# RPBuddy

> RPBuddy (https://www.rpbuddy.ai) is an AI-powered single-player RPG sandbox. Players build living game worlds — hex maps, settlements, buildings — populated by AI NPCs with persistent memory, then roleplay through freeform chat while the world simulates forward day by day.

## Key facts

- Genres: Medieval Fantasy, Victorian, Modern Day, Neon Future, Sci-Fi Colony — each with its own buildings, NPCs, music, economy, and culture.
- NPCs have personalities, persistent memory of your conversations, dispositions that shift with your actions, daily routines, and they gossip with each other.
- Gameplay: hex-map exploration, settlements with enterable buildings, quests, turn-based combat, inventory and economy, AI-powered story journal.
- Every NPC portrait, building interior, and settlement gets unique AI-generated art. Art styles: Oil Painting, Retro Anime, Modern Anime, Comic Book, Adult Animation.
- Nearly 400 original music tracks that shift with biome, time of day, and combat.
- Pricing: Traveler is free to play with no credit card (50 image credits/month, 50 AI actions per day, unlimited worlds); Adventurer $10/month or $100/year (200 image credits/month, unlimited NPC chats and worlds); Hero $20/month or $200/year (500 credits/month, premium image models, enhanced NPC memory). Yearly plans are two months free and include a one-time bonus credit grant. Credit packs: 50 for $5, 100 for $8, 300 for $20.
- 18+ platform. Single-player. User worlds are private and never used for AI training.
- Support: support@rpbuddy.ai · Discord: https://discord.gg/ejppJUc3QS

