📚 The RedRoom Guide

RedRoom is a roleplay + storytelling platform where you create characters and chat with other people's characters (or their AI versions). Every conversation can become part of your character's official history — called their canon.

Think of it like a DnD campaign, a writing community, and an AI chat app rolled into one — but the characters remember, they have reputations, and their story grows every time you play.

A character is a persona you create — name, appearance, backstory, personality, goals. Free accounts get 3 characters, Premium gets 10, Ultimate is unlimited.

Other players can chat with your character live, or if you're offline, an AI version trained on your character's canon can chat on your behalf. You can review the AI transcripts afterward and decide what, if anything, becomes canon.

Get started → Create a character

Every chat has a mode that decides who's typing:

• Live — both players are online, typing in real time.
• AI — your partner's character is offline, so an AI speaks for them using their canon.
• AI Fallback — starts live, but if someone steps away the AI takes over so the story keeps moving. Either player can hit Take Over at any time.

And a context that sets the stage:

• Within World — the chat happens inside a shared world (e.g. a tavern in Eldoria).
• Multiverse — characters from different worlds meet. Canon stays separate.
• Vacuum — a one-off scene with no world, no canon. Just for fun.

A chat is just a chat until both players agree to make it canon. When that happens, the AI summarizes what happened — new relationships, events, personality shifts — and adds it to both characters' permanent history.

You don't have to wait until the chat ends. Hit the ✨ Canon Snapshot button mid-chat to freeze a moment in canon and keep playing. You can take as many snapshots as you want.

Why this matters: canon is what the AI reads when someone chats with your character while you're offline. The more canon you build, the richer and more consistent your character gets.

Kayfabe is a wrestling term for staying in character, even outside the ring. On RedRoom it means: while a chat is running, you play the character, not yourself. No metacommentary, no breaking the scene to chat as the real you.

Breaking kayfabe is reportable. Out-of-character conversations belong in DMs or forum threads, not inside a scene.

Every character has a Contradiction Score — a number from 0 up. It starts at 0 and goes up when a canon event contradicts established history (e.g. the character who hates fire suddenly loves it with no explanation).

It's not a punishment — some characters are supposed to be chaotic. It just tells other players what to expect.

A World is a shared setting — a fantasy realm, a cyberpunk city, a haunted mansion. Characters who live in the world share lore, locations, and optionally quests.

The player who creates a world is its WorldMaster — basically the DM. They can add locations, design campaigns, and moderate. World creation requires a Premium or Ultimate subscription.

Worlds have three join modes: Open means anyone can join immediately. Invite-Only means players have to request to join (the WorldMaster approves) or be invited directly. Closed means the world is locked — no new members, period. Useful for finished or finale worlds.

Browse them in the Worlds tab.

Every world gets a Bible — a structured collection of lore sections that goes way beyond the short description on the world page. Think of it like a setting document: history, geography, factions, the magic or tech system, a glossary of in-world terms, anything else the WorldMaster wants players to know.

The Bible reads like the page you're on right now: a sticky sidebar of sections on the left, scrollable content cards on the right. Anyone visiting the world can read it. Only the WorldMaster can edit it.

New worlds start with no Bible. The WorldMaster gets a small library of templates — Overview, History, Geography, Factions, Magic / Tech, Glossary — to stamp in and fill out. Sections can be reordered, edited inline, and saved automatically. Use it to give players the kind of grounding that makes a campaign feel real.

Find the Bible link as an amber pill on any world page, right next to the creator name. The Sundered Vale and Helio-9 are good examples to read first.

RedRoom is 13+. The public-facing parts of the site — browse pages, search, recommendations, public chats — must be SFW (safe for work). What you do in private chats with another consenting writer is your business.

When you create a character, world, or campaign, an AI scans it for adult content if you mark it public. If the content is too explicit for the public face of the site, it gets auto-flagged as 🔞 NSFW and removed from public listings. You can still use it privately.

You can also self-flag content as NSFW any time — useful when you know it won't pass the public bar and you don't want the AI scan to bother you.

A Campaign is a structured, multi-character event inside a world — an election, a war, a heist, a tournament. The WorldMaster sets a premise and a participant range; players join with a character of their choice; the campaign runs as a turn-based group chat.

When the campaign ends, the WorldMaster reviews the transcript and either approves it (the AI summarizes what happened and adds events to world canon and each character's history) or rejects it.

Anyone with a character in the world can invite other players to a draft campaign — a great way to round out a roster. Invitees get a notification and pick which character to bring.

Campaigns also factor into the world's contradiction score. A modern-day election campaign in a medieval fantasy world will get flagged — premises that don't fit the world's tone count as contradictions, just like character canon that breaks the rules.

Start one from the + Create menu, or from any world page you own.

When you're offline, other players can still chat with your character. The AI plays them using their canon — their personality, relationships, and history. When you log back in, you can review the transcripts and request any of them be taken out of canon if the AI got something wrong.

If someone is mid-chat with your AI character and you want to jump in live, you can request a takeover. The other player has to accept, and the AI hands the controls back to you.

Proud of a chat? Both players can agree to make it public. It shows up in the Public Chats feed so anyone — even people who aren't logged in — can read along.

Either player can unpublish at any time. The chat stays in your own history no matter what.

See full pricing on the pricing page.