Investigation board

The Investigation Board is where the party tracks clues, theories, and connections discovered during play. Your GM creates a board for a specific mystery or investigation thread in your campaign — you work with what they've revealed.

Accessing the board

Your campaign's boards are listed under Investigations in the sidebar of your campaign dashboard, each with its title and how many theories it holds. For now the board itself opens only in your GM's tools, so the clues, pins and theories below are worked through with your GM — ask them to bring the board up at the table. Opening a board and adding theories from your own account is still being built.

What the board contains

Your GM populates the board with revealed clues — entities or notes they've made visible to the party. These might be NPCs connected to the mystery, physical evidence, locations of interest, or information the party uncovered during play. You can view these clues but can't edit or remove them.

The board may also contain unknown entity pins — placeholders labeled with what the party calls an unidentified figure or object (for example, "The Hooded Figure" or "The Hand's Leader"). These appear with a question mark until your GM reveals the identity behind them. You can link theories to an unknown pin just like any other clue.

Adding a theory

Theories are your working hypotheses about what's going on. Any party member can add one.

Click Add Theory on the board.
Write your hypothesis — what you think is true, who you think is responsible, or how you think the clues connect.
Optionally link your theory to one or more clues or unknown pins on the board as supporting evidence.
Submit. Your theory appears on the board with your name attached.

The board shows who submitted each theory. If two party members have different theories about the same clue, both appear — disagreement is part of the process.

Theory feedback from your GM

Your GM reviews theories and marks them as they see fit:

Confirmed — the pin snaps to the entity your theory correctly identified and turns green. You know you're right.
Incorrect — the theory is flagged. The record stays on the board — wrong turns are part of the investigation.

When a theory is confirmed, you'll see it lock in visually. When one is marked incorrect, the flag is visible to all party members. Your GM decides when and whether to give feedback — they may wait until a reveal moment in the story.

📝Note

Your GM doesn't have to mark every theory. Some may stay unconfirmed until the campaign resolves them naturally. An unmarked theory isn't necessarily wrong.

When an unknown pin is revealed

When your GM identifies the entity behind an unknown pin, the board updates immediately. The question mark and mystery label are replaced with the entity's name and portrait. Any theories you linked to that pin stay intact — they're now connected to the revealed entity.

Collaborative boards

All party members can add theories and link evidence. The board is collaborative by design — it reflects the party's collective understanding of the mystery. Use it to share your thinking with the rest of the group, not just to keep personal notes.

💡Tip

A session companion link doesn't show investigation boards. Join the campaign with a full account to see your campaign's boards listed on your dashboard.

Troubleshooting

I can't find Investigations in my sidebar. Investigations is in the sidebar of your campaign dashboard, not on the campaign's lore pages. It appears while the feature is available to your account; while it's in development, that's testers and admins. If the page is empty, your GM hasn't created a board for this campaign yet — they create one from their campaign tools.

I can see a board in the list but can't open it or add a theory. That's expected for now: the board opens only in your GM's tools. Ask your GM to bring it up at the table, and share your theory with them there.

A theory I submitted is no longer on the board. Theories are not deleted — they stay on the board even when marked incorrect. If you can't see a theory you submitted, check whether the board has a filter active. You may also be looking at a different board if the GM created multiple boards for different mysteries.

My theory was marked incorrect but I still think I'm right. An incorrect marking means your GM disagrees at this point in the story. It does not permanently close the theory — circumstances can change. You can add a new theory with updated evidence if you have reason to revisit your hypothesis.

An unknown pin on the board looks different now. Your GM revealed the identity behind it. The question mark label has been replaced with the actual entity's name and portrait. Any theories you had linked to that pin are still connected — they now point to the revealed entity.