Sea voyages
Buy passage between ports. You pay in coin, in days, and in risk. Storms and pirates are the ordinary problems out there.
Worldtable · fantasy worlds you build, then play by typing
Draw a world.
Then let people in.
An AI plays every innkeeper, bandit and rival you wrote. It never gets to touch the dice.
Shape the land, write its peoples, magic and villains, and pick the rules in plain words. Then invite your players, or walk in yourself. You type what your character does and the world answers in the voice you gave it, while ordinary game code keeps the map, the wounds and the money.
Free to build · Runs in a browser · Players never pay
14
shapes of land, or your own drawing
6
questions to a first draft
20
rules the engine enforces
23
naming styles
55
actions the world can take
If you think AI games are slop
You're mostly right.
So the AI here only gets to narrate.
Most AI games fall apart the same way. Nothing stays true for more than a paragraph. The tavern moves, the wound quietly heals, the villain forgets who you are. Worldtable solves that with boring old software. There's a simulation running underneath and the language model sits on top of it, describing what happens. It doesn't get a vote.
The map was drawn before anyone played
Coastlines, rivers, biomes, roads and every town are generated from the land the builder shaped, then held by the engine. The narrator can't move the tavern or shorten the road to bail you out. When it sends you somewhere, it's a place on that map, three days' ride down a road that's also already there.
Everything is written down
Your injuries, your coin, your inventory, your titles and what every NPC privately thinks of you are all rows in a database, not vibes floating around in a prompt. Close the tab for a month and come back. The innkeeper still remembers the tab you never paid.
The numbers are real numbers
How far you got today, what a crossing costs, how hard you hit and how badly it went wrong are all computed, not narrated. The model reads your intent and grades it. The arithmetic happens somewhere it can't reach.
Combat
Fights you can actually lose.
The game's own battle map, playing a scripted turn in your browser. No AI was asked.
You describe what you're doing. Feint low, put your shoulder through the door, throw everything into one strike. The engine reads it for tactics and risk, then it rolls. Effort is a currency you spend, so hitting harder leaves you with less in the tank when things go badly.
Fight on your own and it plays out on a map. Enemies announce their blows before they land, so stepping out of the way works. Shove someone into a shelf and the shelf breaks. Fire leaves the ground burning. Where everyone stands and what every blow did is worked out by the engine before the narrator writes a word.
CRITICAL
1.4×
GLANCING
0.5×
BACKFIRE
0.0×
Three of the outcomes the engine can hand back. It isn't rooting for you.
You build it
A world the storyteller can't quietly rewrite.
Sooner or later every AI storyteller forgets or bends what you wrote. In the World Studio the parts that matter aren't left to it. The map, each people's limits, the cast, the rules and the money are data the engine holds, and the storyteller has to work inside them.
Land you can walk across
Pick one of fourteen shapes or draw your own coastline. The generator raises the terrain, runs the rivers, lays the roads and founds the towns. Drag a region's name and its borders regrow as you move.
Or start from six questions
Say what the world is about and how it should feel, and Worldtable drafts the premise, regions, peoples, magic, a cast of rulers and villains, lore and its own money in a minute or two. Then edit it line by line.
Rules in words, kept in code
When a hero falls: they die for good, or they're beaten and wake later. The most dangerous thing the world may bring. How many companions can follow one hero. Pick them in plain words, and the engine holds the storyteller to them.
Your players live in it
What it's like on the other side of the table.
Players make a character in your world, type what they do, and the world writes back. Here's what's keeping score underneath.
The chart
A chart that remembers where you've been.
The map isn't a level select. The whole world is on it from day one, every town named, so you can plan a route three regions away. Underneath, the game keeps track of exactly where your character has been. Switch on the Fog layer and the chart shows only that: the roads you've walked, the coasts you've sailed, and unnamed shapes everywhere else.
Which makes the map a record too. Put the fog on after a few weeks and you can see where you've been, what you went around, and the dark stretch of coast you still haven't worked up to.
- Fog of war when you want it, kept for your character rather than the server
- Roads, rivers and shipping lanes with real distances in kilometres
- Towns you can walk into: taverns, temples and keeps laid out room by room, with people in them
- If the builder allows it, a world that gets edited: craters, razed towns and new roads all stick
The road
Getting there is most of it.
You don't teleport between scenes. You pick a place on the chart and your party walks, and the walking takes days that actually pass: the clock runs, prices move, and the trouble you left behind you keeps developing while you're out of the room.
