Quest Board · redesign · for players

Seven ways Quest Board could work for you

Ryan is redesigning Quest Board and wants the player side to be decided by the people who play. Below are seven different ways the app could be organised, drawn as grey sketches so the question is "how does this work" rather than "is it pretty", plus the app as it is today for comparison.

1 · Look Each version has four screens: your home screen, a session, the game night itself, and afterwards, each drawn for a phone and for a laptop. On a phone, tap through the screens one at a time; tap Full size on a laptop drawing to look at it properly.
2 · Rate each one Under every version there is a five-point scale and a box. A word or two is plenty; "I'd never open that tab" is exactly the kind of thing that helps.
3 · Answer four questions At the end: pick your two favourites and answer four short questions about how you actually use it now. Ten to fifteen minutes; you can stop and come back, it saves as you go.
Your answers save as you go, under the name you give at the bottom, using the key on the link Ryan sent you. Come back on this device any time to change them. If saving is unavailable, a "Copy my answers" button appears instead.
below this dashed line you would be scrolling 1 a note, explained under the drawing the part that is different in this version
C0

Today, as built (v4.3.0)

This is Quest Board as it is now, drawn the same way as the others so you can compare: a dashboard with a "Needs you" list, the campaign page, a long session page with "Are you in?" near the top, and the Table view during play. Rate it too. If it already works for you, that is worth knowing.

Home

The dashboard as a player: the heading and its three buttons, then "Needs you" if anything is waiting, then your campaigns — the same single column on a phone and on a laptop.

Quest BoardAshes of VarnIdrisnot shown on a phoneProfileThemeSign out
Your CampaignsImportJoinNew Campaign
New Campaign form if New Campaign · Join form if Join · Import form if Import1
Needs you the whole list is gone when nothing is waiting2
  • Vote on a time S13 Ashes of Varn · 3 times
  • RSVP S12 — Under the Saltworks Tue 19:30
  • Session in progress S12 while it is being played
  • Vote on a time S4 Saltmarsh Irregulars · 2 times
A finished session never appears in this list3
Ashes of VarnPlayer
Pathfinder 2e · GM Mara · 6 members
Next session in 3d 4h4
Saltmarsh IrregularsPlayer
D&D 5e · 5 members
Next session in 6d 2h
Archived Campaigns if any
Kept out of the list above
Deleted Campaigns if any
Restorable until they are purgedRestore
Help: Running your first campaign · Joining a campaign
Quest BoardAshes of VarnProfile
Your Campaigns
ImportJoinNew Campaign
Create / Join / Import form if one is open
Needs you
  • Vote on a time S13
  • RSVP S12 · Tue 19:30
  • In progress S12 while played
  • Vote on a time S4
Ashes of VarnPlayer
Pathfinder 2e · GM Mara
Next session in 3d 4h
Saltmarsh IrregularsPlayer
D&D 5e
Next session in 6d 2h
Archived Campaigns if any
Kept out of the list above
Deleted Campaigns if any
Restorable until purgedRestore
Help: Running your first campaign · Joining a campaign
Nothing is hidden or reordered at this width — it is the laptop page, narrower
  1. The three buttons and the forms they open sit above the list of things waiting on you, so tapping Join or New Campaign pushes that list further down the page it is meant to head.
  2. The list only exists while something is waiting. When it is not there you cannot tell whether you are clear or whether it simply did not arrive — a free evening and a quiet failure look identical.
  3. Votes, RSVPs and a session being played show up here; a finished session never does. Nothing on your home page tells you last week's recap is ready to read.
  4. A campaign card tells you when you next play, not what it wants from you: the vote and the RSVP are on a session page two taps further in.

Session

S12 "Under the Saltworks", confirmed, as a player sees it: three columns on a laptop, and on a phone those three columns end to end in the order the page declares them.

Quest BoardAshes of VarnSessionsWikiHighlightsProfileTheme
← CampaignS12 — Under the SaltworksAt the table →one row, no wrapping
Previously on only while confirmed or being played
Open quests: Find the amphora's owner · Who lit the Chapel lamp?
S12 — Under the Saltworks
Confirmed
Tue 19:30 · Europe/London
Your time: 12:30 · America/Denver2
Are you in?yours1
YesMaybeNo4 of 6 answered
  • Mara GMYes
  • Idris Idris ValeYes
  • Wren Yes
  • Tobiah Yes
  • Kestrel Maybe
  • Juno no answer
Your recordings from this session were erased if you asked for that
Transcript & Summary the summary appears once the GM approves it4
Before that: nothing here, and no note saying when to come back
Post-session processing after the session
  • Transcript & summary Done
  • Recap email Failed
Highlights
  • "We do not bargain with the drowned." Kestrel
  • "Halloran keeps his ledgers in salt." Idris
Time slots only while the time is still being voted on
Who
Tue 19:30
Wed 20:00
Sat 14:00
Idris
Yes
Maybe
No
Wren
Yes
No
Yes
Juno
Session Notes shared with the group
What the GM wrote for everyone…
Loot & XP this session
Salt-glass amphora → the party · 300 XP each · read-only here
My Notesprivate
Private to you
Add to Calendar3
Google CalendarDownload .ics
Quest BoardAshes of VarnProfile
← CampaignS12 — Under the SaltworksAt the table →
Previously on confirmed or being played
S12 — Under the Saltworks
Confirmed
Tue 19:30 · Europe/London
Your time: 12:30
Are you in?yours
YesMaybeNo
  • Mara Yes
  • Idris Yes
  • Wren Yes
  • Tobiah Yes
  • Kestrel Maybe
  • Juno no answer
Transcript & Summary once approved
Post-session processing after the session
  • Transcript & summary Done
  • Recap email Failed
Highlights
  • "We do not bargain with the drowned." Kestrel
Time slots while voting
Who
Tue
Wed
Sat
Idris
Yes
Maybe
No
Session Notes
Shared with the group
Loot & XP this session
300 XP each
My Notesprivate
Private to you
Add to Calendar
Google CalendarDownload .ics
  1. Yes / Maybe / No is put first in the middle column on purpose, so on a laptop it sits at the top of the page beside the date. On a phone that column starts after the title card and the catch-up recap, so the one answer the app wants from you is a scroll away.
  2. The time is given in the group's zone with your own underneath it, every time, so nobody has to do the arithmetic in their head.
  3. Add to calendar lives in the third column, and on a phone the third column comes after everything else — so the thing you want on your way out is at the very bottom, under the quotes, the loot and both note boxes.
  4. A session's summary appears on its page only after the GM has approved it — until then the space is empty and nothing says when to come back. By the time it fills, the "previously on" catch-up above it has gone: it only exists while a session is still ahead of you.

Table

Game night, on your own phone.

Quest BoardAshes of VarnProfile
← Session / At the table
S12 — Under the Saltworks
Previously on collapsible
Revealed cards · newest first
The Drowned Chapel
shown at 19:52
Keeper Halloran
shown at 19:31
The tide gate
shown at 19:08
Nothing has been shown to the table yet before the first reveal
No note box on this page — your own notes are back on the session page
Three taps deep: campaign, session, then "At the table →"
  1. What it does do well: when the connection drops it keeps the cards you already have and says so instead of going blank, and it looks again the moment you come back to it.

After

Finding out what happened: the campaign page's Sessions panel, then the session's summary, then the quotes, then a wiki article — four pages, and nothing points you at the first one.

