What's in the Bag?

Two ways in

Getting started

If you're the DM

1. Sign in, then create a character — or import from D&D Beyond if you have a public sheet, by pasting the character URL.
2. You'll land on your character's page. The campaign now exists, with you as its DM.
3. Find the 6-digit session code on your campaign page and share it with your players.
4. From there you can:
   • Grant loot or currency straight to any player
   • Roll random loot from the Loot tab — see below
   • Set up a merchant, with its own disposition and pricing
   • Watch the party's bags and wallets update live from the DM dashboard
   • Open campaign settings to rename it, change its colour, decide whether players may adjust their own coins, or delete it

If you're a player

1. Sign in with your own email.
2. Enter the DM's 6-digit session code to join the campaign.
3. Create a character — take your class's official 2024 starting kit, choose your own gear from the catalogue, or import from D&D Beyond.
4. You're in. Pack the bag, equip things, drag them around.

What's worth trying

• Pack the bag. Add items, rotate them, see what fits. Try to overload it — nothing should ever vanish silently; overflow catches whatever doesn't fit.
• Equip gear. Weapons, armour, a two-handed weapon that fills both hands, rings, an amulet. Watch the body diagram keep up.
• Trade. Offer something to the merchant table and have your DM accept or decline it.
• Party stash. Send something to the shared stash; have someone else take it out.
• Your coin purse. Tap the coin icon in the header, or the Coin Purse on the equipped panel. It tracks actual coins — platinum, gold, electrum, silver, copper — not one lump total, so two characters with the same amount of money can be carrying visibly different piles. You can add and remove your own coins, and consolidate trades the small ones up.
• Bag upgrades. If your DM tags an item as a bag upgrade, using it resizes your bag permanently and consumes the item.
• Mark something important. Flag a quest item, or anything you'd hate to lose track of, in its details — it'll stand out and be harder to get rid of by accident.
• Move where gear sits on the body. The placement control in an item's details lets you change which slot it equips to — a shield on your back, a dagger on your belt. Reset puts it back.
• Two people, two screens, one campaign. The best test of the live sync: one of you watches while the other trades, moves something, or gets granted loot. It should appear without a refresh.

Rolling random loot

The newest thing here and the least played — which is exactly why feedback on it is worth the most. There are two ways to roll, in the Loot tab:

• For the party — “what should this party have by now.” Character level, party size, and a generosity dial from meagre to hoard. Good for prep.
• From an encounter — “what does killing this drop.” A Challenge Rating, and whether it's an accumulated treasure hoard or one creature's individual treasure. Good mid-session. Level and party size deliberately don't apply here: the CR already accounts for the party the encounter was built for.

Filter to magical or mundane, turn coins off, and reroll until you like the result. The haul shows its own workings — the tier, the gold it was aiming for, the seed — and admits it when it had to compromise. Then save it as a named package to find again later in the session, or send it straight to a player. Guests get one exit instead: add it to my bag.

Known rough edges

• The loot generator's numbers are unplayed. The balance comes from the rulebook's benchmarks plus a good deal of guesswork, and nobody has run it at a real table yet. Treat every number as provisional.
• Individual treasure is an approximation rather than the rulebook's actual per-monster tables — those aren't openly licensed, so they can't be copied. It's the roughest part.
• Coins don't take up bag space yet. The purse tracks real denominations, but hauling 4,000 copper costs you nothing physically. The “expanding coin purse” toggle in campaign settings just saves your preference for when that ships.
• D&D Beyond import needs the sheet set to Public on their site, and only pulls in equipment — not spells or features.
• Sign-in emails are rate-limited. If several of you sign in at once, someone may see “email rate limit exceeded.” Wait a few minutes; it isn't about your account.
• An old “Coin stack” item still sitting in a bag is a leftover from before the purse existed. It isn't real money, and new ones can't be added.
• It's genuinely pre-alpha. Expect rough edges — and please say when something is confusing, rather than assuming it's meant to work that way.

How this is being built