Viewer quick start
Play from Twitch chat
- Open a channel running Queen's Court.
- Type
!lookto inspect the current threat. - Type
!attackto enter the fight. - Open the Extension to reveal, equip, train, and shop.
Official game guide
Survive the Court.
Shape the story.
Queen's Court is a persistent Twitch loyalty RPG. Your character, level, skills, health, gear, and rewards travel with you while live commands and support bring the adventure onto the stream.
- Free to play in chat
- Persistent progression
- Channel-specific adventures
Court Wanderer
LVL 1
Crowned Jabberwock
LVL 45
Choose your path
Enter without getting lost.
Start here, then use the full guide when Wonderland gets strange.
Broadcaster quick start
Bring the Court on stream
- Open the Queen's Court Extension configuration.
- Connect your Twitch channel permissions.
- Copy your private Stream Overlay link.
- Add it to OBS as a 960 × 540 Browser Source.
For viewers
Your first five minutes
You do not need a cheshyre.com login to begin playing through verified Twitch chat.
Scout
Use !look to see the global creature's level, health, visible gear, and active Court event.
Fight
Use !attack. Queen's Court resolves your d20-style roll, skills, level, health, and equipped gear.
Grow
Earn persistent progress through combat and Twitch support, then invest IP, collect loot, and upgrade your loadout.
Playing, revealing, and logging in are different
Chat commands can create your Court record without website OAuth. Reveal My Character is Twitch's revocable identity-sharing permission for the Extension. A cheshyre.com Twitch login and policy acceptance are only needed for website account features such as making your one permanent character choice.
The shape of Wonderland
One Court, three battlefields
Your progression travels with you, but not every encounter is shared the same way.
| Activity | Who shares it | How it starts | What the overlay shows |
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| Wonderland threat | The whole Queen's Court | !attack |
The creature idles; your toon enters, strikes, and exits. |
| Quest | One broadcaster's channel | !quest |
The queued party gathers outside the quest location. |
| Phased boss | One opted-in broadcaster's channel | !boss |
The boss, phases, party vitals, stamina, and attacks take precedence. |
Your long-term Court rank.
Your chosen combat strengths.
Persists between encounters.
Power and visible character layers.
Build your champion
Character, gear & progression
Everyone has a visible toon. What you earn changes both its power and its presence on stream.
Your one character choice
Until you choose, your equipped gear appears on the default 8-bit Court Wanderer. The website offers six Court appearances.
Once selected, your appearance is permanently locked. There is no reroll, update, or delete option.
Gear changes your sprite
Upper armor, lower armor, left weapon, and right weapon layers update automatically when equipped. Better rarities add more elaborate visuals and effects.
Common
Uncommon
Rare
Unique
Legendary
Six skills shape your build
Combat
Improves damage and critical-hit potential.
Defense
Reduces incoming damage and strengthens counters.
Health
Raises maximum HP and supports healing.
Perception
Improves checks and your chance at better loot.
Dodge
Helps your toon evade incoming attacks.
Scavenge
Improves the value and frequency of spoils.
Ways to progress
Support becomes adventure
Combat and eligible Twitch support can grant progress. During live encounters, support can also become visible damage, healing, stamina, or other battle magic.
- Follows
- Bits
- Subscriptions
- Gifted subs
- Sub streaks
- Raids
- Channel points
- Combat
XP rates, shop prices, loot chances, and damage formulas are live balance settings and may be tuned without changing the core rules in this guide.
Normal encounters
Fight the shared threat
Twelve Wonderland creatures can stalk the global Court, ranging from level 5 to level 30.
Inspect
!look reveals the creature, level, exact HP, gear, and active Court event.
Roll
!attack resolves opposed d20-style checks using level, skills, rage, health, and gear.
Resolve
Chat posts a concise hit, miss, tie, cooldown, or defeat result while the OBS stage animates the action.
Share spoils
When the creature falls, XP and gold are split by contribution, with chances for IP, crates, and final-hit bonuses.
Successful-hit cooldown
A manual attack that damages the creature starts a five-minute cooldown. A miss or monster win does not consume it.
Health regeneration
Regeneration begins five minutes after combat, then restores 5 HP for each ten-minute interval.
A live boss changes !attack
When a boss battle is active in that channel, !attack routes to the boss as a strike. Join first with !boss and make sure you have stamina.