Quest BoardAshes of VarnSessionsWikiHighlightsProfileTheme
← Campaigns / Ashes of Varn
The campaign page · the sessions are in the middle column
Ashes of Varn
Pathfinder 2e · Europe/London · GM Mara
Members (6)
  • Mara GM
  • Idris Idris Vale
  • Wren
  • Tobiah Tobiah Rell
Sessions1
Upcoming (2)Completed (9)Cancelled (1)
  • Completed S11 — The Amphora 12 Aug
  • Completed S10 — Nets and Knives 5 Aug
  • Completed S9 — The Bell 29 Jul
Titles and dates only — no line of what happened in any of them2
Quests
  • Find the amphora's owner
  • Who lit the Chapel lamp?
Timeline
S9 — The Bell
S11 — The Amphora
S12 — Under the Saltworks
Open S11 — the session page again, part-way down the middle column
Transcript & Summary Approved
Highlights — every approved quote in the campaign, newest first
All speakersthe only control on the page
  • "We do not bargain with the drowned." Kestrel · S11
  • "Halloran keeps his ledgers in salt." Idris · S11
Wiki — Keeper Halloran
Find an article
NPCs
Keeper Halloran
Places
The Drowned Chapel
this whole column is dropped on a phone4
Keeper Halloran NPC
He keeps the chapel lamp lit, and has never said for whom.
Character Timeline
Lit the lamp again S9
Bargained for the amphora S11
Infobox
TypeNPC
FactionOrder of the Lantern
Appears inS11, S9
Quest BoardAshes of VarnProfile
← Campaigns / Ashes of Varn
SessionsWikiHighlights
Ashes of Varn3
Pathfinder 2e · Europe/London
Members (6)
  • Mara GM
  • Idris Idris Vale
  • Wren + Add character
  • Tobiah Tobiah Rell
  • Kestrel Kestrel
  • Juno Juno of the Weir
every member, with their character rows, before the sessions
Sessions
UpcomingCompletedCancelled
  • Completed S11 — The Amphora 12 Aug
  • Completed S10 — Nets and Knives 5 Aug
Open S11, then scroll past Are you in? to the summary
Transcript & Summary Approved
Wiki — Keeper Halloran
No search box and no category list on an article at this width — only the links inside the text and the back button
Keeper Halloran NPC
He keeps the chapel lamp lit, and has never said for whom.
Character Timeline
Lit the lamp again S9
Bargained for the amphora S11
Private notesyours
Your own notes on this article
Infobox
TypeNPC
Appears inS11, S9
last on the page, under everything else
  1. There is no route to last week's story that starts from a link: you go to the campaign, open Sessions, switch to Completed, open the session and scroll to the summary — four pages, and only if the GM has approved it.
  2. The list of finished sessions gives titles and dates and nothing else, so working out which one was the amphora means remembering, or opening them one at a time.
  3. On a phone the campaign page puts the whole member list, with everybody's character rows, above the session list — so the way back to last week is at the bottom of a long scroll.
  4. Once you are reading about Keeper Halloran on a phone there is no search and no category list at all: the column that holds them is dropped at that width. The panel that says which sessions he appears in is the very last thing on the page.

Your take on C0 Today, as built (v4.3.0)

C1

Campaign Desk

The same shape as today, tidied up. Your phone gets a bar of tabs along the bottom (Sessions · Table · Wiki · More), your home screen gets a "This week" list, and the session page's buttons sit in a row under the title that stays put while you scroll. Nothing moves to a new place; it just gets easier to reach.

Home

Above all your games: what is waiting on you, when you next play, and last week in one line — your campaigns move to the side.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾Help
Dashboard
Needs you 31
Ashes of Varn
  • Vote S13 · 3 candidate times Vote
  • RSVP S12 "Under the Saltworks" · Tue 19:30 Are you in?
Saltmarsh Irregulars
  • Vote S4 · 2 candidate times Vote
This week 2
  • Ashes of Varn · S12 "Under the Saltworks" Confirmed Tue 19:30 · in 3d 4h · 4 of 6 in Are you in?
  • Saltmarsh Irregulars · S4 Vote open 3 of 5 answered Vote
Recent recaps 3
  • S11 "The Amphora" Halloran named a price at the chapel door
  • S10 "Nets and Knives" The saltworks crew turned on their foreman
Campaigns 4
Ashes of Varn
player · GM Mara · 6 members
Saltmarsh Irregulars
player · 5 members
Join with a code
Help
Getting startedRecording & transcriptsLink your Discord
Quest Board
Dashboard
Needs you 3
Ashes of Varn
  • Vote S13 · 3 times
  • RSVP S12 · Tue 19:30
Saltmarsh Irregulars
  • Vote S4 · 2 times
This week
S12 "Under the Saltworks" Confirmed
Ashes of Varn · Tue 19:30 · in 3d 4h · 4 of 6 in
Are you in?
S4 Vote open
Saltmarsh Irregulars · 3 of 5
Vote
Recent recaps
  • S11 "The Amphora" Halloran named a price at the chapel door
  • S10 "Nets and Knives" The crew turned on their foreman
Campaigns
Ashes of Varn
player · GM Mara
Saltmarsh Irregulars
player
Join with a code
No tab bar out here — the tabs belong to a campaign
  1. One list of everything waiting on you, grouped by which game it belongs to, so a vote in one campaign and an RSVP in another are one glance rather than two visits.
  2. "This week" answers the only question you ask every week — when do we play, and does it still need something from me — with the answer button on the same line.
  3. Last session in one sentence, on the front page: enough to remember where you were without opening anything.
  4. Your campaigns move to the side column. They change least often, so they stop being the first thing you have to read past.

Session

S12 "Under the Saltworks", confirmed: one page read top to bottom in the order the evening happens, with the things you might leave for kept out of the column.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾Help
Ashes of Varn
Sessions
Table
Wiki
More
Highlights
Members
Settings
S12 "Under the Saltworks" Confirmed
Tue 19:30 Europe/London· 12:30 America/Denver (yours)· in 3d 4h
Are you in?yours
YesMaybeNo4 of 6 answered
  • Mara GMYes
  • Idris Idris ValeYes
  • Wren Yes
  • Tobiah Yes
  • Kestrel Maybe
  • Juno no answer yet
Pick a time while the date is still open3
Who
Tue 19:30
Wed 20:00
Sat 14:00
Idris
Yes
Maybe
No
Wren
Yes
No
Yes
Juno
Maybe
Maybe
No
Notes
My notesprivate
Nobody else can read this
From the GM
Previously on
Halloran named a price at the chapel door.
Open quests: The Drowned Chapel · Find the amphora's owner
Recording while the session is being recorded
Recording01:42:07the room microphone4
MaraIdrisWrenJunonothing to press — the GM starts and stops it
After the session once it is over
Transcribing · summarising · the GM reads it before you do
Recap Approved
Highlights
  • "We do not bargain with the drowned." Kestrel
  • "Halloran keeps his ledgers in salt." Idris
Do next 2
Add to calendar
Table view
Loot & XP
  • Salt-glass amphora
  • 300 XP each
Links
Campaign storylineKeeper Halloran
Quest BoardS12 ▾
S12 "Under the Saltworks"
Confirmedin 3d 4h
Are you in?TableAdd to calendar
sticks under the title while you scroll 1
Tue 19:30 Europe/London
12:30 your time
Are you in?yours
YesMaybeNo
  • Mara GMYes
  • Idris Idris ValeYes
  • Wren Yes
  • Tobiah Yes
  • Kestrel Maybe
  • Juno —
Pick a time while the date is open
Who
Tue
Wed
Sat
Idris
Yes
Maybe
No
Wren
Yes
No
Yes
My notesprivate
Nobody else can read this
From the GM
Previously on
Halloran named a price at the chapel door.
Recording while being recorded
Recording01:42:07
MaraIdrisJunothe room microphone
After the session once it is over
Recap Approved
Highlights
  • "We do not bargain with the drowned." Kestrel
Loot & XP
  • Salt-glass amphora
  • 300 XP each
Sessions
Table
Wiki
More
  1. The row under the title stays put as you scroll, so on a long page the two things you actually came to do — answer, and open the table view — are always one tap away.
  2. On a laptop those same two live in a side column, so the page itself can be read straight down without stepping over buttons.
  3. The page reads in the order the evening happens: when it is, are you in, what you wrote, what happened last time, then the recap in that same place afterwards. Parts that do not apply yet say what they are waiting for instead of disappearing, so it looks the same every week.
  4. While you are being recorded the page says so, says what is listening — the group's voice chat or a microphone on the table — and gives you nothing to press. Starting and stopping belongs to the GM.

