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How It Works

From Character to Campaign in Minutes

TableForge handles the rules. The AI handles the story. You handle the adventure.

Step 1

Create Your Character

Pick a race, class, and background. Set your ability scores. Write a backstory — or let the AI help you build one from your choices. Your full character sheet lives in the app: stats, spells, equipment, everything.

Character creation screen
Step 2

Start a Campaign

Choose a setting and premise, or let the AI generate one. Every campaign starts with a unique opening scene written for your specific party composition and backstories.

Campaign dashboard
Step 3

Gather Your Party

Invite friends via a shareable link. Each player creates their own character and joins when ready. No scheduling required — the AI holds the table until the party is assembled. Guests play free; only the host subscribes.

Party assembly
Step 4

Play

The AI Dungeon Master narrates the world, controls NPCs, and runs encounters. The rules engine handles dice rolls, combat, spells, and conditions — correctly, every time. Take your turns in real time or asynchronously. You just play.

Live game session
Step 5

Come Back

Your campaign persists. NPCs remember you. Plot threads continue. Pick up next week, next month — the world is waiting exactly as you left it. Campaign memory is comprehensive and crosses every session.

Campaign Continuity
Under the Hood
📜 Rules Engine

Programmatic 5e SRD adjudication — not LLM-based. Dice, combat, spells, and conditions handled by deterministic code.

🧠 Campaign Memory

Full cross-session persistence. NPCs, locations, decisions, quest state, and narrative threads all carry forward indefinitely.

🗺️ Scene Maps

Auto-generated tactical maps with live token positioning. Every scene gets a unique map; your token moves as you do.

🖼 Scene Art

AI-generated illustrations as the story unfolds, matched to what's happening in your specific campaign.

🎼 Ambient Music

Scene-matched background audio that shifts with the tone of the encounter — combat, exploration, mystery, rest.

Ready to play?

Start your campaign free