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Lorexicon’s Frequently Asked Questions

Sharpen your quill, brave traveler — here lie the answers to your most pressing inquiries, seasoned with a dash of humor and a pinch of RPG flair.

📜 General

Q: So what does it do?

A: Lorexicon is your enchanted grimoire, woven into the very heart of your game — whether you wield it through the Foundry VTT module or Lorexicon Web. Speak your desire — be it a harrowing dungeon showdown, a web of courtly intrigue, the summons of a fearsome beast, or a bustling merchant’s shop — and it will conjure a fully realized Pathfinder 2e encounter, NPC, creature, hazard, or merchant before your eyes. With a flourish of its arcane quill, it drafts balanced monster rosters with dynamic party-size scaling, weaves evocative scene art and narrative text, and inscribes every stat, skill check, and tactic directly into a ready-to-play document. When the ritual completes, your “Lorexicon” folder overflows with ready-to-play encounters, stat blocks, portraits, and tokens — no manual import, no tedium — just pure, instantaneous creation at your command.

Q: What can Lorexicon summon for me?

A: Lorexicon channels the arcane intelligence of a complex Pathfinder 2e rules engine to conjure everything you need for your next session – fully formed Pathfinder 2e Actors (NPCs and creatures), hazards, encounters balanced to your party’s size, and fully stocked merchants with real compendium inventory. Speak your prompt, and watch as it weaves monster rosters, narrative text, and scene art, then binds them all into ready-to-play journal entries, tokens, and maps – just pure magical creation.

Q: What detailed runes does Lorexicon inscribe for me when creating an Actor?

A: Every spark of creation you invoke, Lorexicon weaves into a fully realized Actor, complete with every rune and detail you could desire:

All of this is conjured in one seamless ritual – no tedious copy-pasting, no manually poring over tables in arcane tomes, no missing details – so you can focus on the story, not the stat block.

Q: What detailed runes does Lorexicon inscribe for me when creating a Hazard?

A: Each Hazard Lorexicon forges arrives fully realized and ready to deploy, with no manual assembly required:

All of this is conjured in a single step, letting you add meaningful danger to your adventure without slowing down play—or prep.

Q: What detailed runes does Lorexicon inscribe for me when creating an Encounter?

A: With every invocation, Lorexicon weaves a tapestry of arcane runes into a complete, ready-to-run encounter:

Q: When are creatures selected for my encounter?

A: Aye, the type of encounter you conjure determines what springs forth from the forge’s vaults! For Combat and Pursuit encounters, Lorexicon reaches into the Bestiary and Monster Core, plucking forth fearsome creatures to test your party’s mettle. For Moral and Social encounters, you’ll instead summon forth NPCs from the NPC Core and NPC Gallery–vivid personas with their own agendas and convictions, ready to parley or persuade. The other encounter types—such as Discovery—concern themselves with the shape of the land and the secrets it holds, and thus don’t involve direct creature selection. In short: the encounter’s very nature determines who (or what) you’ll meet.

Q: That name, tho…

A: Aye, Lorexicon is incanted as ‘low-REX-ih-KAHN.’ Slice together Lore and Lexicon, and you’ve bound a ‘dictionary of lore’ — the perfect grimoire for your game table. Truth be told, we tried a few dozen other arcane titles, but every worthy name was already claimed by other wizards. Thus we arrived at Lorexicon: a unique fusion worthy of its magic.

💰 What Does It Cost?

Q: Must I pay gold to harness Lorexicon’s power?

A: Fear not, intrepid GM – Lorexicon itself bears no charge to install. All explorers of the forge may sample its magic with a handful of free creations each moon (month). Beyond that, a modest Patreon pact is required to replenish your allotment of conjurations.

Q: How do I pledge my support to the Guild?

A: Simply voyage to our Patreon stronghold and select the tier that best suits your adventuring needs. Each tier grants additional monthly spell slots – more creations, more glory! Your pledge sustains the Guild’s scribes and fuels ever-greater innovations in the arcane arts.

Q: Where can I view the tiers, prices, and limits?