## Docs

- [Billing and credits](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/account/billing-and-credits): How image credits work, how to get more, and how to manage your subscription.
- [Buddy](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/account/buddy): Buddy is RPBuddy's in-app helper. Ask it how anything in the game works.
- [Languages](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/account/languages): RPBuddy is available in English, Español, Français, Deutsch, 日本語, 한국어 and Português.
- [Plans and limits](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/account/plans-and-limits): What each plan includes. Other pages link here rather than repeating these details.
- [Settings](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/account/settings): Atlas → Settings (the gears on the Command Deck, or press 6). It has two halves, saved in different places.
- [Combat](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/adventure/combat): How a battle plays out, from the first strike to the loot.
- [Creating enemies](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/adventure/creating-enemies): The enemy editor, field by field.
- [Encounters](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/adventure/encounters): When and where enemies find you on the road.
- [Inventory and equipment](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/adventure/inventory-and-equipment): Items, gear, healing and enchanted weapons.
- [Levels and XP](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/adventure/levels-and-xp): How your character grows stronger.
- [Money and economy](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/adventure/money-and-economy): Your wallet, and where money comes from and goes.
- [Status effects](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/adventure/status-effects): Every effect in combat, plus how weaknesses and resistances change them.
- [Disposition and relationships](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/characters/disposition-and-relationships): How characters feel about you, what changes that, and what it changes.
- [Factions](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/characters/factions): Groups your characters belong to: guilds, gangs, houses, crews, congregations.
- [Importing NPCs](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/characters/importing-npcs): Bring in a character you've written with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI assistant.
- [Memory and the Journal](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/characters/memory-and-the-journal): How characters remember, how you can shape what they remember, and the Journal where it all shows up.
- [NPC profiles](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/characters/npc-profiles): Every field on a character's sheet, what it does in conversation, and what it does when you're not around.
- [Party members](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/characters/party-members): Bring characters along on your travels.
- [Your player character](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/characters/player-character): Every field on your character sheet, what the game does with it, and what the characters you meet actually know about you.
- [Portraits, portrait states and expressions](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/characters/portraits-states-expressions): How character pictures are made, and how to give a character other outfits and faces.
- [Your creator profile](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/community/creator-profile): Your public page in the Community Hub, at /@yourhandle.
- [Playing community worlds](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/community/playing-community-worlds): Browse, preview and play worlds other players have built.
- [Publishing a world](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/community/publishing): Share your world in the Community Hub so other players can play their own copy.
- [Chat commands](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/conversations/chat-commands): In a conversation, type / in the message box. A list of commands appears above the input. Keep typing to narrow it, then Enter or click to pick one. When a command has everything it needs, Send is…
- [Content settings and safety](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/conversations/content-and-safety): The settings that shape mature content, and what happens when a conversation crosses a line.
- [Editing, re-rolling and the conversation view](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/conversations/editing-and-rerolling): The controls inside a conversation.
- [First meetings](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/conversations/first-meetings): How characters treat a stranger, and how you become someone they know.
- [How conversations work](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/conversations/how-chat-works): What happens when you send a message, who answers, and what a character knows when they reply.
- [Shops and trading](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/conversations/shops-and-trading): Buy and sell through the shop panel during a conversation, or trade by talking to the shopkeeper.
- [Spectator mode](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/conversations/spectator-mode): Watch a scene play out, and direct it, without being in it.
- [What NPCs can do](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/conversations/what-npcs-can-do): Characters mostly talk. Some can also take real actions that change the game. This page covers which characters can do what.
- [FAQ](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/help/faq): The full FAQ lives on its own page, in every language: rpbuddy.ai/faq.
- [Troubleshooting](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/help/troubleshooting): Common problems, what causes them, and what to do.
- [The image gallery](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/images-and-art/gallery): Every image you generate is kept in your gallery, and any of them can be reused, for free.
- [Writing image prompts](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/images-and-art/image-prompting): How to get the picture you want. Every image prompt describes the subject only. Your world's art style, and the framing for each kind of picture, are added for you.
- [Image safety](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/images-and-art/image-safety): What can stop an image from being made.
- [Image models and art styles](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/images-and-art/models-and-styles): Every picture in your world (portraits, interiors, settlements, enemies) is painted by an image model in an art style. You choose both when you create a world, and can change them later.
- [1. Sign up](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/01-sign-up): RPBuddy is free to start, and you don't need a card. This chapter takes you from the landing page to your dashboard.
- [2. Create your world](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/02-create-your-world): A new world takes four choices, then opens directly on the map. You can explore and build before creating your character.
- [3. Your first building](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/03-your-first-building): This is where your world comes alive: one building, and the people who live or work there.
- [4. Your first conversation](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/04-your-first-conversation): Walk in, talk, leave, and come back later. The people you meet remember you.
- [5. The screen](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/05-the-screen): A tour of everything on screen while you're in a world, on desktop and on mobile.
- [6. Your character](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/06-your-character): The characters you meet react to who you are. A few fields decide how they see you. Every field is covered in Your player character.
- [7. Moving around](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/07-moving-around): Getting from place to place, finding people, and how the map is laid out.
- [8. Your first settlement](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/08-your-first-settlement): Turn a patch of map into a town: draw it yourself, or drop in a complete ready-made one.
- [9. Filling the world](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/09-filling-the-world): Ways to add more to your world. Pick what you need, and each one links to its full page.
- [10. A living world](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/10-a-living-world): Your world doesn't stand still between conversations. Here's what moves on its own, and how to steer it.
- [11. Your first fight](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/11-your-first-fight): Make an enemy, meet it on the road, and win (or lose) the fight.
- [12. Sharing your world](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/journey/12-sharing-your-world): Publish your world to the Community Hub so other players can play it, or play theirs.
- [NPC daily life](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/living-world/npc-daily-life): Where characters go and what they do when you're not talking to them.
- [Overnight](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/living-world/overnight): What changes when a new day begins.
- [Quests](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/living-world/quests): Quests are reasons to go and talk to people, with a reward at the end. They come from each settlement's Bounty Board.
- [Story Moments](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/living-world/story-moments): The small scenes you walk in on: a quarrel at the forge, a friend with news, a shopkeeper with a favor to ask.
- [Story preferences](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/living-world/story-preferences): Journal → Preferences tells the story systems what you want from your world. It shapes Story Moments and the daily digest. Only one setting, Avoidances, reaches your conversations directly.
- [Time and days](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/living-world/time-and-days): How the clock works, and every way to move it forward (or back).
- [Area profiles and NPC briefings](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/places/areas-and-briefings): Your world, its regions, settlements and districts each have a profile and an NPC briefing. Together they're how characters know the world they live in.
- [Buildings and rooms](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/places/buildings-and-rooms): Every building field and what it does, rooms and floors, and editing buildings on the map.
- [Clusters and quick buildings](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/places/clusters-and-quick-buildings): Ways to put down a lot of buildings fast. For a whole settlement at once, see the templates in Settlements, districts and regions.
- [The Location Wizard](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/places/location-wizard): The Location Wizard fills a building, landmark or room with a name, a description and the people who live or work there. This page covers everything it can do. For a first walkthrough, see 3. Your…
- [The Lorebook](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/places/lorebook): The Lorebook holds facts characters bring up when they're relevant: a city's history, a secret society, how magic works, a legend everyone half-remembers. It follows the Character Card V2 lorebook…
- [Roads, rivers, walls and terrain](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/places/roads-rivers-walls-terrain): The Build mode tools that shape the land around your buildings. Open Build mode with the toolbox, then pick a tool from the bar along the bottom. A hint above the bar explains each tool as you use it.
- [Settlements, districts and regions](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/places/settlements): Drawing areas on the map, filling a settlement from a template, and how the three kinds of area fit together.
- [The hex map](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/places/the-hex-map): Your world's map is a grid of hexes, each with its own biome. This page covers growing the map, reshaping it, and how it looks.
- [Limits](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/reference/character-limits): Every text limit and count limit in one place. Editors show a counter as you get close.
- [Credit costs](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/reference/credit-costs): What each image action costs. Every button shows its exact cost before you spend, and failed images are refunded automatically.
- [Glossary](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/reference/glossary): Quick definitions, each with a link to the full explanation.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/reference/keyboard-shortcuts): Every key and mouse shortcut in RPBuddy. Shortcuts don't fire while you're typing in a text box.
- [Welcome to RPBuddy](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/welcome): RPBuddy is a single-player worldbuilding and roleplay game. You build a world, fill it with characters, and play it by talking to them. The AI plays every character. They remember you, they have…
- [Export world](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/docs/worldbuilding/markdown-export): Open Atlas → Settings. Export world is at the bottom of the world-settings column, below Intimacy.

## Pages

- [FAQ](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/faq): pricing, features, billing, content policy
- [Contact](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/contact)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.rpbuddy.ai/terms)