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Battlemat is the tactical layer of a larger campaign workspace, not a feature hidden inside this website.

The strongest legacy Battlemat copy still points in the right direction: shared play needs a world state with memory, ownership, and consequence. What has changed is where that runtime lives. This site explains the project; the live workspace is elsewhere.

Campaign workspace Committed state Player-facing tactics

Campaign state that survives the night

The map, actors, fog, and turn state are meant to live in one durable campaign workspace. Updates should be incremental and legible: move a token, open a door, clear a ring of fog, and keep the scene intact.

Characters with identity

Tokens stop being loose UI markers when they connect back to Character Sheets and campaign context. That is what turns a battle scene into campaign play.

Truth display, not rules oracle

The Battlemat is designed to render the canonical scene reliably. It does not invent truth. The authoritative state lives in the campaign workspace and the board shows what has already been committed.

Design Summary

What the board is for

Legacy design notes described the Battlemat as the tactical surface for play: hex-based scenes, initiative, conditions, openings, and objects, all rendered from one scene document. That is still the right abstraction for the public page.

The system goal is plain enough to say without shipping the runtime here: players watch a shared board update while the wider campaign workspace coordinates Battlemat, Character Sheets, and Campaign Management. The board stays simple. The world behind it stays canonical.

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Recommended Battlemat reading path

This is the best order for understanding the current campaign workspace model.

The Campaign Workspace Model Canonical overview of Campaign, Battlemat, Character Sheets, and Campaign Management. From Prototype to Campaign Workspace How the project moved from prototype framing into the current workspace model. Character Sheets as Campaign Artifacts Why Character Sheets belong inside campaign continuity rather than beside it. The Backup Passport Package How backup and export become a portable campaign artifact instead of a login model. Presence-Aware AI at the Table How presence can shape write cadence without becoming identity or authority.

DM World Engine The architecture and rules-facing layer behind the campaign workspace. Campaign Workspace Tour A guided visual walkthrough of Campaign, Battlemat, Character Sheets, and Campaign Management. Battlemat Basics Player-facing guidance for reading the board and understanding visibility. Dev Log Public notes on campaign direction, Battlemat, and state-model thinking.