Nothing about that is a fixed number. Your speed is whatever falls out of the ground under you, the road if there is one, how many animals you have, how much you're carrying, and the hour. Take the mountain shortcut and you'll find out why nobody uses it.
Dawn, day 1247 km to the coast2 days on the roadDusk in an hour
What sets your pace
- On foot, laden, open country32km / day
- On a paved road×1.85faster
- Fully mounted party+45%at best
- On a dirt trail×1.3faster
- Pressing on after dark×0.68slower
- Glacier, at altitude×0.19crawling
Real constants out of the travel code. Speed is never stored on your character; it's recomputed for the ground you're standing on.
The people
They remember you. Specifically.
Every named character keeps a file on you: what you did in front of them, what they heard about you from somebody else, and where you stand with them: how far they trust you, how warm they are, how much they'd like you gone. You can open anyone's page and read the lot back. Their memories of you, in their own words, with dates on them.
“You paid for the boy's passage and never said whose son he was. I have not forgotten that, and neither has his mother.”
That's an NPC memory. The engine keeps them per character and feeds them back in every time that person shows up in a scene.
Consequence
Word gets around.
Do something loud enough and a timer starts. Some in-game days later, depending on how bad it was, the story turns up in a town you aren't in, and it's grown in the retelling. Strangers start calling you by a title you never picked. Some doors open because of it and some are shut before you get near them.
HuntedDebt-boundThe Quiet BladeOathbreakerOwed a favour
You don't choose your title. The world decides when you've got one.
For solo roleplayers
Nobody has to be free on Tuesday.
If you've ever built a character you never got to play because five adults couldn't agree on an evening, this is for you. The table is open at two in the morning. Take one turn on your phone while you're queuing for coffee, or lose four hours to a single conversation with a stranger in a bar. The world will wait for you.
Play in bursts
Turns run in the background, so you can close the tab mid-scene.
Install it
Add it to your home screen and it runs like any other app.
Or don't
Rooms are shared. You can walk into a town and find someone already there.
Afterwards
It all ends up as a book.
As word of what you did gets around, a chronicler writes it up as proper chapters in the world's voice rather than a bullet-point summary. They get bound into a book you can sit down and read, with painted plates from the moments that deserved one, in worlds that have pictures switched on. Older chapters fold down into a prologue instead of disappearing.
The book counts as canon. The AI reads it back before every scene, so chapter nine knows what you got up to in chapter two.
And also
The rest of the world.
Training grounds
Your skills get built around who your character actually is, then you go and earn them in the yard. It's not a shop menu.
Crafting
Bring materials to a bench and describe what you're trying to make. It gets judged on its merits instead of looked up in a table. A bad idea can still cost you the materials.
Discoveries
Lore you dig up gets written into a codex that only you have read.
Transformation
Where their people allow it, and only under real pressure, a character can break past their limits.
Trouble is already underway
Regions have situations moving before you arrive, and the first one to find you comes out of your backstory.
Expeditions
Commit to a voyage into uncharted water and watch how it goes.
Straight answers
Questions you're probably about to ask.
- Is this just a chatbot with a fantasy prompt?
- No. The model is one part of a stack that also has a world generator, a combat resolver, an economy, a quest tracker and a database in it. Its job is narrating and voicing characters. It doesn't get to decide whether you hit, what you own, how far it is or who likes you.
- Can I break it by typing something absurd?
- Have a go. Actions get classified before they resolve, and the world pushes back instead of playing along. A peasant who announces he's the emperor gets the reception a room full of armed people would actually give him. There's no railroad and no paperwork, but there is friction.
- Can I lose my character?
- That's the world's call. Its builder picks what happens when a hero falls: they die for good, or they're beaten and wake up later. Either way the engine applies it. The storyteller doesn't get to decide you lived.
- Do I have to build a world to play?
- Somebody does. Worlds are private: you get in with the builder's invite link, or from a world's public page by asking to join. Or answer six questions, get a drafted world, and walk into it yourself with a throwaway hero.
- What does it cost?
- Building is free, and your first $1 of AI is on Worldtable, which is enough to draft a world and play it for a while. After that a world runs on its builder's own key, from OpenRouter or any OpenAI-compatible provider, so the builder pays the provider directly. Players never pay.
The page is blank
Make a world, then go
and find out what happens in it.
Six questions get you a drafted world in a minute or two: land, peoples, magic, a cast and a coin. Change what you like, make a character, and you're standing in a real town on your own map with a road leading out of it.