Once you open a campaign, every page is laid out the same way. Learning it once means you can find anything.

The left navigation

Down the left side is everything the campaign holds. At the top, under the campaign's own name, are the pages you will use most: Campaign Overview, Party Info, your Player Dashboard, Player Inventories and Adventure Notes.

Below those, the rest is grouped:

• Session Tools — what you reach for while playing.
• Campaign Tools — the world itself, and the records that outlast a session.
• Admin Settings — the things that shape how the campaign works. Game Masters see this, and so do players their Game Master has given an admin role. If you have one, you see only the sections your role covers.

On a free campaign you will also see a Paid-tier Features group. Those links lead to a description of what each feature does rather than to the feature itself.

If a Game Master does not use some features, they can hide those links. Nothing is lost by hiding them — Game Masters keep a Hidden Links group at the bottom of the navigation, and can show anything again at any time.

The navigation belongs to a campaign, so it appears once you have opened one. On your User Dashboard you will not see it.

The rest of the page

• The bar at the top of the content holds the actions for the page you are on — adding something, editing, opening that feature's own guide.
• The main area shows the content, usually in panels you can read in any order.
• The top bar stays where it is, so Dice, Help and your account are always one click away. See 1.3.

Links are colour-coded across Chronica, so after a short while you can tell what a button does before you read it.

Finding help while you work

Several features link to their own section of this guidebook, either from the bar at the top of the page or from an empty panel — look for Guide or Guidebook. Help / FAQ in the top bar answers shorter, more specific questions, and the full Guidebook is always in the Help menu.

What to do next

If you were invited to a campaign, it is already on your User Dashboard — open it and have a look around.

If you are starting your own, your dashboard's Campaigns box has a green New Campaign button. 4.1 Creating a Campaign covers what to fill in, and 4.0 Campaign Overview explains the page you will spend the most time on.

You do not need to set everything up before you play. Most Game Masters add stats, currencies and NPCs as the game needs them.

Campaign left navigation

Campaign main bar

Campaign main content area