Broadcast for OBS
Your game live: four one-tap modes, one OBS link per element (dice, party, turns, chat…) with no sign-in, a layout editor, cameras, pauses with countdown, and nothing that only the GM sees.
Broadcast turns the table into a clean feed for OBS (or any streaming software): no menus, no buttons and nothing that only the GM sees. You can carry the whole game in one window, or ask for one link per element (dice, party, turns, chat and so on) and place each one in your OBS scene as its own layer.
It is part of Legend GM. Viewers don't need an account.
Where it is
On the Table, the GM has Broadcast (window for OBS) in the header. Next to it, Broadcast settings opens the panel with everything in this guide. Players don't see it.
Four one-tap modes
| Mode | What it broadcasts |
|---|---|
| Cinema | The scene and its lower third, for narration. |
| Game | Scene, combat with turns and 3D dice. |
| With cameras | The game, plus a separate cameras window. |
| Overlay | Transparent background with dice and lower third, to lay over your own OBS scene. |
Customize opens every switch, in case no mode is exactly what you want.
One OBS source per element
Inside Customize, under One source per element, each element has its own link. Copy it and paste it into OBS as a Browser source: it paints only that element, on a transparent background, and you decide where it goes, how big it is and what covers what.
- Scene (background) and Combat map
- 3D dice and Roll list
- Lower third
- Chat
- Whiteboard and Handouts
- Party, and One character on its own (in the Party section: Copy OBS link for … only)
- Turns
- Alerts (turn, crits)
This is the lightest way to broadcast, because OBS draws each source itself and your GM browser does none of the work.
No sign-in, and from another machine
The links carry a key: OBS gets in with it without an account, and sees the table as a player sees it, with the same database security that protects players. If a link leaks, Regenerate the link key locks out the old ones at once.
Broadcast settings are saved to your account, not the browser, so with Broadcast to another machine you run the game on one computer and OBS on another.
What shows
- Party: portrait (the sheet's, the profile's or a stream-only one), frame, health and the sheet fields you pick. Card, compact or portrait style; horizontal or vertical.
- Lower third: automatic (the live encounter, else the scene, else the table), or your own text. Three styles: third, plate and minimal.
- Alerts: "Turn of…", "Round N", and Critical! or Fumble! on public rolls.
- Pauses: Starting soon, Break, End of session or your own text, with an optional countdown.
- 3D dice in the broadcast window and in OBS.
Layout: place and adjust
In the panel, Layout: place and adjust lets you move and resize the lower third, rolls, chat, party, turns and alerts, snapping to thirds and edges, and change their scale and opacity.
Size: separate window at 720p or 1080p, at the exact size OBS expects. Background: Scene, Black, Chroma or Transparent.
Cameras
Open cameras window takes the table's cameras into their own window, to capture separately: rectangular or round, no frame, the Scene frame or each player's profile frame, their name below, black or chroma background, and you choose who appears.
What never shows in the broadcast
The broadcast paints the table through a player's eyes: fog, hidden things, GM notes and secret GM rolls don't show, even though you are the one broadcasting. The view can't be touched and the OBS page writes nothing to the game.
Common problems
- I don't see the broadcast button. It is Legend GM, and only the campaign's GM sees it.
- Dice don't show in the mirror window. In the mirror window dice become Results; 3D dice go in the separate broadcast and in the OBS links.
- OBS shows the image cropped or blurry. Set the Browser source to the broadcast's size (1280×720 or 1920×1080).
- Someone has a link they shouldn't. Regenerate the link key, and copy yours again.