Upload Policy

What this covers

Four kinds of file reach our servers from you: images you upload as cover art, portraits, item and location art; audio clips you upload or record to make a voice; the text of a world; and the prompts you write to generate any of the above. This page is about all four. It sits under the Terms of Service and does not replace them.

The one rule

Upload only what you have the right to upload. Everything below is a consequence of that. If the material is not yours, you need permission from whoever it belongs to, and "I found it online" is not permission.

Images

PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 8 MB per file. Do not upload:

• Art you did not make and are not licensed to use, including work traced or redrawn from it.
• Screenshots, scans or exports from another game, book or film, and character art from a franchise that is not yours.
• Photographs of a real person used without their agreement.
• Logos, trademarks and brand marks.
• Sexual content involving minors, or anything that sexualises a real person.

The same limits apply to images you generate here. Prompting a model to produce a recognizable copyrighted character, a trademarked design or a real person's likeness is the same problem as uploading one. Some of the image models we offer filter prompts and some do not, and the service may offer you a different model when one refuses: that is a choice about the model's filter, not a grant of permission.

Voice clips

Four to thirty seconds of audio, up to 12 MB, in any common format. Clips are converted once on arrival and the converted file is kept, because the voice has to survive a change of model.

Record yourself, or use a voice whose owner said yes. A voice identifies a real person the way a face does, and several jurisdictions now protect it directly. We ask you to confirm the right to use it before the clip is accepted, and again, separately, before a voice can be published to the public library. Those are two different permissions: using a voice in your own game is narrower than letting strangers use it in theirs.

We do not accept, whatever permission you believe you have:

• Public figures, performers, politicians and candidates for office.
• Children's voices.
• Any voice used to make a real person appear to say something they did not say, whether to deceive, defraud or humiliate.

Worlds and text

Write what you like. Fiction gets wide latitude here and dark material is the normal stuff of a role-playing game. What is out of bounds is not tone but substance: another author's text pasted in as your own, a setting reproduced wholesale from a published work, real people's private information, and the material listed under acceptable use in the Terms.

Worlds are private until you publish them, and publishing is a separate step. A published world is reviewed before it reaches the catalogue. That review looks for obvious breaches; it is not a rights clearance, and passing it does not make the content yours.

What we do with what you upload

We store it so the service can run, and we send the relevant parts to the AI providers who generate play and images. We do not sell your uploads, and we do not use your private worlds as public material. Publishing a world or sharing a voice is what makes it visible to other people, and that is always your choice.

What you are agreeing to when you upload. It stays yours - we are not taking ownership of anything. What you give us is permission: to store it, show it, convert it into the formats the service needs, and, if you publish, to let other players see and remix it. That permission is what makes the upload button work, so it has to be given at the moment you upload rather than negotiated later. The full wording is in the Terms.

In return you are telling us something: that the material is yours to give. Uploading is your confirmation that you made it or have permission to use it, that you are not handing us someone else's work, and that nobody else can later object to our showing what you published. If that turns out not to hold, we will take the material down - and where a claim lands on us because of something you uploaded, it is fairly yours to answer.

Once something is published and other people have built on it, those copies stand. A remix someone else made, a game another group is midway through: your later change of mind does not reach into them. That is why publishing is a deliberate, separate step, and worth a moment's thought before you take it.

Remixes are independent copies. When someone remixes a published world they get their own copy of its contents as they stood at that moment. Deleting or unpublishing yours does not reach into theirs. If something needs to come out of the copies too, say so when you write to us.

When something has to come down

Write to support@rpgforge.ai and tell us what and where. For a copyright claim, the Terms list what a notice needs and how the counter-notice works.

You do not need a copyright to ask. If a voice is yours, if your likeness or your private information is in someone's world, that is enough on its own and you do not have to phrase it as a legal claim.

We remove material that breaks these rules and tell the person who uploaded it why. Serious cases, and accounts that keep doing it, lose access: two or more valid copyright notices, or a clear pattern of taking other people's material, ends an account.