Stroke and fill colours are controlled through a single colour picker panel with two swatches – one for outlines, one for fills. Pick your colour, keep drawing. Changes apply to new shapes and to anything you’ve selected and want to update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Fog of War \u2014 Your Secret Weapon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n The most powerful tool on the board, and the simplest to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enable Fog Mode<\/strong> with one click. Anything the GM draws or adds to the board while this mode is enabled is hidden to all other players. Then use the Reveal Area<\/strong> tool to drag and expose sections of the map \u2014 a room the party enters, a corridor they peek down, a clearing that emerges from the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThere are no layers to juggle, no export steps. Draw in the fog, reveal as needed, move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Character Tokens and NPC Placement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Every player in the room appears on the board automatically as a character token, labelled with their character name and portrait. Drag it to its new position and every player’s screen updates immediately. Players can always control their own character’s token position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As GM, you place NPCs<\/strong> through the NPC panel: give them a name, upload a portrait (which gets cropped automatically into a clean token), and drop them onto the board with a click. Mark them as enemies and they display differently than allied NPCs. NPCs can also be assigned to another player to control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
The Initiative Tracker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n When things kick off, click the Initiative button to open the tracker. Hit Start Initiative<\/strong> and every player at the table receives a prompt to roll their D20 \u2014 right there in the dice panel, no side conversation needed. Rolls come in as players make them, and the tracker fills out in real time, showing who’s rolled and who’s still thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhen everyone is in, place the order directly onto the whiteboard as a visual initiative list. It drops onto the board where your players can see it, sorted by roll, ready to reference for the whole encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GMs can also use this feature to add drama by entering initiation mode, which causes the screen to darken with a little screenshake, forcing them to roll those D20s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Pings and Player Board Control<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Need to point something out on the map? The Ping<\/strong> tool drops an animated marker at any location \u2014 visible to every player simultaneously, then fades out. No talking over each other trying to describe a position. Just click. All players have access to this tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGMs can enable Player Board Control<\/strong> in the room settings to give players access to the basic drawing tools: free draw, lines, and shapes. Useful for collaborative mapping, note-taking, or just letting players sketch their own ideas. You stay in control of fog, NPCs, and initiative \u2014 players get just enough access to contribute. However, some tools remain in the hands of the GM only, such as NPC creation and fog mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Zoom, Pan, and a Board That Stays Out of Your Way<\/h3>\n\n\n\n The board scales smoothly in and out with the zoom buttons, and you can pan freely across it with a middle-click drag (or two-finger scroll on touch). Zoom animations are fluid \u2014 no hard jumps. The board remembers where you are between interactions so you can switch tools and come right back to where you were working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything auto-saves. When the session ends and a player comes back the next week, the board is exactly where you left it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Character Sheets – Everything at the Table, Nothing in the Way<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCharacter sheets in TallTale live inside the room. There’s no separate tab to open, no external PDF to hunt down, no “hang on, let me find my sheet” moment. Everything a player needs is one click away from the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Players<\/h4>\n\n\n\n Each player can build and maintains their own character sheet throughout your sessions. The sheet is divided into focused tabs that cover every aspect of a character without overwhelming the screen, or the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nCharacter Name<\/strong> \u2014 The name that appears when pining or rolling dice<\/li>\n\n\n\nCharacter Icon<\/strong> \u2014 The profile image of the character, used as their token on the whiteboard<\/li>\n\n\n\nStats<\/strong> \u2014 core attributes (Strength, dexterity, HP, Grit, etc)<\/li>\n\n\n\nSkills<\/strong> \u2014 proficiencies, ratings, training, or any custom fields you’ve set up<\/li>\n\n\n\nSpells<\/strong> \u2014 spells and abilities<\/li>\n\n\n\nEquipment<\/strong> \u2014 weapons, armor, and gear<\/li>\n\n\n\nItems<\/strong> \u2014 for everything else: consumables, treasures, quest items<\/li>\n\n\n\nConditions<\/strong> \u2014 active status effects that affect your character right now, at a glance<\/li>\n\n\n\nNotes<\/strong> \u2014 session notes, plot threads, anything you want to track in your own words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nEach tab is a clean single-purpose view. You don’t scroll past four sections to find your hit points. You click the tab that has what you need and it’s there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For GMs<\/h4>\n\n\n\n As GM, you can pull up any player’s character sheet directly from the whiteboard. Just select the character\/NPC tool, then click their token and the character sheet opens in a panel. This is the detail that changes how sessions flow: you don’t have to ask “what’s your Strength modifier?” You look it up in three seconds without interrupting anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During an NPC interaction, a contested skill check, or a rules question, the GM has full read access to the relevant character’s sheet without the player having to narrate their stats aloud or message in Discord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Portraits and Tokens<\/h4>\n\n\n\n Every character sheet includes a portrait. Upload your character art, and it gets automatically cropped and formatted into a clean circular token that appears on the whiteboard: labelled, positioned, and synced to every player in the room the moment you place it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The portrait carries identity across both the dice panel and the board. When you roll, your name shows in the roll history. When you move on the map, your face moves with you. The sheet, the token, and the dice are all connected to the same character \u2014 one system, not three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For Your Players<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Players joining a TallTale room don’t need an account tutorial. They see the dice, they see the board, and within a minute they understand both. The toolbar appears only for those with drawing access, and the tools they do have are self-explanatory. Click a tool, use it, move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best interface is the one nobody has to think about. That’s what TallTale is designed to be \u2014 for GMs and players alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ready to run a session? Your board is waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nFAQ<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCan I use my own maps?<\/summary>\n
You are free to use the free draw, line, circle, and rectangle tools to draw out any map you wish, but there is no “import” map functionality, or compatibility with other map makers. TallTale was design with simplicity in mind.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nDo players need to install anything?<\/summary>\n
No, TallTale takes place entirely in the browser. Game rooms are even mobile and touch compatible!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nDo you have voice or text chat?<\/summary>\n
It is our plan to add in basic text chat and whisper support to active players, but there is no voice chat integration. For that, you will need to use Discord, Steam Chat, Meet, Zoom, Matrix, or your own choice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nCan players control their own tokens?<\/summary>\n
Yes, players can always control where their tokens are on the map. GMs can also assign NPCs to players to control as well (useful for… minions). They cannot control other players unless the GM has enabled the Board Control option in the room settings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nIs there a “prefers reduced motion” setting?<\/summary>\n
Yes! Not everyone is OK with animations and motion, so users can enable this setting by editing their profile. This will not eliminate all animations, but it will drastically lower them for these users.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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