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This guide is for players who want their D&D 5e character sheet living on their phone: building a character and running the sheet session to session, a spellbook with spell cards, leveling up without the paperwork, and battle mode with your weapons and dice ready to roll. Fold&Roll supports both the 2014 (SRD 5.1) and 2024 (SRD 5.2) rules, exports your character as a themed PDF, and lets you join your DM's table — in the room or online — from your own device.
Fold&Roll is your companion for tabletop roleplaying in the 5th-edition tradition. Your character, spellbook, dice, battle tools, and table connection all live on your phone - no account and no internet needed at the table. Cloud Sync is optional, with Fold&Roll+.
This November 2026 edition covers the current app: persistent table sessions, Called Actions from your DM, Table Chat, spell-learning caps, Wild Shape, the new battle layout on wide screens, effect durations in battle, and deeper compendium search - plus what has arrived since: Real Dice for your own physical dice (1.2.0), and Telepathic Bond online tables and the built-in How to Play D&D guide (1.3.0), and the 1.4 additions in the New in 1.4 section near the end: the Apple Watch app, the Live Activity countdown, the spoken battle map, the Ready action, and staged Real Dice.
Keep this guide to hand for your first few sessions. After that, the Quick Reference at the end is all most players need.
New in 1.3.0 - and free. Fold&Roll now carries a complete How to Play D&D guide inside the app: 27 topics that teach the game itself, from building your first character to checks, saves, and how combat actually runs - with DMing covered too, for the day you end up behind the screen.
Find it on the home screen, and in the More tab. You do not need a character, a table, or Fold&Roll+ - it is there for anyone with the app.
Topics link into the app. When a topic talks about your spellbook, your sheet, or the battle map, its link jumps straight to that screen, so you can read the rule and then look at your own character's version of it. A link that does not apply to what you are doing simply reads as plain text - never a dead end.
Track your progress. Mark each topic complete as you finish it. Groups of topics earn badges, and finishing all 27 earns the Guide Master capstone. Your progress lives on your device.
Work through it before your first session, or keep it open beside your sheet for your first few games - it is written to be used at the table, not just read once.
Tap New Character (the + button) on the roster. A Random button (dice icon) fills in a whole random character as a starting point - everything it picks can still be changed.
Faster still: tap Create Random Character on the roster and a finished character - spells and backstory included - is generated in one tap, already selected in the roster. It never opens this creator, and the same free-tier character limit applies.
How many characters? The free app holds up to 6 characters. Fold&Roll+ removes the limit - unlimited characters (and campaigns).
Fill in the form top to bottom:
2024 rules (new in 1.1.0). Creating a character now starts with an edition pick: the 2014 rules (SRD 5.1) or the 2024 rules (SRD 5.2). Already have a 2014 character you love? The convert tool builds a linked 2024 variant of them - a one-way trip. Your original stays frozen and untouched, exactly as it was. In 2024 play you also get weapon mastery - the 38 weapons each carry a mastery property, like Topple or Vex, for a trained wielder to use - and Heroic Inspiration, inspiration you can hold ready and spend to reroll a die. One caution: a campaign runs one edition or the other, set by your DM, so check which edition the campaign plays before you convert.
Tap Create. Tap your character on the roster to open the sheet.
Header. Name, class and level, and vitals: HP with + / - steppers, Temp HP with Grant (granting keeps the higher amount if you already have some), Death Saves (three successes, three failures - see Battle Mode), and Token Color for your map token.
Inspiration. The inspiration counter on your sheet tracks whether you hold inspiration. Tap to gain or spend it, as your DM awards it. Spend it for advantage on a roll, per your table's rules.
Rests. Tap Short Rest and choose how many hit dice to spend to recover HP. Long Rest (8 hours) recovers HP, spell slots, hit dice, and class resources, and removes one level of exhaustion.
Inventory. Each item shows name and quantity.
Wallet, abilities, and the rest. Coin across platinum, gold, electrum, silver, and copper with a total; all six ability scores with modifiers and Passive Perception (10 + Perception bonus); Racial Traits, Background feature, Feats, and XP total.