Table

Game night, on your own phone.

Quest BoardS12 ▾
Recording01:42:07the room mic
At the table
Now showing
The Drowned Chapel
shown at 19:52 · also on the big screen
Shown earlier
Keeper Halloran
19:31
The tide gate
19:08
My notesprivate
Kept with the session, not on this page alone
Sessions
Table
Wiki
More1
  1. Your own phone shows the same card and gives you somewhere to write. It sits in the same bar as the wiki, so looking up who Halloran is and coming back does not lose your place.

After

The Sessions list carries a line of what happened, so last week is one click away — and the article you land on keeps its search at every width.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾Help
Ashes of Varn
Sessions
Table
Wiki
More
Highlights
Members
Sessions
Coming up
  • Confirmed S12 "Under the Saltworks" Tue 19:30 · 4 of 6 in
Past 1
  • Played S11 "The Amphora" Halloran named a price at the chapel door12 Aug
  • Played S10 "Nets and Knives" The saltworks crew turned on their foreman5 Aug
  • Played S9 "The Bell" The chapel bell rang with nobody in the tower29 Jul
S11 "The Amphora" 2
Recap Approved
Quotes
  • "We do not bargain with the drowned." Kestrel
  • "Halloran keeps his ledgers in salt." Idris
Who you met
Keeper HalloranThe Drowned ChapelOrder of the Lantern
Wiki
Search the wiki
Browse
  • NPCs 12
  • Places 9
  • Factions 4
  • Characters 6
Keeper Halloran
NPCOrder of the LanternAppears in S11, S94
What he has done
S9 · first named at the tide gate
S11 · named a price at the chapel door
More
HighlightsMembersAnalytics
Recent quotes
  • "We do not bargain with the drowned." S11
Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾
Sessions
Past
S11 "The Amphora"
12 Aug · Halloran named a price at the chapel door
S10 "Nets and Knives"
5 Aug · The crew turned on their foreman
S11 "The Amphora"
Recap Approved
Quotes
  • "We do not bargain with the drowned." Kestrel
Who you met
Keeper HalloranThe Drowned Chapel
Then the Wiki tab 3
Browse ▾Search the wiki
Keeper Halloran
NPCAppears in S11, S9
What he has done
S9 · first named at the tide gate
S11 · named a price at the chapel door
My notes on himprivate
Nobody else can read this
Sessions
Table
Wiki
More
  1. Every past session carries a line of what happened, so you can find the night you mean from the list instead of opening five sessions to work out which one had the amphora.
  2. The recap, the quotes and the people you met are one block in one order, every week, and the names are links — so catching up and looking someone up are the same movement.
  3. On a phone the wiki keeps its search and its categories behind a Browse button instead of dropping them, so you can look a name up from wherever you are reading.
  4. An article says which sessions someone appeared in, which turns a name you half-remember back into the night it happened.

Your take on C1 Campaign Desk

C2

Session First

The app opens on this week's game. Every session page has three tabs: Plan (vote, "Are you in?", your notes), Play (during the game), and Review (what happened). A thin "Now" bar at the top of every page names the one thing waiting on you, so you never have to go looking for it.

Home

Signing in as a player: a strip that always names the nearest session and the one answer it wants from you, then one card per group for this week.

Quest BoardAll campaigns ▾Help
NowConfirmedAshes of Varn · S12 "Under the Saltworks"Tue 19:30 London · 20:30 your time · in 3d 4hAre you in?1
This week
Ashes of Varn GM Mara · 6 in the group
S12 "Under the Saltworks" Confirmed2
Tue 19:30 Europe/London· 20:30 your time· in 3d 4h
MaraWrenTobiahKestrelJunoyou4 in · 1 maybe · waiting on you
Are you in?Open the session
Saltmarsh Irregulars 5 in the group
S4 Vote open
3 times to choose from · 3 of 5 have answered · closes Friday
Pick your timesOpen the session
Recently
  • S11 "The Amphora" CompletedHalloran named a price at the chapel doorRecap
  • S10 "Tidewrack" CompletedThe saltworks crew turned on their foremanRecap
Waiting on you 23
  • Vote S13 · pick a time
  • New S11 recap to read
Your campaigns
  • Ashes of Varn
  • Saltmarsh Irregulars
Join with a code
Quest Board
NowS12 · Tue 19:30Are you in?
This week
Ashes of Varn
S12 "Under the Saltworks"
Confirmedin 3d 4h
Tue 19:30 Europe/London
20:30 your time
4 in · waiting on you
Are you in?4
Saltmarsh Irregulars
S4 Vote open
3 of 5 have answered · closes Friday
Pick your times
Recently
  • S11 "The Amphora" Recap
  • S10 "Tidewrack" Recap
Waiting on you 2
  • Vote S13 · pick a time
  • New S11 recap to read
Your campaigns
  • Ashes of Varn
  • Saltmarsh Irregulars
Join with a code
  1. The strip under the title bar names the session closest to happening and the single thing being asked of you, and it stays there on every page — so the next game is never something you have to go looking for.
  2. Each group gets one card for the evening in play: the time in the group zone and in yours, who has answered, and one button. Nothing else on the page competes for the tap.
  3. Anything with no card of its own — a vote for a session that has no date yet, a recap you have not read — sits in one short list, instead of arriving only as a Discord message you scrolled past.
  4. On the phone the same card comes first, so the answer the group needs from you is under your thumb before you scroll anywhere.

Session

One evening, one page, three words across the top. Plan is where you say whether you are coming and read up before the night.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾Help
NowConfirmedS12 "Under the Saltworks"in 3d 4hAre you in?
S10Completed
S11Completed
S12Confirmed
S13Vote open
S12 "Under the Saltworks" Confirmed
PlanPlayReviewread-only1
When 2
Tue 19:30 Europe/London· 20:30 your time· in 3d 4hAdd to calendar
Are you in? your answer
YesMaybeNo4 in · 1 maybe · you have not answered
  • Mara GM Yes
  • Wren Yes
  • Tobiah Yes
  • Kestrel Yes
  • Juno Maybe
  • You Idris Vale no answer yet
Pick a time if the date is still being voted on
S13
Tue 19:30
Wed 20:00
Sat 14:00
You
Yes
Maybe
No
The group
4
2
1
Notes
My notes private
Notes from Mara
Previously on 3
Halloran named a price at the chapel door.
Still open: the Drowned Chapel · find who owns the amphora
Who you met
  • Keeper Halloran NPC
  • The Drowned Chapel Place
  • Order of the Lantern Faction
Names open their wiki page
Ashes of Varn ▾
NowS12 · Tue 19:30Are you in?
S11Completed
S12Confirmed
S13Vote open
S12 "Under the Saltworks"
Confirmedin 3d 4h
PlanPlayReviewread-only4
When
Tue 19:30 Europe/London
20:30 your time
Add to calendar
Are you in? your answer
YesMaybeNo
  • Mara Yes
  • Wren Yes
  • Tobiah Yes
  • Kestrel Yes
  • Juno Maybe
  • You not yet
Pick a time if the date is still being voted on
S13
Tue
Wed
Sat
You
Yes
Maybe
No
Group
4
2
1
Previously on
Halloran named a price at the chapel door.
Still open: the Drowned Chapel
My notes private
Notes from Mara
  1. Plan, Play and Review are the same evening in the order it happens: getting ready, the night itself, what happened. You never have to work out which part of the app a session lives in, because it is all one page.
  2. The time is written twice, in the group zone and in yours, with the calendar button beside it — so nobody counts hours in their head and nobody turns up an hour late.
  3. What you walked out with last time sits next to the plan: the cold open and the people you met, so you can arrive knowing where you left off without rereading a whole recap.
  4. On the phone the three words sit directly under the title, above the fold, and everything below is one column in the order you need it — when, who is coming, last time, your notes.

