Player's Handbook · Chapter 1
Welcome to Craft Text
Craft Text is a tabletop roleplaying game with no dice, no statistics and no arithmetic. Everything your character is, is written down in words, and everything that happens follows from those words.
There is nothing to roll, nothing to add up and nothing to look up on a table. You say what your character does. The Game Master tells you what happens.
Your character is made of a few pieces of writing, a list of Abilities and the Gear they are wearing. That is the whole sheet.
| What it holds | |
|---|---|
| Concept | One line saying who this person is |
| Background | Where they came from and what happened before now |
| Abilities | Everything they can do beyond ordinary competence |
| Equipment | One piece of Gear per body slot, plus a Pack |
| Condition | How they are doing right now, in plain words |
This book teaches you to play. The next chapter builds a character, and the ones after cover Abilities, Gear, how actions resolve, and what happens when you get hurt.
Manual updated Jul 31, 2026.