What is this,
actually?

A solo-first 5e fantasy role-playing campaign in ChatGPT. A source-grounded AI acts as facilitator and rules interface inside a fixed authored world; confirmed campaign state can persist between visits.

It uses 5e OGL/SRD-compatible game language: characters, abilities, checks, saves, conditions, damage, equipment, encounters, rests, and level-based play. It is not an official Dungeons & Dragons or Wizards of the Coast product.

Yes. You do not need a human game master or a scheduled group. The facilitator presents situations, portrays the world, calls for rules and rolls, resolves consequences, and keeps confirmed state while you make the character decisions.

Yes, as a shared table around one campaign conversation. Tell the facilitator how many players are present, create a character for each, and have one person enter the group’s decisions. The current alpha does not promise simultaneous multi-account turns.

The full fantasy range belongs here: gods, kings, tyrants, dragons, dungeons, liches, monsters, courts, machines, wars, guilds, neighbourhoods, and ordinary domestic life. The world is fixed enough to resist you and generative enough to respond to approaches no script anticipated.

Open the public alpha and ask to create a new solo or shared-table 5e campaign. The facilitator can guide character creation and the recommended opening. Save the private resume key only after the runtime confirms creation.

The facilitator is constrained by frozen public lore, explicit rules, confirmed campaign state, and the distinction between what a player intends and what actually succeeds. It should expose uncertainty instead of inventing a convenient answer.

The world has established history, institutions, metaphysics, conflicts, people, and facts independent of the current prompt. Generated scenes can vary; established canon does not change merely because a player asks for a different past.

No. A declaration establishes intent. The world and 5e rules determine whether the action is possible, whether a roll is needed, what it costs, and what consequences follow.

Yes. It can portray scenes, voices, reactions, local detail, and consequences where the source and rules permit generative freedom. It cannot use improvisation to manufacture a missing named fact or silently reverse public canon.

UNKNOWN means a required source, rule, or referent is missing. DEFERRED means the necessary runtime action did not complete. Both prevent confident prose from masquerading as an established or saved result.

No. It is the 1926 opening campaign anchor in a six-Age sequence: 1906 Age of Awe, 1916 Age of Anima, 1926 Age of Ashglass, 1936 Age of Animosity, 1941 Age of Anima 2, and 1946 Age of Animals.

No. Their years are historical camera positions. Each opens on visible conditions already in motion and continues beyond its title date.

In the fiction, it is a city organised so no king, guild, hero, priest, machine, or narrator owns the final word. Mortar makes civic promises material, Guilds carry partial truths, the Open Furnace hears claims and appeals, Sword protects, and Quill remembers.

The Temple is occupied under a public story of restoration. Residents are displaced, labour is requisitioned, services narrow, and Couriers move through routes the official maps deny. The public synopsis stops at that opening situation.

No. It is Temple fiction. Its factions, archaeology, occult mechanisms, legal order, and political events must not be generalised into claims about Jews, Palestinians, religions, ethnicities, nationalities, ancestry, or ordinary supporters.

Yes. A deeper authored layer exists. The website does not name its destination, explain its route, publish its conditions, or guarantee that any campaign will encounter it.

The frozen public Temple material that constrains shared canon and public answers. It is separate from editorial explanation, generated narration, and any one campaign’s private continuity.

Confirmed characters, inventory, rolls, events, facts, and snapshots belonging to one campaign. It can persist without becoming official history for every other campaign.

No. Your choices can profoundly change your SESSION. They do not silently rewrite PUBLIC SOURCE for other players. That separation lets the world remain shared while your consequences remain real.

A secret credential returned after successful campaign creation. Treat it like a password. Keep it private and present it only inside the linked public alpha when you intend to resume or modify that campaign.

No. The website has no resume-key form or campaign backend. It cannot retrieve or recover a lost key.

Resume inside the public alpha and request an export, state summary, or permanent deletion. The action counts only after the runtime confirms it. Permanent deletion is irreversible.

It began as a West Marches design problem: how can a city remain coherent when high-level players or competing game masters can casually kill its civic figures, seize its institutions, or rewrite its history? The project separates authority, provenance, appeal, and campaign state so power does not automatically become authorship.

A public website, a frozen 256-record source release, a live Explorer alpha, a working Charter, project pages, status records, and developing fiction and methods.

There is no operating membership body or enrollment form on this site. Temple Circles are a proposed next-stage small-group format; their curriculum, safeguards, facilitation, privacy, and participation terms must be published before enrollment opens.

No. There is no physical Temple residence or visitor site. Retreats are later roadmap work; the Institute and Foundation are aspirational names, not present institutions or legal entities.