Every game starts with a setting. Describe the world you want in the first few minutes and the GM builds the table around it — or pick a setting another player published in the Library and play there.
Choose how outcomes get decided when you start a game — one of these, or a ruleset from the Library that you or another player wrote. Browse player rulesets.
Who sits at the head of the table.
Start a game and tell the GM what you're after — a grimy port city, a haunted frontier, the dungeon under your childhood home. Or say "surprise me."
Start a gamePlayers publish settings in the Library. Pick one, put it on your game's table, and the GM runs the game inside it.
Browse settingsPure roleplay. No dice, no sheets required. When an outcome is in doubt the narrator weighs the standing of everyone involved and calls it, then the story moves on. Any character from any game can be played this way.
Narrative-first with dice. Characters are defined by short descriptive phrases that can be invoked for bonuses or compelled for complications; a small resource economy rewards taking the hard road.
Classes, levels, spells and a twenty-sided die. The most widely known tabletop system; tactical combat with a rich published rules set.
No dice at all. Outcomes follow from comparing how good each side is at the thing in question — Psyche, Strength, Endurance, Warfare — plus cleverness, circumstance and your Stuff. Princes and princesses of Amber: the Pattern, Trumps, shadow-walking, family intrigue and duels.
Bring a system from the Library — yours or one another player published. The GM reads the rules text and runs the game by it: character creation, checks, what winning and losing cost. Rough around the edges; that is the point.
The default voice. Runs any game, any ruleset or none.
Runs Fate. Warm, a little wry, lets the story breathe.
Runs D&D. Old-school, precise, loves a dungeon.
Runs Amber. Dry, political, plays the long game.