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Lore Atlas field guide

Run the campaign.
Keep the whole world in view.

A detailed, spoiler-safe manual for new and experienced DMs. Learn the D&D idea first, then see exactly how Lore Atlas represents it.

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Task atlas

Begin with the job in front of you

The guide is organized around campaign work, not product menus. Each path explains the tabletop concept, the controls, the resulting state, and the edge cases.

Begin

Start a campaign

Blank campaign, templates, restore, party, and first path

Shape

Build a story path

Thread types, locations, relationships, locks, and outcomes

React

Model a living world

Clocks, travel, beliefs, consequences, and history

Prepare

Prepare the next table

Tonight's Table and practical Prep Health

Play

Run live play

Sessions, encounters, rewards, sound, and display

Share

Bring in the party

Invitations, characters, collaboration, and visibility

Remember

Preserve what happened

Recaps, memories, decisions, export, and restore

Reference

Find an exact answer

Search common questions or define an Atlas term

Spoiler-safe teaching campaign

The Lanterns of Briarhaven

A complete example built from real Atlas nodes. It shows optional clues, an NPC relationship, a locked quest, several quest outcomes, gated loot, automatic failure consequences, and the live party position without borrowing a published adventure.

Lore Atlas campaign graph for The Lanterns of Briarhaven with connected events, optional clues, a quest, locked outcomes, loot, and a consequence branch.
A spoiler-safe campaign pathThe Lanterns of Briarhaven demonstrates optional clues, converging prerequisites, quest outcomes, locked rewards, a preserved failure consequence, and the live party position.

Read it as a D&D situationThe party follows rumors to a ferryman. Either clue can lead to him, but the hidden quay requires both. Completing, abandoning, or failing the passage quest creates a different future.

Learn every relationship rule

New to campaign tools

Start with the tabletop idea

Every major article explains what the feature means in ordinary D&D play before describing fields or buttons.

Follow the complete DM path

Experienced DM

Go directly to logic and edge cases

Relationship matrices, visibility rules, state transitions, automatic consequences, and decision history are labeled for quick reference.

Inspect Atlas logic

Product alignment

When Lore Atlas is not a D&D rule

Clocks, Prep Health, player beliefs, environment initiative, and other product conventions are identified in context and tracked for review.

See current review notes

Searchable answers

Frequently asked questions

Accounts, permissions, sessions, rules, Homebrew, Player Display, and common problems.

Search the FAQ
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Shared vocabulary

Glossary

Plain-language definitions for Lore Atlas concepts and the D&D terms used by the interface.

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Learn inside the app

Replay the Wayfinder tours

Wayfinder follows the campaign loop using your own story. Reset the tours whenever another DM needs the guided introduction.

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