Table

Game night, on your own phone.

NowPlaying01:42Recording
PlanPlayReviewread-only1
Shown to the table
The Drowned Chapel
Place · 19:52
Keeper Halloran
NPC · 19:31
Rumour: the amphora
19:08
newest first · 3 so far · swipe back through them
Who is here
MaraWrenTobiahKestrelyouJuno
My notes private
The chapel bell rang twice
Save note
Tonight
Tap Plan for the time, the roster and Mara's notes
  1. Your own phone is the same evening's page, still showing Plan · Play · Review: cards arrive here to swipe back through, your private notes sit under them, and leaving the table is just tapping Plan.

After

Catching up: the third word on the same session page. For a player, Review is read-only — what happened, the lines worth keeping, and your own notes from that night.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾Help
NowVote openS13 · pick a timecloses FridayPick your times
S10Completed
S11Completed
S12Confirmed
S13Vote open
S11 "The Amphora" Completedplayed 28 Aug · 3h 12m
PlanPlayReviewread-only1
What happened 2
Halloran named a price at the chapel door, and the party paid it.
Lines worth keeping
  • "The amphora was never his to sell." Idris Vale
  • "Two rings of the bell, and the tide answers." Keeper Halloran
  • "We paid the price and I would pay it again." Wren
My notes from that night private
In this campaign 3
Ashes of Varn
Search the wiki
  • Wiki 38 entries
  • Lines worth keeping 24
  • The story so far 11 sessions
  • The party 6
Someone you met
Keeper Halloran
NPCOrder of the Lantern
Appears in: S11, S9
Ashes of Varn ▾
NowS13 · vote openPick times
S11Completed
S12Confirmed
S13Vote open
S11 "The Amphora"
Completed28 Aug
PlanPlayReviewread-only4
What happened
Halloran named a price at the chapel door, and the party paid it.
Lines worth keeping
  • "The amphora was never his to sell." you
  • "Two rings of the bell, and the tide answers." Halloran
My notes from that night private
Someone you met
Keeper Halloran
NPC
Appears in: S11, S9
In this campaign
Search the wiki
  • Wiki 38
  • Lines worth keeping 24
  • The story so far 11
  1. The night you played and the recap of it are the same page — Review is simply the third word across the top, so you go back to where the session already was instead of hunting for an archive.
  2. What you get is short and read-only: what happened, the lines worth keeping, and your own notes from that night. Checking and approving all of it is Mara's job, and none of that appears here.
  3. Names from the recap lead into the campaign encyclopedia and the search box is right beside them, so "who was that keeper again?" takes one look — and his page says which nights he turned up on.
  4. By the time you are reading a recap, the strip at the top has already moved on to the next thing wanted from you: here, voting on when S13 happens.

Your take on C2 Session First

C3

Console & Companion

You get a small app of your own with five tabs: Next (the next game and "Are you in?"), Table (during play), Recap, Wiki, and Me. Nothing in it is about running the game; that lives in a separate, bigger app for the GM. If we play in person, the Table tab is optional: the same thing shows on a screen everyone can see.

Home

A player gets a phone app of their own — five tabs along the bottom — and it opens on Next: the coming evening and the answer it wants from you. On a laptop it is the same app in a narrow column.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾Help
Next
S12 "Under the Saltworks"1
Ashes of Varn · GM Mara
Tue 19:30 Europe/London
20:30 your time · in 3d 4h
Are you in? your answer
YesMaybeNo
MaraWrenTobiahKestrelJunoyou
4 in · 1 maybe · waiting on you
Add to calendarOpen the session
Pick a time only while a vote is open
S13 · three times to choose from
S13
Tue 19:30
Wed 20:00
Sat 14:00
You
Yes
Maybe
No
Group
4
2
1
Save my times
3 of 6 have answered · closes Friday
Since last time
S11 "The Amphora"
Halloran named a price at the chapel door.
Read the recap
NextTableRecapWikiMe2
The same five places as on the phone
Ashes of Varn ▾
Next
S12 "Under the Saltworks"
Tue 19:30 Europe/London
20:30 your time · in 3d 4h
Are you in? your answer
YesMaybeNo
MaraWrenTobiahKestrelJunoyou
4 in · 1 maybe · waiting on you
Add to calendar
Pick a time only while a vote is open3
S13 · three times
S13
Tue
Wed
Sat
You
Yes
Maybe
No
Group
4
2
1
Save my times
closes Friday
Since last time
S11 "The Amphora"
Halloran named a price at the chapel door.
Read the recap
Next
Table
Recap
Wiki
Me4
  1. The first thing on the screen is the next evening and the one answer the group needs from you. There is no dashboard to read and nothing to triage — if nothing is waiting, the card simply says when to turn up.
  2. On a laptop you get the same single column, centred, rather than a different, busier version of the app to learn. The group you are looking at is named at the top, and that name is how you switch to another one.
  3. The voting grid appears only while a vote is actually open and disappears once the date is fixed, so the screen never carries choices that no longer apply.
  4. Five places along the bottom are the whole app for a player: what is next, the table, the recap, the wiki, and your own settings. The trade is that there is no page listing everything the group has ever played — you reach sessions through Next and Recap.

Session

Tapping the card on Next opens the evening as one sheet: when, whether you are in, what happened last time, your notes — no tabs, no phases, one scroll.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾Help
Back to Next1
S12 "Under the Saltworks"
Confirmedin 3d 4h
Tue 19:30 Europe/London
20:30 your time
Add to calendar
Are you in? your answer
YesMaybeNo
  • Mara GM Yes
  • Wren Yes
  • Tobiah Yes
  • Kestrel Yes
  • Juno Maybe
  • You Idris Vale no answer yet
Previously on
Halloran named a price at the chapel door.
Still open: the Drowned Chapel · find who owns the amphora
My notes private
Notes from Mara
While it is running only once Mara starts the session2
Open the tablestarts Tue 19:30
Afterwards once the recap is ready
Read the recap
NextTableRecapWikiMe
BackS12
S12 "Under the Saltworks"
Confirmedin 3d 4h
Tue 19:30 Europe/London
20:30 your time
Add to calendar
Are you in? your answer
YesMaybeNo
  • Mara Yes
  • Wren Yes
  • Tobiah Yes
  • Kestrel Yes
  • Juno Maybe
  • You Idris Vale not yet
Previously on
Halloran named a price at the chapel door.
Still open: the Drowned Chapel
My notes private3
Notes from Mara
While it is running only once Mara starts the session
Open the table
Next
Table4
Recap
Wiki
Me
  1. One evening is one scroll — when it is, whether you are in, who else is, last time, your notes — with nothing hidden behind tabs you have to think to press. You came here from Next and Back takes you straight there.
  2. Buttons that only make sense at a particular moment are shown greyed with the reason beside them, so nothing appears out of nowhere on the night and nothing looks broken beforehand.
  3. Your notes are private to you and Mara's are hers, labelled as such, so you always know which box you are typing into and who will read it.
  4. The five tabs stay put while you read, so when the game actually starts you jump to Table from wherever you are, without backing out of anything.

