AI Roleplay Guides
These AI roleplay guides started as questions from Reddit threads and one-star app reviews: how to start, why the character forgets, how to stop it writing your lines. Every guide has a free tool on the page, so you can try the advice straight away.
Quick answer
An AI roleplay guide teaches you how to play a story with an AI character: how to open a scene, how to write the character, how to steer the plot and how to fix the usual problems, like a character who forgets things or talks for you. Each guide here ends with something you can try for free.
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Name your characters, pick a genre and get roleplay prompts in a few seconds. Free, with no account.
300 characters left. Leave it blank and it will invent one.
Full scenarios always come three at a time.
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Free, and no sign-up. 10 free AI prompt sets a day.
Your roleplay prompts
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Character A and Character B are the only two passengers left awake on a night train that has not stopped at a station in six hours. The conductor's cabin is locked from the inside, and someone keeps knocking on it.
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Character A is a courier who has never once opened a package. Tonight Character B offers a fortune to find out what is inside this one, and the package has started to hum.
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Character B wakes up in Character A's spare room with no memory of the last three days and a map drawn on the back of their hand in Character A's handwriting.
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Character A and Character B are rival treasure hunters who reach the same sealed tomb at the same moment. The door only opens for two.
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A storm strands Character A at Character B's remote weather station. By morning the radio is picking up a voice that sounds exactly like Character A.
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Your recent prompts
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Play this prompt with a character
Rabu AI turns a prompt like this into a chat or a story, with characters who remember what happened.
Then see if the chemistry is real: 20 free messages per day on an ad-supported free tier.
Every guide
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New to this? Read how to roleplay with AI first, then how to start a roleplay. Together they cover the first ten minutes: picking a character, writing an opening and getting a reply worth answering.
Already playing and stuck? Skip to the guide for your problem below. Most of them exist because somebody posted about a chat that went sideways.
Fixing the usual problems
- The character forgets. Read why AI characters forget for what a model can hold at once and what you can do about it.
- The character talks for you. How to write an AI character prompt starts with that exact problem.
- The story stalls. How to continue a story with AI shows how to push the plot forward without taking over.
- Every chat turns into romance. Roleplay rules and etiquette covers how to set the tone and keep it.
How these guides are written
We make Rabu AI, so the guides point at our app when that helps. The advice works in any app where you roleplay with an AI. Rabu AI features are described as the app has them today, and the date at the top is when we last checked.
Rabu AI facts
Rabu AI has an ad-supported free tier with 20 free messages per day. Rabu AI Plus costs $9.99 monthly, $23.99 every three months or $79.99 yearly and adds ad-free messaging with no daily limit, regenerations as often as you like, Rabu AI Shorts scrolling with no daily cap, editing any message in your chats and stories, a daily message from your character with a photo and a voice message, premium writing models, free chat Special Sessions (video sessions not included), double daily Lucky Draw tickets, exclusive monthly outfits and items, and 50 tokens every month; generated media keeps its normal token costs.
Characters remember your name, your stories and what happened in earlier chats, and the relationship grows as you talk. Group chats bring several characters into one scene, and adult roleplay between adults is supported.
Characters can send pictures, videos and voice messages. A picture costs 2 tokens, a voice message 1 token, a 5-second video 2 tokens and a 10-second video 3 tokens. Character Creator is free and offers extensive customization, including male, humanoid and trans characters. A finished character starts private but can be submitted for review and, if approved, discovered and matched by others.
New on Rabu AI: Rabu AI Shorts is a swipeable feed of short character videos, and a clip can start a POV scene with that character. Special Sessions have no time limit. You can import a character from its character.ai link into the Character Creator.
Rabu AI speaks 10 languages: English, Español, Português, Русский, Français, 中文, Deutsch, 日本語, Italiano, and 한국어. Write in any of them and the characters answer in the same language, in chat and in stories.
Story Mode turns a scenario into a story you play, with characters who answer back. Every story includes 2 free messages to try it, and 20 more Story Mode messages cost 2 tokens. Rabu AI is a web app that works in any phone or computer browser.