Praxis · Gaming

Same room · no accounts

How the table works

The Game Master runs D20 Chair on an iPhone, iPad or Mac. Each player brings their hero in D20 Adventurers Folio on their own iPhone or iPad. The devices find each other in the room.

  1. The Game Master gathers the table

    Tap Gather the Table on the iPhone, iPad or Mac. The Chair shows a short code in large letters. Read it aloud.

    The Chair showing the table code NPT-55 with the words Read it aloud.

  2. Players join with the code

    In the Folio, open your hero and choose Join a Table, then type the code. The Game Master accepts you, then your hero's card appears on their screen and the board appears on yours.

    Up to 7 players. The first time, your device asks to find devices on your local network. Allow it, or the table can't find you.

    The Chair: the full party on the rail, tokens on the map.

  3. Play

    The Game Master can pass one player a private note, call for a roll the player makes in their Folio, or roll quietly for them. Everyone sees the same map and whose turn it is, and each player can move their own token. Any player can leave at any time, and the Game Master can remove any one player, who then can't rejoin that table.

    A roll call arriving on the player's phone.
    The roll's total on the Game Master's iPad.

  4. End the table

    When the evening's over, the Game Master ends the table. Players see that it has ended. The Chair keeps last evening's table so next week picks up where you stopped.

What stays where

On each player's deviceTheir hero, as always. Joining a table sends it to the Game Master's device for the evening. The other players see only its name, class, level, picture and roughly how it's doing.
On the Game Master's deviceThe party's names and the pictures you choose, last evening's board, map and log, and your maps. No player's character sheet is stored.
Anywhere elseNothing of ours. No server of ours, no accounts, no sign-in. Apart from the App Store’s own purchase checks, the devices talk only to each other, over your own Wi-Fi network.

The full detail is in the privacy pages for D20 Chair and D20 Adventurers Folio.

Game MasterAn iPhone or iPad (iOS 17 or later) or a Mac (macOS 14 or later) with D20 Chair: first month free for new subscribers, then $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year
Each playerAn iPhone or iPad with D20 Adventurers Folio, free to download with in-app purchases
The roomEveryone together, on the same Wi-Fi network
D20 Chair D20 Adventurers Folio