Table

Game night, on your own phone.

Table · S12
Just shown
The Drowned Chapel
Place · 19:52
Keeper Halloran
NPC · 19:31
Rumour: the amphora
19:08
3 so far · swipe back through them1
Recording
01:42still running
Mara stops it at the end of the night
Who is here
MaraWrenTobiahKestrelyouJuno
My notes private
The chapel bell rang twice
Save note
Next
Table
Recap
Wiki
Me
  1. Your phone, if you brought one, is the Table tab: the same cards to swipe back through when you missed a name, then the recording clock, who is here, and your private notes.

After

Two of the five tabs are for afterwards. Right: Recap — last night's story, the lines worth keeping, and who you met. Left: the Wiki tab on a laptop, search first, the article as one reading column.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn ▾Help
Wiki
Search Ashes of Varn1
  • Keeper Halloran NPC
  • The Drowned Chapel Place
  • Order of the Lantern Faction
  • Idris Vale your character
BackKeeper Halloran2
NPCOrder of the Lantern
Appears in: S11, S9
Facts
  • Still alive as of S11
  • Keeps The Drowned Chapel
When he turned up
S9 · first named at the lantern house
S11 · named a price at the chapel door
NextTableRecapWikiMe
Ashes of Varn ▾
Recap
S11 "The Amphora"3
played 28 Aug · 3h 12m
Halloran named a price at the chapel door, and the party paid it.
Read it all
Lines worth keeping
  • "The amphora was never his to sell." you
  • "Two rings of the bell, and the tide answers." Halloran
  • "We paid the price and I would pay it again." Wren
Who you met 4
  • Keeper Halloran NPCS11, S9
  • The Drowned Chapel PlaceS11
Earlier nights
  • S10 "Tidewrack" 21 Aug
  • S9 "The Lantern's Debt" 14 Aug
Next
Table
Recap
Wiki
Me
  1. The wiki opens on a search box, because when you look something up you already have the name in your head — you are checking a detail, not browsing an encyclopedia.
  2. An entry is one column you can read straight down: what he is, the line saying he turned up in S11 and S9, then the facts and the nights he appeared on. Nothing is squeezed into a side strip that becomes unreadable on a phone.
  3. The recap has a tab of its own, so catching up the morning after is one tap and never requires finding the right session first. If you were at the table without a phone, this is where the whole evening comes back to you.
  4. The people and places from the recap are listed with the nights they appeared on, and tapping one goes to the wiki — so a name you half-remember does not need a message to Mara.

Your take on C3 Console & Companion

C4

The Feed

Your home is a feed of what happened, like a group chat that only says useful things: "Session 13 proposed — vote", "Tuesday confirmed — are you in?", "Recording started", "Recap ready". You answer inside the item. During a game, the things the GM reveals appear in the same feed as they happen.

Home

Your home page is the feed: everything the group has done, newest first, with the vote and the invitation answered inside the item you read them in.

Quest BoardSearchBell2
Campaigns
Ashes of Varn 3
Saltmarsh Irregulars 1
Join with a code
FeedSessionsWikiHighlightsMore
AllWaiting on me 21UnreadJump to now
S13 — pick a time2h
S13
Tue 14
Thu 16
Sat 18
You
Yes
Maybe
No
Party
3
2
1
Save my vote3 of 6 answered
S12 confirmed for Tue 19:301d
Are you in?YesMaybeNo4 of 6 in
Recap: S11 “The Amphora”28 Aug
Read the recapHighlights
Mara added a note to S122d
Juno is in for Tue3d
Next session2
S12 “Under the Saltworks”
Tue 19:30 London
20:30 your time · in 3d 4h
Who is in
  • Mara
  • Idris you
  • Wren
  • Juno
  • Tobiah maybe
  • Kestrel no answer
Campaign
Storyline · Party · Wiki
Ashes of Varn ▾Bell2
FeedSessionsWikiMore
AllWaiting on me 2Now
S13 — pick a time32h
S13
Tue 14
Thu 16
Sat 18
You
Yes
Maybe
No
Save my vote
3 of 6 answered
S12 confirmed41d
Tue 19:30 London · 20:30 your time
Are you in?
YesMaybeNo
4 of 6 in
Recap: S11 “The Amphora”
Read the recap
Mara added a note to S122d
Juno is in for Tue3d
Wren is in for Tue4d
  1. Waiting on me shows the same list with everything else taken out, so “does anyone need an answer from me?” is one tap and never lives on a different page.
  2. On a laptop the two things a list is bad at answering — when we next play, and who has said yes — sit permanently down the side. On your phone there is no room for them, so you scroll.
  3. The vote is answered where you read it: the three times, your yes or maybe, save. Nothing to open, and you can change your mind later by scrolling back to the same item.
  4. “Are you in?” works the same way, with buttons sized for a thumb, and it tells you how many others have answered so you know whether the night is really happening.

A session

Opened from the feed: on a laptop it slides over the list, which keeps running behind it; on your phone it is a page. Confirmed is drawn; while a time is still open, picking one replaces the top of it.

Quest BoardSearchBell2
Campaigns
Ashes of Varn 3
Saltmarsh Irregulars
The feed, still there1
S13 — pick a time
S12 confirmed for Tue 19:30
Recap: S11 “The Amphora”
Juno is in for Tue
S12 “Under the Saltworks”Close
ConfirmedTue 19:30 London20:30 your timeAdd to calendar2
Are you in? yours
YesMaybeNo4 of 6 in
  • Mara Idris Wren Juno in
  • Tobiah maybe Kestrel no answer yet
Pick a time shown instead, while the time is open
S12
Tue 19:30
Wed 20:00
Sat 18:00
You
Yes
Maybe
No
My notes only you see these
Ask Halloran about the amphora
From Mara
Previously on
Keeper HalloranThe Drowned Chapel
Live once Mara starts the game
The clock and the cards shown to the table appear here, and in the feed
Everything about this session
  • Confirmed for Tue 19:30 1d
  • Juno is in 3d
  • Time picked from 3 options 6d
← Feed
S12 “Under the Saltworks”
ConfirmedTue 19:30 London
20:30 your time · in 3d 4h
Are you in? yours3
YesMaybeNo
4 of 6 in · Tobiah maybe · Kestrel has not answered
Add to calendar
Pick a time shown instead, while the time is open
S12
Tue 19:30
Wed 20:00
Sat 18:00
You
Yes
Maybe
No
My notes only you see these
Ask Halloran about the amphora
From Mara
Previously on
Keeper HalloranThe Drowned Chapel
Everything about this session4
  • Confirmed for Tue 19:30 1d
  • Juno is in 3d
  • Mara added a note 4d
  • Time picked from 3 options 6d
  1. Opening a session does not take you out of the list: it slides over it, and closing puts you back exactly where you were reading.
  2. The time is given twice — the group’s clock and yours — with a button that drops it into your own calendar, so nobody does the sums in their head at the wrong hour.
  3. Your answer and who else is coming are the first things under the title. Below that the page runs in the order you need it: what you wrote, what Mara wrote, what happened last time.
  4. At the bottom, everything that has happened about this night, in order. “Why does it say Tuesday?” and “who has answered since I last looked?” are things you can read for yourself instead of asking.

Game night

Game night, on your own phone.

Ashes of Varn ▾Bell3
FeedSessionsWikiMore
Livewhile the game is running1
S12 “Under the Saltworks”
01:42:07
Recording · 5 at the table · Kestrel away tonight
New since you looked
Shown to the table: The Drowned Chapel2
01:38
Marked as a line worth keeping
“The bell rang twice” — Wren · 01:21
Shown to the table: Keeper Halloran
00:54
My note only you see this
The chapel bell rang twice
Save note
Recording started00:00
  1. Your phone answers “is this being recorded, and how long have we been going?” without anyone having to ask out loud.
  2. When Mara shows the table something it lands in the list you already had open, and it stays there. Looking away, arriving late or going to make tea costs you nothing: you scroll back.