Conditions and Exhaustion. Tap Conditions to add one (Blinded, Stunned, and the rest) - each carries its rules reminder. Exhaustion is a 0-6 stepper with cumulative effects listed.
Every tab - Sheet, Map, Compendium, Battle, Chat - shares the same top bar: Home on the left, which returns you to role select (there is no separate back button beside it), and Notes, Table, and More on the right. Battle mode lives on its own Battle tab.
Wild Shape (druids). Tap your Wild Shape resource to open the form picker.
Other class resources. Rage, Ki, Sorcery Points, Bardic Inspiration, Lay on Hands, and the rest each live in their own box. Tap anywhere in the box to spend one use - the pips are the meter. The small refill icon restores the pool, usually on a rest. Short and long rests refill what the rules say they refill.
Spell Slots. Pips per spell level on your sheet and in battle. Warlock Pact Magic slots sit in their own section and refill on a short rest. Recover All (Long Rest) refills the rest.
Learning spells - the caps. The + button opens the compendium: search, filter by All Classes or your class, and tap to learn. Two limits apply:
Nothing is ever taken away. Spells you already know stay known and castable. If a book is over cap - from an older version, an import, or a restore - it simply cannot grow until it is back under the cap.
Casting. Tap a spell row for its cast sheet: casting time, range, components, duration, attack bonus or save DC, and damage/healing. Pick a slot - Lv X (N left) or Pact Lv X (N left) - then tap Cast. Upcasting: pick a higher-level slot than the spell's level to cast it stronger, where the spell says upcasting helps. Attack spells read "Cast - then tap a target": the slot is spent when you confirm the target. Out of slots? "No spell slots left - recover them with a long rest."
Magic-item bonuses. If a magic item raises your spell attack bonus or save DC, that bonus is already included in the numbers on the cast sheet.
Zones. Zone spells - Moonbeam, Flaming Sphere, Spike Growth, Spirit Guardians, Wall of Fire, Cloudkill, Sunbeam - place their area on the battle map from the cast flow. Rotate a wall to line it up; the area then stays up while you concentrate and vanishes the moment your concentration ends.
Dispel Magic. Cast it and pick the active spell effect to target. An effect at its base level dispels automatically; an upcast effect gets the ability check.
Concentration. One concentration spell at a time. A banner reads Concentrating: {spell} with Drop. Casting a second concentration spell asks you to confirm ending the first. Taking damage while concentrating prompts a Constitution save (DC 10 or half the damage, whichever is higher) - fail and the spell drops. Reaction spells (Shield, Counterspell, Absorb Elements) spend your battle reaction automatically; if it is spent, you confirm first.
Wild Magic (sorcerers). Wild Magic isn't in Fold&Roll yet — it was set aside during the SRD-only content pass, and a way to bring it back is still being decided.
When you have enough XP, "Level Up to N!" appears on your sheet. The wizard walks numbered steps ("Step 2 of 6: Hit Points"):
Multiclassing - add a second class at level-up. Instead of leveling your current class, choose "Multiclass into a new class" (later: "Take a level in another class"). The picker states the rule up front: new classes need 13+ in their key abilities (and in your current class's abilities). Classes you do not qualify for are dimmed, with the shortfall in red ("Needs DEX 13 (have 11)") - prerequisites are a hard block.
A new class grants its 1st-level features, its hit die for HP, and only the multiclass subset of proficiencies (Bard, Ranger, and Rogue also grant one skill). No double Unarmored Defense; Extra Attack does not stack. Spell slots use the combined multiclass caster table; Pact Magic stays separate. Your header reads the split - "Fighter 3 / Wizard 2" - and resources track per class.
Join from your character: open the character and tap Table in the top bar (the bottom bar's tabs are Sheet, Map, Compendium, Battle, Chat), then tap Join Table.
Your session now persists - this is new. Once you have joined, you stay at the table. Wander the app - open your spellbook, or reach the roster via Table - Back to Characters - you are still joined. Only tapping Leave Table actually leaves. There is no need to stay parked on the Table screen all night.
