What Plottery is

Plottery is a turn-based role-playing game. One turn is a short loop: you type what your character does or says, and the AI narrator writes what happens next. The AI runs on your own computer, and you can keep it going as long as you want without limits.

Two modes

1. Stories: You start from a scenario, and the narrator writes a story with you. You can take turns, watch the story unfold, and steer it in new directions.
2. Chats: You can talk to characters without a story narrator. You can ask them questions, or just have a conversation. This is a simpler mode, that is faster to run on less powerful hardware.

Why it runs on your computer

Plottery spends more than one model call per turn. After each beat, multiple small llm calls run in the background updating the state of the characters and the world. That state is used in the narrator's next reply, so it can keep track of what happened in the story many turns ago.

In addition to that, multiple in-app features utilize the llm (for example generating scenarios), so having the llm run locally means you don't need to worry about costs or limits.

If you decide to use a cloud API instead of a local llm (OpenAI-compatible endpoints are supported), the story text goes to that server like it would for any other client. What else goes through the network is covered in Privacy and your data.

Where to start

The Quick start walks you through downloading the app and getting to your first turn. For more depth on each step:

• Install and first launch
• Starting a story
• Taking a turn

There is a second, smaller mode: a chat is a plain conversation with a character, with no narrator and no world tracking behind it. See Starting a chat.