Afterwards

What happened, and who that was: the recap arrives in the feed like everything else, and the Wiki tab holds the people and places it names.

Quest BoardSearchBell
Campaigns
Ashes of Varn
Saltmarsh Irregulars
FeedSessionsWikiHighlightsMore
Search the wiki1PeoplePlacesFactionsUs
Keeper Halloran
PersonOrder of the LanternThe Drowned ChapelAlive
Appears in
S11 “The Amphora”S9 “Low Water”
When he came up2
  • Shown to the table in S11 28 Aug
  • Named in the recap of S11 28 Aug
  • “He never asked our names” — Kestrel S9
Nearby
  • The Drowned Chapel
  • Order of the Lantern
  • Idris Vale you
Ashes of Varn ▾Bell
FeedSessionsWikiMore
Yesterday
Recap: S11 “The Amphora”3
Keeper HalloranThe Drowned Chapel
Open the session
2 lines worth keeping
  • “The bell rang twice” — Wren
  • “We open it here” — Kestrel
Keeper Halloran was updated4
Appears in S11, S9
Read the entryWiki
You were there as Idris Valeyou
450 XP · a shard of the amphora
Recording finished28 Aug
  1. The Wiki tab has its own search, so a name you half remember is enough: type “Hall” and the entry comes up with the sessions he was in.
  2. The entry also lists the moments he actually came up — shown to the table in S11, named in the recap, quoted in S9 — so “who is this again?” leads back to the night it happened rather than to a paragraph someone wrote.
  3. The recap is simply the next thing in your list, with the names in it as links. Nothing to subscribe to and no email to find: if you missed the night, you scroll.
  4. The lines worth keeping, what your character came away with, and any entry that changed all arrive the same way — and the Wiki tab is there for when you would rather go looking than be told.

Your take on C4 The Feed

C5

Command Deck

This one is built for the GM's desk, where things sit side by side. For you it is simpler: one panel at a time on your phone, a strip at the bottom to switch between the ones you have open, and a search box that finds anything: a game, a place, a person.

Home

Home is one panel: what is waiting on you and what is happening this week. One search field reaches everything else — a game, a place, a person.

Quest BoardHelp
Ashes of Varn ▾S12 “Under the Saltworks”Tue 19:30Search sessions, people, places ⌘K1
⌂
S
W
H
Home
Needs you2
  • Vote S13 · three times to choose from Vote
  • RSVP S12 · Tue 19:30 Are you in?
This week
  • Tue 19:30 · S12 “Under the Saltworks” · 4 of 6 in Open
  • Recap of S11 “The Amphora” is ready to read Open
  • Mara added a note to S12 2d
Campaigns
Ashes of Varn
GM Mara · next Tue 19:30
Idris Vale
Saltmarsh Irregulars
vote open · 3 of 5 answered
Join with a code
Nothing open beside3
A second thing opens here instead of replacing what you are reading — the session next to the person it mentions.
Open beside
Quest Board
Ashes of Varn ▾S12 · Tue 19:30
Search sessions, people, places4
Home
Needs you
  • Vote S13 · three times Vote
  • RSVP S12 · Tue 19:30 Answer
This week
  • Tue 19:30 · S12 · 4 of 6 in
  • Recap of S11 ready to read
  • Mara added a note to S12
Campaigns
Ashes of Varn
GM Mara · Tue 19:30
Idris Vale
Saltmarsh Irregulars
vote open
One panel at a time. The four buttons below are the places you can go.
Home
Sessions
Wiki
More
  1. One field finds everything: a game night, a place, a person, and it is how you reach the wiki without having to know where the wiki is. It is the front door of this version — if you would not use a search box, this one will feel empty.
  2. The only two things waiting on you sit at the top, and nothing else pretends to be urgent.
  3. The space beside stays empty until you open a second thing into it. On a laptop that is the point of this version: two things you are comparing, side by side.
  4. On a phone the same thing becomes a search box on top and four buttons at the bottom, and you see one page at a time — which is most of what makes this version special taken away.

A session

The session is one card with three parts: Plan is open, the rest stay shut until they matter. A name in it opens beside the session on a laptop, and in front of it on a phone.

Quest BoardHelp
Ashes of Varn ▾S12 “Under the Saltworks”Search sessions, people, places ⌘K
⌂
S
W
H
S12 “Under the Saltworks”Confirmed
Tue 19:30 London20:30 your time · in 3d 4hAdd to calendar
Plan1−
Are you in?yoursYesMaybeNo4 of 6
  • MaraIdrisWrenJuno in
  • Tobiah maybeKestrel no answer yet
Pick a time shown instead, while the time is open
S12
Tue 19:30
Wed 20:00
Sat 18:00
You
Yes
Maybe
No
My notes only you see these
Ask Halloran about the amphora
From Mara
Previously on
The party left the amphora withKeeper Halloran2
Playthe clock and the cards on the tableonce Mara starts+
Afterwardsrecap · lines worth keeping · what you earnedonce it is written up+
Keeper Halloran×
Person
  • Order of the Lantern
  • The Drowned Chapel
  • Alive · last seen S11
Full entry
Quest Board
Ashes of Varn ▾S12
S12 “Under the Saltworks”Confirmed
Tue 19:30 London20:30 yours
Add to calendar
Plan3−
Are you in? yours
YesMaybeNo
4 of 6 in · Tobiah maybe · Kestrel has not answered
Pick a time shown instead, while the time is open
S12
Tue 19:30
Wed 20:00
Sat 18:00
You
Yes
Maybe
No
My notes only you see these
Ask Halloran about the amphora
From Mara
Previously on
The party left the amphora withKeeper Halloran
Playonce Mara starts+
Afterwardsrecap, quotes, what you earned+
Open: the session, and Keeper Halloran behind it.
S12
Halloran4
Search
  1. A session is one card in three parts. Only Plan is open, because before the night the only thing that concerns you is whether you are coming; the clock and the write-up stay folded until there is something in them.
  2. Tap a name in “previously on” and it opens next to the session rather than on top of it, so you can remind yourself who Halloran is without losing your place in the page.
  3. Both clocks sit at the top, and your answer and who else is coming are the first things under them, so “are we playing, and can I make it” is one glance and one tap.
  4. On a phone “beside” becomes “instead”: both are still open, only one fits on the screen, and this bar swaps them. It is the honest weak point of this version — the thing it is best at is the thing a phone cannot do.

Game night

Game night, on your own phone.

Quest Board
Ashes of VarnPlaying now
Table viewyours1
Recording01:42:07
Shown to the table
The Drowned Chapel
01:38
Keeper Halloran
00:54
My notes only you see these
The chapel bell rang twice
Save
Only this panel is open.2
Table view
S12
Search
  1. Your own phone shows the same cards as they arrive, with your notes underneath them, kept to yourself.
  2. Honest about it: a player ends up with one panel and a switcher that has almost nothing in it. This version is built for someone with a big screen and a keyboard, and at the table it gives you an ordinary page with a spare row at the bottom.

Afterwards

The past nights, the recap of S11, and the person you met in it — reached by typing his name into the same search field.

