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Settings

The Settings section gathers DnDino’s global preferences. You are not working on a single adventure or a single character here. Instead, this is where you define how the app should behave as a whole.

Settings mostly affect:

  • the overall look of the interface
  • top bar behavior
  • the Places workflow
  • the behavior of Combat
  • image, backup, and snapshot management
  • database support and diagnostics

How the Screen Is Organized

The page is divided into two areas:

  • a left sidebar with categories
  • a main panel on the right with the options for the selected section

Available categories are:

  • General
  • Top Bar
  • Places
  • Combat
  • Media
  • Theme
  • Database
  • Diagnostics
  • Support
  • Licenses

This structure separates daily-use preferences from more technical areas such as backups and diagnostics.

General

The General section gathers the base preferences of the app.

DM Profile

Here you can customize your profile with:

  • User name
  • Gender

The name is reused in other parts of the app, such as the welcome message on the Home screen.

Interface Language

You can choose whether to:

  • follow the system language
  • force a specific app language

Global Confirmations

The Ask for confirmation before deletions option adds a confirmation step before destructive actions such as removals and deletions.

Metadata

Inside General you also find:

  • Show metadata in app

This controls whether metadata panels should be shown in the screens that support them.

Adventure Dashboard Panel Layout

This part is important if you use the Adventure Dashboard often.

You can:

  • drag panels
  • reorder them inside the left or right column
  • move them from one column to the other

Active Theme

Inside General, the currently selected theme is also shown as a quick summary. The actual theme change is made in the Theme section.

Introductory Guides

From here you can restore the app’s first-use behavior.

The Reset First Use button tells DnDino to consider contextual guides and onboarding flows as unseen again.

Top Bar

The Top Bar section defines how the quick tools in the top bar behave. For a full explanation of each button, see the Top Bar page.

Top Bar Look

You can choose whether the top bar is displayed:

  • with icons only
  • or with icons and labels underneath

Default Die

Here you can choose the default die type shown by the quick dice roller.

Quick Character Opening

This setting controls how quick opening of characters behaves.

You can decide whether the shortcut should lead to:

  • a more read-oriented view
  • or a mode closer to editing

Quick Rules Opening

This setting controls quick opening of Rules.

Here you can decide whether that shortcut should open:

  • the full editor
  • or a smaller consultation-oriented window

Players Window Controls in the Top Bar

The Show players window controls in the top bar option shows quick controls to manually open or close the Players Window.

Places

The Places section contains global preferences used as default behavior in the places dashboard.

Default Occupant Role

When you add an occupant to a place, DnDino can propose a default starting role.

Show Parent Place Maps by Default

If enabled, inherited maps from parent places start visible in the Places screen.

Remember Last Visited Place

If enabled, when you come back to the Places screen the app tries to restore the last selected place for that adventure.

Automatically Close the Previous Place

This setting applies during an active live session.

When a place is marked as Being visited, the place that was previously Being visited is automatically marked as Visited.

Combat

The Combat section gathers the global preferences of the combat system.

Here you find presentation options and preferences that influence the Players Window.

Enable Combat Screen for Players

This is the main switch. If disabled, DnDino does not use the players window to show the combat intro, current turn, round, or final summary, and the related options are hidden.

Open the Players Window if Closed

If enabled, DnDino automatically opens the Players Window when combat starts. If disabled, the presentation is updated only when the window is already open.

Open the Players Window Even with One Monitor

This setting appears only when automatic opening is enabled. Use it if you want to use the Players Window even without a second display.

Combat Presentation

This subsection controls the general information shown to players during the encounter:

  • Show combat intro to players
  • Show final summary to players
  • Show round on player screen
  • Show next turn on player screen

Hero Information

These options apply when the active participant is a hero or an ally. An NPC or monster marked as Ally therefore uses these settings too. You can decide whether to show:

  • current, maximum, and temporary HP
  • active conditions

NPC Information

These options apply only when the active participant is a non-allied NPC. NPCs marked as Ally fall back to the hero/ally settings. You can separately decide whether to show:

  • current, maximum, and temporary HP
  • active conditions
  • the NPC's real name

If NPC names are hidden, the Players Window uses the generic name NPC.

Monster Information

These options apply only when the active participant is a non-allied monster. Monsters marked as Ally fall back to the hero/ally settings. You can separately decide whether to show:

  • current, maximum, and temporary HP
  • active conditions
  • the real name of enemies

If monster/enemy names are hidden, the Players Window uses the generic name Enemy.

Media

The Media section gathers preferences for image management and presentation windows.

Fullscreen Player Images

If enabled, images shown to players open in fullscreen mode.

DM Images on the Main Monitor

This option makes the DM window open by default on the first available screen.

Remember DM Window Size

If enabled, when you reopen a new image for the DM, the window keeps:

  • the last size
  • the last position

Media Maintenance

The Media maintenance area covers the more technical side of image handling.

From here you can launch Clean unused media, which checks the image files stored by the app and removes those no longer linked to any entity.

Theme

The Theme section lets you choose the app’s global palette.

Each theme shows a small visual preview of its main colors, so you can immediately understand how the interface will change.

Database

The Database section is one of the most important areas for data safety.

Here you can find:

  • the path of the data folder
  • the path of the SQLite database
  • the path of the backup folder
  • information about the latest snapshots

Automatic Backup

You can choose:

  • automatic backup frequency
  • maximum number of automatic snapshots to keep

Cloud Snapshots

DnDino also manages cloud snapshot behavior.

From here you can choose how cloud saves should behave and view the current state through the summary text shown in the screen.

Main Actions

Inside the Database panel you find the main maintenance buttons:

  • Open data folder
  • Open backup folder
  • Create snapshot...
  • Restore snapshot...
  • Restore from iCloud

Reset App Data

The Reset app data function deletes:

  • the app database
  • the app media

but keeps already-created backups.

Latest Snapshots

At the bottom of the Database section, DnDino also shows the list of the latest snapshots it found.

For each one, it displays:

  • file name
  • date
  • size

Diagnostics

The Diagnostics section is used to inspect the technical state of the SQLite database used by the app.

Here you can:

  • refresh diagnostic data
  • see the database path
  • check whether the file exists
  • verify file size and modification date
  • see the SQLite version

Tables

Diagnostics also shows the list of tables found in the database together with the number of records in each one.

Support

The Support section gathers quick ways to contact the app developer.

Here you find:

  • support email
  • Request support button
  • Send a suggestion button
  • Copy email button

Licenses

The Licenses section gathers the legal and attribution references used by the app.

At the moment it includes in particular the material related to the System Reference Document 5.2 for Dungeons & Dragons, with references to:

  • the SRD document
  • the CC-BY-4.0 license

Tip

If you are configuring DnDino for the first time, the most useful sections to check first are General, Top Bar, Combat, and Database. Those are usually the ones that affect day-to-day use and data safety the most.