Channel adventures
Gather for a quest
Quests belong to the broadcaster's channel, so each community builds its own party.
Open
The first !quest opens one of five locations.
Gather
Other players use !quest during the usual 60-second recruitment window.
Venture
The party faces four trials drawn from levels, gear, and the six skills.
Return
Everyone earns XP, gold, and IP; stronger contributions and outcomes improve the rewards and crate chances.
No traditional losers: every participant receives positive rewards, while Narrow, Solid, Great, Heroic, and Mythic outcomes create better winners.
Channel cooldown: after a quest resolves, that channel normally waits ten minutes before opening another.
Boss precedence: quests pause while a live channel boss occupies the stage.
Phased channel raids
Challenge an enhanced boss
Boss fights are opt-in, asynchronous RPG battles that happen independently in each broadcaster's channel.
HourlyRandom opportunity
One scheduled chance in each enabled channel.
3 minutesSignup lobby
Join with !boss.
10 minutesLive battle
Late arrivals may still join.
Action economy
Stamina keeps the fight moving
You enter battle with 3 stamina and recover 1 point every 20 seconds. Combat skill levels 2, 4, 7, 9, and 10 each unlock another capacity slot, up to 8. Bank stamina instead of spending every point on strikes when you want a 2-point support action.
3 base · 8 maximum
!strike
Make a gear- and skill-scaled attack against the boss. !attack also strikes during an active boss fight.
!guard
Prepare for the next incoming blow, reducing its damage and influencing the boss's target choice.
!tank
Challenge the boss, take aggro on its next counter, and gain defense-scaled damage reduction.
!heal [@player]
Heal yourself by default, or target a living party member by Twitch login.
!rally
Make a Perception check and empower the living party with one or two stronger-attack stacks.
The boss fights back
The boss retaliates after enough party actions or a period of inactivity, rotates away from its previous target when another champion is available, and becomes more dangerous across three phases. !tank overrides that rotation, and larger parties can face multi-target attacks late in the fight.
Support becomes magic
Bits, subscriptions, gifts, streaks, raids, and follows can damage the boss and support the party. Identified supporters can be pulled into the fight automatically.
Defeat matters
A defeated champion cannot rejoin that boss. They return to the general world at 15 HP and can recover there.
Contribution is broad
Damage, healing, tanking, prevented damage, support magic, rallying, and activity all count. Escapes are rated by damage completion, a kill is Heroic, and a kill with at least 8 minutes left reaches Mythic. The final blow guarantees one bounded crate, while an idle join receives only Narrow participation credit.
Boss combat is asynchronous: players act whenever they have stamina; the boss responds after an action threshold or idle interval. It is not a strict one-player-at-a-time turn order.
Command grimoire
Queen's Court chat commands
Commands are case-insensitive. Type them in a connected broadcaster's Twitch chat.
| Command | Aliases | Use | Chat behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
!look | !threat | Inspect the current global creature. | Posts creature, level, HP, gear, and event. |
!attack | !fight | Attack the normal creature, or strike a live channel boss. | Posts a compact combat result. |
!level | !lvl | Check your level and XP toward the next level. | Posts your progress. |
!stats | !hp | Check health and full player stats. | Posts your current stat line. |
!inventory | !inv, !gear | Check equipped armor, weapons, damage, and mitigation. | Posts your loadout summary. |
!quest | — | Start recruitment or join the active channel quest. | Posts party size and approximate launch time. |
!quests | — | Read the current channel quest status. | Posts the recruiting quest or no-quest state. |
!boss | !boss join | Join a channel boss during its lobby or live battle. | Intentionally quiet; confirm in the Extension or OBS stage. |
!boss status | !boss help | Check boss state or recall boss commands. | Details stay in the Extension/overlay to avoid chat spam. |
!strike | !attack | Spend 1 stamina to attack a live boss. | Posts one compact result, including a counter when triggered. |
!guard | — | Spend 1 stamina to brace for a boss attack. | Quiet unless the action triggers a boss counter. |
!tank | — | Spend 2 stamina to take aggro with stronger defense. | Quiet unless the action triggers a boss counter. |
!heal [@player] | — | Spend 2 stamina to heal yourself or a living ally. | Quiet unless the action triggers a boss counter. |
!rally | — | Spend 2 stamina to empower the living party. | Quiet unless the action triggers a boss counter. |
Designed not to flood chat
Normal attacks and boss strikes get concise public results. Boss joins, status checks, and most support actions rely on the Extension and OBS stage; major lifecycle, phase, and outcome summaries can still reach the room. Queen's Court does not use whispers.
