Living Cities
Walk through streets, shops, homes, markets, and hidden places. NPC schedules, city conditions, factions, and consequences continue beyond a single scene.
A living fantasy world for players and storytellers
Explore the cities. Follow the story. Shape what happens next.
Create a character and step into connected fantasy cities filled with persistent NPCs, mysteries, shops, dungeons, and consequences. Play selected adventures for free, purchase complete campaigns, or build your own with the creator tools.
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How it works
- Step 1
Create your adventurer
Build a character, choose your play style, and begin in one of Curious Campaigns' living cities.
- Step 2
Choose an adventure
Explore free city content, begin a Curious Admin campaign, or unlock a campaign that matches your group.
- Step 3
Leave your mark
Your discoveries, relationships, possessions, crimes, quests, and choices persist as the world changes around you.
More than a map. More than a campaign book.
Curious Campaigns combines explorable cities, structured adventures, persistent characters, interactive dungeons, and an AI-assisted Dungeon Master in one connected world.
Complete Campaigns
Play story-driven campaigns designed for this world. Each campaign can connect existing cities, dungeons, NPCs, monsters, items, and world events.
Interactive Dungeons
Explore with walls, doors, lighting, fog of war, traps, monsters, objects, and persistent encounter state.
Ask the DM
Ask what your character can see, who is nearby, how far something is, or what action is possible. The DM assistant reads the current scene without exposing hidden information.
Persistent Characters
Carry your character, inventory, relationships, discoveries, and history from one adventure to the next.
Adventures from Curious Admin
Curious Admin campaigns and dungeons are curated, playtested adventures built specifically for this world. They connect directly to the cities, characters, maps, and systems already inside the platform.
Free City Adventure
A short introductory adventure that teaches exploration, conversation, checks, and consequences.
Price shown on each campaign
Featured Dungeon
A compact dungeon with fog of war, hidden routes, traps, creatures, and more than one way to succeed.
Price shown on each campaign
Premium Campaign
A complete multi-session campaign with connected locations, persistent story effects, handouts, encounters, and multiple endings.
Price shown on each campaign
Start free. Add only the adventures and tools you need.
Free Explorer
Free
Enter the world, create a character, and experience selected Curious Campaigns content.
- Character creation
- Selected explorable city content
- Selected Curious Admin adventures
- Core exploration and interaction
- Ask the DM during supported play
- Basic campaign and dungeon saves
- Access to purchased campaigns
Builder
$120 / 6 months
Create custom places and adventures using the same systems behind our curated content.
- Custom dungeon builder
- Campaign creation and import
- World Asset Library
- Custom monsters and NPCs
- Expanded saves and storage
- Duplicate and remix permitted content
- Export tools
- Future AI-assisted creation credits
Campaigns
Individually priced
Purchase complete campaigns without subscribing to the Builder.
- Permanent access to the purchased campaign, subject to refund or revocation terms
- Campaign-specific cities, dungeons, NPCs, monsters, handouts, and story content
- Persistent campaign saves
- Compatible updates to the purchased campaign
- No Builder subscription required
Builder access and campaign purchases are separate. You do not need a Builder subscription to play a campaign you own.
What each level includes
| Feature | Free Explorer | Purchased Campaign | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create a character | Included | Included | Included |
| Explore selected free content | Included | Included | Included |
| Play owned campaigns | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ask the DM | Supported content | Included campaign content | Test and build modes |
| Custom dungeon creation | — | — | Included |
| Custom campaign creation | — | — | Included |
| World Asset Library | Browse where used | Used by campaign | Full builder access |
| Custom monsters | — | Campaign content only | Included |
| Export tools | — | Player materials where provided | Included |
| Expanded storage | Basic | Campaign saves | Expanded |
| AI-assisted creation | — | — | Future feature |
Built for clear boundaries at the table
Player-safe and DM-only information
Secrets, traps, hidden motives, undiscovered locations, and private notes are separated from player-facing views.
Private saves
Character and campaign saves remain tied to the appropriate account and campaign access.
Family and Adult play
Adventures can be labeled for Family or Adult play, with content notes and age-appropriate guidance.
Persistent but reversible
Campaign state can track consequences, while DMs retain tools to review, approve, or correct important changes.
Authorized content
Curious Campaigns uses original material and authorized rules content. Source and licensing information is tracked for published adventures.
Questions before the first road
Your first road begins in Bramblewick.
Create a character, enter the city, and see what changes when the world remembers your choices.