Documentation
How to build a game on RPG Forge, with the editor or with rules you write yourself.
RPG Forge makes text RPGs that play in a browser. The AI narrates; you decide what the world contains and how it works.
Build a game (no code)
Describe what you want, let the AI draft it, then fix what it got wrong in the editor.
- Your first game: empty editor to playable in about ten minutes.
- Making it good: what separates a game people finish from a pile of locations. Read this before you publish.
Reference, as you need it:
- The editor and the Prompt panel
- Story and world events, Locations, The map
- Factions, Characters, Lore
- Items and creatures, Skills
- Quests, Shops, Sound and images
- World systems: the Setup toggles
- Assets and packs, Working together
- Publishing
Write rules
The AI is good at worlds and bad at systems. It will write you a tavern. It won't invent a fever that spreads between party members and gets worse when they sleep outdoors. For that, you write rules.
- Expressions: reading the world
- Steps: changing it
- Hooks: when a rule runs
- Plugins: packaging a system to switch off or share
- Designing a plugin: how to make one that is fun, not just valid
- What you can't build
You don't need any of this to ship a game.
For AI agents
/docs/llms.txt indexes the rules pages. Add .md to any docs URL for the
raw markdown.