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How Adventure Engine works

A shared story you play with friends: the Narrator builds the world and plays everyone in it, and you play your own character. Start here.

Getting started

Host your first tale, or join a friend at the table.

Create a world, gather the table, and play your first turns.

Room code to character to your first turn — no account, no cost.

Turns, dice, combat, and characters — in plain language.

What a turn is, the choice pills, and speaking vs. asking.

When rolls happen, what the six stats mean, and Triumph vs. Ruin.

How fights start, turn order (Who goes first · Reaction), and strict turns.

Forging a character, Callings and Ancestries, and the six stats.

What to expect in each of the four worlds, and how magic behaves there.

Stone keeps and meadhalls, and hedge-magic that costs more than it gives.

Ten thousand years of empire, fraying at the edges. No clean sides.

A school of arcane study: cold rain, hot toast, and the Apparatus.

Seven courts, deathless lords, and a mortal whose blood has begun to sing.

Credits, voice, sound, saving, playing on your phone, and who pays.

Credits, voice, sound, saving, phones, mature mode, and who pays.

Still stuck, or found something that doesn’t match what you see? Tap the thumbs-down on any Narrator reply in game, or reach us from the home page.