
Question.
I'm building a persistent AI TTRPG with an ARG buried underneath it
Temple of Eden is a free, persistent fantasy TTRPG built around ChatGPT.
On the surface, it’s a playable world: create a character, explore the Temple across different historical ages, talk to people, take jobs, get into trouble, and continue the same campaign later.
But the world is deliberately incomplete.
Records contradict each other. Certain places and symbols recur across centuries. Characters sometimes know things they probably shouldn’t. Parts of the Temple’s history appear to have been erased, rewritten, or deliberately buried.
The ARG is about figuring out what actually happened.
I don’t want to dump the “secret lore” in a wiki. The idea is that players gradually reconstruct it from encounters, documents, architecture, historical inconsistencies, and clues scattered through the setting.
Some current questions include:
- Why do accounts of the Temple’s origin disagree?
- Why do the same motifs appear in completely different historical periods?
- What happened during the parts of the chronology nobody seems willing to describe plainly?
- And why does the Temple seem to preserve some memories while actively obscuring others?
It is still early, and I’m specifically interested in feedback from people who actually play ARGs: does this feel like a rabbit hole worth following, and what would make you want to start pulling at the thread?
The public entrance is here: