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17 August 2026 · RNGESUS · What has changed lately.

The Tavern Opens

/table stopped being a dashboard and became a room, over about two dozen pull requests and not very many days.

/table used to be a dashboard: panels, counters, a list of your campaigns. It is now a tavern, and logging in puts you in it.

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How It All WorksWhat RNGESUS actually is, and what to do with your first ten minutes of it.Your DiceWhat's actually on an NFC tag, how to claim one, and what the app does with it.The Virtual TabletopMaps, fog of war, line of sight and initiative — in a browser, with or without dice.The Tavern/table is a room, not a dashboard. What's in it, and what each corner is for.CoppersThe tavern's currency — where it comes from, what it buys, and the two things it can never buy.Credit where it's dueThe artwork in the crest builder isn't ours. Who drew it, and what the licence asks of us.

How to

Run a SessionFrom an empty campaign to a room your players are actually in, GM side.Characters and TagsBuilding a 5e sheet, rolling it with a physical die, and where the character-to-tag binding actually stands.Set Up a MapThe VTT scene wizard — map, grid, walls, tokens, and opening the door.

The manuals

The Basic RulesCharacter creation, all twelve classes, origins, feats, equipment, spells, the DM chapters and three hundred-odd stat blocks. Official, free, no account — the closest thing there is to reading the Player’s Handbook and the Monster Manual online.D&D 5edndbeyond.comOpen5eEvery spell, monster, class, condition and magic item in the SRD, searchable. This is the one to reach for when somebody at the table is waiting — it is faster than turning pages and much faster than a PDF.D&D 5eopen5e.comSystem Reference Document 5.2.1The rules document itself, as a PDF, in a dozen languages. A download page rather than a reading room — take this one when you want the rules on your own disk rather than in a tab.D&D 5edndbeyond.comArchives of NethysEvery ancestry, class, feat, spell, item and creature Paizo has published, all of it free and all of it searchable. Pathfinder gives its rules away completely, and this is where they live.Pathfinder 2e2e.aonprd.comDaggerheart SRDDarrington Press’s reference document: the rules, mechanics and content of Daggerheart, free to download and free to build on.daggerheart.com