Questions and answers.

A browser-based prep-and-play app for game masters. It holds a library of creatures and spells, your adventure text, encounters, a combat tracker, maps, a board for tonight's table, voices and music, all on one campaign, so you prepare once and run from the same place.

Game masters running a tabletop role-playing game, at a physical table or online, who prepare a campaign and then run it from the same objects: creatures, encounters, adventure text, maps, session boards and voices. Players are a second audience. They watch what you choose to show.

Fifth edition, in both its 2014 rules (5e) and its 2024 rules (5.5e), and a second game system. Adventure Builder is 5e and 5.5e compatible. Each system keeps its own rules, labels and reading style, and the app never converts a creature or a rule from one to the other. Encounter budgets, creature building and the Library's filters follow the system you pick, and each of your campaigns can start from your own default.

No. You share one link per campaign. Players open it on a phone, a tablet or the TV, and they watch: they see the turn order, and any map, image or note you choose to show, and they never operate the app. See For your players.

No, and on purpose. You show and the players watch. They do not move tokens, roll in the app, hold an account or hear audio on their devices. Maps stays your tool, and sharing a map is showing it.

Every AI feature lives in Voice. It runs on Google's Gemini, through your own Gemini API key. Google bills you directly and Adventure Builder never sees your bill. Your key is stored encrypted and only used inside a request to Google. Everything outside Voice works without a key. See Your Gemini API key.

The table keeps going. Every tool works from memory, the header says you are offline, and every unsaved edit waits in your browser until the connection returns, then saves on its own. A reload during the outage loses nothing.

Yes. Write or import your adventure in Lore, build your own creatures in the Builder, and upload your own maps, images and sounds. Your custom records never overwrite anything in the Library.

Yes. A campaign's data is visible to its owner only. Players see only what you choose to show, through a link you can stop or reset at any time.

Yes. Settings has a downloadable save and a full archive that includes your map images and board media. A Lore page downloads as a Markdown file, and a map exports as a file of its own. The app reminds you once when your last save is old, and never makes it a condition.

A modern web browser. Prep at a desk, play on a laptop beside the table, and put the player view on a TV or on players' phones. It works on a tablet and a phone too, with layouts made for them.

No. The Combat Tracker keeps initiative, hit points, markers and rounds, and reports what happened. Conditions, effects and rulings stay yours.

No. An account holds one game master's data. Moving a campaign to another account goes through the same save and archive files, and a player link carries a view, never a copy.

Yes. Campaign Home lays them out as cards. Each keeps its own party, maps, pages and boards, and the Library is shared by all of them.

Yes. The Library holds 5e creatures and spells under both the 2014 and the 2024 (5.5e) rules, Encounters has a budget method for each, and the Builder sets a 5e creature's numbers for any challenge rating from 0 to 30.

9,284 records today: 5,684 creatures and 3,600 spells, across both systems. The count on this page is read from the app itself.

From open-licensed rules material. Each record carries its source inside the app, and the Licences and credits page lists every source and its licence.

Yes. Build a creature in the Builder, start from any record with Use as template, fork a record with Edit a copy, or write one as JSON. What you add never overwrites a library record.

Click a modifier, an attack bonus or a damage formula in a stat block and it rolls. The Combat Tracker also has a dice tray for any roll you like.

Yes. Tick also search description text under the search box. Without it, the search matches names.

No. A creature stays in its own system, and the Library never converts or compares power across systems.

Yes. Add notes and a portrait to any record. They belong to your account and sit beside the record, so the original is never edited.

Yes. The whole Library, including your own creatures, spells, notes and portraits, is shared by every campaign, so a custom creature is made once.

Both systems' own rules. For fifth edition you can pick the 2014 method, the 2024 method, or Quick build. The second system uses its own level-based budget.

It is the highest band the encounter's budget has reached, in every ruleset. The meter shows the budget, what you have spent and what is left.

A set of ready recipes for Hard encounters, for parties of four to six at levels 1 to 20. Your roster is checked against the recipes for its size.

Yes. Save encounter adds it to Saved encounters by name. From there you can edit it, send it to the Tracker, or pin it to the Board.

Yes. Custom creatures from the Builder join the roster like any other, with the rating you gave them.

The budget meter takes any number you type for players and level. Only Quick build's recipes are limited to four to six.

No. Loading adds to what is there. A player or NPC already in the Tracker is not added twice, and Undo takes the load back.

A creature for either system: fifth edition from challenge rating 0 to 30, the second system from level −1 to 25.

A role sets a band for each stat. A Brute soaks punishment and hits like a falling wall, but is easy to hit. A Soldier holds the front line: armored, accurate, hard to walk past. A Caster wins on saves and spell DCs rather than armor or a weapon, and a Mook is threatening in numbers only. You can change any band by hand.

Yes. Every field stays editable, and Apply benchmarks only fills what you ask it to.

Yes. Use as template on any Library record brings its whole record into the Builder as a new creature, and the original is untouched.

