Play for free. Unlock the whole road. Or write your own.

Lantern Saga is a library of text RPG quests you play in your browser: interactive stories of about an hour, read in a terminal-style screen, where you make the choices, roll the dice on checks and fights, and reach one of several endings. Storytellers can also write their own quests from a story told in plain words.

Yes. A free account plays the free quests with any of the three ready-made heroes, one save slot per quest. The Adventurer plan ($4.99 a month) opens every quest, including the ones written by storytellers.

A web browser on a computer, tablet or phone. There is nothing to download or install. Your saves follow your account from one device to another.

About an hour for one playthrough, and every quest has two to four endings, so most players come back for another road.

A check rolls two six-sided dice and adds one of your three stats (Might, Wits or Charm). Meet the target and you succeed; fall just short and you get a partial success at a cost; fall far short and the story takes another turn. Failing never stops the story.

Adventurer costs $4.99 a month and unlocks everything there is to play: every quest in the library, every storyteller quest, custom characters with any perk, legacy perks carried between quests, three save slots per quest and the endings gallery.

Storyteller costs $19.99 a month. It includes everything in Adventurer, plus the forge: tell a story in your own words and it becomes a finished, playable quest, up to 3 new quests a month. You can share each quest with friends by link and publish it to the Storytellers' library.

You tell your story the way you would tell it to a friend and answer up to three questions. The forge then plans the chapters, writes every scene, choice, check and fight, tests the quest thousands of times with a simulator so it is fair in every difficulty, and has an editor read it before it reaches you. It usually takes between ten and thirty minutes.

No. Anyone who opens your share link can play that quest with a free account. Quests you publish to the Storytellers' library are open to every Adventurer and Storyteller.

Your story stays yours. By publishing a quest you let Lantern Saga host it and show it to the players you share it with; you can unpublish or delete it at any time.

Yes. Cancel from your account page in two clicks; you keep your plan until the end of the month you paid for, and you are not charged again.