Handouts are now table-ready props

Handouts used to be notes you could show your players. Now they’re props: a letter, a wanted poster, a newspaper, a case file, something that looks like it belongs on the table. And they’re wired into the rest of your campaign, so the right one turns up at the right moment.

Start from a design, or bring your own

Open Handouts and pick a design to build on: letters, posters, official notices, bills, ledgers, journals, arcane pages, maps, a newspaper, a case file, and more, each with its own material and finish so it reads like a real object. Made something in Canva or another tool? Start “from an image” instead and upload it. That image becomes the handout itself, no template needed.

Write straight on it

For the built-in designs, the handout itself is the editing surface. Click a spot and type; the text sizes itself to fit. Select a few words to make them bold or italic with a little pop-up, no clunky toolbar. What you see while you edit is exactly what your players will see.

Add portraits and pictures

Drop a character’s portrait into a frame (any PC or NPC), or pick any image from your campaign gallery. And when you upload a new picture, it’s saved to your gallery automatically. (Maps stay their own thing; everything else lands in the gallery for you.)

Wire it into your prep

This is the part that saves you at the table. Link a handout to the things it belongs with: a quest, an encounter, an NPC or PC, a location, an item, a faction, an arc, or a session. Tag why it’s linked, too: a clue, a trigger, a reward, or just related. Then, when you’re prepping a session and pull in a quest or encounter, Multiloop reminds you it has handouts attached and whether you’ve handed them out yet. This wiring is yours alone; players never see the links, only the handouts you choose to reveal.

Keep it hidden, reveal and present

Every handout stays hidden from players until you reveal it, so you can prep a whole stack in advance. When the moment comes, reveal it to the party: you get an exact preview of what they’ll see first (your private notes stay private), then reveal to everyone, line a few up in a queue, or throw one full-screen in present mode.

Share it with a link anyone can open

Here’s the one people keep asking for: share a handout with a link that anyone can open, no Multiloop account needed. Paste it in Discord mid-session, hand it to a guest, whatever suits. Protect it with a password or set it to expire. Either way, what leaves your table is only ever the player-safe version: no DM notes, no secrets, no hidden content.