TTRPG Mode (player guide)

TTRPG Mode lets RoleCall run tabletop mechanics with sheets, dice, and player moments while the story keeps flowing.

TTRPG can make several model calls around one visible reply. A normal Separate Mechanics Agent phase is usually one call, while Before + After, roll consequences, Live pauses, Branch continuations, or Narrator tool rounds add more. See Story Director and TTRPG inference calls for the complete feature-by-feature call and token guide.

When Prompt Inspector is enabled, the first immutable wave of model calls is reviewed only after its complete model-visible requests are ready. Mechanics, Narrator, branch-continuation, and post-turn calls remain separate in Outbound Calls and the turn token receipt. The current resumable worker does not open a second blocking model-call wave in the same job because earlier phase outputs cannot yet be replayed safely after a worker restart.

Start playing

1. Enable TTRPG Mode in your scene's settings. TTRPG is available to accounts opted into Understudies.
2. Select Open character sheets. Create or attach a sheet, choose its rules system, and choose the sheet's play mode.
3. Return to chat and describe your action. Resolve player choices and dice prompts in the conversation.

The default rules settings are a starting point. Advanced rules settings keeps model selection, rules ownership, timing, command mode, review, and bookkeeping available without requiring you to configure them before your first sheet. Opening or closing this section does not change saved settings.

If automatic rules checks are off, the setup panel says so. If Live pauses are selected while streaming is off, it shows the required correction before you send another turn.

Who runs the rules?

• Separate Mechanics Agent (default): a dedicated model inspects and updates sheets around narration and owns authoritative resolution. Story Director receives committed mechanics summaries and does not own mechanics changes.
• Narrator: the narrator writes the story and owns mechanics commands. Its model supplies the tool-capability guidance. Story Director receives committed summaries.

How narrator moments play

When the narrator owns mechanics:

• Live pauses — the narrator writes, presents a moment, waits for your answer, then continues the same logical turn. Requires Streaming Responses.
• Ready-made branches — the narrator prepares sealed continuations first. You pick one; unselected prose never appears. Works with streaming off.

If Live is saved but streaming is off, generation is blocked until you turn streaming on or switch to Branches. The setting is not silently changed.

Extra mechanics passes

Independently of narrator delivery, a dedicated pass may run:

• None
• Before narration (legacy default)
• After narration
• Before + after

Review and dice

• Ask every time / Ask for risky changes / Apply automatically
• Dice: Confirm rolls or Roll automatically

Transcript

Every proposed, answered, resolved, expired, or recovered event stays on the selected swipe as a timeline of moments and receipts. Your answers look like player receipts, not second user messages.

Activity

TTRPG activity controls open TTRPG activity only. They never open Story Director Wing.

Campaign continuity

• Encounter Board — see every present actor and resources at a glance. Attach and manage sheets in Scene Cast.
• World Clock — track campaign time; timed conditions can expire when time advances.
• Campaign Chronicle — durable facts, places, factions, and quests with public/GM visibility.
• Checkpoints — snapshots you can compare or propose restore from.
• Offstage Turns — optional off-screen faction movement when the clock advances (never Story Director).
• Reconcile Campaign State — repair long histories from your decrypted chat in chunks; RoleCall stores findings, not the transcript.
• Rules Forge / Rules Kits — author reusable declarative mechanics without code.
• Rules Counsel — ask read-only questions; changes still go through review.

Macros

Use {{mechanics::…}} for read-only sheet, policy, and public campaign facts in prompts. See MACRO_REFERENCE.md. Authoritative rolls still go through mechanics_propose_roll, not {{check}}.