Your User Dashboard is the one page in Chronica that belongs to you rather than to a campaign. Everything campaign-shaped — characters, quests, maps, wealth — lives inside a campaign and changes depending on which one you are in. The dashboard sits above all of that: your campaigns, your upcoming sessions, your friends, and your account settings, in one place.
It is also the page you land on when you log in, and clicking the Chronica logo brings you back to it.
The two buttons at the top
Beside "Welcome, your username" sit the two things you will reach for most:
- Green Edit Account Settings — your email, username, time zone, password, and avatar. Covered in 2.1.
- Orange Manage Subscriptions — billing for campaigns you own. Covered in 3.0 Subscriptions & Payments.
Campaigns
The panel you will use most. It lists every campaign you belong to, with its player count and its tier badge — green when the campaign's tier is in good standing (including free campaigns on Peasant), red when a paid subscription has lapsed.
Two small icons mark your standing in a campaign: a die icon where you are the Game Owner, and a dungeon icon where you are a Game Master. If you own the campaign, the tier badge is also a link straight to its subscription page.
Two buttons sit at the top of the panel: New Campaign to start one from scratch, and Clone Campaign Data to build a new campaign from the bones of one you already run — see the Cloning Campaign Data guide for what carries across.
Your Upcoming Events
One row for each of your campaigns that has something coming up, showing that campaign's next scheduled event and whether you have RSVP'd. Campaigns with nothing on the calendar simply don't appear. If your attendance shows as Unknown, you have not answered yet — click through and let your table know. See Events & Attendance for the full picture.
Getting Started
A short prompt for new accounts, pointing you at the New Campaign button. It disappears on its own once you belong to a campaign — whether you made one or were added to someone else's. You do not need to dismiss it.
Friends List
Your friends, your pending requests, and anyone you have blocked. Covered properly in 2.5.
Change Log, Latest News, and Main Site Links
The three reference panels. Change Log shows the three most recent Chronica updates, with View Full Change Log for the complete history — worth a glance if something looks different from last week. Chronica's Latest News carries the most recent article. Main Site Links is a directory: Join, Features, Pricing, About, News, Contact, Help / FAQ, Guidebook, Change Log, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Cookies.
Chronica user dashboard screen
2.1 Account Settings
Account Settings is where the handful of things that are true about you everywhere in Chronica live. Reach it from the green Edit Account Settings button on your dashboard, or from Account Settings in the menu under your avatar in the top bar.
The page has one Save button
This trips people up, so it is worth saying plainly: the whole page is a single form. Account details, password, and avatar are three sections of one thing, and Save Settings at the bottom saves all of them at once. You can change your username and upload a new avatar in one pass. Equally, if you navigate away before saving, you lose all of it, not just the section you were looking at.
Cancel returns you to your dashboard without saving.
What is on the page
- Account Details — your email, username, and time zone. See 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4.
- Change Password — leave both fields blank unless you are actually changing it. See 2.3.
- User Avatar — upload or remove your picture. See 2.2.
If something you entered isn't accepted, the page comes back with a red block at the top listing exactly what needs fixing. Your email, username, and time zone are still filled in as you left them — but for safety the password boxes come back empty, and a file you had chosen for your avatar needs picking again. Fix the problem, re-select those if you were changing them, and save.
The left-hand navigation
The column on the left is your map of everything account-level, in two groups:
- Account — Account Settings (this page), Billing Information, and Payment History.
- Subscriptions — All Campaigns, followed by one entry for each campaign you own, each with its tier badge.
Everything below Account Settings is billing. See 2.6 for the hand-off, and 3.0 Subscriptions & Payments for the detail.
2.2 Your Username and Avatar
Your username and your avatar are how other people recognise you in Chronica. They are account-level, so they follow you into every campaign you join.
Choosing a username
Usernames can be up to 15 characters, and may contain letters, numbers, dashes, and underscores — no spaces or punctuation. They must be unique, and Chronica does not count capitalisation as a difference, so Rowan and rowan cannot both exist.
Your username matters more than it looks, because it is how friends find you. Chronica has no user directory and no search — the only way someone can send you a friend request is by typing your username exactly. If you change it, tell the people who might be looking for you.
Uploading an avatar
Under User Avatar, use Upload Image to choose a file, then save the page.
- Accepted formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif
- Maximum size: 2MB
- Avatars are always cropped square, so a square image works best — anything else gets trimmed from the sides.
Once saved, your avatar appears in the top bar, on your friends list, and beside your name across the app. To take it down again, tick Remove current image and save.
If you never upload one, Chronica gives you its default avatar. You will never see a broken image, and there is nothing you need to do.
2.3 Your Email and Password
Your email address is your login. Both it and your password are changed from the same Account Settings page.
Changing your email
Edit the Email field and save. The change takes effect straight away — and because your email is your login, the next time you sign in you must use the new address.
Changing your password
Fill in New Password and New Password Confirmation and save. Passwords must be at least 6 characters, and the two fields must match.
If you are not changing your password, leave both fields empty — the rest of the page saves normally. You do not need to retype your existing password to change something else.
