Roll and Lore Screen
Free tabletop campaign screen

Keep the table moving.

Roll and Lore Screen is a browser workspace for the person running the game and the people playing it. Characters, turn order, notes, maps and dice stay on this device. The guides below explain a first night in ordinary language, before anyone opens a rulebook.

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What this is for

A tabletop roleplaying game asks one person to describe a place and everyone else to decide what they do there. The hard part is rarely the story. It is remembering hit points, whose turn it is, the name of the innkeeper, and which note held the rumor from last week.

Roll and Lore Screen keeps those pieces in one screen. It does not replace a conversation. It replaces the stack of loose paper that usually falls off the table. There is no account. A campaign is saved in the browser you are using, and you can download a backup before you switch computers.

If you have never played

You do not need to memorize a system before the first evening. One person describes what the characters can see. Each player says what their character tries. When the outcome is uncertain, someone rolls a twenty-sided die and adds a small number from the character sheet. That is enough to start.

The first-night guide walks through a short evening: what to prepare, what players actually say, and when to stop. The turn guide explains movement, a main action and the moment someone interrupts. The player guide shows what the six ability scores are for, without asking you to learn the whole game first.

If you are running the game

Prepare one place, one problem and one secret. A tavern name, a rumor and a single room are more useful at the table than a map of an entire kingdom. The generators can invent those details, and a Save button files a tavern, rumor or room into your notes, or an NPC into the NPC library, so the next roll does not erase them.

During play, open the initiative tracker when a fight starts, keep monster and character hit points next to their names, and use search (Ctrl+K) when someone asks about a person or place you wrote down weeks ago. The session prep guide and the combat guide describe that rhythm in the order you will actually need it.

What is on the screen

  • Notes and search. Home panels hold session notes, maps and sheets. Ctrl+K searches notes, NPCs, monsters, quests, the party and world entries together.
  • Party and character sheets. Build a character, track hit points, rests, spell slots, coins and carrying weight, and print or save a sheet.
  • Initiative. Turn order, conditions and damage live on one tracker instead of a separate scrap of paper.
  • Libraries. NPCs, monsters, maps, PDFs and world locations stay available after the panel you first typed them on is closed.
  • Generators. Names, NPCs, taverns, rumors, weather, encounters and dungeon rooms, each of which can be saved.
  • Dice. Physical-style dice on the page, including ability checks from a character sheet.

Rules-supported parts of the tools use the open System Reference Document. Read the attribution. Roll and Lore Screen is an independent project and is not affiliated with the publishers of any tabletop game.

Guides

Your first nightA complete beginner’s shape for a 90-minute session, including what the table needs and when to stop. What you do on your turnMove, one main attempt, a smaller extra, and how to ask for a roll without knowing the rule name. The character sheetWhat the six scores mean, which button to press, and what a player is responsible for remembering. Prepare one sessionOne place, one problem, one secret, and how to file generated ideas so they survive the next roll. Run a fightTurn order, hit points as pacing, and a plain-language reading of the conditions that actually come up.

Before you rely on it

Because the campaign lives in the browser, clearing site data deletes it. Use Data → Download Backup inside the app before you change devices. Questions and bug reports go to the contact page.

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