For broadcasters
Put the Court on your stream
The same compact, channel-specific overlay handles normal combat, quests, Twitch support, and phased bosses.
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Open Extension configuration
Install and activate Queen's Court, then open its broadcaster Config page from your Twitch Extension dashboard.
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Connect Twitch Channel
Use Connect Twitch Channel so chat commands, subscriptions, bits, channel points, and other supported events can reach your channel's Court.
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Copy the signed overlay URL
In Stream Overlay, choose Copy Overlay Link. This read-only URL is signed for your channel—treat it like a private stream key.
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Add one OBS Browser Source
Paste the URL into a Browser Source. Set width to 960, height to 540, and leave custom CSS blank. Position the compact stage where it complements your layout.
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Preview and place it
Use Open Preview in Config, then crop, scale, and position the Browser Source in OBS. The page background is transparent.
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Choose whether bosses may spawn
Allow hourly boss fights is per channel and off until you enable it. Turning it off also cancels a live lobby or battle in your channel.
No manual scene switching
The overlay chooses the active state. Bosses take precedence and the normal creature returns when channel activity ends.
Built to recover
State requests time out safely, polling resumes after Browser Source suspension, and one recovery loop prevents duplicate requests.
Resilient chat delivery
Extension Chat is preferred when Twitch allows it. A connected broadcaster authorization is the fallback; whispers are never required.
Database-conscious
Bosses use bounded snapshots and the existing overlay polling loop so active fights avoid unnecessary database churn.
Keep the overlay URL private
The signed URL is channel-scoped and read-only, but anyone holding it could view your live Court state. Never paste it into chat, Discord, screenshots, or public documentation.
When the rabbit hole misbehaves
Troubleshooting
Try the smallest relevant fix first.
Chat commands are not responding
Make sure the command is being sent in the broadcaster's own connected channel rather than a Shared Chat copy. The broadcaster should open Extension Config, confirm the channel is connected, and use Refresh Authorization if Twitch permissions show a warning.
!boss did not post a confirmation
That is intentional. Bare !boss joins an available lobby or battle, but personal boss details stay out of public chat. Open the Extension panel or watch the OBS stage to confirm your toon and party state.
I cannot attack right now
For normal combat, check your health and successful-hit cooldown with !stats. During a boss, join with !boss, wait for the battle to begin, and check the yellow stamina bar. A defeated boss participant cannot return to that same fight.
A quest will not open
A channel quest may already be recruiting, may be in its normal post-quest cooldown, or may be paused by a live boss. Use !quests for the public recruitment state and check the Extension/overlay for a boss.
Reveal My Character is still hidden
Choose Reveal My Character in the Extension and approve Twitch identity sharing. If it remains hidden, reopen the panel or revoke and re-grant the Extension identity permission in Twitch settings. This does not require sharing a password with Queen's Court.
The OBS stage looks old or stopped updating
After a new site release, refresh the Browser Source once so OBS loads the current overlay code. The current overlay then times out hung requests and recovers automatically after a source resume. If it still fails, confirm that the complete signed URL is unchanged.
Common questions
Before you ask the Queen
Do I need to authenticate on the website to appear on the leaderboard?
No. The public leaderboard can include players with Court progress whether or not they have authenticated on cheshyre.com. Website authentication is for personal account features.
Can I change my character later?
No. You can use the default Court Wanderer for as long as you like, but the first custom appearance you confirm is permanent. Gear can still be changed at any time.
Are bosses shared across every stream?
No. The normal Wonderland creature is global, but each quest and boss belongs to one broadcaster's channel. Another channel has its own party, schedule, and boss state.
Can I join a boss after the lobby?
Yes. Late joining remains available during the live battle while the boss is accepting champions. Once defeated, a player cannot rejoin that boss.
Does ordinary chat earn XP?
Ordinary chat lines are not currently an XP source. Playing the game and eligible Twitch support events drive progression; exact rates can be rebalanced over time.
Where do I equip gear and spend IP?
Use the Queen's Court Extension tabs: Character manages inventory and equipment, Train invests IP, and Shop uses gold. The website also exposes authenticated character features.
The Court is waiting
Now make a little trouble.
Find a live Queen's Court creator, enter chat, and let your character write the next scene.