DMHelper

DMHelper is a Virtual Tabletop that will act as your in-game assistance, your dungeon master’s swiss army knife, taking care of the administrative tasks and allowing you to focus on your players, the narrative, and having fun!
Get it for Windows or MacOS here: https://dm-helper.itch.io/dm-helper

Got questions? https://discord.gg/Uzum3mCeDG
Want to support? https://www.patreon.com/dmhelper/

Version 3.2

Version 3.2 of DMHelper has an exciting set of new features to make your life even easier!

New Major Features:

  • Video Effects: Building on our previous animated layers, you can now add and move videos as local effects on your maps. Imagine those Spirit Guardians swirling around your cleric in real-time!
  • Cloud Effects: Add a layer of animated clouds with customizable settings to create dynamic, ever-changing environments on your maps. Your players will be mesmerized!
  • Rotatable Tokens: You asked, we listened! Now you can right-click on a token during combat and rotate it to any angle, giving you even more control over your encounters.
  • Improved Character Actions: Character and NPC actions can now be imported from D&D Beyond, edited, and inherited from creatures. Plus, they show up in a detailed, expandable mouse-over pop-up during battles, so you no longer need to jump back to character pages. Stay in the action and keep your game flowing smoothly!

Essential Fixes:

  • Audio Playback: We’ve fixed the sound playback issues—thank you to everyone who flagged this!
  • “Apply Effect…”: Enjoy casting spells like fireball without a hitch, thanks to our fix.
  • Initiative Order: Saving initiative order now works flawlessly, ensuring your combats remain organized.
  • Campaign File Crashes: We’ve addressed the crash-bug when opening older campaign files from v2.5.

Key Features of DMHelper

  • A two-window system created for displaying and editing for the dungeon master, and a ‘Player Window’ to display only what you wish for the players to see; NPC images, maps, battles, item images, etc. The ‘Player Window’ can be used on an external monitor or shared via streaming tools for full flexibility in whatever situation you need.
  • Fully functioning tabletop-like combat via our battle view which includes an initiative tracker, player/NPC/monster tokens, hit point tracking, damage tracking, and area of effect spell effects that offer saving throw rolls and damage for all targets hit.
  • Fully integrated D&D Beyond character import & update
  • Full map visualization of static or animated maps. That means editable fog of war, panning, different tools to zoom in on specific details, and a pointer to highlight individual items on the map.
  • A detailed bestiary, pre-filled with all open-source SRD monsters with the ability to add your own custom monsters, monster images, and monster stats!
  • A campaign tree structured to easily break down and organize your campaign into adventures, encounters, maps, locations, party members and NPCs. No more cluttered notes, and desk space!
  • A quick reference to all combat actions, conditions, environmental conditions, and movement actions; basically a DM cheat sheet that can be easily accessed!
  • Editable reference, and custom, tables including all SRD equipment, and available to add all your homebrew items and tables! This even includes a random marketplace inventory generator!
  • A fully configurable campaign clock for tracking time and day throughout your adventures, got an NPC who only has 4 years left to live? Perfect, you’ll make sure his patron takes his life just on time!
  • Import/Export every item of DM Helper from your characters to maps to encounters between campaigns, or even import full adventures with all the bells and whistles into your existing campaign!
  • A configurable calendar to meet your custom seasons, months, and day or just use your standard calendar. Whatever sun(s) spins, or deities rule, your world we have something here to help you track every moment!

Contact

Need to contact us for some reason? Do you have a great idea that you think belongs in DM Helper? Great! You can reach out to us in any of the following channels! We look forward to hearing from you!

Email: info@dm-helper.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealDMHelper

Also we encourage you to become one of our valued, active community members on discord as it is where the DMH Team is most active. If you want a quick answer come drop by, but stay for the memes and bad jokes:
https://discord.gg/Uzum3mCeDG

Thank you so much for using DMHelper, we are so glad that we can and will be able to bring you DMHelper as a free tool for all those who need their own personal DM assistant to help them run their game! If you would like to support us in our efforts to continually improve and expand, the best way to help us is by continuing to give us valuable feedback and spreading the word. Below are our social media links where you can tag us and like us for updated information and sharing us to all your friends!

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealDMHelper
• Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DMHelper/
• Itch.io: https://dm-helper.itch.io/dm-helper
• Website: http://www.dm-helper.com/

If you want to contribute more than just being valued member of the community you’re always welcome to support us via Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/dmhelper/


References
Many thanks to the following people for allowing us to use their amazing artwork and maps for our documentation! We highly recommend that you check out their work and support them in every way possible!

Our Core Team
Green Tentacle
mybigfriendjo
shortestbreath
DrkNinja
Snuggly Wuggums
… and all of our other great Discord community members!

Cool New Icons

All menu icons are derived from tokens provided by Ross from 2-Minute Tabletop, an amazing source of RPG resources: https://www.2minutetabletop.com under the Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0
The vectorized dragon logo was provided by Mike Rickard from “I Cast Pod!”, our guide to everything dungeonesque and dragonny (and a great DnD podcast!)

Background images and character images donated by: 
Rixt Heerschop
Artist & Illustrator
www.rixtheerschop.com

Maps donated by:
Alex van der Aa
https://www.patreon.com/neutralparty
https://www.reddit.com/user/Urza_Is_Mine

Rustajb
https://www.reddit.com/user/rustajb

Feature Improvements
Furthermore, thanks to the following community members for their ideas, requests and recommendations to help us make DMHelper as good as possible!
Cricketot (https://www.reddit.com/user/Cricketot) for the Random Marketplace inspiration and algorithm
NutritiousCookie for the improvements to the Player’s Window (rotation still to come!)
anomalystic777 for the customizable calendars and reference tables
Thanks to Alex (https://www.reddit.com/user/wurschtbrotwilli) for the original Python-based inspiration for the Translate Text menu

… and many more for their chats and wise words on Reddit, Discord or the other clever corners of the Internet