Party coverage check
Enter the party and see the holes: no healer, no front line, no face. Pick your system, then the classes.
Basic read here. In the app, D&D coverage is class-and-subclass aware, includes third-party classes, and fills in from your players' actual characters.
All 7 roles covered.
What each role does
Defense / Frontline: Someone to hold the line and take hits.
Melee: Damage up close.
Ranged: Damage and reach at a distance.
Control: Shaping the fight: area effects and locking enemies down.
Healing: Keeping the party on its feet.
Support: Buffing allies and weakening enemies.
Face & Utility: Talking, sneaking, and solving problems out of combat.
This tool reads a party you type in by hand. Inside Six Axes, coverage reads your actual party, the characters your players built, so it is automatic and always current, updating as they level or respec. It sits next to the encounter balancer (build a fight for this exact party), session prep, and the deeper read of how your table plays.
For D&D it goes further: coverage is class-and-subclass aware and includes third-party classes, working end to end with the character forge, rather than the rough class-only read you get here.
Find the gaps in your party
Every party has holes, and you usually find them mid-fight: no one can heal, nobody holds the front line, no one can talk past a guard. Enter your party's classes and this shows the gaps before session one — healing, defense, damage, control, and the face role.
Useful for players building a balanced group, and for GMs deciding how hard to lean on a missing role.
How to use it
- Pick your system.
- Add each character's class, and their role where it matters.
- Read the coverage: what's solid, and where the holes are.
Across five systems
Works for D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, Draw Steel, Daggerheart, and Call of Cthulhu. Each has its own idea of what a 'role' is, so the check maps classes to roles per system rather than assuming a 5e-shaped party.
Common questions
What counts as a gap?
No healer, no front-line defender, no controller, no face — the roles whose absence changes how you have to run the game.
Is it free?
Yes — free, no login, nothing saved.
Related tools: Player-type quiz · Encounter balancer
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