💬 DM helper

The DM helper is a mini AI chat that lives inside the Bench, the composable tools canvas. It's a quick helper for ideas, descriptions and improvisation at the table: add the block to your canvas and you have an assistant always at hand, right next to dice, tracker and sheets. Unlike the Master AI, the DM helper does not search the manuals: it's built to be fast and creative, not to cite rules with sources.

What it is for

The DM helper is your improvisation assistant. Use it when you need a creative nudge in real time, without needing a manual citation:

• Descriptions on the fly: what a tavern looks like, the mood of an alley, an NPC's face.
• Ideas and hooks: a twist, an antagonist's motive, a merchant's name.
• Improvisation: the players go somewhere you hadn't prepped and you need something now.
• Lines and dialogue: giving voice to an unexpected character.

Because it sits in the Bench, you keep it open next to the other tools while you play, without changing page.

How to use it

1. Open the Bench (among the tabletop tools).
2. With + Add pick the DM helper block from the palette.
3. Set the canvas setting (Vulcania, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Generic): the DM helper adapts its style to the chosen world.
4. Type your request in the mini-chat and read the reply.

It's a conversation: you can push further ("darker", "give me three variants", "now his secret") and the block remembers the exchange while you work on the canvas.

DM helper or Master AI?

They are two different tools, for different moments:

• DM helper — fast and creative, no manual search, lives in the Bench. For inventing, describing, improvising. Its header carries a notice that it consumes credits.
• Master AI (chat) — searches the indexed manuals and answers with sources. For rules, lore and verifiable facts.

Rule of thumb: if you need the right rule, use the Master AI; if you need a quick idea, use the DM helper.

Credits

The DM helper is an AI feature and therefore consumes credits (flagged by a notice in the block's header). The rest of the Bench and the tabletop tools, by contrast, run for free in the browser: you only pay for AI answers. Keep in mind that periodic credits recharge every week based on your level, while purchased ones never expire.