Windows, macOS, Linux
Desktop app
- Install on WindowsThe Windows installer: what it asks, where it puts things, the SmartScreen prompt on an unsigned build, the odm link handler, and how to uninstall cleanly.Desktop app
- Install on macOSThe Apple Silicon and Intel disk images, opening an app that is not notarized yet, what the Mac build can and cannot do today, how it updates, and where the app keeps its data.Desktop app
- Install on LinuxFive ways to install on Linux: AppImage, .deb, .rpm, Flatpak and tarball, plus the AUR package. What each one can do, how each updates, the Flatpak sandbox limits, the Steam Deck, the odm link handler, and where the data lives.Desktop app
- First launchWhat the desktop app shows the first time: the title screen, Begin your world, naming your adventurer, the Story AI screen, the main menu and save slots, the guided tour, the drawer of saved servers, and the app's Settings.Desktop app
- Hosting a world from your computerHow the desktop app's device world works: the bundled server, sharing online through a tunnel and the host code, sharing on this Wi-Fi, stopping and resuming a share, what a guest sees, the world's admin panel, assistant links, and the limits on macOS and behind strict networks.Desktop app
- Story AI on the desktopThe four doors on the desktop app's Story AI screen: a human Dungeon Master, your OpenAI key, an agent you already have, and a local model installed for your hardware. What each needs, what it costs, and how to switch.Desktop app
- UpdatesHow the desktop app updates itself: the check on launch, the popup, how each kind of install takes the update, and why a host on a newer server can require it.Desktop app
- Second screenOpening the table on a second display from the desktop app: what the window shows, where it goes, and using it with a television at an in-person table.Desktop app
- Troubleshooting the desktop appThe messages the desktop app can show and what to do about each: the local server, sharing and the tunnel, joining, sign-in, the game screens, pictures, Bluetooth dice, and where the logs are.Desktop app