Getting Started
Create Your Campaign
After signing in, you'll create a workspace for your campaign. Each workspace is a self-contained campaign with its own characters, sessions, world lore, and art. Invite your players — they can view shared references and contribute session notes.
Add Your Characters
Head to the References page and add your party members. Upload or paste reference images, write descriptions of their appearance, and RPG Sage Art will use these to keep characters consistent across all generated art. You can also add NPCs, creatures, locations, and items.
Set Your Style
Each campaign can have a style reference — an image that sets the visual tone for all generated art. Upload a piece of art you love, or choose from built-in style presets. Every scene generated will match this aesthetic.
Battlemaps
Generate a Map From a Sentence
Describe the encounter — 'a burning keelboat moored at a lamplit dock' — and get a top-down battlemap sized to a grid you choose. Tactical encounter maps run at 5 ft per square; city, region, and continent maps declare their own scale for overland travel. Maps are auto-tagged into named regions ('the docks', 'the bar') that appear in the map legend.
Tactical View: Walls, Terrain, Elevation
Walls and impassable cells are detected from the art itself, and you can paint your own along with difficult terrain. Regions carry elevation, and the distance tooltip computes real movement cost — cheapest path, climb feet, difficult-terrain squares. Players can't drag a token somewhere it can't legally stand.
A Living Map
Layer weather zones, day/night moods, and light sources — torches, campfires, candles, magical glows, even magical darkness — that flicker, follow tokens, tint the rain, and light up the characters standing in them. Ask Craig for 'candlelit' or place and drag lights by hand. Players light their own torches and cast Light or Darkness from their cockpit at true book distances. Trigger scene-change effects from the legend — the bridge collapses, the docks flood — and just that part of the map re-renders. Nothing is permanent: everything toggles.
Tokens
Drop entity tokens (they use your reference art automatically), asset props, or the whole party as one traveling token. Tokens carry HP bars, condition badges, facing, and size. Double-click a token to peek at the portrait; the GM can hide tokens for ambushes.
Craig Runs Maps Too
Ask by chat or voice: 'make a flat top-down map of the throne room', 'add four thugs by the door, statted', 'flood the market'. Craig builds maps, places and stats tokens, redraws regions in place, and answers with your campaign in mind. Long-press the map to ping a spot — 'here' means that ping.
Play Live (Virtual Tabletop)
One Link Seats the Table
Start a live session and share the link. Players open it on any device — no installs, no accounts — pick their character by name, and get their token highlighted in their color. As you navigate between maps, every player's screen follows.
Present to the Table
Push art, handouts, text, a character sheet, or a skill-check prompt to every screen at once — or target a single player for a secret only they see. Prompt a save with a DC and the outcome text applies automatically when they roll.
Combat
Roll initiative and the tracker seats everyone; the active turn pulses on the map. Players tap their own token to open their mini-sheet and roll attacks, checks, and saves from it. The GM's cockpit rolls monsters against real AC, spends legendary actions, and applies damage straight to HP bars.
Conditions That Actually Work
When Craig or the GM applies a condition, it mechanically works: poisoned imposes disadvantage, restrained pins the token at 0 speed, frightened warns the player when they move toward the source. Custom effects — disarmed, cursed, drunk — get invented on the fly with real mechanical teeth.
Dice, Out Loud
All rolls go through the server and land in a shared table feed with advantage/disadvantage, DCs, and crit styling. There's a freeform dice bar for players, and the GM can roll as any NPC. Nobody 'forgets' a modifier.
Character Sheets & Dice
Two Modes, One Sheet
Full Mode is a complete 5e sheet — abilities, attacks, spells, features, inventory. Easy Mode shows the same character as color-coded strengths and outcomes with no numbers at all: perfect for kids, new players, or anyone who'd rather play than do math. Switch anytime.
Craig Fills It In
Describe your character — or name a monster — and Craig builds the sheet from SRD rules: stats, attacks, spell save DCs, multiattack routines, legendary actions. Homebrew creatures get the closest official analog, reflavored, with a note about what he assumed.
Gold Is Real
Sheets track gold, and it moves: buy into a tavern game and it leaves your purse as a chip pile on the table; cash out and it comes back. Craig adjusts inventory when the fiction says you won, lost, bought, or burned it.
Rolling
Every rollable thing on the sheet is a button. Rolls resolve server-side with your real modifiers, honor advantage and conditions, and land in the table feed. Prompted checks from the GM show the DC and resolve the outcome automatically.
Tavern Games
Games Live on the Table
Search 'games' in the map's token bar to drop a game station — Baldur's Bones, Chuck-a-Luck, High Card, coin tosses, or your own custom game with house rules. Players tap the station to open that game: its rules, its dice, its cards, its pot.
Gold = Stakes
Buy in and gold moves from your character sheet onto the map as a chip pile in your color. Bets push chips into the game's pot token; the GM awards the pot to the winner; cash out returns the pile to your sheet. Every move lands in table chat.
Cards Nobody Can Peek
Decks live on the server. Draw to a hidden hand only you (and the dealer GM) can see, draw face-up, reveal, or muck. Deals go to everyone with chips on the table — buying in is literally taking a seat.
Cheating Is a Skill Check
Palming the dice is a hidden Sleight of Hand roll — succeed and you get loaded dice for the turn under an honest-looking label. Other players can spend their table action to read you with Insight. Craig referees by each game's house rules.
Session Journals
Record or Paste Your Session
On the Journal page, create a new entry and either paste your session notes or record audio directly in the browser. For audio, RPG Sage Art uses AssemblyAI to transcribe with speaker identification — it'll figure out who said what.
