If you've spent more sessions behind the screen than in front of it, you know the struggle: you want to show your players what their characters see. That eerie NPC face, the glowing puzzle door, the thing in the dark... All without turning your table into a tech circus. I tried every tool out there. Most were overkill. FoundryVTT is powerful and a great tool to use at times, but sometimes you just want a tablet on the table that works, not a second job learning a VTT. So I built it myself. DM Vault is a lightweight control panel + client display built for the way most of us actually run games: theater of the mind, with just the right visual nudge when it counts. The DM drives everything from a control panel; players see a clean display on any browser, any device, no installs, no accounts, no fuss. Then I've added some other cool features. Like an Initiative tracker, Ambient music controls and a way to add your own monsters and content. It's free, GDPR-compliant, zero tracking, zero ads, zero data selling. I built the tool I wanted as a player; turns out I get to use it too. It lives in the sweet spot between a full VTT and pure imagination. Easy to set up, easy to run, impossible to over-complicate. Come try it: your players won't even know the wizard is behind the curtain.

DM Vault

An online DM-screen to easily enhance your tabletop game

An online DM-screen to easily enhance your tabletop game