All-in-one roleplay platform
Roleplay in text, in real time or by post across the week.
Stage theater-of-the-mind scenes, roll dice, and build
your world's wiki. All in your browser.
Free to play · No download · Works on your phone
A typical online game lives in a Discord server, a dice bot, a shared doc, and a wiki someone stopped updating in March. In AnyTale the scenes, rolls, characters, and lore belong to the campaign itself, and you choose how to play it: as text, on a cinematic stage, and from December as a tactical battle.
Text, Cinematic, and Tactical are views of the same scene. Switch when the moment changes, and nothing is lost.
Text mode is in beta
Cinematic mode is in alpha
AnyTale Tactical arrives in December 2026
Write the scene together, live or by post.
A Text scene runs at whatever speed your table has. When everyone is online it moves like a chat. When they aren't, people post as they find the time, and the scene is still one thread you can read from the first line.
Text mode is in beta
How play-by-post works in AnyTaleNarratorScene
The gate groans open. Torchlight spills across the frost.
JoeIC
I go first. Shield up, eyes on the arches.
Joe rolls to notice, 34 under 55Success
Saturday to Monday, nobody posts. The scene waits.
RoxielAction
While the others sleep, she copies the runes from the gate into her journal, one by one.
TomelinWhisper
Roxiel. The third rune is wrong. Someone changed it.
GMOOC
Runes are in the wiki now. Live again on Friday?
AnyTale runs in any mobile browser. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, straight into your campaign.
Cinematic hides the log and hands the screen to the scene: a backdrop, music, and the characters who are in it. Use it for the reveal, the duel, the last conversation before the gate opens.
Cinematic mode is in alpha
From the Director panel the GM changes the backdrop and the music, puts characters in the spotlight, and calls for a roll when the moment needs one.
The composer sits at the bottom of the stage. Choose your character and IC, Action, or OOC, then post to everyone or to one player.
Text and Cinematic are two views of one scene, so switching loses nothing. From December, a third view turns the same scene into a battle.
One click, and the scene becomes a battle.
AnyTale Tactical arrives in December 2026
When the swords come out, the GM opens Tactical from Cinematic mode. The scene you were just playing turns into the battlefield, and when the fight is over, the story carries on from the same place.
The scene's backdrop fills the screen with a grid on top. Prefer a battle map? Upload one and the grid fits itself to it.
Every character in the scene stands on the board as a token. Nobody places anything by hand.
Initiative is rolled, or the GM sets the order, and the first turn lights up.
One click returns to Cinematic. Positions, the round, and whose turn it is stay where you left them.
Tactical is a battle layer, not a full virtual tabletop. There is no fog of war, no walls, and no line of sight, so a fight starts in a click and stays part of the story. AnyTale VTT, with all of that, comes later. Coming from Roll20 or Sigil? See how Tactical keeps battles simple.
Some groups want a couple of stats and nothing else. Others want rolls with real consequences. The system is set per campaign, so the same group can run a light one-shot and a crunchy campaign side by side.
A few stats and simple rules you can set up in a minute.
Our d100 roll-under system, with six outcomes from critical success to critical failure.
A tabletop RPG where Ishihara handles the mechanics, so nobody rolls by hand.
Build your own system, from a two-stat hack to a full d20 ruleset.
This is AnyTale v2: one d100 against your stat. Roll at or under it and you succeed, and the lower the roll, the better it goes. The last ten points still succeed, at a cost. A 96 or higher is a critical failure whatever your stat. With advantage you roll twice and keep the lower die.
Coming from mRPG? Start with SystemlessAnyTale Worlds is the wiki for your setting: places, people, factions, and history as linked pages that every campaign in that world shares. AnyTale Atlas puts them on the map. Open a place to read its page.
AnyTale Worlds is in alpha
AnyTale Atlas is an early preview
The Corran Road / Places
Shared by 3 campaigns
A gatehouse on the Corran Road
Saltgate is an old gatehouse on the Corran Road, a day's ride north of Dunmere. Its arches are carved with a ring of warding runes, and the Lantern Watch has kept a lamp lit above it for as long as anyone remembers.
During the party's crossing, Roxiel copied the runes into her journal. Someone had changed the third one.
Only the GM sees this
The Lantern Watch altered the rune to let the dead through.
Go from the realm to a province, a city, a dungeon. Every place opens its own map and its page in Worlds.
The GM keeps places hidden and reveals them when the party learns about them.
Characters travel the map together, and the journey takes days based on distance and terrain.
Anyone from your campaigns, or anyone you can imagine, becomes someone you can talk to. They remember what happened at the table and answer in their own voice.
AnyTale Characters is in alpha
Still carrying that journal?
Always. Page forty, the runes from Saltgate. I keep coming back to the third one.
Tomelin thinks someone changed it.
Tomelin thinks a great many things. This time he's right. The strokes are newer than the stone.
So what do we do on Friday?
Go back before the Lantern Watch lights the lamp. And this time, Joe doesn't go first.
Characters reads her scenes in the campaign and keeps her voice, her people, and what she wants. You read and edit the result before she says a word.
On paid plansWhat she played
Go, then. I'll watch the arches and write down whatever tries to kill us.
While the others sleep, I copy the runes from the gate into my journal, one by one.
Third rune. Who carves the same rune twice?
What Characters kept
Characters is part of paid plans. Free accounts can try it until November 20, 2026.
Start a conversationIshihara is built into AnyTale, and nothing she makes goes into your game until you put it there. Any account can ask her how AnyTale works. Paid plans unlock the rest.
