# P&P Ready Help Center

P&P Ready is the companion app for Prowlers & Paragons Ultimate Edition: building characters, prepping campaigns, and running them on a virtual tabletop.

_In beta, so parts of the app move faster than these articles. If something here is out of date, use the feedback button on any page of the site. Icons by Lorc, Delapouite and Zeromancer from __[game-icons.net](http://game-icons.net/)__, CC BY 3.0._

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## Categories
- [Getting started](/help/pnpready/category/getting-started-2) (3)
- [Getting started](/help/pnpready/category/getting-started) (5)
- [Players](/help/pnpready/category/players) (0)
- [Your campaign](/help/pnpready/category/your-campaign) (4)
- [Building heroes](/help/pnpready/category/building-heroes) (5)
- [Game Masters](/help/pnpready/category/game-masters) (0)
- [Making a book](/help/pnpready/category/making-a-book) (4)
- [Running a session](/help/pnpready/category/running-a-session) (4)
- [At the table](/help/pnpready/category/at-the-table) (4)
- [Money and reach](/help/pnpready/category/money-and-reach) (3)
- [Prep and the tabletop](/help/pnpready/category/prep-and-the-tabletop) (3)
- [Publishers](/help/pnpready/category/publishers) (0)
- [Affiliates](/help/pnpready/category/affiliates) (4)

