RPBuddy is an AI-powered tabletop RPG sandbox that lets you build living worlds, create characters, and have immersive conversations with NPCs — all driven by AI.
No. RPBuddy handles the worldbuilding and storytelling. You just describe what you want and interact with the world.
A desktop web browser. Create a free account and you'll be building your first world in minutes.
Yes. RPBuddy works on phones and tablets with a responsive interface. You can also install it as a home-screen app on iOS and Android for a native-app feel. Desktop is still the best experience for map building and detailed editing.
Yes. Every account starts on the free Traveler plan: 50 image credits, 50 AI actions per day (a chat message or an AI generation each count as one), unlimited worlds, and unlimited manual building. No credit card required. Image credits refill 30 days after you first use them.
You can keep playing. AI actions reset at midnight UTC; image credits refill on their 30-day schedule. You can also buy a credit pack, or upgrade for unlimited play and monthly credits.
Yes, any time. Your worlds and everything in them come with you.
Both paid plans can be billed yearly instead: Adventurer $100/year and Hero $200/year, which is two months free. Yearly plans are charged in full at signup and include a one-time bonus of image credits — 200 on Adventurer, 500 on Hero. Your image credits are still granted monthly either way.
Each credit generates one image — character portraits, building interiors, settlement exteriors. NPC conversations don't cost credits. They're unlimited on paid plans and limited to a daily allowance on the free plan.
Yes. Anyone can, including free-plan accounts: 50 credits for $5, 100 credits for $8, or 300 credits for $20. The bigger the pack, the cheaper each credit gets. Addon credits never expire — they aren't affected by plan changes, allowance resets, or billing cycles.
No. Your monthly subscription credits reset on each billing cycle, and free-plan credits refill to 50 every 30 days from first use rather than on a billing cycle. Purchased addon credits do roll over.
Yes. Cancel through your account settings or the Stripe customer portal. You keep access until the end of your billing period. After that your account moves to the free plan and keeps its worlds.
If you cancel within 48 hours of your initial subscription and haven't used any of the credits that subscription granted, you can request a full refund. After that, subscriptions are non-refundable. Credit pack purchases are non-refundable.
When you enter a building and talk to an NPC, you're having a real-time AI conversation. The NPC has a personality, memories, relationships, and goals that shape how they respond. They remember what you've said in previous conversations.
Yes. When multiple NPCs are in the same building, secondary characters can join the conversation naturally.
When you're not interacting with the world, NPCs go about their daily routines — traveling between buildings, encountering each other, and living their lives. Time advances and the world evolves.
Yes. You can create as many worlds as you want. Each world is independent with its own characters, story, and settings.
RPBuddy is currently a single-player experience. Multiplayer is something we're considering for the future.
Not yet. A world has one player character, and there's no way to swap in a new one without losing the story already in progress.
Two characters can't share a world because NPC memories are anchored to a single “player”. A second character would walk in carrying the first one's history, and NPCs would greet a stranger like an old friend.
Starting a brand-new world is the straightforward option — your current world stays exactly as you left it. If you specifically want the same world to start over in, see the next question.
There's no direct duplicate button. The one way to get a second copy is to publish the world to the Community Hub and then clone it back from there — open the ⋮ menu on your world card, choose Publish, then play your own world from the Hub to clone it into your account.
Two things to know before you do: publishing makes the world publicly visible, and the published version is a frozen snapshot, so the copy won't stay in sync with the original as you keep building.
No. The map only changes when you change it. NPCs will sometimes reference places that don't exist as hexes — a neighboring city, a port down the coast — and that's just them talking, the same way a real person mentions somewhere they've been. Nothing is generated behind the scenes and no hexes are added.
If you want a place they mentioned to become real, add it yourself in worldbuilding mode.
No — there's no console, no command line, and no cheat codes. That said, it's your world: you can add items to your inventory and edit your character directly from the Atlas Player tab. Your gold balance is the exception; it only moves through real transactions like selling, quest rewards, and combat.
Not yet — there's currently no way to reset a world, clear its history, or start the story over in place. We're adding this functionality very soon!