If you have forgotten your password
You cannot get to Account Settings without being logged in, so a forgotten password is handled from the login page instead:
- On the login page, click (Forgot Password) beside the password field.
- Enter your email address and submit.
- Check your inbox for an email titled "Password Reset for Chronica" and follow the link.
- Enter a new password and confirm it. You are signed in automatically once it is set.
For your privacy, the reset page gives the same confirmation message whether or not an account exists for the address you entered — so nobody can use it to work out who has a Chronica account. If no email arrives, the likeliest explanations are a typo now, a typo when you signed up, or the message landing in spam. If none of those pan out, contact support@chronica.ventures.
2.4 Setting Your Time Zone
Your time zone is one dropdown on Account Settings. It decides how Chronica writes out the timestamps it records for you — and, just as importantly, there are a few places it deliberately does not reach.
What it changes
Your time zone applies to the date and time stamps Chronica records as you work: entries in the campaign Activity Log, timestamps on adventure notes, the dates on friend requests, and similar. Set it correctly and those read in your local time instead of someone else's.
What it does not change — and this is the important part
Two other things sit outside it. Billing dates — your payment history and next payment date — follow the device you are reading them on, so they will look right wherever you are, regardless of this setting.
Set it deliberately, once
2.5 Friends
The Friends List on your dashboard keeps track of the people you play with across Chronica. It is deliberately quiet — being someone's friend does not give either of you access to the other's campaigns, characters, wealth, or notes. Campaign membership is separate, and a Game Master still has to add you to a campaign for you to be in it.
What being friends does is make that easier: a Game Master adding players can pick straight from their friends list instead of typing usernames, and people you invite to Chronica become friends automatically when they join.
Sending a friend request
Type their username into the box on the Friends List panel and click Send Friend Request. It has to be their exact username — Chronica has no user search or directory, by design, so there is no way to browse for someone. You will need to ask them what theirs is.
Your request lands in their Pending tab, and shows in yours as Request Sent until they answer. If you change your mind, Cancel Request withdraws it.
Answering a request
Incoming requests appear in your Pending tab marked New Incoming Request, with three choices:
- Accept — they move to your Friends tab.
- Decline — the request is removed. They are not told, and nothing stops them asking again later.
- Block — the request is refused and they are stopped from contacting you again.
What blocking does
Blocking someone stops them contacting you through Chronica. They cannot send you another friend request, and they cannot send you a Chronica invitation either.
Nobody is notified that they have been blocked — no email goes out, and nothing appears on their dashboard. But it is not invisible either: if they try again, the message they get back tells them the attempt was refused rather than pretending it worked. Blocking is a firm door, not a secret one.
Blocked people are listed on your Blocked tab. Unblock lifts it — but note that unblocking does not make you friends, and it does not throw the request away either. It returns them to your Pending tab as a request waiting for an answer, so you can then accept or decline it properly.
Removing a friend
On the Friends tab, the circle-x button beside a friend removes them, after a confirmation. It is not a block — they can send you a new request afterwards. If you want them stopped rather than removed, block the next request instead.
2.6 Billing, Subscriptions, and Payments
Everything below Account Settings in the left-hand navigation is money, and it is covered properly in 3.0 Subscriptions & Payments. This section is a map so you know which door to open.
| Where | What you'll find |
|---|---|
| Billing Information | Your saved payment method, and where to add or change a card. Card details are processed and stored through Stripe, not held by Chronica. |
| Payment History | Your past invoices across all your campaigns, each with a link to the paid invoice. |
| All Campaigns | One card per campaign you own, showing its tier, billing interval, and next payment date. |
| A campaign by name | That campaign's subscription page — where you change its tier. |
Two things worth knowing before you go
Subscriptions are per campaign, not per person. You do not have "a Chronica subscription" — each campaign you own has its own, and they can sit on different tiers. Playing in someone else's paid campaign costs you nothing and requires no subscription of your own.
Cancelling means downgrading to the free Peasant tier. There is no separate cancel button. Moving a campaign down to Peasant stops the billing and you keep the paid features until the end of the period you have already paid for. Your data is kept either way — features above your tier become unavailable rather than deleted, and upgrading again brings them straight back.
2.7 Deleting Your Account
There is no delete button in Account Settings. Account deletion is handled by customer service, but we are happy to fulfill all requests. Email support@chronica.ventures from the address on your account and we will take it from there.
What deletion removes
Deleting your account removes you from every campaign you play in. Along with your membership go your personal inventory and its items, your character ownerships and the wealth held in them, your folders, your links, your event RSVPs, and your entries in the campaign Activity Log.
Two effects are worth planning around:
- Your adventure notes stay in the campaign but lose their author, and anything left in draft is published. Read through your drafts first — unfinished notes will become visible to the campaign.
- Events you created are removed from the campaign's schedule. If you are the one who organises your table's sessions, hand that over before you go.
Related requests we handle by email
- Removing a saved payment method — email support@chronica.ventures and we will remove it within 48 business hours.
- Stopping billing without deleting anything — you do not need us for this. Downgrade the campaign to the free Peasant tier and the billing stops; see 2.6.