Quest BoardHelp
Ashes of Varn ▾S11 “The Amphora”Halloran ⌘K1
⌂
S
W
H
Sessions2
  • Vote S13
  • Tue S12 “Under the Saltworks”
  • S11 “The Amphora” 28 Aug
  • S10 “The Whistle” 14 Aug
  • S9 “Low Water” 31 Jul
S11 “The Amphora”Played
Recap
Lines worth keeping
  • “The bell rang twice” — Wren
  • “We open it here” — Kestrel
You were there yours
Idris Vale450 XPa shard of the amphora
Who was in it
Keeper HalloranThe Drowned Chapel
Keeper Halloran×
Person · appears in S11, S9
Order of the LanternAlive
Full entry
Quest Board
Ashes of Varn ▾S11
Halloran3
S11 “The Amphora”Played4
Recap
Lines worth keeping
  • “The bell rang twice” — Wren
  • “We open it here” — Kestrel
You were there yours
Idris Vale450 XPa shard
Who was in it
Keeper HalloranThe Drowned Chapel
Open: S11, and Keeper Halloran behind it.
Sessions
S11
Halloran
  1. Typing a name is the way into the wiki: “Halloran” brings up his entry and it opens beside the recap that mentions him, so you read the paragraph and the person together.
  2. The list of past nights stays open next to what you are reading, so going from S11 back to S9 is one click and you never lose the thing you came for.
  3. On the phone the same field is at the top of every page. If you cannot remember whether it was Halloran or the chapel, type either — it is the only thing you need to learn in this version.
  4. What happened is one scroll: the story of the night, the lines people quoted afterwards, and what your character came away with. Nothing here asks you to do anything.

Your take on C5 Command Deck

C6

Book & Table

Two modes. Between games, Quest Board reads like a book: a contents list, the recap as a page of prose, the wiki as articles. During a game it becomes "the Table": a dark, full-screen view of what has been revealed, with big buttons, and a way out that is always visible. If we play in person, the same Table shows on a screen in the room, one thing at a time.

Home

Book mode: home is a page you read. What is waiting on you in a line each, then a paragraph for each campaign you play in — the same page on a phone and on a laptop.

Quest BoardHelp
Home
Needs you1
  • S13 · a vote is open, 3 nights to choose from Vote
  • S12 · Tue 19:30, are you in? Answer
  • while a session is running Ashes of Varn is playing now Open the table
Your campaigns
Ashes of Varn player Idris Vale2
This week: S12 "Under the Saltworks", Tue 19:30 · 4 of 6 in. Mara is running it.
Last recap: "The amphora came up out of the silt with Halloran's seal still on it."
This weekContentsRead the recap
Saltmarsh Irregulars player
This week: nothing scheduled · the vote for S8 closes Friday.
Last recap: "They paid the ferryman in salt and regretted it by morning."
This weekContents
Join a campaign with a code
Quest Board
Home
Needs you
  • S13 · a vote is open Vote
  • S12 · are you in? Answer
  • while a session is running playing now Open
Your campaigns
Ashes of Varn Idris Vale
This week: S12 "Under the Saltworks", Tue 19:30 · 4 of 6 in.
Last recap: "The amphora came up out of the silt with Halloran's seal still on it."3
This weekContents4
Saltmarsh Irregulars player
This week: nothing scheduled · the vote closes Friday.
Last recap: "They paid the ferryman in salt."
This weekContents
Join a campaign with a code
  1. Anything the group is waiting on you for is three short lines at the very top, and they go away once you have answered — so the first thing you see is whether you owe anyone anything, not a wall of numbers.
  2. Your campaign is written as a short paragraph rather than a dashboard tile: the one sentence that changes every week is "this week", so you can read it in the time it takes to unlock your phone.
  3. The last recap's opening line sits right there, which is often all you need to remember where you got to — and if it is not, tapping it opens the whole thing.
  4. "Contents" is the way into everything else in a campaign — past sessions, the wiki, the highlights — so nothing is buried in a menu you have to learn.

Session

A session is a page in the book: when it is, whether you are in, the notes, and what happened last time — read from the top.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn
Ashes of Varn1
This week
Sessions
Wiki
Highlights
Party
S12 "Under the Saltworks"
Schedule
Notes
Previously on
At the table
S12 "Under the Saltworks" Confirmed
Schedule2
Tuesday 8 September, 19:30 Europe/London — 20:30 your time
Add to calendar.ics · Google
Are you in?player
YesMaybeNoyou answered Yes on Sunday
Mara YesIdris YesWren YesTobiah YesKestrel MaybeJuno no answer
Pick a timeonly while a night is still being chosen
Candidate
Tue 19:30
Thu 19:30
Sat 18:00
Idris
Wren
Tobiah
filled = yes · grey = maybe · empty = no
Notes
My notesplayer
Shared by Mara
Previously on
Open: the buyer for the amphoraOpen: the price Halloran named
At the table
Nothing yet — this fills in on Tuesday.
Open the tablewhen Mara starts the session
ContentsS12
S12 "Under the Saltworks" Confirmed
Schedule
Tue 8 Sep 19:30 Europe/London
20:30 your time
Add to calendar
Are you in?player3
YesMaybeNo
4 of 6 in
Kestrel MaybeJuno no answer
Pick a timeonly while a night is still being chosen
Candidate
Tue
Thu
Sat
Idris
Wren
Notes
My notesplayer
Shared by Mara
Previously on4
Open: the buyer for the amphoraOpen: the price Halloran named
At the table
Open the tablewhen Mara starts the session
  1. The list down the side is the whole campaign and the parts of this session in one place, so you can jump to the bit you came for instead of scrolling past everything else. On a phone it is the "Contents" button in the top corner.
  2. The time is written twice, in the group's clock and in yours — and on the phone your own clock gets its own line, because half the arguments about start times are really arguments about time zones.
  3. Yes / Maybe / No are thumb-sized and near the top, and under them is who else has answered, so you can see whether the night is really happening before you commit to it.
  4. "Previously on" is a few paragraphs and the threads still hanging, so if you missed the last one you can turn up knowing what everybody else knows.

Table (during play)

Game night, on your own phone.

S12 "Under the Saltworks"In progress
01:42:07Recording1
Revealed to the table
Keeper Halloran
just now
The Drowned Chapel
21:04
Tide table
20:38
On the screen in the room: Keeper Halloran
My notesplayer2
Halloran wants the amphora, not the coin
Leave the table
  1. On your own phone the same reveal arrives with a plain "recording" mark, so you always know whether tonight is being kept, without anyone having to ask.
  2. Everything revealed tonight stays in a row you can swipe back through, with your own notes underneath, so checking a name again does not mean interrupting the table.

After

Afterwards the session is a chapter you read. Right: last session's recap on a phone. Left: where a name inside it takes you — the same book, opened at Keeper Halloran.

Quest BoardAshes of Varn
Ashes of Varn
This week
Sessions
Wiki
Highlights
Party
Keeper Halloran
Who he is
What we know
Appears in
Changes
Search the wikiBrowse: people · places · factions
Keeper Halloran NPC1
Keeper of the tide gate, and the reason the amphora had a seal on it at all.
What we know
  • Faction Order of the Lantern
  • Last seen The Drowned Chapel
  • Owes the party one answer
Appears in2
S11 "The Amphora"S9 "The Lantern Kept"
Changes
Updated after S11 by Mara · earlier versions kept
ContentsS11
S11 "The Amphora" Completed
Sat 30 August · 5 of 6 there · 1h 52m
Recap
"The amphora came up out of the silt with Halloran's seal still on it."3
Highlights
  • Idris: "It has his seal on it."
  • Kestrel: "Then we are already late."
People and places4
  • Keeper Halloran NPC
  • The Drowned Chapel place
  • Order of the Lantern faction
Wiki
Search the wiki
Earlier sessionsAll highlights
  1. A wiki entry is a page of the same book, at the same reading width, with its own short contents down the side — so looking someone up does not feel like leaving the story for a database.
  2. "Appears in" names the sessions he turned up in, so if you cannot place him you can go straight to the night you met him instead of trawling recaps.
  3. The recap is the page, not a box on a page: a few paragraphs you can actually read on the bus the next morning.
  4. Under it, the people and places from that night are listed by name, and there is a search if you only remember a word — two ways in, and neither of them needs you to have been there.