If the connection drops. The app auto-reconnects: when you are back in range it keeps trying for about a minute, with a Cancel option if you want to stop trying. If it cannot reconnect in that window, use Join Table again. If the DM ends the table, you will need to rejoin next session.
Secret rolls never leave your device. Roll with the Secret toggle on and only you see it - not the DM, not the table. By design.
Joining an online table (new in 1.3.0). Your DM can also run the table online - Telepathic Bond - so the party does not have to share a room. (The in-person table is now named At the Table.) The DM sends you an invite link: open it to join, or copy it and use Paste Invite Link inside the app if the link will not open directly.
Joining is always free. Only the DM needs Fold&Roll+, and only to create the table - never to join one. Once you are in, the shared battle map and its fog of war, the initiative order, and everyone's rolls stay in sync on your phone, wherever you are.
Your sheet, your choice. What you share from your character sheet - including sharing with the DM only - is your decision, the same as at a table in the room.
Open the Battle tab - selecting it activates battle mode, and the flame icon turns orange while it is on.
Where Quick Rolls lives - read this first:
Battle Actions (in Quick Rolls). Your active weapon gets Attack and Damage buttons, plus buttons for your attack spells. Weapon rolls happen in place. Spell buttons close the panel, then ask you to pick a target.
Moving your token. Tokens are never dragged. Tap your token to select it, then tap an empty cell to move it there - the selection stays after the move, so you can chain moves. Tap the token again to deselect.
Tap a token on the map:
Claiming your token. If your token is unclaimed or the DM places a new one, tap it and Claim it so moves, damage, and heals land on the right character. Your token uses your sheet's Token Color.
Enemies list and spells. Each visible enemy has Attack (or Cast while targeting a spell - banner: "Casting {spell} - pick a target", Cancel to stand down). Your battle spell list sits with the slot strip up top; tap the Weapons box to open Equip Weapon and switch your one active weapon in a tap.
Death saves. Drop to 0 HP and you are Unconscious (added automatically, removed when healed). Roll death saves on your turns - three successes stabilise you, three failures and the character dies. A natural 20 revives you at 1 HP; a natural 1 counts as two failures. The sheet and battle header track the pips for you.
Called Actions - new. When your DM calls for a roll, you do not need to hunt for the right screen. An alert appears over whatever you are doing - sheet, map, spellbook, chat - for:
If the DM left a note, it is in the alert ("Dex save - the floor gives way!"). Tap Roll to roll it right there: the result goes to the DM and the table log, and an initiative call also fills your slot in the tracker. Tap Dismiss to decline - nothing is rolled and nothing is sent. Dismissing is always safe to explain at the table; rolling twice is not possible from one call.
Dice tray. Find it on the Map tab as a persistent strip (outside battle), and inside battle mode.
Real Dice (new in 1.2.0). Prefer your own physical dice? Roll them and enter the die face on the tap-to-commit pad - the app applies your modifiers, works out crits, and logs the roll as if it had rolled itself. It works in Quick Rolls, when answering a Called Action, for initiative, and for fresh death saves. Mis-tapped the face? Undo takes it back. Real Dice is free.
The roll log (new in 1.3.0). Every roll is recorded with who rolled it, what it was for, and the total - the table's memory, for when the argument starts.
Tap the Chat tab to talk without breaking the game. There are four channels - check which one you are in before you send:
History. Chat is kept on your device, per table - rejoin the same table and your history for that table is there. It is not stored and forwarded: miss a session while away and those messages are not waiting for you.
Chat is completely free. No part of chat - channels or history - needs Fold&Roll+.
Players away from the table. You can read a thread with a player who is currently away, but you cannot message them until they rejoin the table. The DM sees Table plus one private DM thread per player - they do not see Party or your Direct threads with other players.
Session log. Your DM can mirror the Table channel to the table's Discord server (a host setting in their campaign), so the session keeps a searchable log after the night ends.