Entity Extraction (Optional)
RPG Sage Art can scan your session text and identify every character, NPC, and creature mentioned. It matches them to your existing references or suggests creating new ones. You can skip this step if you want — head straight to scenes.
Summary Generation (Optional)
Generate an in-character journal (written from a character's perspective) and/or a neutral session recap. These are great for sharing with your group or keeping campaign records. Also skippable.
Scene Extraction & Art
This is where the magic happens. RPG Sage Art extracts 8-12 key scenes from your session and generates art for each one. Your character references are automatically included — the AI knows what everyone looks like. Companions (familiars, animal companions) are auto-included when their owner appears in a scene.
Share Your Session
Generate a share link to create a public page with your journal entry and approved art. Perfect for sharing with your group between sessions or showing off your campaign.
Art Generation
The Generate Page
The Generate page lets you create art outside of the journal flow. Describe a scene, select which characters appear, and RPG Sage Art builds an enhanced prompt with your campaign context, character descriptions, and reference images — then sends it to our image generation pipeline.
Character References Matter
The more detail in your character references, the better the results. Include species, build, clothing, distinctive features, and weapons. Upload multiple reference images from different angles. RPG Sage Art sends all of this to the AI so it can match your characters accurately.
Companions Are Auto-Included
Link familiars, animal companions, and mounts to their owner on the References page. When the owner is selected for a scene, their companions automatically appear in the entity list with a companion badge. You can remove them per-scene if they shouldn't be in a particular image.
Style References
Set a campaign-wide style reference image to maintain visual consistency. You can also override the style per-scene if a particular moment calls for a different aesthetic — a dark dungeon scene might use a different reference than a bright market scene.
Enhance Before Generating
The Enhance button rewrites your scene description into a detailed art prompt. It weaves in character details, campaign context, and composition suggestions. You can edit the enhanced version before generating.
Character References
Entity Types
RPG Sage Art supports five entity types: Characters (PCs), NPCs, Creatures, Locations, and Items. Each has its own tab on the References page. Characters and NPCs can have companions linked to them.
Multiple Descriptions
Each entity can have multiple descriptions — useful when a character changes over time. Mark one as default for art generation. During scene generation, you can pick which description to use per-scene.
Multiple Images
Upload reference images, generate portraits with AI, or let Craig create them. Each entity can have multiple images with labels (e.g., 'Full Body', 'Close-Up', 'Battle Armor'). Mark one as default — it's used when the entity appears in scenes.
Companions
Link creatures to their owner using the 'Companion of' dropdown on creature cards, or use the Companions section on character cards. Linked companions are automatically included when their owner is selected for art generation.
Craig Can Help
Click the Craig button on any entity card to ask him to research the entity (great for monsters from published adventures), write descriptions, or generate reference art. He has access to web search and knows your campaign context.
Craig, Your Art Director
Who Is Craig?
Craig is your AI art director. He reviews every generated image, tags it with (often sarcastic) names, rates it, and suggests improvements. He's powered by a curated mix of models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — and knows your entire campaign: characters, world lore, recent sessions, everything.
Image Review
When you view an image on the Review page, you can leave comments. Craig responds automatically — he'll critique the art, suggest edits, or regenerate the image entirely. He can also approve or reject images for you.
Journal Chat
On the Journal page, Craig can help refine scenes, adjust descriptions, add or remove scenes, and tweak entity selections. Use the per-scene Craig button to discuss a specific scene, or the main Craig button for broader session-level changes.
Entity Research
On the References page, Craig can research monsters and NPCs from published adventures. Tell him to 'look up what a Guhdggi looks like' and he'll search the web, write a description, and generate reference art.
World Lore & Session Prep
On the World page, Craig helps manage your campaign's lore — factions, religions, plot points, quests — and the GM-only Prep tab lets him interview you about the next session, suggesting NPCs, maps, and plot beats he can create on the spot.
At the Table, By Voice
During a live session Craig is your co-GM: he builds maps, stats monsters, applies conditions, presents art, and referees tavern games. Hold the backtick key (or tap the mic pill) and just talk — dictation lands wherever you're typing, or goes straight to Craig.
World Building
Campaign Context
Your campaign context is a living document that describes the current state of your game — where the party is, what's happening, major plot threads. It's used by both Craig and the art generator to keep everything consistent with your story.
World Entries
Track factions, religions, quests, plot points, and lore as structured entries. Each has a type, status (active, resolved, background, archived), and tags. Craig uses these for context when reviewing art and chatting about your world.
Custom Merch
From Art to Merch
Turn your favorite campaign art into real products. On the Shop page, select an approved image and choose a product — t-shirts, posters, mugs, or sticker sheets. Craig picks the perfect shirt color based on the art's palette.
Sticker Sheets
Sticker sheets feature your party's character portraits as large stickers with smaller companion/creature stickers filling the gaps. Background removal and kiss-cut outlines are applied automatically.
Print & Ship
All merch is printed and shipped by our curated production partners. Photorealistic mockups are generated so you can preview before ordering. Shipping is included in the price.
Gallery & Review
Gallery
Browse all generated art with filters for session, status, tags, and search. View in grid or list mode, or launch the slideshow for a cinematic walkthrough of your campaign's art.
Review Queue
The Review page shows pending images waiting for your approval. Rate, approve, or reject images. Approved images appear on share pages and are eligible for merch. Leave comments to trigger Craig's review.
Image Detail
Click any image to see the full detail view — the enhanced prompt used to generate it, which characters appear, the reference images that were sent, and the full comment thread with Craig.