A: Seek the full slate of offerings on our Patreon page: There you’ll find all the details – tier names, monthly creation limits, and the gold required to maintain your legendary status.

Embark upon your journey with confidence, knowing that whether you walk the path of the free scribe or rise as a golden archmage, Lorexicon’s grimoire awaits your command!

🖋️ The Art of Prompting

Q: How vague or specific should my incantation be?

A: Lorexicon delights in the mists of ambiguity. A simple whisper – “A forest ambush” or “A cunning goblin rogue” – can bloom into a tapestry of detail far richer than you might expect. Trust its creativity, and you may find wondrous surprises.

Q: Will it heed my detailed directives?

A: In most cases, yes. If you decree “Severe threat encounter with a group of bandits” or “Fire mage with a staff of ember, Knowledge (Arcana) focus, and Slow (Enchantment) cantrip,” the Lorexicon’s quill will strive to honor each rune. Yet know this: even the most precise spells allow for a spark of improvisation. While parsing your intent, the LLM may embellish or interpret your vision to keep the story alive.

Q: What if my prompt grows too long or labyrinthine?

A: Lengthy scrolls of instruction can sometimes confound the arcane forge. When the ritual grows over‐elaborate, the LLM may wend its own path, weaving in unexpected threads. For best results, strike a balance – focus on the essentials, then let Lorexicon fill the tapestry’s finer stitches.

Q: Can I demand exact hazards, environments, abilities, or statistics?

A: You may petition for them, but know that the Lorexicon’s arcane muse values narrative over pedantic precision. Your specific requests – “create a skill challenge in an active volcano” – will often appear, but occasionally the forge substitutes or adjusts values for balance. Embrace the variance; it breeds freshness in your tales.

Q: Do the encounters provide specific creatures?

A: Indeed they do! Lorexicon’s enchanted forge now selects creatures directly from the Pathfinder 2e SRD, weaving them into your encounter with a primary recommendation and one or two stalwart alternates—should the first prove unsuitable for your tale. This marriage of narrative and mechanics means your encounter arrives with both evocative scene descriptions and precise stat blocks ready to deploy.

Should the forge’s search prove fruitless (perchance a most peculiar thematic demand leaves the archives bare), Lorexicon will gracefully fall back to generic creature roles, ensuring your encounter still takes shape. Your creations are never left wanting—only the form may shift.

Q: What is the Prompt Advisor?

A: The Prompt Advisor is your personal counsel, built right into the creation form. Click the Advise button (next to Submit) before committing your incantation, and it will study your prompt and return a revised version along with an explanation of what it changed and why. A dialog presents the counsel; click Use to accept the suggestions into your prompt, or Discard to keep your original text. For the full guide, see The Prompt Advisor.

Q: Does the Prompt Advisor count against my monthly quota?

A: Not a single spell slot! The Prompt Advisor never deducts from your monthly allotment — only the final Submit that sends your prompt to the forge counts. If the Advisor’s suggestions don’t suit your vision, click Discard and consult it again if you wish. Only when you click Use does it step aside for that creation, its counsel now woven into your incantation.

Q: How do I master the forge’s creativity?

A: Treat your prompt as an invocation, not a blueprint. Name the soul or theme you desire, hint at its power and purpose, then step back. Lorexicon will sculpt the rest, blending your vision with its own enchanted insights. The result: Actors that feel alive, not just assembled.

🛠️ Customization & Content

Q: Why do the Actors have so many abilities? It seems like too many.

A: We’ve deliberately over-provisioned each Actor with a generous suite of talents – imagine gifting your adventurers a well-stocked armory rather than a single blade. This abundance ensures you, the GM, can cherry-pick the most evocative abilities to fit your story, rather than being constrained by a bare-bones template. Think of it as choice over scarcity: you’ll never wish you had more options when crafting the perfect encounter. If you prefer a leaner build, simply remove or ignore the extras – your game, your rules.

Q: What spells will my spellcaster receive?

A: When Lorexicon identifies an Actor as a primary spellcaster – whether wizard, sorcerer, cleric, or another spell-slinging vocation – it draws a curated selection of spells directly from the Pathfinder 2e SRD, carefully tailored to match the Actor’s level, tradition, and role in combat. These spells arrive ready to use, integrated seamlessly into the Actor. No need to hunt through tomes and scrolls yourself – your spellcaster emerges from the forge already armed with an arsenal of incantations, ready for battle or intrigue.

