Ratcatcher User Manual
Everything Ratcatcher does, one screen at a time. Start with the basics, or jump to what you need.
Written for Ratcatcher 1.0, on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later, on a Mac with macOS 26 or later, and for the web app in a modern browser.
Contents
1.The basics
Your characters, the sheet, and the three kinds of things on it: what you track, what you write, and what the app works out.
2.Guided Creation
A new character step by step, from species to the first Advances, with your dice or the app’s.
3.At the table
Play, the screen for a session, and the dice panel: Tests, your own dice, Fortune, and what the result means.
4.Your character
Profile, Characteristics, Fate and Resilience, skills, talents, experience and careers.
5.Combat
Advantage, Armour by hit location, weapons and attacks, ammunition, mounts and pursuits.
6.Health
Wounds and healing, Conditions, injuries and Critical Wounds, Corruption, mutations and Psychology.
7.Possessions
Trappings, containers and Encumbrance; coins, paying and receiving, earning, and assets and debts.
8.Magic and Religion
Spells, learning and casting them, channelling and ingredients; Blessings, Miracles, prayers, strictures and Sin.
9.Story
Background, relationships, your party and its Ambitions, and campaign notes: NPCs, places, Endeavours and a journal.
10.The Compendium
Where the names and numbers come from: browsing the Compendium, your own entries, content packs, and keeping rows in step.
11.Your characters
Portraits, duplicating, exporting and importing a character, printing or making a PDF, and deleting.
12.Settings and table rules
Defaults for new characters, each character’s options and table rules, themes, sync, Supporter and About.
13.On the Mac and iPad
Menus, keyboard shortcuts and windows, on a Mac and on an iPad with a keyboard.
14.The web app
Ratcatcher in a browser: installing it, where your characters are kept, backing up, moving characters and packs to and from the apps, updates, and what’s different.
Still stuck, or does something work differently from what this says? Write to me.