About Lantern Saga

Lantern Saga makes hour-long quests that read like a book and play like a tabletop RPG. You read in the second person, you choose, and when a choice is risky you roll two dice and add one of your three stats, in plain sight. A failed roll never stops the story; it sends it somewhere new. Every quest has two to four endings.

Every quest runs on the same small set of rules, which is what makes the forge possible. A Storyteller tells the forge a story in plain words; the forge plans it into chapters, writes every scene, choice, check and fight, plays it thousands of times in a simulator to make sure it is fair, and has an editor read it. The story stays the storyteller’s.

We built it for people who loved gamebooks and text adventures, people who run tabletop campaigns, and anyone with a story they want their friends to walk through.