DM Manual

LoreNPlay is a Dungeon Master's operating console: it keeps your campaigns, party, session notes, battle maps, and rules reference in one place, so game night needs one browser tab instead of six apps and a paper screen.

Creating an account and logging in

1. Open lorenplay.com and press Sign up in the top-right corner.
2. Fill in your name, username, email, and a password, then confirm the verification email that arrives in your inbox.
3. Log in. New accounts start as DMs — if you were invited as a player, your DM's admin sets your role.

After login you land on the dashboard: your campaigns, your character pool, and anything that needs your attention — like a character a player has sent you.

• Character requests — players can propose their own characters to you; accepting copies the character into your pool (see §4).
• Set up your first game — a three-step checklist (campaign → party → session) that tracks your actual progress and takes you to the right screen.
• Campaigns / Characters — jump straight into a campaign hub, a live session, or a character sheet.

The campaign is the anchor of everything: sessions, party, battle maps, codex, and rules all live inside it. Campaigns in the header lists yours; each one opens into its Campaign Hub.

1. Press New campaign.
2. Give it a name and (optionally) a one-line setting — both appear on every session screen.
3. Pick the ruleset: D&D 5.5e (2024), or one of your own homebrew systems from the Workshop (§7).
4. Open the campaign — you land in the Campaign Hub.

The Campaign Hub

Characters in the header is your character pool: every PC you own, reusable across campaigns. Characters get into the pool three ways — you build them in the wizard, you import them from D&D Beyond, or a player sends you theirs.

Building a character in the wizard

1. Press New character → the creation wizard opens.
2. Pick class (and subclass from level 3), species, background, and assign ability scores — the wizard enforces the 2024 rules for you.
3. Choose skills, equipment, and spells where the class calls for them.
4. Save: the engine computes AC, HP, initiative, saves, skills, and attacks. The character appears in your pool, ready to link to a campaign.

The character sheet

Assigning a character to a player

1. Open the campaign's Party & Players tab.
2. On the character's row, choose the player's account as its player.
3. That player now sees the character on their own home page and can open its sheet and the live table (see the Player Manual).

Importing from D&D Beyond

From the character pool, Import accepts a D&D Beyond character PDF. The importer extracts the sheet into the same computed model the wizard uses, flags anything it wasn't sure about for review, and from then on the character behaves exactly like a wizard-built one.

The session workspace is your screen for game night. Create a session in the Campaign Hub, press Run session, and everything for the evening is in one place, organised in tabs.

The live transcript

LoreNPlay can capture what is said at the table. Recording runs in your browser — no install — and lines land in the Transcript tab with speaker and timestamp. From any line you can make a note, a marker, or ask the assistant about it.

Per-player capture: each player can record on their own phone. Generate the session's capture link (QR code) from the Transcript toolbar; every player who opens it records their own voice, and their lines appear in the same transcript under their name.

The battle map is a full virtual tabletop: token movement, initiative, fog of war, spell templates, dice, and live sync to your players' screens. Maps belong to the campaign, so any session can reopen an old map.

Creating a map

1. In the session workspace, open the Battle Map tab → New map.
2. Pick a map image — upload one, or choose from your Gallery (§9).
3. Adjust the grid (columns, rows, cell size) until it lines up with the image; set feet-per-cell if your map isn't 5 ft.
4. Your party appears automatically as tokens in the tray — drag them onto the map.

Monsters and the library

Running combat

• Initiative — press the initiative button: PCs roll with their real modifiers, monsters with theirs. Reorder, add, or re-roll freely; Prev/Next steps turns and rounds.
• HP and conditions — click any token to damage, heal, set temp HP, or apply conditions (prone, poisoned…). PC tokens sync with the character sheet both ways.
• Fog of war — hide the map and reveal as the party explores, or enable dynamic line-of-sight if your map has walls.
• Spells — cast from a PC's sheet or drop an area template (cone, circle, line…). Templates stay on the map and effects track their duration in rounds.
• Auto-combat (opt-in) — resolve attacks and saves automatically: attack roll vs AC, damage applied, save DCs checked. Turn it off any time for full manual control.
• Undo — every change is a move in the map's history; step backward and forward freely.

Publishing to players

1. Press Live to players — players with the link (or on their player page) see the published state of the map.
2. You control what they can do per map: move their token, open their sheet, roll dice, measure, cast. Nothing is allowed until you allow it.
3. Copy player link gives you a share URL for players without accounts — they watch as spectators.

The Workshop is where reusable content lives: monsters, NPCs, items, character options, and whole rule systems. Everything you make here can be attached to campaigns and dropped onto battle maps.

Monsters

1. Find a creature close to what you want and press Quick clone (or New monster for a blank stat block).
2. Edit the stat block: name, type, CR, traits, actions — anything.
3. Add art: upload your own, or generate it with AI if you have an art key or credits (§10).
4. Assign to campaign pins it to that campaign's map library so it sorts first when you're building encounters.

NPCs

Systems: your house rules as a package

A system is a named bundle: house-rule toggles and custom mechanics plus the monsters/NPCs/items that belong to it. Set a campaign's ruleset to your system and every table you run gets the same rules. Rulings (Campaign Hub → Rules & Rulings) are the lighter cousin: one-off table decisions written down so they stay consistent.

The codex is your campaign's memory: NPCs, locations, quests, factions, lore, and items, cross-linked so you can follow the thread from a quest to its giver to the faction behind them.

Codex entries can bridge to the Workshop: an NPC entry linked to its Workshop profile shows the at-the-table cues (voice, personality) and stat block right where you need them, and a quest can point at the NPC who gave it.

The Gallery is your media shelf: battle-map images, artwork to spotlight, and background music. Everything here is one click away during a live session.

• Maps — still images used as battle-map backgrounds; the stored grid size carries into new maps.
• Art — images you can spotlight to players from a live map: the dragon reveal, the mysterious letter, the villain's face.
• Music — uploaded audio or YouTube links you can play to everyone at the table from the map toolbar.

Reference is the searchable 2024 SRD: spells, magic items, conditions, glossary rules, and monsters — the same lookup that's embedded inside the session workspace, so a rules question never means leaving the app. Content is bilingual: with the interface in Greek, translated entries show in Greek.

The Assistant tab in the session workspace is a DM copilot that actually knows your table: it reads this session's transcript, your notes and markers, the codex, your homebrew, and the rules reference — and answers with sources.

• “What did they learn about the counterweight last session?” — answered from the transcript.
• “Stat reminder for the drowned servants” — answered from your Workshop homebrew.
• “Draft a recap of session 6” — generated from notes, markers, and the transcript.

• Language — English or Greek, for the whole interface (and translated SRD content).
• Theme — several visual themes; the 3D dice have their own skin setting.
• AI (BYOK) — bring your own OpenAI (or other provider) key; your AI features then run on your key.
• Profile — display name, username, email, and password changes.