Q: Does Lorexicon understand prompts in languages other than English?

A: Indeed! The Lorexicon’s arcane engine can decipher incantations penned in tongues beyond Common. Yet, for now, its quill faithfully scripts its replies in the Common tongue alone. Fear not – behind the scenes our scribes have etched the runes for a truly multilingual grimoire. As our patrons’ voices rise, we shall prioritize weaving full localization into both prompts and interface, letting Elven, Dwarven, and other dialects join the chorus of creation. Should you wish to lend your own quill to this grand endeavor of translation, dispatch a raven to our scribes and join us on this journey!

Q: What kinds of hazards does Lorexicon support?

A: Lorexicon sets its hand to three well-worn crafts: Environmental, Haunt, and Trap hazards, each forged in accordance with Pathfinder 2e Remaster tradition. Environmental hazards shape the battlefield itself—treacherous ground, choking vapors, unstable stone – ever-present and impartial in their cruelty. Traps are the cunning work of mortal hands, sprung by pressure, motion, or meddling fingers, their purpose swift and decisive. Haunts, by contrast, are wounds in the world – echoes of grief, malice, or unfinished rites – that lash out with uncanny will when disturbed. These forms share a common virtue: they strike cleanly, resolve clearly, and integrate seamlessly with Foundry’s automation, allowing danger to feel alive without demanding constant arbitration. In this trinity of peril, Lorexicon finds the perfect balance between atmosphere, mechanics, and reliable play at the table.

Q: Why doesn’t Lorexicon support Complex Hazards?

A: Because a Complex Hazard is no mere snare of wire and spring, but a clockwork contraption of malice—one that takes its own turn, shifts its posture with the passing moments, and answers meddling hands with layered reprisals. To conjure such a thing faithfully demands careful keeping of time, states, and consequences; done poorly, it becomes cacophony instead of challenge. Thus does Lorexicon choose the honest path: to craft simple hazards swiftly and well, while leaving these grand engines of peril to deliberate, bespoke forging by the GM’s own hand. When at last Lorexicon takes up this heavier art, it shall do so with the same discipline and rigor granted to Actors—no sooner, and never in haste.

📦 Contexts

Q: What are “Contexts,” and why should I care?

A: Contexts are your reusable fragments of narrative truth – campaign lore, house rules, character arcs, thematic vibes – all tucked into neat little scrolls. Instead of rewriting the same sacred texts over and over, you simply select the ones that apply, and Lorexicon will whisper them into the forge as part of your summoning. Think of it as preloading your spellbook with the right flavor of magic for the task at hand.

Q: Can I carry more than one context into a prompt?

A: Of course! Select as many as you need – whether you’re juggling the local town’s gloomy secrets, the party’s tragic backstories, or a splash of homebrew rules. Lorexicon will faithfully include them all… just mind the overall incantation length.

Q: Is there a limit to how long each context can be?

A: Aye. Each individual context scroll may hold up to 8,000 characters – enough for a full town’s worth of flavor, but not an entire encyclopedia. Keep them focused and modular so they can be recombined like runes in a spell.

Q: Do contexts count toward the total prompt limit?

A: Indeed they do. All selected contexts are bound into your request before it is cast, and together with your main prompt, they must fit within the 50,000 character ritual limit. If your summoning fails to ignite, trim a scroll or shorten your plea.

Q: How are my Contexts stored and used?

A: Each Context you craft is kept safely within your own vault — private to you and visible only on your account. When you select one for a creation, Lorexicon briefly whispers its contents into the forge for that single act of summoning, then releases it back into the aether. The Context itself remains in your vault; it is never shared, learned from, or remembered by the LLM beyond that request.

Q: Is my data used to train the AI or shared with anyone else?