In the meantime, starting a brand-new world gives you a clean slate, and your current world stays exactly as you left it.
On desktop, go back a page in your browser and the world exits cleanly — or hover over the RPBuddy.ai logo in the top left and click Dashboard. On mobile, simply go back to the previous page.
Your world is saved continuously, so there's nothing to save before you leave or quit.
There's no crafting system. Items come from shops, NPCs, quest rewards, and combat loot — and you can always add items to your inventory directly from the Atlas Player tab.
Combat starts two ways: walking through a biome can trigger an encounter (only if you've created at least one enemy template for that biome — without templates the world is safe to wander), or a conversation with an NPC turns genuinely violent and moves to the battle screen.
XP and experience points come from winning fights — enemies above your level are worth more, weaker ones less. Losing to enemies costs some XP and gold.
No. RPBuddy is an 18+ platform. Users must confirm they are 18 or older before playing.
RPBuddy supports mature scenarios and dramatic themes in creative fiction on paid plans, within our Terms of Service. On the free plan, scenes that move into mature territory are paused with a notice. Your worlds are private on every plan.
For image generation, individual AI image models enforce their own content restrictions on top of ours — some are stricter than others, and a model may decline a prompt that another accepts. If a portrait or image is refused, adjusting the prompt or switching models in your world settings may help.
Content involving minors in sexual situations, real identifiable people without consent, content promoting real-world violence, and attempts to bypass content safety systems are strictly prohibited. See Section 6 of our Terms of Service for the full list.
There are two different notices. “Mature content isn't available on this plan” means the scene reached mature territory on the free plan; it is not a safety violation, and upgrading lifts it. A safety block is different.
An NPC chat message is blocked when RPBuddy's automated safety screening flags it as potentially containing content prohibited by Section 6 of our Terms of Service. This includes sexualized content involving minors, non-consensual sexual content, bestiality, content involving real identifiable people without consent, content that promotes, plans, or instructs real-world violence or terrorism, harassment or threats against real people, illegal-purpose content, and attempts to bypass safety systems. Consensual adult fictional content is permitted, but these prohibitions apply even in fictional roleplay. Repeated attempts to submit prohibited content may lead to account action. Because screening is automated, false positives are possible; contact support@rpbuddy.ai if you believe a message was blocked incorrectly.
Not on paid plans. On the free plan, the prompts and AI responses from your sessions may be used to improve RPBuddy's AI. Upgrading stops that for all future activity, and content you created on a paid plan is never used, even if you later move to the free plan. Buddy chats are never used. Your worlds stay private on every plan. See our Privacy Policy for details.
No. Mature scenes are available to paying users. Everything else — combat, drama, dark themes — is fine on every plan within our Terms.
RPBuddy uses state-of-the-art large language models for NPC conversations and story generation, and dedicated image generation models for character portraits and art. We continuously evaluate and upgrade our AI stack to deliver the best experience.
AI models can occasionally produce unexpected outputs. If an NPC says something out of character, just steer the conversation — they'll course correct. We're constantly improving the prompts and guardrails.
RPBuddy currently offers: Oil Painting (classic fantasy), Retro Anime (80s/90s cel animation), Modern Anime, Comic Book, and Adult Animation.
Data export is planned for a future update. In the meantime, if you need your data, contact support@rpbuddy.ai and we'll help you out.
Join our Discord community or email support@rpbuddy.ai. We actively fix bugs and love hearing from our players.
RPBuddy works best in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on desktop. Safari is supported but may have minor differences.
Account info (name, email), payment info (processed by Stripe — we never see your card number), your game content (worlds, characters, chats), and basic usage data. On the free plan, AI prompts and responses may also be used to improve our AI. See our full Privacy Policy for details.
Yes. You can delete individual worlds (which permanently removes all associated data and images), or request full account deletion by emailing support@rpbuddy.ai. Free-plan content that was already used to improve an AI model stays in that model; it is removed from our systems and excluded from future training.
Nothing is lost. Your account moves to the free plan with your worlds intact. Content you created while subscribed is never used for AI improvement.