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AI roleplay and storytelling guides for stories that remember.
Long reads on AI roleplay and interactive fiction: how to open a scene, write a character, carry cards and lore between apps, and keep a months-long story from forgetting. Each guide shows the day its facts were last checked.
Start here
New to AI roleplay? Begin with these.
Your first scene, the prompts that open it, and the words you’ll meet along the way.
The short answer
Where should I start with AI roleplay?
Start with how to roleplay with AI: choose a world, decide who you are, and write short, specific turns while the AI plays everyone else. Then learn to write prompts and characters that play well, how character cards and lorebooks carry them between apps, and why long stories forget and what brings them back. You can practice every technique in any LoreWeaver community world for 20 replies with a premium storyteller and no account.
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Characters and lore
Characters worth coming back to.
Write a character that holds its voice, carry it between apps, and keep its world on cue.
Worlds and campaigns
Settings with rules, campaigns with stakes.
How a reply is made, how a world is built to be played, and how to run a table for one.
Memory and context
Why stories forget, and how they hold.
What the storyteller can see at once, and the layers that bring the rest of a story back.
Questions
AI roleplay questions, answered.
01What is AI roleplay?
AI roleplay is collaborative storytelling: you play one character, and an AI plays the world and everyone in it, answering each of your turns with the next part of the scene.
02How do I write a good AI character?
Give the character a want, a contradiction, and a voice you can hear, then show that voice in two or three short sample exchanges. Keep the definition lean, since it is read on every reply, and put family, rivals, and history in lore entries that appear when named.
03What makes a good roleplay prompt?
A concrete place, pressure that is already building, someone who wants something, and a moment where your character has to act. After that, write each turn as an attempt and step out of character only when the story needs a change no character can make.
04What is the difference between a character card and a lorebook?
A character card defines one character: description, personality, scenario, greetings, and example dialogue. A lorebook holds facts about a world that join the prompt only when their keywords come up, and a card can carry one inside it.
05Can I play D&D solo with an AI game master?
Yes. Set the campaign up in a session zero, give the AI your character and house rules, and roll dice yourself or through LoreWeaver’s Loom, which can roll against a DC and track quests and inventory on screen.
06Why do AI stories forget things?
A model only reads what fits in its context window, so older events drop out as a story grows. Memory systems bring them back; LoreWeaver uses memories, a running recap, and lore cards that return by name.
07Do I need SillyTavern to use character cards?
No. LoreWeaver imports Tavern character cards (PNG, JSON, or CHARX) in the browser, with their portraits, greetings, and lorebooks, and the storytellers are included, so there is nothing to install and no API key to set up.
08Is LoreWeaver free?
Yes. The free plan includes unlimited replies from the free storyteller and 25 premium replies a day, and you can try any community world for 20 replies with no account.
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