A: Absolutely not. Lorexicon uses the OpenAI API strictly for generation – specifically the /v1/chat/completions, /v1/image/generations, and /v1/moderations endpoints. According to OpenAI’s data-usage policy, data sent to these APIs is not used to train their models unless an explicit opt-in is given. We have not opted in, and no other party has access to your Contexts. Your lore remains your own.

Q: Will my Context affect other users or future creations?

A: Never. Each user’s spellbook stands alone; your Contexts influence only the conjurations you perform while they’re active. Once you dismiss or deselect them, they vanish from the forge entirely, leaving future summons untouched.

📖 The Lorekeeper

Q: What is the Lorekeeper, and how do I use it?

A: The Lorekeeper is the counselor standing behind the GM’s chair — a voice woven into your Foundry chat that reads your living game and answers questions about it. Type @lx followed by your question in the chat box (for instance, @lx Which enemy is the greatest threat to my party?), and its answer is whispered privately back to you alone. It grounds its counsel in the actual party, the creatures on the scene, the active encounter, token distances, and your map notes — and it fields Pathfinder 2e rules questions besides. For the full guide, see The Lorekeeper.

Q: Who can use the Lorekeeper?

A: Only those seated in the GM’s chair — it is a GM-only art. At present it is offered to the Guild’s paid subscription tiers as an early-access enchantment, granted first to our patrons while its craft is honed.

Q: Does consulting the Lorekeeper cost me any creations?

A: Not a single spell slot — for now. Throughout this early-access period the Lorekeeper is unmetered, spending none of your monthly creation allotment. As the feature matures, this will change; we’ll give you fair warning before any such shift.

Q: Can my players or other GMs see what I ask the Lorekeeper?

A: Never. Every question and every answer is whispered privately to you, the asking GM. No player and no fellow GM glimpses the exchange — your counsel is yours alone.

Q: Why did the Lorekeeper give me a stale answer about creatures that aren’t on my board anymore?

A: Because it remembers. The Lorekeeper holds onto your whole conversation, so facts and groupings it established earlier can linger and color a later answer — even after you’ve changed the scene or trimmed the fight. The cure is a single command: type @lx reset to begin a fresh conversation with its memory wiped clean. A good habit is one conversation per scene or encounter; when the board resets, reset the Lorekeeper. See the Lorekeeper guide for the full tale of memory and when to reset.

🔒 Privacy & Security

Q: What does the Guild know of me?

A: Little indeed, adventurer. We collect only:

Should you wish to sever your ties with the Guild, just click the little chain-breaker icon next to your Patreon login. Your account will be unlinked instantly—no questions asked, no lingering enchantments.

“A wise mage keeps no more records than they can defend.”

Q: Do you have access to my payment information?

A: Perish the thought! The Lorexicon’s Guild is bound by ancient oaths (and modern privacy practices). We do not, cannot, and shall not gaze upon your coinpurse. Any payment details you entrust to Patreon remain solely within their keeping.

⏳ Quotas & Usage

Q: How do monthly creation limits work?

A: Each tier grants you a number of creations per month (tracked by your account). You can spend these on generating encounters, creatures, and NPCs through Lorexicon.

Q: So just to be clear, I am not charged if my job fails?

A: Never! If your spell fizzles or your rogue trips the trap, you won’t lose any gold – or credits, in this case. Your usage is always displayed for you on-screen, as easily as checking your hit points before diving into a dungeon.

Q: Why do some jobs fail?

A: Even the most seasoned wizards can hit a stubborn spell, and our conjuration engine is no exception. On rare occasions, it simply refuses to cooperate – tricks of the arcane, we suppose. When that happens, we beg your pardon and humbly ask you to submit again. Know that with each hiccup, we’re probing its hidden runes and teaching it new lessons, so the next summoning has an ever-better chance of success.

Q: Why did my image never appear, even though the job completed?

A: Ah, the fickle whims of the aether! On occasion, our image conjurer stumbles upon a subject that the moderation wards deem too perilous to render. Rather than letting your entire ritual collapse in a puff of void, we allow the generation to finish without the visual component. This prevents a “permanent failure” that would block that and similar creations in the future. The incantation still consumes its allotted charge, as the energy was spent attempting the summon — even if the image itself was banished mid-ritual.

