Box of Sheets

Settings

The sheet

Books

Making a book fileA blank and an example, to fill in from a book

Your sheets

Or carry every character here as one file, to open on another device.

Install

Add this to your home screen and it works offline.

Export this sheet

JSON is the sheet itself. Import it back here, on any device, from Settings → Import sheets…. Markdown reads anywhere: every section and this character's lines from the roll log, the record of a session.

Kept with the game

This character is saved with this Owlbear game, sealed so the relay cannot read it. Everyone in the game can read it, and the GM can edit it. To open it on another device:

Nothing to do now. Your character is safe with the game.

Portrait

A file stays in this browser and rides in the export. A picture from your Owlbear library, or one you host, is a link: it stays with the sheet wherever the sheet is kept.

Full history

Box of Sheets

tap a stat
rolls it. Strength rolls a Strength check. A number that doesn’t roll goes up one, and a big one, like gold, opens for typing
hold
unlocks a number. Drag it, or tap it to type. Tap elsewhere to lock it again. Hold a note the book wrote to edit it
drag or scroll
steps an unlocked number like a barrel, and arrow keys do too. Locked, the page scrolls
dotted words
tap the dotted words under a number, or hold a worked-out number, to see what makes it
tap a choice
opens its list, or steps a short one, like Advantage, to the next. Hold steps it back
swipe
turns the page on a phone. Settings can put every section in one column
the answer
lands at the foot of the screen, with any next move the game allows. Tap or flick it away. Turn on Show the dice rolling in Settings to watch them land first
Roll up
walks a character through the book, step by step
+ add
ends every list. Name what you are adding and press Enter. Write a die like 1d6 in it and you can tap it to roll. Fill in its details, like damage or uses, and it rolls them or counts them down. A row’s ✎ changes it
a slot
in an inventory, every slot is there from the start. Tap an empty one to put something in it, or a full one to open it. Hold one to lift what is in it, then drag it to another slot, or onto a stack of the same thing to join it. Space lifts it from the keyboard and the arrow keys move it
a die in the text
any 1d6 or 2d10+3 in a list entry or a rolled table row gets a button. Tap it to roll

Rolls use Dicebox's own dice. The table button, two figures at the top, shares them with a Dicebox table. Create one, or type its passphrase to join. Each roll shows there under your character's name, labeled with what it was for. At a table only the roll, the name and a Shadowdark torch cross the wire, encrypted end to end. Full history, under your last rolls, keeps every one to copy or save.

Book files. The app ships none of a rulebook’s text. A book file is a JSON file of your own entries, such as table rows, notes on options and skills, and gear, that the sheet shows where its page citations are. Import one in Settings, under Books, where Making a book file has a blank with every slot and an example with stand-in text. Export carries a book file to another device. It stays on this device, but a table row you roll keeps its words on the sheet, and they go wherever the sheet goes.

Cloud save. Keeps a sealed copy of your sheets on the Dicebox relay, which cannot read them, for two years after the last change. On the site it opens anywhere from your link. The link is the key, so share it like a password. Rotate the link in Settings and the old one goes dead at once. In an Owlbear game your sheets are saved with the game instead: they follow you when you are logged into Owlbear, and any seat in the game can claim one back from the share menu. Everyone in the game can read them, and the GM can edit them. A character’s portrait is never saved there: it is a file kept here, or a link.

The table’s sheets. Some games give the whole table one sheet, like Stonetop’s steading. On the site it stays in this browser until you tap Share on it. Share gives a link, and anyone with the link can open and edit your table’s sheets with you. Your characters stay yours. In an Owlbear game it is kept with the game for everyone in it, even with cloud save off. A small picture on it, 8 kB at most, goes with it to every seat.

Privacy. Sheets are saved in this browser first. On the site a sealed copy leaves it only when you turn on cloud save, make a link, or share a table’s sheet. In an Owlbear game, sheets you open are saved with the game unless you turn that off in Settings. Everyone in the game can read them, shared or not, and the GM can edit any of them. Rolls and sheet edits go through Owlbear to everyone in the game. At a Dicebox table only rolls, names and a Shadowdark torch cross the wire, encrypted end to end. No sheet does.

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