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Strategic simulation // Tabletop
The best AI opponent and the best dungeon master have the same three problems on the cloud: they forget your campaign, they hit usage limits at the worst moment, and everything you play passes through someone else's servers. An AIOD appliance fixes all three — a private, persistent, offline games-master on hardware you own. And when the wifi's down at the cabin, it's the only one still running.
Start free // sister brand
WarGameLLM — a fellow MAXFR LTD brand — turns any capable chatbot into a disciplined wargame umpire. Pick a flashpoint (Taiwan, Ukraine, the Baltics) or a historical campaign from Hannibal to the Cuban Missile Crisis, take a side, set difficulty, realism and fog of war, and paste one structured prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. You command one side at national level; the AI runs every other actor with its own intent and adjudicates turn by turn. 22 scenarios free, no signup.
WarGameLLM is free and runs in your cloud AI account — perfect for trying the format. What follows on this page is the offline appliance: the same idea made persistent, private and independent of any network or subscription. One is the on-ramp; the other is the machine.
Why a local games-master is the better one
A local model with retrieval over your campaign log recalls session 1 in session 40 — every NPC, treaty, grudge and dead character. Cloud chats forget between windows and lose the thread mid-arc. Continuity is the heart of a long game, and it lives on the disk.
The climactic battle never pauses for a usage cap or a subscription prompt. Once the appliance is yours, you play as long as you like at no marginal cost — a six-hour session costs the electricity to run it.
Homebrew lore, unpublished settings, professional scenarios — none of it transits a third party. And with no network dependency, it runs at the kitchen table, the gaming hall, the cabin, or the field exercise, signal or not.
Two games, one machine
Load the rules system and your campaign setting, and the appliance runs the table: narrating scenes, voicing NPCs, tracking initiative, inventory and quest state, and improvising within your world's logic — without breaking for a signal.
Family-friendly by configuration: set tone and content to suit the table, and it stays there.
The WarGameLLM format, made permanent: structured scenarios, fog of war, escalation tracking and turn-by-turn adjudication — with every other actor played by the model under its own intent, across campaigns that persist for as long as you run them.
Start free on WarGameLLM; bring it in-house when you want it persistent.
For professionals
Professional military education, staff colleges, think tanks and corporate red-teams increasingly want AI-driven wargaming — but can't put doctrine, plans or sensitive scenarios through a commercial cloud. An air-gapped appliance brings adaptive, AI-adjudicated wargaming inside the accreditation boundary, where it can be inspected and owned like any other secure asset.
An opponent that adapts to the student, available on demand, without booking a human OPFOR cell.
War-game a strategy, a crisis response or a market shock with nothing leaving the building.
Runs on accredited, air-gapped hardware — the only way much of this work can use AI at all. See Defence & Government.
Open-weight models on hardware you control — auditable, and never discontinued out from under a programme.
FAQ
Yes. An AIOD appliance runs an open-weight model locally with retrieval over your campaign notes, rulebooks and lore, so it dungeon-masters with no internet connection at all — at the table, at a cabin, anywhere with power.
Persistence (it remembers a campaign across months instead of forgetting between windows), no usage limits mid-session, and privacy — your homebrew or professional scenarios never leave the room. Plus it runs offline.
Start free on WarGameLLM — pick a scenario and paste one prompt into Claude or ChatGPT. When you want it persistent, private and offline, we build the appliance.
Yes — tone and content are set by configuration for the table it serves, and because it's offline with no open internet access, what you configure is what it stays.
An AIOD Field unit suits a single table or a portable setup; an AIOD Private unit suits clubs, institutions and richer worlds with larger corpora. We'll size it with you.
Roll for initiative
Tell us the system, the setting and the table — or the scenario, the sides and the stakes. We'll spec a games-master you own outright.