Four Ways to Experience Your Adventure
LOREKEEPER organizes gameplay into four distinct scene types. Each one offers a different pace, set of available actions, and narrative focus. The AI DM transitions between them naturally as the story demands.Exploration
Exploration scenes are about discovery. You investigate environments, search for hidden items, examine clues, and interact with the world around you. These scenes reward curiosity and attention to detail. Common actions: search a room, examine an object, open a door, climb a wall, investigate a sound.Social Encounters
Social scenes focus on interaction with NPCs. Persuade a guard to let you pass, negotiate prices with a merchant, interrogate a prisoner, or charm a noble at a banquet. Your choices in social scenes shape NPC relationships and can unlock quests or information.Combat
Combat scenes are tactical battles resolved with dice rolls, conditions, and strategic decisions. Initiative determines turn order, and you choose from actions like attacking, casting spells, using items, defending, or fleeing. Combat is where the mechanical depth of LOREKEEPER truly shines.Travel
Travel scenes cover journeys between locations. The DM describes the landscape, weather, and passage of time. Random encounters may occur during travel, leading to combat, social interactions, or discoveries along the road.The Scene Director
Behind the scenes, the Scene Director manages transitions and dramatic pacing. It tracks narrative tension across a 7-phase arc structure: hook, rising action, midpoint, complications, climax, falling action, and resolution. This ensures your adventure builds naturally toward satisfying dramatic peaks rather than feeling flat or random.You do not need to think about scene types while playing. The DM handles transitions automatically. Just describe what your character does, and the system responds with the appropriate scene context.