Do I need a subscription to play?

No. Anyone can join a realm, chat, roll dice, and build out the compendium without ever subscribing. Coins in your wallet fed through a subscription or coin pack are only needed to trigger AI features: recording, live transcription, and all downstream intelligence features.

Do players need to pay?

No single player has to. Only one person at the table needs coins to start a recorded session, and if several players in the party have coins, the cost of that session splits evenly across everyone present with a balance, so no one player carries the whole bill.

What happens when coins run out?

Nothing dramatic. The session just stops recording. If every present participant's coin balance hits zero mid-session, the session ends automatically, in both the web app and Discord. Everything already captured stays saved.

Realms of Shod

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Simple, coin-based pricing

Free-to-Play, Pay Only for the AI Intelligence

One free tier, two subscriptions, and pay-as-you-go coin packs. Everyone can join a realm and play for free. Coins only come into it when someone wants AI transcription running.

Three tiers, one currency

Squire's Way

FREE100 coin signup bonus

Choose Squire if you:

Are working on a story
Need basic communication, message logs, and world building tools
Want to try Realms of Shod

Storyteller's Guild

Basic

$6/month1000 coins monthly

Choose Basic if you:

Run an RPG group or are a game organizer
Need automated world building, speech to text, and intelligent story memory
Want your story preserved across sessions without manual tracking

Pro

$15/month2625 coins monthly

Choose Pro if you:

Run long-sessions, concurrent tables, or large play communities
Need the full spectrum of intelligent story tools
Want multiple campaigns run side-by-side, effortlessly

Rations

Pay as you go

Choose coin packs if you:

Are curious or in need of extra premium capacity
Need flexibility
Want temporary boosts

Squire's Way

FREE100 coin signup bonus

Choose Squire if you:

Are working on a story
Need basic communication, message logs, and world building tools
Want to try Realms of Shod

Storyteller's Guild

Basic

$6/month1000 coins monthly

Choose Basic if you:

Run an RPG group or are a game organizer
Need automated world building, speech to text, and intelligent story memory
Want your story preserved across sessions without manual tracking

Pro

$15/month2625 coins monthly

Choose Pro if you:

Run long-sessions, concurrent tables, or large play communities
Need the full spectrum of intelligent story tools
Want multiple campaigns run side-by-side, effortlessly

Rations

Pay as you go

Choose coin packs if you:

Are curious or in need of extra premium capacity
Need flexibility
Want temporary boosts

Squire's Way

FREE

Basic

Pro

$15

Pay-as-you-go

$5-$20

Squire's Way

FREE100 coin signup bonus

Choose Squire if you:

Are working on a story
Need basic communication, message logs, and world building tools
Want to try Realms of Shod

What coins actually pay for

Coins are spent only when the platform does something intelligent: transcribing a session, generating a scene recap, producing a session summary, or automatically linking compendium entities. Video chat, text chat, image uploads, dice rolls, and managing the compendium are always free and never touch a coin balance.

Transcription runs roughly 130 coins per hour of recorded audio. A typical three-hour session (transcription plus the scene recaps and summaries that come with it) usually lands around 390–490 coins.

Coins are never tied to a single person. When a session is recorded, the cost splits evenly across every participant present who has a coin balance, not just whoever started the recording, so a party of Storytellers shares the bill automatically.

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