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title: "Welcome to Tavern Cozy"
description: "Tavern Cozy is a roleplay AI chat where you create characters, chat with them, and build your own story world."
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# Welcome to Tavern Cozy

Tavern Cozy is a cozy roleplay chat where you bring characters to life. Create your own AI companions, shape their personalities, give them a world to live in, and talk to them — as many characters, personas, and story threads as you like.

This guide walks you through everything the app can do, from your first sign-in to advanced features like JSON character import and memory.

## What you can build

- **Card** — **Characters** — The heart of Tavern. Define a character's personality, appearance, dialogue style, expressions, and gallery. Create from scratch, import a CharaCard JSON or PNG, or generate one with AI.
- **Card** — **Personas** — Who *you* are in the story. Save reusable personas with traits, background, and an avatar, then switch between them per chat.
- **Card** — **Lorebooks** — Persistent world knowledge. Entries with trigger keys inject context into a chat when keywords come up, so characters remember the world's rules.
- **Card** — **Presets** — Save model settings (temperature, prompts, penalties) and reuse them across chats for a consistent voice.
- **Card** — **Image generation** — Generate artwork with multiple AI models, resolutions, aspect ratios, and high-thinking mode. Browse your history and manage credits.
- **Card** — **Groups** — Chat with several characters at once in one room.

## The basics in three steps

1. **Sign in**

   Create an account with an email + username, Google, or a passkey. See [Signing in](/login) for every method.
2. **Make a character**

   Go to **Create → Create Character**, fill in the essentials (name, greeting, description), and save. See [Characters](/characters) for every field.
3. **Start a chat**

   Open a character and press **Start chatting**. Pick a persona, attach a lorebook or preset if you like, and go.

## A note on credits and limits

Chatting and image generation consume credits. Your account starts with a base allowance that refills monthly; you can buy more credit, and some premium models or features require a subscription. See [Getting started](/getting-started) for the details.

Source: https://docs.taverncozy.com/welcome/index.mdx