Save to Custom puts them in your library. They show under the Custom filter and can be used anywhere a Library creature can.

Never. A custom record cannot take a library record's id, and the server checks it.

Yes. It is kept with the session. New creature clears it.

Yes. Import Markdown files, one or many. Headings, lists, tables, code and callouts become blocks. A file too big for one page, up to 2.5 million characters, becomes a page with its chapters under it.

They come in as plain text where they were, and the report says so. Nothing is dropped.

No. Players see only what you choose to show, one thing at a time, from the Board or Maps. A GM block is never offered to Read aloud.

Yes. It uses Voice, which runs on your own Gemini API key. Writing and importing need no key.

Yes. Download writes a page as a Markdown file, with boxes as callouts and code as fences.

200. The import dialog counts each file against that before it imports.

Lore never fetches a picture from a web address in a file. An image waits for its file, and the report tells you where it was in the original.

A whole-page card follows the live page. A block card keeps a snapshot until you press Refresh.

For creatures, yes: each rolls from the modifier on its record, and you can reroll or type a number. Players roll their own dice, so you type their results in the start dialog.

No. It tracks initiative, rounds, hit points and markers. Conditions open as reference in the Library, and what they do at your table is your ruling.

The turn order, with monsters masked as Enemy 1, Enemy 2 and so on until you reveal them, and Hurt, Bloody or Unconscious instead of hit points. See For your players.

Yes. Press Display, or share the player link and open it on the TV. A laptop connected to the TV by a cable gives the sharpest picture. Casting a browser tab works, with a softer one.

Add them. They show a dash for initiative and wait after everyone who has rolled, until you type their roll.

Yes. Undo and redo cover damage, healing, turns, adds, removals and markers.

The fight is saved with your session. Campaign Home offers it back with a Resume button.

Yes. Drag a card to a new place, for a tie or a delayed turn.

Only the card you choose to show, with Show players, and one thing at a time. Stop showing takes it back.

A pinned whole page follows the live page. A pinned block keeps a snapshot until you press Refresh. A note copied to Lore is a one-way copy.

Yes. Add an audio card for a sound or a track, or a playlist card for a Sound playlist.

Several in each campaign, one per session if you like. A board refuses new cards past its limit with a message.

Export it as a zip with its images and audio, or download a campaign archive, and import it in the other account.

Yes. The add menu and the session list open as a Cards & sessions sheet at the bottom of the screen.

Notes, images, audio, playlists, counters, dice, timers, checklists, random tables, and live cards for Library records and saved encounters.

No. Players only watch. They see the map, tokens, drawings and fog as you do, a second behind, and they never touch it.

Yes. Any image works as a map, and you set the grid to fit it.

Both. Pick the kind, the size, the offset, the number of columns and rows, and the orientation.

Squares suit a cave, a dungeon or a street fight. Hexes suit a region, a coast or a long journey. Each map keeps its own grid, so one campaign can hold both.

Yes. Pinch zooms about your fingers, and a two-finger drag pans.

Export it as a file to import again, or save the whole map as a PNG. Maps travel in your campaign archive with their images.

Its icon, label and color. Never your portrait of its creature, and never its notes.

Yes. Show players uses the campaign's player link, the same one the Combat Tracker uses.

A Gemini API key of your own, from Google AI Studio. Add it in Settings, then Voice. Everything outside Voice works without one. See Your Gemini API key.

You do, to Google, directly. Adventure Builder never sees your bill. This month's usage is shown in Settings beside a link to your Google usage page, and it is never a limit.

It is stored encrypted, never shown back to you or anyone, and used only inside a request to Google. You can test it or remove it at any time, and deleting your account removes it.

Standard makes a clip at once. Half price asks Google's spare capacity, costs half, and may take a few minutes. It needs a paid Gemini API key, since the free tier already costs nothing.

No. Audio plays through your device and the table's speakers. Players' phones show the initiative, a map or a card, and receive no audio.

30 studio voices, each with a one-word character and a sample, and regional voices with fantasy names and the accents they bring. Add a persona and a mood on top.

Yes. When you end and keep a conversation, a summary of it joins their memory as short facts in their own voice. You can correct or forget any of them.

Only to speak to an NPC. You can also type a line. Barge-in is off by default, so the mic waits while the NPC speaks, which suits a phone on the table.

No. The voices are synthetic, generated from your text.

An NPC answers in the language it is spoken to in, whatever accent its voice carries.

Yes. mp3, wav, ogg, m4a and flac, several at a time, or by dropping files on the Sound mode. Your sounds are on your account, so they are in every campaign.

It is ready for every game master and counts against no one's storage.

Alexander Nakarada, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Each track credits him, and the Licences and credits page lists the terms.

Yes. A sound has a Loop switch and a playlist plays on a loop or once, in order or shuffled.

Yes. Sound plays on in every mode, and the Now playing panel shows what is on.

No. It plays through your device. Players' phones receive no audio.

Yes. Filter by Feel, such as tense, mysterious or relaxed, and by Style, and search names, titles and tags.