Tabletop RPG
The Severed Spire
A mile-high tower, cut from its mountain, hangs in open sky and sinks an inch a day; your company climbs what is left.
- Players
- 1-2
- Length
- 1.5–3h
- Ages
- 12+
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Updated
Works with ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini. Free, no signup.
Opens ChatGPT or Claude with the play prompt ready; press send if it hasn't started. Same link on your phone as on your desktop. Another app? Copy the play prompt into it, or, if it can't open links, copy the full game card below. What works where.
No web access, or want it as an installed app?
The game card is the entire game — every scene, rule and answer, about 13k characters. Paste it when your assistant can't browse the web. The Skill installs The Severed Spire into Claude on any plan: download it, then turn on code execution under Settings → Capabilities and add it at Customize → Skills → + → Upload a skill.
The Severed Spire is a free tabletop role-playing game you play inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Chapter 1 of an Ironquill campaign inside a mile-high tower that sinks an inch a day; your save carries into the chapters to come. 1–2 players, 1.5–3h a run. No signup and no app — open it in your assistant, or paste the play prompt anywhere else.
How to start
- Open it in your AI. Tap Open in ChatGPT or Open in Claude, and press send, or paste the play prompt into any assistant that can open links. No paid plan required.
- The game loads. The AI boots Ironquill and sets your company at the tower's severed base.
- Climb the spire. Describe what your climber does. The AI narrates, rolls in the open — code dice or the pre-rolled tape — and voices the lift-crews, the Guild, and whatever circles in the cloud.
- Save between chapters. Take a save code at each chapter's end. Paste it to continue with your company and choices intact.
Questions
- How long is the campaign?
- Chapter 1 is available now and runs about 90 to 180 minutes. It is the first of a planned three-chapter campaign; Chapters 2 and 3 are not out yet. Each chapter is a self-contained climb through one tier of the tower, and a save code at the end of Chapter 1 will carry your company and their choices into the next chapter when it releases.
- Do I need to play The Toll at Blackbridge first?
- No. The Severed Spire stands alone and teaches what you need as you climb. Blackbridge is a shorter tutorial for the same Ironquill system, so it is a gentle warm-up, but it is not required.
- Can I play the whole thing solo?
- Yes. Built for one or two players, the campaign runs solo with the AI as game master handling every character but yours. With two players you share a company and split the tower's decisions between you.
- What carries between chapters?
- Your characters, their injuries, gear, and the choices you made. A save code at the end of each chapter encodes that state; paste it to begin the next chapter, in the same AI or a different one, with your history intact.
12+ — a fatal fall is possible for player characters, and a woman is cut loose and left to die; peril and cold, no gore.