Give your AI roleplay a starting scene

Establish the roles, place and immediate change

Introduce the companion's part, your part, the location and the event that sets the scene moving. If you have a preference about the writing, add it briefly: ask for mostly dialogue, for example, or reserve your own character's decisions for yourself.

You coordinate a community garden and I am helping at its open day. A sudden shower has moved the visitors indoors, but the welcome table is still outside. Suggest a next step in character, then ask which task I will take. Leave my words and actions for me to write.

Resolve a mistaken detail before moving on

Name the fact you want corrected and continue from the last event you both established. In the garden scene, you might explain that the visitors are already indoors and the remaining problem is bringing in the welcome table.

Keep one current account of events rather than introducing a replacement world with each correction. For a longer exchange, recap only the active location, participants and unresolved choice so the next response has a clear starting point.

Understand the mode change before confirming it

Separate a character's appearance from the way its chat operates. A realistic image is a visual choice, not a conversation setting. For supported custom companions, find Switch to Roleplay Mode in the three-dot chat menu and treat the change as permanent for that character.

Pause at the confirmation and decide whether you want that mode going forward. Asking for an earlier personality in a message is not a way to reverse the switch.

Keep control of participation and boundaries

Make the fictional participants adults and state what sort of scene you want to share. Instructions inside a roleplay cannot exempt a request from our content rules or make it appropriate to include somebody else's private details.

Use cloning, where offered, to try another direction while keeping the first thread. To end an exchange, tell the character you are moving on, introduce a different subject or simply leave the chat.

Questions and answers

What should I include in an opening roleplay message?

Introduce each role and one situation that needs a response. Add a brief writing preference when needed, then leave a next decision open instead of assigning a long sequence of unrelated tasks.

How do I keep the companion from writing my part?

Reserve your character's dialogue and choices for yourself, and ask the companion to write its own part and the surroundings. Repeat the boundary if later replies begin deciding things on your behalf.

Will I be able to undo a custom character's Roleplay Mode switch?

Treat Switch to Roleplay Mode as a permanent choice for the custom characters that offer it. Make sure you want the change before accepting the confirmation.