Ephemeral Sandboxes

Using your sandbox online

When you generate a sandbox using HEXROLL, it is stored and managed online. When your sandbox is online, you can use all the editing tools HEXROLL offers, as well as the built-in VTT mode.

To maintain reasonable performance, HEXROLL uses fast distributed storage to manage this data, but it can fill up pretty quickly and it is not free. To conserve storage, HEXROLL cleans any guest-generated sandbox after a predefined amount of time.

If you see the Ephemeral Sandbox note at the bottom-right corner of the screen, it means you have generated a sandbox as a guest and that your sandbox is not guaranteed to stay online after one month has passed since it was generated.

Important

Make sure you download a snapshot of your ephemeral sandbox before it gets removed so you can have your own copy for offline viewing.

Unlimited online storage

Brave Adventurer subscribers to Pen, Dice & Paper on Patreon get to have unlimited online hosting of their generated sandboxes.

If you are a subscriber, you can claim any ephemeral sandbox you have generated by logging in to Patreon and navigating to your ephemeral sandbox URL. If the Ephemeral Sandbox note disappears from the screen, it means your sandbox has unlimited hosting duration.