chronica.ventures

What It Is

Chronica is an online campaign management and worldbuilding tool for tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs), suitable for D&D, PFRPG, homebrew systems, and more. It centralizes quests, NPCs, maps, inventory, shops, timelines, calendars, encounters, kingdom building, and other materials in a private browser-based campaign space, with a focus on “no downloads required, accessible to the whole party.”

Core Capabilities

The product offers a broad feature set: at the basic level, it includes a user dashboard, campaign overview, party information, and player dashboards. Content management features include adventure notes, quest logs, NPC/player codices, family trees, factions/organizations, locations, and world maps. For running campaigns, users can manage events and attendance, inventory and wealth, shops, encounter planning, entity codices, kingdom-building tools, custom calendars, and timelines. On the collaboration side, each player has an account, and the GM can configure different permission levels. Content can be set as public, private, or secret, with support for multiple GMs, player attendance, party-editable notes, shop managers, and other mechanisms.

Pricing

Chronica uses a freemium model plus per-campaign subscriptions, and only the campaign owner needs to pay. The free Peasant tier offers 8 players and 20MB of storage, with unlimited free campaigns. Paid tiers range from Squire at $3/month billed annually, to Knight at $5/month, Monarch at $8/month, and Deity at $20/month. Higher tiers gradually increase seats and storage while unlocking features such as an ad-free experience, multiple GMs, shops, locations, encounters, image galleries, and a file hub. PayPal is available, but it requires manual setup and only supports 12-month billing cycles.

Pros and Cons

The strengths are that its features are highly tailored to TRPG campaign management, the free version is quite usable, the per-campaign rather than per-user pricing is friendly to player groups, and the permissions and hidden-information design align well with real GM needs. The drawbacks are that it is not a general-purpose enterprise collaboration tool, and information about third-party integrations, APIs, and data security compliance is not disclosed. Some key features require a paid plan, and the free tier has limited storage. In addition, the main text contains two different descriptions of the Deity seat count—100 and 500—so this should be confirmed against the latest official page.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Chronica is well suited to long-running campaign GMs, online TRPG groups, campaigns with complex worldbuilding, and large West Marches-style communities. It is not suitable for organizations that require enterprise-grade auditing, SSO, API integrations, or self-hosted deployment. Access from mainland China is not covered in the source text, so actual availability should be tested independently.