Arcane Circle vs RPG Story Toolkit

Arcane Circle is a web platform for finding, joining, organizing, crafting, and monetizing tabletop roleplaying adventures. Players filter listings by schedule and can join one-shots, limited series, or ongoing campaigns across major systems. Game Masters create games, manage bookings, schedules, payments, players, and sessions, and receive reviews that build a reputation. Each created game gets a campaign wiki connecting characters, factions, places, and lore. The virtual tabletop combines dice, maps, fog of war, and theater-of-the-mind play in one window. Character sheets provide guided builders for supported systems and freeform sheets for others; character art can become a VTT token. Listings identify required software, which may include Roll20, video calls, or Discord. Game Masters set listing prices, with players charged at session start. Stripe handles payments, and the service says it does not store card details. Plans start at $2.99/mo.

RPG Story Toolkit is a workspace for writing stories, organizing world data, building timelines and maps, publishing a wiki, and exporting material for games. Its rich-text editor links mentions to database records, and those links update when a record is renamed. Users can define tables and fields for characters, items, locations, calendars, and other records. Timelines can be ordered or shown in a Gantt-style view; maps accept uploads, pins, and drawn regions.

The web app publishes documents and records as a browsable wiki at its own address, republishing project updates. Exports include JSON, CSV, TSV, Markdown, plain text, DOCX, and ZIP. The Mac desktop app stores projects as Markdown, JSON, and asset files and works offline. Automatic desktop-to-web sync requires Pro. Web Free is $0 and includes one project, up to three documents and image uploads, public wiki publishing, and export. Desktop is free; Pro is $5 a month. Browser and Mac desktop versions are available; the Windows desktop app is marked as coming soon. The project links to its code on GitHub and says users can inspect and modify it.