Loregate

🚀 Getting started

1. Open Loregate on your laptop.
2. Click 🖥️ Open player screen. Drag the new window onto your second monitor / TV and press F11 for full-screen.
3. Pick a map from the ✨ New / preset… menu (or start blank), then start dragging tokens. The player screen updates instantly.

🗺️ Locations

Every location keeps its own map, terrain, tokens, items, fog, weather and drawings.

• ‹ › flip between saved locations; the name field renames the current one.
• ✨ New / preset… builds a blank or ready-made map (tavern, market, school, road, forest, elven glade, treehouse, villa, cavern, vault, villain's lair, mimic hall). Presets start fogged so you reveal them as the party explores.
• ⭳ / ⭱ export or import a single location; 🗑️ deletes it.

🎨 Terrain

Choose a terrain, then 🖌️ Paint it cell by cell (walls, water, roads, rugs…). 🧽 Erase removes painted terrain; Fill map repaints the whole base. Water and lava shimmer only within their own cells.

🌫️ Fog & visibility

• 🔦 Reveal / 🌫️ Hide brushes with 1×1 / 3×3 / 5×5 sizes (hold Alt to invert a brush).
• Reveal all / Hide all for the whole location.
• See-through slider — how transparent unrevealed fog looks on your screen (players always see solid black).
• ⬛ Blackout instantly blacks out the players' screen.
• Turn on Dynamic light in Settings and give a player a torch or lantern — fog opens around them automatically.

🌦️ Weather — per block

1. Select a weather type (it highlights) — Rain, Storm, Snow, Hail, Mist, Fog, Sun, Heat, Cold or Embers.
2. Click 🗺️ Whole map to apply it everywhere, or 🖌️ Paint to brush it onto only the blocks you click.
3. ✂️ Erase cells removes weather from specific blocks; 🚫 Clear all resets it.

Different blocks can carry different weather at once. Skip indoors (off by default) keeps weather off walls and floors when you switch it on — leave it off and weather falls everywhere, including over stone dungeons.

Each tool bar (Terrain, Fog, Weather, Draw) has a ▾ next to its name — click it to fold the bar away and reclaim screen space. Your choices are remembered.

✏️ Drawing & laser pointer

• ✏️ Pen draws on the map. Pick a colour, thickness and a style: Pen, Marker, Glow or Dashed.
• 🩹 Erase rubs out strokes; ↶ Undo removes the last one; 🧹 Clear wipes them all.
• 🔦 Laser — hold and move to point things out; a glowing dot follows your cursor on both screens and vanishes when you let go.

⚔️ Tokens, items & combat

🧑 Character sheets & the bench

• 🧑 Characters (top bar) opens a separate screen of full party sheets — class, level, race, AC, HP, ability scores with modifiers, skills, magic, inventory, background/lore and notes. Link a sheet to a token and their HP syncs both ways with the map. Export the sheets on their own or with the whole campaign.
• 🎭 Off-map bench — send a token to the bench beside the map (players can't see it), then drag it onto the map to deploy. Great for preparing ambushes and NPCs. From the roster you can also copy a character to another location to set up a future scene, and new locations ask whether to bring the party along.

👥 What the players see

The player screen shows the current map, revealed areas, weather, drawings and any tokens/items you've left visible. It never shows hidden tokens, DM fog or your notes. You can also enable a party HP sidebar, the party inventory, dice rolls and the read-aloud scene.

🧭 Panels & settings

Reorder any panel with ▲ ▼ or send it straight to the bottom with ⤓. The Settings panel holds animations, night overlay, grid on the player screen, coordinates, snap-to-grid, dynamic light, the party sidebar, inventory & dice sharing, HP-as-numbers, names-on-hover and confirm-deletions.

Save before a big fight and Load to roll back. Everything lives in this browser.