Your take on C6 Book & Table

C7

Timeline

The campaign is a timeline you scroll: the next game at the top, "now" in the middle, past games below, and each one opens in place when you tap it. Beside it, an index of the people and places in the story, with the games they appeared in, so "who was that merchant?" is one tap.

Home

Each campaign appears as the top of its own story: what is coming, the night itself, and what just happened.

Quest BoardDashboardHelp
Dashboard
Needs you 21
  • Vote S13 · pick a night Open on the timeline
  • RSVP S12 "Under the Saltworks" · Tue 19:30 Are you in?
Your campaigns
Ashes of VarnIdris ValeMara is GMOpen the timeline
S13 · a vote is open · 3 nightsProposedin 12d
NextS12 "Under the Saltworks"Confirmed2in 3d 4h
Tue 19:30 Europe/London · 20:30 your time · 4 of 6 in
Are you in?Add to calendar
S11 "The Amphora" · recap readyRead the recap
Saltmarsh IrregularsplayerOpen the timeline
NextS8 · Thu 20:00Confirmedyou said Yes
S7 · recap publishedRead the recap
Join a campaign with a code
Quest Board
Dashboard
Needs you 2
  • Vote S13 · pick a night
  • RSVP S12 · Tue 19:30
Your campaigns
Ashes of VarnIdris Vale
S13 · a vote is open · in 12d3
Next
S12 "Under the Saltworks"
Tue 19:30 · 20:30 your time
4 of 6 in
Are you in?
S11 "The Amphora"
Read the recap4
Saltmarsh Irregularsplayer
S8 · Thu 20:00
you said Yes
S7 · recap published
Join a campaign with a code
  1. Every line that is waiting on you takes you to the exact place in the story it is about, rather than to a copy of it — answer there and the same card is what everyone else sees.
  2. The filled dot is the night itself: both clocks, how many are in, and the one thing to press. If you read nothing else on this page, you have still answered the question the group is waiting on.
  3. Above it is what has not happened yet, below it is what has — so the campaign reads in time order, and you learn the shape once and know it for every campaign.
  4. Last session's recap sits one line under tonight's, so catching up is never a hunt through a list of past dates.

Session

A session is not a separate page: S12's card opens where it sits, with the sessions either side still visible.

Quest BoardAshes of VarnHelp
NowNextLastWikiHighlightsMoreS12 · Tue 19:30 · in 3d 4h
S13Proposedvote open · 3 of 6 answeredOpen
NextS12 "Under the Saltworks"Confirmed1Close
When
Tue 8 Sep 19:30 Europe/London20:30 your timeAdd to calendar.ics · Google
Are you in?player
YesMaybeNoyou answered Yes on Sunday
Mara YesIdris YesWren YesTobiah YesKestrel MaybeJuno no answer
Pick a nightonly while a night is still being chosen2
Candidate
Tue 19:30
Thu 19:30
Sat 18:00
Idris
Wren
Tobiah
filled = yes · grey = maybe · empty = no
Notes
My notesplayer
Shared by Mara
Previously on
Open: the buyer for the amphoraOpen: the price Halloran named
At the tablefrom the moment Mara starts
Open the tablethis card becomes the screen you watch
S11 "The Amphora"Completedrecap readyOpen
Index
Search the wiki
In these sessions
  • Keeper Halloran NPC
  • The Drowned Chapel place
  • Idris Vale you
Party
  • Mara
  • Idris
  • Wren
  • Tobiah
  • Kestrel
  • Juno
Ashes of Varn
NowNextLastMorein 3d
StoryIndex
S13 · vote open · in 12d
Next
S12 "Under the Saltworks"Confirmed
Tue 8 Sep 19:30 Europe/London
20:30 your time
Add to calendar
Are you in?player3
YesMaybeNo
4 of 6 in
Notes
My notesplayer
Shared by Mara
Previously on4
Open: the buyer for the amphora
At the tablefrom the moment Mara starts
Open the table
S11 "The Amphora" · recap ready
  1. The session opens in place, with the one before and the one after still on screen, so you never lose your bearings: closing it puts you back exactly where you were in the story.
  2. The same card carries the night through its whole life — a grid of possible nights while one is being chosen, then the time and who is coming once it is settled — so a link someone sent you in Discord always still works.
  3. Answering is three big buttons inside the card, with the dots for who else has answered right under them; you never leave the story to say yes.
  4. What happened last time, and the threads still open, sit inside tonight's card — the thing you want ten minutes before you play is in the same place as the start time.

Table (during play)

Game night, on your own phone.

S12 "Under the Saltworks"In progress
01:42:07Recording1
Just revealed
Keeper Halloran NPC
just now · also on the screen in the room
Earlier tonight
  • The Drowned Chapel 21:04
  • Tide table 20:38
My notesplayer2
Halloran wants the amphora, not the coin
Back to the story
  1. Your phone shows the same reveal at the same moment, marked as recording, so you always know whether tonight is being kept without asking.
  2. Notes you type here stay attached to this session, and "Back to the story" puts you back on the timeline at tonight — nothing you wrote is stranded in a screen you had to leave.

After

Scroll back down the story and S11 is where you left it, open, with the recap inside. Right: the index tab, where a name tells you which nights it belongs to.

Quest BoardAshes of VarnHelp
NowNextLastWikiHighlightsMorereading S11 · a week ago
NextS12 "Under the Saltworks"Confirmedin 3d 4h
2 articles updated · Keeper Halloran, The Drowned Chapel
3 highlights added
S11 "The Amphora"Completed1Sat 30 Aug · 5 of 6 there
Recap
"The amphora came up out of the silt with Halloran's seal still on it."
Highlights
  • Idris: "It has his seal on it."
  • Kestrel: "Then we are already late."
Who was there
MaraIdris · Idris ValeWrenTobiahJunoKestrel was away
In this session
Keeper HalloranThe Drowned ChapelOrder of the Lantern
Recap sent to the group
S10 "Low Tide"Completedthree weeks ago
Load earlier · S9 … S1
Index2
Search the wiki
In the sessions on screen
  • Keeper Halloran NPC
  • The Drowned Chapel place
  • Order of the Lantern faction
  • Idris Vale you
Highlights
14 lines from this campaign
Ashes of Varn
NowNextLastMoreS11
StoryIndex3
Search the wiki
In the sessions on screen
  • Keeper Halloran NPC
  • The Drowned Chapel place
  • Order of the Lantern faction
  • Idris Vale you
Keeper Halloran NPC
Keeper of the tide gate, and the reason the amphora had a seal on it at all.
Order of the LanternLast seen: The Drowned Chapel
Appears in
S11 "The Amphora"S9 "The Lantern Kept"4
Updated after S11 by Mara
Back to the storyAll highlights
  1. The recap lives inside the session it belongs to, in its place in the story, so catching up is scrolling back a little rather than finding a different page — and what changed between sessions is written in the gap.
  2. The list down the side is everyone and everywhere named in the sessions you can currently see, which is how you find "that keeper bloke" without knowing his name is a page.
  3. On a phone that list is the second tab, so the story keeps the full width and the index is one tap away rather than a separate part of the app.
  4. Every entry says which nights it appears in, and those take you back to those sessions — so a name you half-remember leads to the evening you met him, not just to a description.

Your take on C7 Timeline

?

Overall

Two picks, four questions, your name, and you are done. Everything here is about how you play, not about how the app is built.

Which two would you pick?

Discord, the app, someone texting you, memory.
Notes, the map, the revealed cards, nothing at all.
The recap, the wiki, checking when the next one is, nothing.
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