The Manual
How it actually works
The homepage is the pitch. This is the part where we show our working: how the dice are rolled, which rules are enforced rather than remembered, how a table decides who acts next, and what a turn costs.
Before the chapters
The short version
- The Endlessness is an AI Dungeon Master that runs Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition adventures in a web browser.
- There are three modes: Single Player, Online Multiplayer, and Living Worlds. All three are on the free plan.
- A turn is one message to the Dungeon Master, plus the opening scene when a campaign starts and the catch-up after time away in a Living World. Dice results, listening, party chat and skipped turns cost nothing.
- Free gives 20 turns per day. Adventurer gives 100 for $9.99 a month. Legend gives 400 for $24.99 a month.
- A campaign slot holds one running story: a solo campaign, a Living World, a table you host, or a seat at a friend's table. Free has 1, Adventurer 5, Legend 20.
- Dice are generated on the player's own device using its cryptographic random number generator.
- The Dungeon Master never sees a roll before the player and cannot change it after it lands.
- It uses the D&D 5e System Reference Document 5.2.1, under CC BY 4.0.
- A Living World's clock runs at real-time speed: a three-day journey takes three real days, and a long rest takes eight real hours.
- A Living World does not advance on its own. Other players change it.
The chapters
Ten of them, in order
Read straight through, or jump
Getting started
Your first session
What actually happens between creating an account and your first line of story.
Read chapter I→
What you spend
Turns, and what costs one
A turn is you talking to the Dungeon Master. Almost everything else is free.
Read chapter II→
The part people ask about first
Dice and rolls
You roll your own dice, you see the number first, and the Dungeon Master cannot change it afterwards.
Read chapter III→
Run by the book
Combat
D&D 5e as written, from SRD 5.2.1, with the fiddly rules enforced rather than remembered.
Read chapter IV→
The sheet is real
Your character
Twelve classes, forty subclasses, nine species, and a sheet that tracks all of it properly.
Read chapter V→
At a table
Whose turn it is
How the Dungeon Master decides who acts next when several people are playing.
Read chapter VI→
A shared world
Time in a Living World
One world, one calendar, one clock that runs at the same speed yours does.
Read chapter VII→
Read to, and heard
Voice and hands-free
The story read aloud as it is written, dice that roll themselves, and a turn you can take without touching anything.
Read chapter VIII→
Your books, your character
Bring your own world
Three different ways to play something that is already yours, and only one of them costs money.
Read chapter IX→
The Fixer
When something breaks
A second pair of hands for when the game goes wrong, that never costs you a turn.
Read chapter X→
The Story Continues
The Dice Are Waiting
Your first adventure is free. Your first character takes five minutes. The only thing standing between you and the dungeon is a single click.
What do you do?
Free · No credit card · Plays in your browser