“The gate at dusk, for tonight's scene.”Drawn by Ishihara for the GMAI tools cost money to run, so they come with a paid plan, along with room for bigger tables. A subscription also keeps AnyTale running and pays for what we build next.
| Plan | FreeEverything you need to run a campaign. | Paid plansMore room for bigger tables, and Ishihara at work for you. |
|---|---|---|
| Active campaigns | 10 | No cap |
| Players per campaign | 10 | 15 to 25, depending on the plan |
| Storage | 100MB | up to50GB |
| Text and Cinematic modes | ||
| Every rule system | ||
| AnyTale Worlds | ||
| Ishihara as your guide to AnyTale | ||
| AnyTale Characters | Free until November 20, 2026 | |
| Scene art from Ishihara | ||
| Wiki drafts for AnyTale Worlds | ||
| Create a free account | Thank you. Every subscription goes back into AnyTale. |
Most new accounts get the free limits right away. When a lot of accounts sign up at once, our bot protection may give some of them smaller limits at first. Play for 10 hours and the full free limits are yours.
Beta means ready for real campaigns. Alpha means you can use it today, but it changes quickly and can have rough edges. Dates are targets, not promises.
AnyTale is in beta, and some parts are still in alpha, so things will break now and then. Please don't hesitate to tell us: every bug report and every “I wish it could…” helps decide what we fix and build next.
Report a bug or share an idea in DiscordSomething missing? Ask in Discord.
AnyTale is a browser platform for running roleplay and tabletop campaigns. A campaign holds its scenes, characters, rolls, and wiki, and you can play it in Text mode, live or by post, or in Cinematic mode. AnyTale Tactical, which turns a scene into a grid battle in one click, arrives in December 2026.
Yes. Most free accounts can run up to 10 active campaigns with up to 10 players each, use both play modes and every rule system, and build a world in AnyTale Worlds. If our bot protection starts a new account with smaller limits, 10 hours of play unlock the full ones. Paid plans remove the campaign cap, raise player and storage limits, and add Ishihara's AI tools. They are also how you support the project: subscriptions keep AnyTale running and pay for what we build next.
No. AnyTale runs in any modern browser on desktop and mobile. You can also add it to your home screen as an app and open your campaign in one tap.
Yes. A Text scene works live and by post at the same time. Play in real time when everyone is online, post through the week when they are not, and read the whole scene back from the first line whenever you like.
Each campaign picks one. Systemless gives you a few stats and simple rules. AnyTale v2 is our d100 roll-under system. AnyTale TTRPG, where Ishihara handles the mechanics, is in preview and planned for December 2026. Custom Homebrew, for building your own system, is planned.
Ishihara is the AI assistant built into AnyTale. Any account can ask her how the platform works. On paid plans she draws scene art and drafts articles for AnyTale Worlds from your campaign, which stay private until you publish them. In AnyTale TTRPG she will also update sheets and apply effects when the GM asks.
AnyTale Worlds, now in alpha, is a wiki for your setting: places, people, factions, and history as linked pages, shared by every campaign set in that world. AnyTale Atlas, in preview, adds the maps. Players explore them during the game, and the GM decides what they have discovered.
AnyTale Characters lets you talk to characters between sessions: one on one, in group scenes with up to five characters, or in private chats that stay in your browser. Build a character from your campaign, start from an idea, import a SillyTavern card, or pick one from the public catalog. Characters is part of paid plans, and free accounts can try it until November 20, 2026. AnyTale Adventures, planned for December 2026, starts a solo adventure with an AI game master when your group is not available.
For running the game, yes. Scenes, posts, rolls, characters, and the wiki live in the campaign, so nothing has to be copied between a chat server, a shared doc, and a notes app.
For groups that care more about the story than the battle map, yes. Text and Cinematic modes cover narrative play today, and AnyTale Tactical adds quick grid battles in December 2026. A full virtual tabletop, AnyTale VTT, is planned for later.
Sigil, the 3D virtual tabletop in D&D Beyond, closes at the end of October 2026. AnyTale runs in the browser with nothing to install: you can start the campaign in Cinematic mode today, and AnyTale Tactical turns a scene into a grid battle on your own map in December 2026. AnyTale is 2D and uses its own rule systems rather than D&D Beyond character sheets. If you want help moving a campaign over by hand, write to AnyTale support and the creator of AnyTale will work it out with you.
Not quite. Tactical is a battle layer inside Cinematic mode: the GM opens it in one click, the scene art becomes a gridded board, every character in the scene is already a token, and the turn order is ready. It has turns, movement, conditions, and hidden tokens, but no fog of war, walls, or line of sight. Those belong to AnyTale VTT, which comes later.
Foundry is a self-hosted virtual tabletop built around modules. AnyTale runs in the browser with nothing to host, and focuses on scenes, theater of the mind, rule systems, and the campaign wiki.
Both handle asynchronous text roleplay. AnyTale adds live play in the same scene, Cinematic mode, rule systems with dice, and a world wiki in AnyTale Worlds that every campaign in that world shares.
My dream is to bring roleplayers together in one place, so nobody has to jump between a dozen sites just to get one feature. Don't be shy about anything, bugs or ideas. Whenever I'm free I'll answer and try to bring your ideas to life. I hope AnyTale becomes your home for roleplay, just like it became mine.
Every game you play, every idea you share and every subscription brings that closer. Say hi and share your ideas in AnyTale.
Create a campaign room, send your players the link,
and start the first scene tonight.
