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Eldritch OS

About

Built by people who were tired of running six tabs

Why

The tools got in the way of the game

Running a published adventure already means five subscriptions and a spreadsheet. Writing your own is worse. A map maker here, a stat block tool there, an image generator for the portrait, a doc for the descriptions, and a tabletop that knows about none of it.

So the prep you do on Sunday does not help you on Wednesday, and the NPC you invented mid-session never makes it back into your notes. That gap is where most of a GM's effort disappears — and it is worst for the GMs doing the most interesting work.

The stance

AI belongs in the chair next to the GM

There is a version of this product where the AI runs the game and the humans watch. We are not building that one. A tabletop game is worth playing because a person is making it up as they go, reading the room, and deciding what matters.

What AI is genuinely good at is the work around that — drafting the room you already sketched, describing the creatures you already placed, giving a shopkeeper a voice, remembering what happened four sessions ago.

It drafts. You decide.

Not a guideline we asked a model to follow — the assistant cannot write to your campaign at all. Its changes arrive as proposals, and nothing reaches your table that you did not put there.

The same instinct is why the platform has a documented, open API rather than a closed one. We would rather earn your table every session than rely on your material being stuck here.

Alpha playtest

Follow along, or play along

We are building in the open, and the product is in alpha. The blog has the running commentary, and the press kit has the boilerplate, logo, and screenshots if you are writing about it. If you would rather run a session or two on it and tell us what broke, join the alpha playtest below.

We store your email address, and how you found us — the referring site, any campaign tag on the link you followed, your IP address and your browser version. It is used to invite playtesters into the alpha and to understand where people hear about us. Nothing is shared with anyone else.