1Build Your World
Create locations, NPCs, factions, lore, history — and your own customizable rulebooks.
- World Builder
- Compendium
- Custom Layouts
- Homebrew Rules
Build your world.
Run your game.
Most RPG platforms solve one problem. Etournal solves the whole campaign — create worlds, write adventures, run campaigns, and bring game night to life with Scribe, your AI co-GM.
Players join free Multi-system Homebrew ready
D&D 3.5 · D&D 5e · Pathfinder 1e · Pathfinder 2e — built in, not bolted on
AI when you want it
Helpful tools to create content — not replace your creativity.
Old-school when you don’t
Every tool works great without AI.
One source of truth
Build it once. It stays updated everywhere.
No clutter
Everything you need. Nothing you don’t.
GM pays · players join free
Your whole table plays at no cost.
Built by gamers
Used every week at our own table.
The complete GM workflow
One platform. Every step.
From worldbuilding to the final roll, every stage of your campaign lives in one place and stays connected. Build it once — it flows all the way to game night.
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2Write Your Adventure
Build modules with story flows, scenes, encounters, maps and handouts — assisted by AI that understands your world.
- Module Builder
- Story Builder
- AI Studio
- Readiness Checks
3Prepare Your Session
Know exactly where your story stands before game night — and what still needs work.
- Session Builder
- Area Readiness
- Party Management
- Start Gate
4Run Your Game
The GM Panel becomes your command center while Scribe narrates and Keeper journals every moment automatically.
- GM Panel
- Scribe
- Keeper
- Session Journal
5Play Together
Present maps, tokens, handouts and animated 3D dice on a modern virtual tabletop.
- Fog of War
- Vision
- Handouts
- 3D Dice
Run your game
The ultimate GM screen.
Your command center for game night. Replace sticky notes, browser tabs, notebooks, combat trackers and reference sheets with one intelligent screen that already knows your campaign — powered by the Etournal GM Panel.
- Initiative & combat
- Maps, tokens & vision
- Player sheets & NPCs
- Handouts & notes
- Scribe — AI narration
- Keeper — auto journal
The tabletop is what your players see. The GM Panel is where you live for four hours every session — and no one else has it.
GM Panel — Session 7: Ambush in the Pines
Initiative · Round 3
1 Lira 19
2 Grom 17
3 Bandit Raider 15
4 Shade 12
5 Bandit Scout 5
Party
Lira
Grom
Shade
You
Grom hits the raider for 11 — it drops.
Scribe
Grom’s axe bites deep and the raider crumples into the bracken. Silence falls — just the creak of branches in the wind, and somewhere upslope, a second bowstring drawing taut…
Keeper
Logged: Bandit raider slain in the pine ambush.
Ask Scribe anything…
Handouts
Ancient letter revealed
Cult symbol hidden
Session journal
Ambush in the Pines — bandits carried the high sigil.
The Lost Heir: trail points to the forsaken keep.
Meet Scribe
Your AI co-GM at the table.
You say what happened — Scribe writes the prose you read aloud. It narrates scenes, voices NPCs, and keeps the story moving, with exactly as much help as you want. And it never touches the math: the dice engine owns every roll, hit and turn.
Light Touch
A motive and a direction in a sentence or two — then it stops. You do the talking.
Guided Improv
A briefing on what an NPC knows, wants, and will reveal — and you improvise the voice.
Full Scribe
Read-aloud prose and verbatim NPC lines, with clickable options for where to take it next.
- Knows your real party — actual sheets, spells and conditions, never invented ones
- Remembers names, clues and choices across the whole campaign
- Keeper journals every important beat automatically — no note-taking
- Turn it off entirely: Etournal works beautifully without AI
See it in action
Your table, alive.
A look at the surfaces you'll spend game night on. (Concept art shown — the real thing is a click away, free.)
Nyssa
Gnash
Dire Wolf d20 + 4 = 21 · Hit!
−7
Fog of War: On
Run the battle, not the bookkeeping.
Watch the fog roll back as Nyssa scouts ahead — and find what's waiting. Shared maps, tokens your players move themselves, vision revealed as they explore, and dice everyone sees land at the same moment.
- Fog of war & token vision
- Physics dice, rolled from the sheet
- Players move their own miniatures, live
35 ft
Walls block vision
Fireball · 20-ft burst
The battlefield is yours to shape.
Measure a charge with true Pathfinder diagonals, drop a fireball template, or draw walls mid-session — and watch them block what your players can see. GM tools live on the same map the table is playing on.
- Ruler with correct diagonal counting
- Walls & doors that block line of sight
- Burst, cone and line templates
A co-GM that never loses the thread.
The GM Panel keeps your whole session at your fingertips — scenes, secrets, monsters, party health — while Scribe drafts read-aloud narration and keeps the session log as you play. You stay in the story; it does the tracking.
- Read-aloud narration, on demand
- Live party status at a glance
- Session log written as it happens
Every pin is a door into your world.
Maps, locations, NPCs, factions and lore all link to each other. Drop a pin, name a place, and everything that happens there — every adventure, every secret — stays attached to it forever.
- Interactive world & battle maps
- Everything cross-linked
- NPCs with lives of their own
Why Etournal
Everything they do well. None of the clutter.
Every other tool in this space is one layer of the stack — a place to play, or a place to plan, never both. Etournal is the only one where the same data runs the whole loop: your world feeds your modules, your modules feed your campaign, your campaign feeds the live table.
| Platform | Does well | Missing | Etournal |
|---|---|---|---|
| The incumbent | Big ecosystem, licensed content | Cluttered; dynamic vision paywalled; no world or module building | Vision free. World and modules built in. |
| The power tool | Best-in-class lighting and automation | $50 plus self-hosting; mods to maintain; prep is imports, not a pipeline | Zero setup. Prep and play, one product. |
| The clean table | The cleanest table around | Only a table — no sheets, no rules engine, no worldbuilding | That same cleanliness, plus everything it left out. |
| The wiki | Deep worldbuilding | No table — your world can't run a session | The world you build is the world you play in. |
A few things nobody else has: type in what your physical dice rolled and the engine still adjudicates it. 100 steps of undo on every map. Player-safety enforced in the database— GM secrets can't leak, not even by accident.
Your world. Your way.
AI when you want it. Old-school when you don't.
Build it yourself
- Write every NPC
- Design every dungeon
- Homebrew every detail
- Total creative freedom
100% manual. 100% yours.
Let AI help
- Brainstorm ideas
- Draft NPCs and places
- Generate encounters
- Fill in the blanks
Faster prep. Same control.
Both lead to exactly the same campaign. Your creations are always yours.
Built by gamers
Built by a lifelong Game Master
and father of five gamers.
After years of rebuilding the same campaign across wikis, notes, maps and virtual tabletops, he decided there had to be a better way. So he built Etournal — where your world, adventures, campaigns and game table all stay connected.
Built by gamers. Used every week at our own table.
Simple pricing
The GM pays. The table plays free.
Etournal is in free beta — every tier below, including Basic and Pro, is free to use right now.
Free
$0/mo
Perfect for trying Etournal.
- 1 world · 1 campaign
- Up to 4 players
- Core tools included
Basic
$5/mo
For GMs building and creating.
- All authoring AI tools
- 3 worlds · 5 GB storage
- Custom page layouts
Most popular
Pro
$15/mo
For running games with AI at the table.
- Everything in Basic
- Scribe — live AI co-GM
- Keeper — auto session journal
Free beta — no card required, nothing is charged — See full pricing →
