Guides
Learn Warfront in a few minutes.
Short how-to videos for Game Masters: get set up, prep your world, build your characters and run your first encounter with Warfront™.
Guide 1 · Quick Start
Quick Start: get playing in minutes.
Set up your first table and load ready-made Eldervane content so you can start right away.
What you will learn
- Load the Eldervane campaign content into a table
- Find the maps, encounters and GM notes
- Start with the Hall of Heroes
- Open the World View atlas
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Guide 2 · Prep your world
Prep your world before the party arrives.
Turn a campaign into a world you can run from: an atlas of linked maps, routes with travel time, war zones, your own notes, and a one-click way to show players only what they should see.
What you will learn
- Open the World View atlas and zoom between linked maps
- Draw routes and see travel time between places
- Mark war zones and weapon ranges on the map
- Pin notes and show the right places to your players
- Find everything again in All my notes
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Guide 3 · Character sheets
Build a player token and a character sheet.
From a simple level 1 hero to a level 5 spellcaster: upload your own art, pick a ring color, roll straight from the sheet, cast spells and track conditions.
What you will learn
- Create a Player token with your own avatar art and ring color
- Build the character with the guided builder for 5E or 5.5E
- Level up, spend spell slots and rest
- Roll attacks, skills and spells right from the sheet
- Track conditions and concentration
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Guide 4 · Running an encounter
Run an encounter fast.
Run a complete 5E fight on one screen: tokens, initiative, attacks, damage, health and conditions, then save the recap to your Journal.
What you will learn
- Set up the map and reveal monsters
- Roll initiative and run each turn
- Attack, roll damage and play Combat FX
- Track health and apply conditions
- Wrap up and save a recap to the Journal
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