Roleplay Discord Bots

What to check first

• Whether characters are stored per-server, and how many each member can have.
• Webhook-based speech, which is what lets a character post under its own name and avatar.
• Dice support if your system needs it — the notation matters, and not every bot handles more than d20.
• Whether sheets can be edited by staff, for the day a member leaves mid-story.

The feature that defines this category is proxying: posting as a character rather than as yourself. It works through Discord webhooks, which is why messages from these bots appear with a custom name and avatar and why they cannot be edited by the person who sent them in the usual way. If a bot does not use webhooks, in-character posts will look like a bot quoting you, and long scenes become hard to read.

Storage is the thing that hurts later. Servers running a story for a year accumulate hundreds of character sheets, and the bots differ enormously in whether you can export them. Before you build a campaign on top of one, find out whether the data can leave, because the alternative is retyping it all if the bot shuts down.

For systems with real mechanics, look at how much the bot enforces. Some are pure record-keepers and leave rules to the players; some track health, inventory and conditions. The second kind is much more useful and much more likely to break when your table houserules something, so it is worth matching to how strictly your server actually plays.