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Life Counter

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A table-side life counter for 2–6 players — no account, no connection required.

Opening It

Find Life Counter under in the tab bar (or in the account menu). The page works while you are logged out and while you are offline, so it is safe to open at a table with no signal.

The Table

Each player gets a panel. Tap − or + for one point, −5 or +5 for five, and hold any of them to repeat. Panels are arranged so players face each other: two players sit head-to-head with the top panel rotated 180°, three or four players take the quadrants, and five or six become a simple list.

Tap a player's life total to open their sheet, where you can:

  • Set a name and a colour
  • Track poison counters — ten is lethal
  • Record commander damage received, one row per opponent. Adding commander damage subtracts the same amount of life automatically, so you only ever count once. Twenty-one from a single commander is lethal.

Turns, Dice and the Log

  • passes priority round the table; a full lap counts as one turn.
  • d6, d20 and Coin settle the usual arguments.
  • lists everything that happened — life changes, poison, commander damage, rolls and turns. A rapid run of taps is grouped into a single entry so the log stays readable.

Keeping the Screen On

Where the browser supports it, the counter holds a screen wake lock so the phone does not dim mid-game. Nothing to enable — it just happens on supported devices.

Resuming and Resetting

The game is stored on the device, so reloading the page or closing the tab does not lose it.

  • returns everyone to the starting life and clears poison, commander damage and turns — names and colours are kept.
  • starts a new game with a different player count or starting life (20, or 40 for Commander). That one clears everything.

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Playmat — Goldfish PlaytesterOffline Mode
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