Shops. When your DM shares a shop, it opens automatically on your phone. Browse the wares - each shows its price - and tap Buy. Short on coin: Can't afford. Beaten to the last one: Sold out. Haggle sends a proposed price to the DM, who accepts or refuses. Anything you buy lands in your inventory; equip or attune it from your sheet.
Compendium. The rules reference in the toolbar and tab bar. Browse and search:
Search digs deeper now: it matches the full text of entries, not just names - search "concentration" or "underwater" and the right entries surface; name matches still sort first.
Use it mid-game for a quick ruling check; your place in battle, chat, and the table session is untouched when you come back.
Private notes. Your Notes on the sheet are private and on-device only. They are not sent to the DM, not shared to the table, and not part of Table Chat. What you write about the quest, an NPC, or your plans stays on your phone unless you choose to say it out loud or in chat.
Fold&Roll+ is one one-time purchase - $14.99 - not a subscription. It unlocks Cloud Sync, Homebrew Workshop, Unlimited Characters and Campaigns, UI Themes beyond the free theme, Campaign History, Campaign Memory, unlimited character variants, and unlimited JSON exports.
Cloud Sync (Fold&Roll+). Your characters sync via iCloud between your devices signed into the same account. Make a change on one device and it appears on the other. No Fold&Roll account to create.
UI Themes. Tap the palette on the role-select / utility row to pick a theme. Arcane is free for everyone. Four more themes - Crimson, Forest, Midnight, and Ember - come with Fold&Roll+, and so does Custom: build your own theme from accent and secondary colors - swatches or hex values - with a live preview before you save it. Your theme tints the app; it changes looks only, never rules or data.
Content packs. A creator or your DM can hand you a pack file - their monsters, spells, items, even a class - to add to your Homebrew library. Open the Homebrew Library, tap Import Pack, and pick the file: the confirm screen shows the pack's name, its creator, and what's inside before you accept. If the pack is encrypted, it asks for the key your creator gave you - paste it in and tap Unlock & Import. A wrong key simply asks you to check it and try again; nothing is damaged. Re-importing an updated version of a pack you already have offers Replace the previous copy. Content from a pack is yours to play with, but it can't be re-exported - packs stay with the people the creator gave them to.
What stays free. The full character sheet, spellbook, dice, battle, table sessions, Called Actions, and all of Table Chat work without Fold&Roll+. The free tier holds 6 characters and 2 campaigns, allows 1 variant per character, and includes 5 free JSON exports.
Fold&Roll Player Guide - November 2026 (version 1.4)
Version 1.4 mostly grows the battle around you — new screens, new alerts, and a map that can speak.
The battle on your wrist — the Apple Watch app follows your table: whose turn it is, the round, your HP, and how many turns until yours. It is a window, not a controller — actions still happen on your phone.
A countdown to your turn — online, a Live Activity keeps the fight on your lock screen: You're up next, or Your turn in N turns, plus a turn alert when the moment arrives. And when your initiative roll lands, the app takes you straight to the battle.
The spoken battle map — a screen-reader rendering of the same fight: every token spoken by its coordinates (like "D5"), walked in initiative order, with rotors for allies, enemies, and spell zones. Same fog, same secrets.
The Ready action — on your turn, declare a Ready (an attack, a spell, or a move); when your trigger happens, you act and spend your reaction.
Real Dice, staged — physical-dice entry now covers targeted attacks too, entered die by die and committed only when it's right.
Yes — Fold&Roll stores your character sheet on your own device, so it works fully offline: no account and no signal needed at the table.
Yes — both editions are supported, the 2014 rules (SRD 5.1) and the 2024 rules (SRD 5.2). Each character is tagged to one edition, and the convert tool builds a linked 2024 variant of a 2014 character.
Yes — themed PDF export, spell cards included, is free for everyone in Fold&Roll.
When you have the XP, the level-up wizard walks the whole thing — ASIs, subclass picks, multiclassing and HP — in about a minute, and your sheet updates itself.
Yes — new in 1.4, the Fold&Roll Apple Watch app shows your table, whose turn it is, the round, your HP, and how many turns until yours. A Live Activity on your phone counts down to your turn, too.