Whose turn it is

Outside combat there is no fixed rotation. After each beat the Dungeon Master either stays with the player who is mid-exchange or turns to whoever the scene now addresses, and failing that, to whoever has been quietest. In combat, rolled initiative takes over completely.

This is the question every group asks before their first session, and the answer is more interesting than a queue.

The Dungeon Master reads the scene and decides, after every beat, whether to stay with you or turn to someone else. It stays when you are visibly in the middle of something: an NPC asked you a direct question, you are halfway through haggling, the conversation is yours. It turns away when the scene moves to another hero, and when nobody in particular is owed the moment, it turns to whoever has spoken least.

In other words, it does what a good human Dungeon Master does. It lets you finish your sentence, then deliberately gives the floor to the person who has not had it in a while.

No, and the limits are enforced rather than encouraged. Nobody holds the spotlight for more than three consecutive beats. Once any player has been waiting long enough, the next handoff is forced to them regardless of what the scene wants. And writing an instruction into your action does nothing.

There is deliberately no numbered running order anywhere in the interface, because there is not one to show. Turn order outside combat is a judgement about the scene, made fresh each time.

The moment a fight starts, all of that stops. Everyone rolls their own initiative, and nothing advances for anyone until every player who is present has rolled, so a fight cannot start without you.

When it becomes your turn, the game tells you which of three things it wants: your action, a roll you owe, or your initiative. Your phone buzzes. If the tab is in the background you get a notification. Your hero's card at the table is outlined, and the outline moves the instant the turn does.

Real groups have real lives, so there are four escapes and none of them needs the host to be awake. The player is reminded after a few hours. After a day, any member of the table can pass them by. They can mark themselves away. And skipping your turn outside combat is free.

Two ways, and one of them is regularly misread. Send a share link, or type the email address a friend signs in with. Nothing lands in their inbox either way: the address is only how the game knows who you mean, and the invitation simply appears in their app the next time they open it.

No, and not as a matter of policy. Party chat is kept somewhere the storyteller has no way to reach, and a test enforces that nothing in it can. The app says so in exactly these words: the DM can't see this chat.

Plan an ambush in it. Complain about the dice. Argue about whether to trust the nice man with the map.

Yes, and both heroes fight from their real sheets rather than from an invented copy. Only the two named heroes are in it; everyone else watches.

A hero brought to zero hit points by another hero is knocked out, never killed. One player's dice can never delete another player's character. That is enforced in the rules engine rather than left to table etiquette.