In the real world, learning how to play a role-playing game is fairly easy. Online, however, things add up: the concept itself, a ruleset, and a platform. There are various platforms out there — none of them bad — but most are aimed at experienced players who want to transfer their analog skills into the digital space. For beginners, the first steps often feel complicated.

Another issue I personally have with many of these tools: at best, they lure the game master into spending a lot of time preparing maps, tokens, and other assets. At worst, they expect you to first create a full ruleset, then a character sheet based on that ruleset, and finally a layout that presents that character sheet.

With Taszo, I created a minimal platform for myself that stands out less because of fancy features and more because of what it intentionally leaves out. The one exception: group chat translation via OpenAI into a wide range of languages.

Privacy Policy

I don’t gather any information you aren’t actively entering. I also don’t use any tools, libraries, or services that would collect data — with one exception.

The data you enter is encrypted on your device with your secret key before being sent to my server. It is only decrypted on the devices of the receivers. Without knowledge of the secret key, which is never transferred, even I cannot read your messages.

The one exception is OpenAI, whose API I use for translations. If this is a concern to you, please be aware that even if you disable translation on your own device, you cannot prevent other participants from enabling translation on theirs. If they choose to translate the messages you sent, those messages will be transmitted to OpenAI from their device.

Local Storage

Your device stores your messages and settings in a local database. This database is not encrypted. Anyone with direct access to your device (e.g., via backups or forensic access) may be able to read this stored data.