Owlbear Rodeo

You point a token on your map at somebody at your table. After that anyone can click it and read their sheet: wounds, stamina, what's in the pack, what's on the belt. Click your own token and you get the editable one, because your browser knows which seat is yours.

It's the compact panel rather than the full sheet. Six tabs in a small box that sits in the corner of the map and stays put when you click the scene behind it. You can pick which of your crows you're playing from in there, and roll up a new one when the last doesn't make it.

In Owlbear Rodeo, open Extensions, press the + at the top right, and paste into Install Link. It'll show you a card naming the extension before you commit, so if that card doesn't appear the URL hasn't landed properly. Press Add. Both of these, one at a time.

Everyone who wants to click tokens has to do this on their own account, you and your players alike. One person installing it doesn't install it for anybody else.

1. The token menu

Adds Open sheet, Close sheet, Unlink and Link when you right-click a character token. This is the one doing the actual work.

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2. The toolbar button

Adds a button that opens your own sheet wherever you are. Paste your seat link into it once and it remembers. You want this one too, and not just for the button: it's what tells the token menu which crow is yours, so that clicking your own gets you the editable panel instead of a read-only look at yourself.

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Two separate jobs here, and only one of them is the Ref's.

Everybody installs the two extensions above and pastes their own seat link into the toolbar button once. That's what makes your own token open editable when you click it, and nobody can do that part for you.

Somebody then links each token, once. Usually the Ref, but any of you can do it, including your own. It only has to happen once per person: the link lives on the scene, so a player who turns up three sessions late just installs the extension and their token already knows them.

Point a token at somebody

Right-click the token, choose Link to Murder sheet, and pick the name off the list. That's it. The list is the people at your table, with you at the top, and it comes from the seat link already sat in the extension, so there's nothing to copy and nothing to paste.

You're picking a person, not a crow. The token shows whichever crow they're playing at the time, so when one dies and they roll up the next, every token pointing at them catches up on its own and nobody relinks anything.

A new map needs the tokens again

A token's link lives on the token, and tokens belong to a scene, so a fresh map starts with tokens that know nothing. Copy the linked ones across instead of placing new ones and the links come with them, which is the quick way. Otherwise it's a right-click and a name each, the same as the first time.

Making that automatic is on the list. I had a go and it did not work, so rather than leave something half-doing it, it does nothing and says so.

If you point it at the wrong person

Right-click and pick Link to a different crow, or Unlink from Murder to strip it back to an ordinary token. You never have to delete one and lose its artwork and its place on the map just to fix a link.

Linking a crow at somebody else's table

The list only knows the table your own seat link belongs to. For anyone outside it, open Paste a link instead in that same popover and paste their Owlbear link, which their Ref copies from the seat list with the Owlbear link button. Be careful which button: Invite link beside it is that person's key to the campaign and belongs nowhere near a token. The one you want has /embed/view/ in it where a seat link has /c/.

Open your own sheet and your name at the top is a dropdown. Pick any crow on your seat and the panel moves to them, and so does every token on the map that points at you.

The same list rolls up a new one. When a crow dies mid-session, choose + Roll up a new crow and you're playing them, without leaving the map to go and find the full sheet. The one who died stays on your seat so you can look back at them. Six to a seat is the limit while this is being tested, and it'll go up when Tom gets a chance; the option goes away when you're at it.

Somebody else's token opens read-only for you and has no dropdown, so nobody picks your crow but you.

Press the toolbar button once and paste your seat link, the /c/ one your Ref sent you. That's the only time you need it. After that the button opens your sheet, your own token on the map opens it editable, and you can link your own token yourself without waiting on anybody.

Everyone else's tokens stay read-only for you. You can look at anybody's sheet, the way people lean over and read each other's at a real table, and you can't write on it.

Nothing happens when I right-click a token

Two things to check. The extension isn't installed on your account: each person does their own, and your Ref doing it does nothing for you. Or the token isn't on the Character layer, which is the only layer the menu turns up on.

It says the link is finished

The link on that token has gone stale. Right-click it, pick Link to a different crow, and choose the person again off the list. Anything you linked before the end of August 2026 will want this doing once.

My own token opens read-only

Your browser hasn't been told which crow is yours yet. Open the toolbar button, paste your seat link, click the token again. Owlbear keeps that per browser, so a new laptop or a cleared browser means doing it once more.

A link sat on a token can be read by everyone in the room, which is the whole point of it, and it keeps working outside Owlbear. Treat it as public to your table: anybody who's been in that room can keep reading that sheet afterwards. Nobody can write to it without the seat link, and that's yours alone and never goes near a token.

This is a fan tool. It isn't an Owlbear Rodeo feature and MCDM had nothing to do with it, so when it breaks it's mine to fix. Come and tell me.