A paused campaign stops scheduling anything new and keeps everything else. An ended campaign is permanent and cancels every upcoming session.
Sessions already confirmed survive a pause untouched.
Why campaigns pause
Roll Call pauses a campaign itself when it cannot sensibly keep scheduling. The GM is told the reason:
- Too few players left to continue.
- Several rounds produced no viable times.
- No recent activity from the GM, or no sessions played in a long while.
- A free trial ended, or a subscription lapsed.
- More campaigns or players than the plan allows.
- Scheduling never started by the campaign's start date, or within 30 days of creation if it has none.
Players see only that scheduling is paused, never the reason.
Pausing on purpose
There is no pause button in the app. A GM whose campaign has a linked Discord channel can run /rollcall pause there once scheduling has started, and /rollcall resume to start again.
Resume a campaign
- Open the campaign.
- Click Resume Campaign in the paused banner.
If the campaign had already started scheduling, resuming opens a fresh scheduling round and asks every player for availability again. If no date is open, the campaign still resumes, the panel says why, and Roll Call opens the round once a date opens. If the campaign has nothing left to schedule, nobody is asked. A campaign paused before scheduling began goes back to recruiting instead.
If your free trial ended or your subscription lapsed, the banner offers Subscribe instead. Scheduling stays paused until you do, so your players are not asked for availability you could not act on yet. Subscribing resumes a campaign paused for that reason on its own, within your plan's limits. See Plans and the free trial.
A campaign paused over a plan limit will not resume until the limit is met. For the player limit, remove players. For the campaign limit, end another campaign that isn't paused. Upgrading raises both limits.
End a campaign
- Go to the campaign's Edit screen.
- Click End Campaign.
- Type the campaign name exactly to confirm.
Every upcoming session is cancelled and all players are notified. The campaign stays readable, and it stops counting against your plan's campaign limit.
Ending is final
An ended campaign cannot be reopened. To play with the same group again, create a new campaign and share a fresh invite link.
Reaching the end
A campaign with a fixed number of sessions has nothing left to schedule once every planned session is booked. One with a planned end date has nothing left once the date has passed or no day it plays on is left before then. It stops scheduling, and the campaign is not ended.
While the last planned session is still ahead, the panel says no more will be scheduled and the dashboard label stays Scheduled, with "Final session booked" when you hover over it. Once it is played, the label turns to Needs You and the panel says why.
Click Extend on the campaign page to give it more room.