Announcement

Turn Announcement on and your playtest writes itself an embed for your Discord server. Publishing the playtest posts it, with a Join Playtest button carrying the share link. You write the message; the timing and the link come from the playtest.

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Playbooks

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What you need first

Two things have to be true before the toggle does anything. A closed playtest still has a share link, and that link still opens. What it does not have is a door a stranger can walk through: everyone outside the roster is turned away. Announcing it would send your whole server to a page that refuses almost all of them, so the option is dropped rather than shown inert.

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Turn it on

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What the message carries

The Announcement tab is the same composer a standalone announcement uses, with two differences: there is no Links card, and there is no schedule. Leave the cover empty and the post falls back to your studio’s branding background, so it is never blank. The button is not yours to set. It always reads Join Playtest and always carries this playtest’s own share link, which is why the Links card is missing.

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What it costs

Publishing the playtest posts the announcement, and that spends one announcement message from your plan. If your allowance is empty, publishing the playtest is blocked rather than publishing without the post. You can upgrade, or set Announcement back to Disabled in Config and publish without one. The Announcement tab shows a warning before you get that far.

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Editing it while the playtest is live

You can keep editing the message after the playtest publishes. Save a card and the post in Discord is rewritten in place, keeping its position in the channel along with its reactions and replies. You never have to unpublish the playtest to fix a typo, and an edit spends nothing.

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Resetting the share link

Resetting the public link mints a new address and kills the old one immediately, which would normally strand an announcement already sitting in your channel. It does not. The Join Playtest button on the live post is rewritten to the new address. This is an edit rather than a new post, which is why it is free.

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Turning it off

Setting Announcement back to Disabled takes the post out of Discord and returns the message if it had not gone out yet. Everything you wrote is kept, so switching it back on restores the message instead of resetting it. Unpublishing the playtest does the same thing to the post, and archiving it takes down anything it still had posted.

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Duplicating the playtest

Duplicating carries the announcement across: the message, the cover, the accent color, the channel, and the role tags all come with it, the same way the screening questions do. Two things are deliberately left behind. The button points at the copy’s own share link rather than the original’s, and the copy arrives unpublished, so nothing posts and nothing is spent until you publish it yourself.

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