SpicyChat Opens Rulebooks to Free Users After Paid Rollout
SpicyChat has opened Rulebooks to every account, including free users, and says the rollout is complete. That account of the 10 November announcement comes from CompanionHunt’s dated update log, which quotes the company and links the official post on r/SpicyChatAI.
Paid subscribers had been able to use and create Rulebooks since 28 October, according to the same log and an earlier announcement thread. The 10 November notice told users that public Rulebooks sit in the Rulebooks section of the main menu, and that characters already using one can be found with a “Filter by Feature” control.
A Rulebook, in SpicyChat’s own documentation, “turns a chat into a small game.” It keeps a running score of things that matter in the story — trust, affection, a wallet, hit points, or a clock that moves from day to night — and updates those meters from the conversation itself. Influence rules then tell the character how to behave at each score, so a low-trust character stays guarded and a high-trust one opens up, without the user typing commands.
Players can attach a public Rulebook to a character, a persona or a single chat. Creators can start from a template, build one in the editor, import a JSON file, or have another model draft a Rulebook for import. Public Rulebooks can be cloned.
The change is a real shift for a large AI roleplay platform. SpicyChat has long reserved some models and its Memory Manager for paid plans. Rulebooks were introduced as a subscriber feature and, two weeks later, moved to the free tier. That puts a structured, shareable gameplay layer in front of the site’s whole catalogue, not only people who pay.
It does not make every new SpicyChat tool free. CompanionHunt, citing staff replies on 12 November, reports that a separate “Save this to memory” control then rolling out will not come to free accounts. The lowest plan named for it is Get A Taste, because it uses the Memory Manager.
For this directory, the story is not a new app. It is a widely used roleplay site giving every user a feature it had just launched behind a paywall, which will shape how public characters are built and played from here.
