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17 August 2026 · RNGESUS · What has changed lately.

The Tavern Opens

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

/town/tavern 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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Start here

How It All WorksWhat RNGESUS actually is, and what to do with your first ten minutes of it.Your DiceWhat a die is here, how to claim a tag, and what the app knows about it.The Virtual TabletopMaps, fog of war, line of sight and initiative — in a browser, with or without dice.The Tavern/town/tavern is a room you walk around, not a dashboard. What is 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.Other Virtual TabletopsUsing RNGESUS dice inside Roll20, Foundry and Fantasy Grounds — what works today, and what doesn't yet.Credit where it's dueThe artwork in the crest builder, the strings Wire plays, the sheet music behind the bar, the sounds of the tavern and the music and noises in the cellar aren't ours. Who made them, and what the licences ask of us.

How to

Get StartedFrom nothing to your first roll — and what to do if you haven't got dice yet.Start a GameThe quickest route from signed in to a table with a map on it — and the scenic one beside it.Run a SessionFrom an empty campaign to a table your players are actually sitting at, 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.

When it goes wrong

The Mobile AppWhat the app is for, what it deliberately leaves to the browser, and the usual fixes.Your AccountWhere your name, face and email live, who can see what, and how to leave.OrdersPlacing one, tracking it, and what to do when it arrives wrong — or doesn't arrive.When Something BreaksTags that won't read, rolls that won't sync, crashes, and logins that won't.

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