## Articles
- [Create your account and join the beta](/help/pnpready/create-your-account-and-join-the-beta) - Getting started: How to sign up for P&P Ready, what a beta membership includes, and what you can do without an account.
- [Find anything with Ctrl K](/help/pnpready/find-anything-with-ctrl-k) - Getting started: The command palette searches rules, powers, gear, stat blocks and your own characters from any page.
- [Connect an AI assistant (MCP)](/help/pnpready/connect-an-ai-assistant-mcp) - Getting started: Connect Claude or another assistant to your account, and what it can read and change.
- [Your account settings](/help/pnpready/your-account-settings) - Getting started: Theme, notifications, profile, the MCP connection, and what deleting your account affects.
- [Plans and what each one includes](/help/pnpready/plans-and-what-each-one-includes) - Getting started: Sidekick, Superhero and Paragon, what a beta membership is, and which features beta users do not have.
- [Set up a campaign and invite your table](/help/pnpready/set-up-a-campaign-and-invite-your-table) - Your campaign: Creating a campaign, setting power level and trait cap, invite links, and the roles at your table.
- [Notes, wiki, log and sessions](/help/pnpready/notes-wiki-log-and-sessions) - Your campaign: The three kinds of campaign writing, what the log records, and how to control it.
- [Share the books you own with your table](/help/pnpready/share-the-books-you-own-with-your-table) - Your campaign: What shared source access does, who can share, and what your players see.
- [Hero Points and the roster](/help/pnpready/hero-points-and-the-roster) - Your campaign: Awarding advancement, handing characters over, and why the trait cap should be set early.
- [What the publisher portal is](/help/pnpready/what-the-publisher-portal-is) - Getting started: Why a P&P Ready listing is playable rather than just readable, and what is in the portal.
- [Claim your brand or apply as a publisher](/help/pnpready/claim-your-brand-or-apply-as-a-publisher) - Getting started: The two routes in, what you are asked, the publishing agreement, and what to do once you are approved.
- [How the revenue share works](/help/pnpready/how-the-revenue-share-works) - Getting started: The produced and self-serve deals, the fee floor, and why the produced band opens where it does.
- [Build your first hero](/help/pnpready/build-your-first-hero) - Building heroes: A walk through the character builder, section by section, and what the app calculates for you.
- [Health, Edge and Resolve](/help/pnpready/health-edge-and-resolve) - Building heroes: The three numbers the app works out for you, and why raising your highest rank lowers your Resolve.
- [Powers, Pros and Cons](/help/pnpready/powers-pros-and-cons) - Building heroes: How powers are bought, how Pros and Cons change them, and what happens when a power stands in for a trait.
- [Roles and the Combined Updates](/help/pnpready/roles-and-the-combined-updates) - Building heroes: The six Roles, what they do, and how to switch a character between the published rules and the Combined Updates.
- [Headquarters and bases](/help/pnpready/headquarters-and-bases) - Building heroes: Building a base from Base Points, who contributed, alternate bases, and how a campaign's bases are shared.
- [The GM Screen](/help/pnpready/the-gm-screen) - Running a session: Arrange the board, and what each of the fifteen built-in cards does.
- [Run a fight: initiative and the Battle Station](/help/pnpready/run-a-fight-initiative-and-the-battle-station) - Running a session: How combatants reach the tracker, one turn order across the screen and the table, minion pools and targeting.
- [Build an encounter](/help/pnpready/build-an-encounter) - Running a session: Balancing against your own party, themes and terrain, villain tiers, minion threat ranks, and why group size changes everything.
- [Track and spend Adversity](/help/pnpready/track-and-spend-adversity) - Running a session: Gaining Adversity by Challenge Level, and every spend available to you, grouped the way you reach for them.
- [Create a book and its editions](/help/pnpready/create-a-book-and-its-editions) - Making a book: Title details, pricing, AI disclosure, and how editions and versions keep published work stable.
- [Build your compendium](/help/pnpready/build-your-compendium) - Making a book: What an entry is, every kind you can create, entry versions, and how entries relate to the document.
- [Write your book's document](/help/pnpready/write-your-book-s-document) - Making a book: The readable text of your book, why heading structure matters more than in a PDF, and linking entries into it.
- [Submit an edition for review](/help/pnpready/submit-an-edition-for-review) - Making a book: Every status an edition moves through, what to check before submitting, and what happens after it publishes.
- [Plan a campaign](/help/pnpready/plan-a-campaign) - Prep and the tabletop: The planner's sections and pages, linking villains and NPCs to live stats, and the two routes from prep into play.
- [Stage an issue for the virtual tabletop](/help/pnpready/stage-an-issue-for-the-virtual-tabletop) - Prep and the tabletop: Turning planner scenes into panes: stages, battle maps, splashes, comic pages, backdrops, depth and connections.
- [Run a session on the virtual tabletop](/help/pnpready/run-a-session-on-the-virtual-tabletop) - Prep and the tabletop: Putting a scene up, moving between panes, initiative at the table, and handouts.
- [Join a campaign](/help/pnpready/join-a-campaign) - At the table: Using an invite link, bringing a character to the table, and what a player can see in a campaign.
- [Your Library and the Emporium](/help/pnpready/your-library-and-the-emporium) - At the table: The difference between the catalog and what you own, and the four ways a title reaches your Library.
- [Playing on the virtual tabletop](/help/pnpready/playing-on-the-virtual-tabletop) - At the table: Joining the table, the Player Tools rail, shared health, pointers and marks, initiative and handouts.
- [Rolling dice and the Utility Belt](/help/pnpready/rolling-dice-and-the-utility-belt) - At the table: The dice roller, who a roll is for, your own dice settings, and eight slots of one-press rolls at the table.
- [Get paid: Stripe, holds and payout schedules](/help/pnpready/get-paid-stripe-holds-and-payout-schedules) - Money and reach: Connecting payouts, why your share is held before transfer, and how to set your payout schedule.
- [Sales and analytics](/help/pnpready/sales-and-analytics) - Money and reach: The funnel, where visitors came from, titles getting views without converting, and your cross-brand figures.
- [Set up affiliate links](/help/pnpready/set-up-affiliate-links) - Money and reach: Creating links for your titles, setting commission rates, and tracking what affiliates bring in.
- [How the affiliate program works](/help/pnpready/how-the-affiliate-program-works) - Affiliates: How you get links, how commission is set, what counts as a sale, and who to approach.
- [Your affiliate links](/help/pnpready/your-affiliate-links) - Affiliates: What a link looks like, copying it safely, what each one reports, and using separate links per placement.
- [Read your dashboard](/help/pnpready/read-your-dashboard) - Affiliates: Your four headline figures, what the gap between clicks and sales tells you, and what you cannot see.
- [Commission and payouts](/help/pnpready/commission-and-payouts) - Affiliates: How commission is calculated, what does not earn it, how payouts settle, and how to negotiate a rate.