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Rolegend and LoreKeeper

LoreKeeper is built for a group playing live: up to six of you, synchronized turns, a voiced Game Master in the same room. Rolegend is built for a table that plays live when everyone is online, or async whenever each player has a moment, with a game engine and a Virtual Tabletop behind every fight.

Every claim about LoreKeeper below links to the page it was read on. Most recent check: .
Vaelantir: the timbered inn and walled gate of Karth's Hold on a rocky bluff, torches lit at dusk, with travelers and pack mules at the door. To the left, ivied imperial ruins rise from a misted valley, and a dragon crosses an overcast sky.

What LoreKeeper is

LoreKeeper is an AI Game Master for tabletop roleplaying, made by a small indie team and in early-access beta. You create a character, pick or build a world, and play solo or with up to six friends in real time. It sells monthly subscriptions in euros and keeps a free tier with a daily turn allowance.

https://lore-keeper.com

What we could verify

  • Their FAQ says up to 6 players share a campaign in real time, each with their own account and their own daily turn cap of 20 per day on the free tier. (source, checked )
  • Their FAQ describes combat as 'mechanical first, narrative second': the engine rolls dice, calculates damage and checks conditions, and the AI then narrates what happened. (source, checked )
  • The free plan is EUR 0 with 20 free turns every day and all features from day one, and the homepage says multiplayer for up to 6 players works on every plan, free included. (source, checked )
  • The Hero plan is EUR 9.99 per month with 60 credits, 5 campaigns and 10 images per month; the Legend plan is EUR 19.99 per month with 150 credits and 30 images per month. (source, checked )
  • Their plan table lists turns per day of 20, 30, 60 and unlimited across four tiers, and AI images per month of 0, 3, 10 and 30. (source, checked )
  • How much the Game Master remembers is a plan limit: message history of 10 to 18, key facts remembered from 5 to 50, and 2 to 8 active entities in context. (source, checked )
  • Their combat feature list covers integrated narrative combat, around 40 status conditions, 8 damage types and AI-generated loot. (source, checked )
  • Customisation covers 11 world genres, editable worlds including races and classes, AI-generated avatars, and translation into 4 languages. (source, checked )
  • Multiplayer includes Party Mode with a shared screen and voice, shared roles and resources, a group voting system and character relationships. (source, checked )
  • They describe themselves as an indie project in active development, expecting new features every week and occasional bugs. (source, checked )

What LoreKeeper does better

  • Party Mode: one screen in one room, with a spoken Game Master and dice everyone can watch.
  • Shared group mechanics: shared resources, voting and tracked relationships between player characters.

What Rolegend does differently

  • Play with friends or solo. A paid host seats up to 6 players at one table, the host included, and friends on the free plan can join. Each player plays their own character. When everyone is online you can play live, and the table updates every few seconds. When they are not, play async play-by-post and drop in whenever you want. In a fight each player acts on their character's turn, and an email says when the table waits for you. Alone, the paid party holds up to 6 characters that you play yourself, and the Game Master plays the companions who join you on the road; the free plan is a single character. The host picks the language that the Game Master narrates in, its tone and the length of its replies.
  • Keystone Engine is a game engine, built apart from the AI. It handles the dice and the game state. Every roll, modifier, hit point, condition, spell slot and item is settled before ROWAN writes a word, and ROWAN gets on with the story. ROWAN cannot change a number or roll again. When your character acts, the game hands you the die to roll, and Keystone Engine adds the modifiers from your sheet.
  • Your character sheet and the world are stored as structured data, not text the model has to remember, so nothing drifts over a long campaign.
  • Async play-by-post. Write a turn, come back tomorrow, pick it up mid-scene.
  • Rolegend's Virtual Tabletop puts a fight on a battle map, with a token for every hero and every enemy, and you drag yours to move. Keystone Engine enforces movement, difficult terrain, cover, line of sight, opportunity attacks, flanking, weapon ranges and light there, and the fog of war hides anything your character cannot see. Every player at the table moves on the same map. Between fights, the map shows the region and the lay of the land in each place. A quick scuffle can also stay in the story, with no map at all.
  • On the paid plan, any Game Master turn can be read aloud, with a narrator voice and a voice of its own for each character who speaks, and you can turn on reading each new reply aloud. One click paints a scene image for a turn or a portrait of your character. You can dictate your own turn on either plan, in a browser with speech recognition (Chrome, Edge and Safari).

Pick LoreKeeper if

  • You want game night in a room: one screen, a Game Master with a voice, and everyone rolling together.
  • You want to try it for nothing first: a free account with a daily turn allowance and no card.
  • You want a world builder with genres, custom races and factions, and you want to publish what you make.

Pick Rolegend if

  • You play with friends who cannot meet at one time, or alone, and want a game that waits for each of you.
  • You want a game engine, built apart from the AI, to handle the dice and the game state, so a roll is never shaped by the story.
  • You want to see the battle on a Virtual Tabletop, with fog of war that follows what your character can really see.
  • You want to read which rules are enforced before you start a character, published section by section and dated.
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Rolegend is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LoreKeeper. Their name is used here only to identify their product.