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Diegetic Simulators

Name: Diegetic Simulators
Brand: Diegetic Simulators
Author: Ties That Bind Gaming

Immersive, in-fiction tools for your tabletop RPG. Real-time terminal props your players interact with live, and databases your characters access in-world, each on their own device.

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Diegetic Terminals

Build layered ship consoles, facility access grids, and mission terminals your players share and interact with live. Passwords, doors, encrypted content, and embedded media stay synced in real time.

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Diegetic Databases

A database that exists inside your fiction, a ship's archive, a corporate mainframe, a smuggler's data-slate your characters access in-world. It doubles as a quick reference for your table too. Either way, players browse it independently on their own devices.

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Terminal vs Database

Both share the same account, the same plan limit, and the same editor. The type is chosen when you create one and can't be changed afterward, so pick the one that fits.

	Terminal	Database
Purpose	Built for immersion, an on-screen prop your table interacts with in real time	Built for immersion too, an in-world archive each operator accesses independently
Screen	One shared screen, mirrored to everyone connected	Independent, each operator browses their own view
Search	Not available	Built in, matches button names at any depth
Doors, hacking, keypads, passwords, encryption	All available, gated by whatever locks you set	Disabled, nothing here assumes you’re present to adjudicate a failed attempt
Countdowns & live atmosphere	Available	Disabled
Buttons	All available	All available except doors
Subscription plan limit	Counts toward your Cloud subscription limit	Counts toward your Cloud subscription limit

Full write-up in the User Guide .

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