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Shhh – It’s a Secret!

How to draw players in with mysteries

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Data dumping rarely works. But mystery?
It’s magnetic.

Mystery draws players in. Keeps them curious. And gives them something to gnaw on between sessions.

Here’s how Scabard helps you build that curiosity into your world:

Say your players know a friendly priestess... but they don’t know she’s actually a spy for their archnemesis.

Add it to the Secret Section. Every page has one. Anything in there is hidden from your players — until you reveal it.

Free with the Basic (free) plan

Sometimes even the name of a page is too much to show.

That’s where Secret Pages come in.
Hide the entire page: name, summary, description, even its existence.

Use them for:

Get 3 free with the Basic plan
(No limit with a Premium upgrade)

Let’s say the merchant in town is secretly the leader of the smuggling ring.

With a secret connection to the smuggling ring. Even if the pages it connects are public.

That way, players see only the merchant’s public connections... but you see all of them.

Premium feature

Whether it’s a symbol in their mentor’s robe or an odd name mentioned in a log — visible clues keep curious players on edge.

Drop enough of them throughout your campaign on Scabard, and they’ll start to piece things together.
They’ll want to.
That’s the magic of mystery.