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
The platform
Run a scene live on Friday, keep it going by post all week, and build the world in between. Play modes, rule systems, worldbuilding, and AI help live in one campaign.
Free to play, with limits on storage and the number of campaigns. Paid plans raise those limits and include AI features.
Text mode
Text mode is one scene that runs at both speeds. Play in real time when the table is online, keep posting when life gets in the way, and never move the story to another channel.
How AnyTale handles play-by-postIC for your character, Action for what they do, OOC for the table, Whisper for secrets. Switch with a tap instead of switching apps.
Story view keeps long posts readable. Live view keeps fast back-and-forth flowing. Drafts hold your turn until it is ready.
AnyTale runs in any mobile browser and installs to your home screen as an app. Start a post on the train, finish it at your desk.
One scene, one week
NarratorScene beat
The gate groans open. Torchlight spills across the frost.
JoeIC
I go first. Shield up, eyes on the arches.
AnyTale v2 · 34 under 55Success
RoxielIC
While the others sleep, I copy the runes from the gate into my journal, one by one.
TomelinWhisper
Roxiel. The third rune is wrong. Someone changed it.
GMOOC
Runes are in the wiki now. Live again Friday?
Cinematic mode
Cinematic mode clears the screen for the story. The chat log steps back and the scene takes the whole stage.
Director tools let the GM set the stage and the pace, so every player writes into the same moment.
The composer stays on stage. Pick your character, choose IC, Action, or OOC, and post to everyone or to one player.
Text and Cinematic are two views of the same scene. Tactical, with maps and tokens, is next.
In developmentRule systems
Some groups want a couple of stats and nothing more. Others want dice that matter. Every campaign picks its own system, from simple stats to a full tabletop RPG.
A few stats and simple rules, set up in a minute. Keep it light.
Our d100 roll-under system. Quick to learn, quick to resolve.
A tabletop RPG where Ishihara handles the mechanics. No manual rolls.
Only on AnyTaleBuild your own system, from a two-stat hack to a full d20 ruleset.
Try AnyTale v2
One d100, one number to beat. The lower you roll, the better it goes, from a clean crit to a partial success that costs you something.
Coming from mRPG? Systemless will feel familiarWorldbuilder
Worldbuilder is a full wiki for your setting: places, factions, people, and history as linked pages. Ishihara is synced with it, so she can turn what happened in your campaign into Wikipedia-style articles.
Ishihara AI
Ishihara is the AI assistant built into AnyTale. She takes the busywork off the table so the people at it can stay in the story. Call her when you need her, and she stays out of the way when you don't.
Paint the gate at dusk for tonight's scene.
Here is Saltgate at dusk.
Joe took the crossbow bolt. Mark him wounded.
Done. Joe is Wounded, and his sheet is updated.
In AnyTale TTRPGFree to play, with limits on storage and the number of campaigns. Paid plans raise those limits and include AI features.
Create your accountRoadmap
AnyTale is in beta and ships often. This is where every part of the platform stands right now.
Bug reports and ideas from players decide the order of this list. Tell us in Discord
FAQ
Short answers about modes, rule systems, Ishihara, and what is coming.
AnyTale is an all-in-one online roleplay platform. Play text roleplay live or by post, stage scenes in Cinematic mode, choose a rule system from systemless to our d100 roll-under AnyTale v2, and build your setting in a wiki that links to your scenes. It runs in the browser.
Yes. The free plan includes campaigns, Text and Cinematic modes, rule systems, and Worldbuilder, with limits on storage and the number of campaigns. Paid plans raise those limits and include AI features powered by Ishihara.
No. AnyTale runs in any modern browser on desktop and mobile. You can also add it to your home screen as an app (PWA) and open your campaign in one tap.
Yes. In Text mode the same scene works live and by post. Play in real time when everyone is online, keep posting through the week, and read back the full history of the scene at any point.
Today you can run campaigns Systemless, with a few stats and simple rules you set up in a minute, or with AnyTale v2, our d100 roll-under system. AnyTale TTRPG, where Ishihara handles the mechanics, is in preview and planned for November 2026. Custom Homebrew, for building your own system, is planned.
If you use Role Gate for asynchronous text roleplay, AnyTale covers the same scene-first need and adds live play, Cinematic mode, rule systems, and a Worldbuilder wiki around the scene.
AnyTale can be a Roll20 alternative for groups that care more about the story than the battlemap. Text mode and Cinematic mode cover narrative play today, and a Tactical VTT mode with maps and tokens is in development.
Foundry VTT is a powerful self-hosted virtual tabletop. AnyTale runs in the browser with nothing to host, and focuses on text scenes, theater of the mind, rule systems, and worldbuilding instead of module setup.
Not yet. Today AnyTale covers text roleplay and theater of the mind. Tactical mode, with maps and tokens, is in development.
Ishihara is the AI assistant built into AnyTale. She generates images for your scenes, places, and characters, and because she is synced with Worldbuilder she can draft Wikipedia-style articles from what happened in your campaign. In AnyTale TTRPG she also helps the GM and players run the game, for example updating a character sheet when the GM simply asks. She assists; the story stays with the people at the table.
AnyTale Characters, coming in October 2026, turns characters from your campaigns into AI personas you can keep talking to, collected in your Character Library. AnyTale Adventures, coming in December 2026, lets you start an AI-led adventure when your group or GM is not available.
For running the game, yes. Scenes, posts, rolls, characters, and the campaign wiki live in one place, so nothing gets lost between a chat server, a shared doc, and a notes app.
Create a campaign room, send your players the link,
and start the first scene tonight.
