For tables that love the dark
Paint the darkness, reveal it step by step, and let the map keep your secrets until the worst possible moment. Fog of war isn’t a module or an upsell here — it’s load-bearing.
GMs run it on the desktop app; players join your live game free from any phone or browser — no download. They see the battle map, fog of war, their character, and roll in real time.
A dungeon isn’t scary if the party can see all of it. Good fog of war is what turns a floor plan into a held breath — and it only works when the shadows follow the actual rules of dark places.
Dark environments, darkvision, torches and lantern light — vision honours what each creature can actually see. The dwarf reads the tunnel; the human huddles in the torch radius; the map tells each of them the truth and nothing more.
You paint the fog, you lift it — corridor by corridor, or all at once when the trap springs. The ambush lands the instant you call it, not after everyone has already seen the goblins loitering behind the curtain.
Reveal a room and it opens on every player’s screen at once — phone, tablet or browser, wherever they joined from. The party watches the dungeon unfold together, which is when fog stops being a feature and becomes atmosphere.
The map runs local-first on your machine, so the reveal lands when you say it — not after a spinner has murdered the tension. The only thing that should stall at your table is the rogue deciding whether to open the door.
In Quill & Compass, AI only deletes the drudgery — the tracking, the bookkeeping, the prep admin. It never writes your story, never rolls a die, never runs your game. And the art? Maps, tokens and every illustration stay human-made. That line doesn’t move.
Yes — built in, not bolted on. Fog of war ships as part of the tactical map in Quill & Compass: the GM paints and reveals, the map keeps your secrets, and no module, plugin or extra purchase is involved. It’s one of the load-bearing walls of the app, alongside combat tracking and the campaign journal.
Yes. Vision in Quill & Compass understands dark environments, darkvision, and light sources — a dwarf sees the tunnel, the human sees the torch radius, and the map tells each of them the truth. Fog isn’t just a grey blanket you erase; it follows the fiction of who can see what.
Yes. When the GM reveals a corridor, it appears on every player’s screen in real time — phone, tablet or browser, wherever they joined from. The party watches the dungeon open up step by step, together, which is precisely when fog of war stops being a feature and starts being atmosphere.
No. The GM runs the desktop app; players join the live game free from any phone or browser — no download, no account gymnastics. They see the battle map with fog of war, their own character, and their dice, live.
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