Session 0 — Creating a Campaign

In tabletop tradition, Session 0 is where you decide what the campaign is before play begins. Tap + New campaign on Home to open it. Everything here can be changed later — and most of it is optional.

Mode

Who drives the story. This shapes which fields appear below (and you can switch modes anytime during play):

  • Assistant — You drive; it scribes & rolls. You narrate and decide; the AI handles oracles, bookkeeping, and journaling.
  • Game Master — It drives; you decide. The AI frames scenes and presents situations; you choose what your protagonist does.
  • Autonomous — It plays itself; you watch. The AI plays the protagonist too, pausing for your review.

In Game Master and Autonomous modes, the world-building fields below disappear — the agent runs its own interactive Session 0 when play begins (suggesting settings and protagonists, or letting the oracle decide). The form only needs a name (it will title the campaign itself if you leave it blank).

Setting & oracle flavor

Picks the world’s flavor and which oracle tables season your story:

  • Space — space-opera frontier.
  • Fantasy — dark fantasy.
  • Dungeon Crawl — dungeon sites & delving.

The world (Assistant mode)

  • Campaign name — optional; defaults to “Untitled Campaign”.
  • Premise / setting notes — a sentence or two of where and what. “a derelict ring-station above a dead world.”
  • Starting threads — open goals or questions, one per line. “Find out who killed the station AI.” Threads are the story’s to-do list; the AI weaves toward them.
  • Characters — one per line as Name — description. “Vesh — a salvager, the protagonist.”

✨ Suggest a campaign

Don’t want to start from a blank page? ✨ Suggest a campaign generates a coherent bundle — name, premise, starting threads, and characters — flavored by your selected setting and seeded by oracle rolls.

  • Anything you’ve already typed is kept. Wrote a premise but no name? The suggestion builds a name, threads, and characters that fit your premise.
  • Click again to re-roll. Each pass draws fresh oracle inspiration.
  • Everything lands in the form fields, fully editable before you begin.

Suggestions use AI generation, so they spend a little of your credit balance.

Style & feel

  • Journaling style — the voice your story is written in: cinematic, literary, pulp, noir, or terse.
  • Guidance (Assistant mode; change anytime) — how much coaching the interface gives:
    • Unguided — just a quiet status. No nudges.
    • Soft — compass + suggestions on tap. One gentle chaos nudge.
    • Guided — active coaching through each beat.
  • Who authors the story? (Assistant mode; change anytime)
    • Player-led — presents rolls; you interpret; it embellishes the journal.
    • Collaborative — the assistant interprets & narrates with you.
  • Starting chaos factor — a 1–9 slider. Higher chaos means a more volatile world: scenes twist more often and fate runs stranger. 5 is a balanced start. See Oracles & Chaos.

Begin the story

Creates the campaign and drops you into Scene 1 on the Play screen. In Game Master and Autonomous modes, the agent’s Session 0 conversation begins immediately.