’ at the bottom to move to the next decision.

Save entry action in the Character Editor

Review the name, values, and equipment. At the end, tap ‘Save entry’ at the bottom of the Character Editor. The Guide puts the character in a book named after them.

For a custom background, add skills, bonuses, and feats yourself; that choice does not grant them automatically.

Tip

Review the preview especially carefully before saving custom details or a custom background.

Track Coins and Charges

Gold comes in, supplies run low: a wallet and charge counter let you track these changes directly in your collection.

Track values during play

Tap the plus above the books in a collection and choose ‘Wallet’ in the creation window. For another limited resource, choose ‘Charge counter’ there.

Correction, Income, and Expense modes at the top of the wallet — Three change modes in the wallet

At the top of the wallet, choose a mode: Correction sets a coin balance, Income adds coins, and Expense subtracts them. Set the amount below with plus or minus beside the relevant currency.

Record action and expandable History in the wallet — Book and History in the wallet

Check the amount, then tap ‘Book’. Open ‘History’ at the bottom of the wallet to find the saved change.

The wallet tracks coin balances and transactions; a charge counter works for other limited resources.

Tip

Use the wallet and its history for coin changes. Use a charge counter for inspiration or other limited values.

Create Your Own Knowledge Panels

Does your group have its own places, people, quests, or items? Put them on knowledge panels of your own. A template gets you started; the text and links are yours to shape.

Custom knowledge-panel templates for Character, Blank, NPC, and Monster — Part of the template picker; scroll to find more templates.

Design your own panel

Weapon template in the custom-entry editor

Choose the type of entry in the template picker. For your own weapon, for example, tap ‘Weapon’; the editor sets up the relevant fields.

Add a title, avatar, text, and links.

Review the title, content, and linked values. Then tap ‘Save entry’ at the bottom of the editor.

Once saved, your entry reads like a regular knowledge panel and can link to other content.

Give an NPC combat statistics

NPC combat statistics: search for Commoner

Choose the ‘NPC’ template for your character. Under ‘Combat statistics’, enter a term such as ‘Commoner’ in ‘Search monster stat blocks’. Only matching monsters appear.

Tap ‘Commoner’. The selected monster stat block now appears as a chip below the search field. Use ‘×’ to remove it or replace it with another monster.

The combat-statistics base is optional. After saving, it appears as ‘Stat base · Commoner’ under the NPC title; your NPC’s description and personality remain your own.

Tip

Choose a template that matches the kind of content. You can edit the title, picture, text, and linked entries later.

Organise Campaign Material

Turn individual notes into a reference for your campaign. Arrange rules, people, places, and equipment in books that follow your group’s themes.

Build a campaign collection

Plus button for creating a campaign collection

Open the Collection Panel and tap the plus at the top. Name the new collection after your campaign.

Books and a backpack in a campaign collection

Open the campaign collection and use its plus to create books and backpacks for your topics. In an open book, use ‘Add entries’ to add content.

In the open campaign collection, tap the plus above the books. Choose what you need, such as a book, backpack, wallet, or chat.

As the campaign grows, add books and entries without rebuilding your existing material.

Group books and backpacks

In your campaign collection, open a book or backpack’s three-dot menu and choose ‘Group’.

Select more books or backpacks and choose ‘New group’. If a suitable group already exists, you can select that instead. Then check the grouped cards.

This group organises books and backpacks. Sort the entry chips inside a book separately.

Tip

Separate topics with books and backpacks. Official rules and your own entries can live in the same collection.

Share Collections

Share the collection intended for your group. When you turn sharing on, you decide who may read it and who may help edit it.

Share a collection

In the Collection Panel, tap the card of the collection you want to share.

Ask the person you want to invite to open their account menu at the top right and choose ‘Rule Guide ID’. They can copy their ID there and send it to you.

The other person finds their ID in their account menu. Before inviting them, check the visible books and selected role. Sharing applies only to this collection.

Tip

An invitation alone does not grant editing rights. The collection’s role and permissions determine what a person can do.

Share Your Own Entries

Want to show a character, place, or find of your own without opening your whole collection? Share the entry with its own link.

Share your own entry with a link

Title chip of a custom entry in a book

In the Collection Panel, open the book containing your entry. Tap the entry’s title chip to open its knowledge panel; the adjacent ‘i’ shows only the tooltip.

Ask the person to open the link. Check together whether they can see the text and the links you intended.

If you want to work together in books instead, share a collection and assign suitable roles there. Learn about sharing collections.

Tip

A sharing link shows the entry as it was when you shared it. Later changes to the original do not automatically appear at the same link.

Roles and Permissions

Not everyone in your group needs the same permissions. Choose roles in a shared collection that suit reading or working together.

Set member permissions

Members & access in the shared collection menu

Open the shared collection. Tap the three dots on its card, then ‘Members & access’.

Changes to permissions affect the actions available to those members.

Let someone organise a group

In a shared collection, open the three-dot menu of the relevant group and choose ‘Access rights’.

Select members allowed to organize a group

Choose who may edit the group. Under ‘Members who may organize this group’, select the person and save. They can then create, rename, reorder, and delete objects in that group.

The owner and Game Masters retain these permissions. Permission to edit a book does not automatically grant permission to organise the entire group.

Allow private content to be copied into a shared collection

Choose ‘Members & access’ from the shared collection’s three-dot menu.

Separate permission to copy private content into the collection

For the person you choose, enable ‘May copy private content into this collection’. They can then copy suitable private content into a part of the shared collection they can write to. Check the copy together afterwards.

This permission is separate from their role and their write access to the destination book. Private originals are not moved.

Tip

Check permissions from an invited member’s point of view, especially before allowing collaborative editing.

Chats in Collections

Keep plans close to the group’s material by creating a chat in the collection. You can have several chats for different topics.

Create a collection chat

Tap the shared collection in the Collection Panel. Its role label shows your access.

In the open collection, tap the plus above the books and choose ‘Chat’ in the creation window. Give the chat a suitable name.

Message bar and send arrow in a collection chat

Open the chat card in the shared collection. Write your message in the chat’s message bar and tap the send arrow.

Participation depends on the collection’s sharing settings and permissions.

Share an entry in chat

Book icon for sharing an entry above the chat message bar

Open the chat in the shared collection. Tap the book icon above the message bar to attach an entry.

Rule.guide or Collection choice with a search result

Choose ‘Rule.guide’ or ‘Collection’, search for the entry, and tap the matching result.

Selected entry chip before sending a chat message

The selected entry now sits as a chip before your message. Tap the send arrow; others can open the chip’s knowledge panel directly from the chat.

Tip

Chats belong to their collection. Who can see or write in them depends on the permissions granted.

Offline Mode

You can read prepared collections without a connection. Download them to this device while online; editing and sharing need an internet connection.

Make collections available offline

Offline collections dialog with Make available offline

In the ‘Offline collections’ dialog, check the current version under ‘Selected language’. Tap ‘Make available offline’ at the bottom. To prepare another language, switch languages in the Guide first and repeat.

Prepared knowledge panels in the offline view — Prepared content in the offline view

Open your prepared collections when you need them, even without a connection.

German and English copies are prepared separately. Update the copy while online when you need new or changed content.

Tip

The offline copy belongs to your account on this device and is removed when you sign out. Editing and sharing are not available offline.