Play a fantasy campaign one post at a time, whenever you have a spare ten minutes. Bring your friends or find a party in the Lobby. An AI Dungeon Master runs the story, the dice and the battle maps, or a person takes the chair.
Try it free: your first 25 posts are on us. Then $9.99 once for lifetime access to keep playing and host your own games (AI for your own campaigns is pay-as-you-go after a starter batch). 5th Edition compatible, with 2014 or 2024 rules. For players 18+.
Pick the look of your table. Every theme works across the whole site.
The lamps lean toward the door, away from the cot, for the first time tonight.
The DM keeps track of every name, debt and secret, plays the people you meet, and asks each player what their character does next. Long, detailed posts, at whatever pace your group plays.
From a real campaign played on Talewrite.
The Lobby is where players meet. Browse tables looking for players, each with its rules, tone, pace and open seats, and ask to join with one click. The host accepts and you're seated. Or post your own listing and let games come to you.
Play-by-post means nobody has to line up a Saturday. Night owls, parents, people on the other side of the world: everyone posts when they can.
Example listings and chat.
Attacks, damage, saves and checks roll straight from your character, with the right bonuses already added. When the DM calls for a saving throw, a button appears for exactly the player who has to make it. Natural 20s glow, Bardic Inspiration and Action Surge are one click.
The DM lays out the room, places every token and runs initiative. One click paints the layout into a full illustration, with the walls, water and cover right where the grid says they are. Add fog of war, measure with the ruler, and drop spell areas to see who is caught in the blast.
A step-by-step builder walks you through ancestry, class, ability scores, gear and spells for the 2014 or 2024 rules. Hit points, spell slots, conditions and rests are tracked as you play, and level-up handles the new features for you. Every feature you have is listed with its full rules a tap away, sorted by action, bonus action and reaction. Already have a character on D&D Beyond? Import it with its link.
Ask the DM a rules question or what your character would know, whisper a secret plan only the DM sees, pass a private note to another player, or chat with your table without moving the scene forward.
The Artists' Gallery is where our community's artists show their work, and it's human-made art only: no AI-generated images. Find a style you love and ask for a portrait of your hero. The artist sends a price, you pay securely, and when the finished piece arrives it can go straight onto your character's sheet.
Anyone can browse the gallery. Artists with lifetime access post a portfolio, set their prices, and get paid directly into their own Stripe account.
Human Dungeon Masters get every tool the AI uses: hidden rolls, monsters, maps and handouts, plus a private DM book for chapters, scenes, encounters, random tables and trackers. Charge for seats with your own Stripe account if you like.
Ask for a one-shot or a full campaign built around your party's size and backstories, and start playing tonight.
Build spells, ancestries, classes, subclasses, items and monsters with a guided form, then use other people's creations at your table in one click.
Two for every class that you won't find anywhere else, from a barbarian who guards the hearth to a wizard who animates the crockery. See them all.
Every account gets a private sandbox table with all the DM tools and a guided tour. Try everything with test characters, then turn it into a real game when you're ready.
Draw from playing cards, tarot or the Deck of Many Things, or make your own deck. Tick the house rules your table uses. Familiars and companions get their own stat blocks and map tokens.
Lifetime access is to the site, not unlimited AI. It includes a one-time starter batch of AI for games you host. When your campaign wants more AI, add a credit pack or subscribe. Only the host pays for the AI, so players at your table don't. Post counts below are estimates; the note under the table explains how they're worked out.
Yes. Every account comes with a free practice game: a short solo adventure with a pre-written DM that teaches you to post, roll dice, ask the DM questions, fight and whisper, in about ten minutes. It doesn't use your free posts. Learn 5e teaches the rules and how to make your first character, and the How to play guide covers the site.
Yes. Open the Lobby, browse the tables looking for players, and ask to join one that fits your schedule and taste. You can also post a listing saying what you're looking for, or start your own table and invite people from the Lobby.
Anyone 18 or older. Talewrite is an adults-only community. Every table still carries a content rating (Everyone, Teen or Mature) and content warnings, so you can pick the kind of game you want, and sexually explicit content isn't allowed anywhere.
Everyone can try it free: your first 25 posts cost nothing, playing in one game at a time. After that, it's $9.99 once to keep playing, and the same purchase lets you host your own games. The AI itself is always paid by the host, from their credit or subscription, so players never pay for AI. Some human DMs charge for seats in their own games; you'll always see the price before you join.
Talewrite is 5th Edition compatible. It uses the free System Reference Documents 5.1 (2014 rules) and 5.2 (2024 rules), plus our own original subclasses and anything your group creates in the Homebrew library. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.
Yes. Set the character to Public on D&D Beyond, then paste its link under Characters → Import from D&D Beyond. Ability scores, levels, hit points, proficiencies, spells, gear and coins come across. Spells and items that aren't in the free rules are listed in your notes so you can sort them out with your DM.
Usually within a minute. You choose whether the DM waits until every player has posted, or answers each post as it comes in.
The numbers on this page are estimates. AI is measured by what each reply actually costs, and we count a typical medium-length reply as one post. Long or epic replies, bigger parties and long campaigns (the DM rereads more history each time) use more per reply; short replies use less. Each painted map, portrait or handout uses about as much as two posts. Your Account page always shows exactly how much AI you have left, in dollars as well as estimated posts.
No. Lifetime access is to Talewrite itself: you can keep playing in any game, host your own games, and use everything on the site for as long as it runs. The AI Dungeon Master costs money every time it replies, so AI is paid for separately. Lifetime access comes with a one-time starter batch of AI for games you host. When it runs out you still have lifetime access: you can keep playing in games other people host (each host pays for their own table's AI) and in human-DM games, and run your own human-DM tables. To keep your own AI campaigns going, add an AI credit pack or subscribe.
The DM pauses with a short notice, and nothing is lost. The host adds a credit pack or subscribes, and the story picks up where it stopped.
Yes, any time from your Account page. You keep your plan until the end of the period you paid for, and your lifetime access stays.
Yes, as long as the art is yours and made by hand: AI-generated art isn't allowed in the gallery or in commissions. With lifetime access ($9.99, once), post your portfolio in the Artists' Gallery, switch on "Taking commissions" and set your prices. Players with lifetime access request a piece, you send a quote, and they pay through Stripe straight to your account; we keep a small platform fee. To get paid you also connect your own Stripe account. Anyone can browse the gallery for free.
Yes. Create a table with a human Dungeon Master and you get the full DM panel. There is no AI cost on those tables.