You’ll know when this occurs: the Results panel will note that the conjuration completed without an image, marking the attempt safely contained by the wards.

Q: What happens if I cancel a job?

A: Canceling a job before it completes does not deduct from your monthly quota—think of it as calling off the ritual before the final incantation. Your resources remain intact, and you can try again immediately. However, if cancellations become frequent enough to resemble mischief (dozens of aborted runs in rapid succession), the Lorexicon Guild reserves the right to intercede and guard against abuse.

💰 Billing & Tiers

Q: What happens if my payment fails? Or if I change tiers?

A: Fear not – Lorexicon’s magic is flexible.

Q: Why do I have to log into Patreon?

A: Great question! Lorexicon uses both client and server – to authenticate you via Patreon, track your monthly guild dues, and securely invoke our backend service for you. Whether you access it through the Foundry module or Lorexicon Web, that Patreon login ensures you’re truly the hero you claim to be.

Q: How do I get Free Tier access? Do I need to join the Patreon?

A: No arcane rituals required! To gain Free Tier access (3 creations per month), simply log in with your Patreon account. If you’re an active patron, you’ll receive your Guild rank benefits automatically. Joining the Fergusware Patreon is encouraged for announcements, but it’s not required for Free Tier access.

Note: Fergusware reserves the right to alter or remove Free Tier quotas at any time.

🤖 Technical & Models

Q: Just to be clear, this service is backed by AI?

A: Only in part. The real magic lives in the code – rule logic, automation, and platform integration all run on solid craftsmanship, not machine whimsy. The AI lends a hand for creative spark: parsing your prompt into a concept, weaving a bit of narrative flavor, and (if you wish) painting the scene with an image. Think of it less as an all-powerful sorcerer, and more as a clever apprentice helping translate your intent into something beautifully playable.

Q: What AI service do you use?

A: We currently summon the power of OpenAI’s arcane engines. We’re also perusing tomes on Anthropic and Gemini and may grant you the choice of familiars (AI providers) in the near future.

Q: What model do you use?

A: By default, the lean-and-mean gpt-4o-mini, balanced to keep costs down while still conjuring clever results. Higher-end models may become available as premium Guild upgrades soon.

Q: Can I bring my own API key?

A: We’re deliberating that option at the council table. If lowering your personal cost is a quest you’d embark on, your feedback will help us decide!

Q: How much should I trust the Lorekeeper’s answers?

A: Treat the Lorekeeper as a knowledgeable second opinion, not an infallible oracle. Like our other creative arts, its counsel is shaped in part by AI, and it remains an early, evolving feature — so it can occasionally misjudge a board or misremember a fine point of rules. Lean on it to surface options and weigh threats, but sanity-check its conclusions and verify exact rulings against the book. The final word at your table is always yours.

🗄️ Retention & Recovery

Q: How long do you retain my creations?

A: Your quest log (Job History) lives forever in our archives, while the conjurations themselves (JSON and images) remain in our vault for 30 days before we gently release them back into the wild.

Q: What is Job History?

A: Job History is your personal ledger of every creation the forge has wrought on your behalf. Open it from the Lorexicon window to browse past summonings — and if a conjuration is still within its 30-day retention window, you can reimport it with a single click. No support ticket, no waiting — just reclaim your lost treasure and carry on. Reimporting never deducts from your monthly allotment; the spell slot was spent when the creation was first forged.

Q: I accidentally deleted my creation. Can I get it back?

A: If fewer than 30 days have passed since the original summoning, aye — open your Job History and reimport the creation yourself. Beyond that window, the conjuration’s runes have faded from our vault and can no longer be restored.

🎓 Lore & Origins

Q: Where did you get the idea for Lorexicon?

A: Funny you ask! It all began as a brainstorming session with ChatGPT, imagining how AI could level up tabletop adventures. And thus, Lorexicon was born!

❓ Still have questions?

If any mysteries remain, do not hesitate to send a missive! Our Support Page is always open as is our Discord. The Guild’s scribes will respond as swiftly as mortal limits allow—thank you for your patience. See the Grimoire of Creation for additional information!

May your rolls be high and your creativity boundless!