Grimoire Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Grimoire hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted tabletop RPG PDF library on your own domain, so rulebooks, battlemaps, tokens and campaign notes are searchable in one place. Deploy Grimoire and xCloud runs the pinned image as a single container, seeds an admin account with a generated password, mounts persistent volumes for the database and your library, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

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What is Grimoire?

Self-hosted Grimoire is a library manager for tabletop RPG content. Upstream's README describes pointing it at a folder of PDFs, maps, tokens, audio and 3D models to get a searchable library you can read from any device, with every page of every book indexed, including scanned ones. It also manages campaigns with character sheets and wiki notes, offers a personal OPDS feed per user, and is licensed GPL-3.0. It organises files you already own, so no content is included.

On xCloud the template runs hunterreadca/grimoire 1.8.0, the default image with Tesseract OCR, as a single container pinned by digest. The grimoire_data volume holds the SQLite database, accounts and caches, and grimoire_library holds your files. The admin account is seeded on first boot with a generated password, and the optional Valkey cache is not included.

From Sign-Up to a Live Library In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted Grimoire normally means a container, two volumes, an admin account, a domain and a certificate before the first book is uploaded. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Grimoire from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the community Grimoire image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with no separate database, mount the grimoire_data and grimoire_library volumes, generate the admin password and session key, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Add Your Books
Save the admin password from the protected installation credentials and sign in as admin. Upload files into the books, maps, tokens, audio and models folders — created for you, one subfolder per game system — then run a rescan.

A TTRPG PDF Manager: Everything Grimoire Does

Grimoire runs in full here: a searchable tabletop RPG library and campaign manager on your own domain, with your files on a volume you own.

Full-Text Book Search
Every page of every PDF is indexed with SQLite FTS5, including scanned books, so you can find a rule from a phone at the table.
Books, Maps, Tokens, Audio And Models
One library for PDFs, battlemaps, character tokens, ambient audio and 3D models, organised by game system from the folder structure.
Campaigns And Character Sheets
Track GM-run and personal campaigns with character art and sheets, linked resources, scheduling and a Markdown wiki for session notes.
Page-By-Page Reader
PDFs are rendered server-side as images for fast mobile viewing, with pinch-to-zoom, swipe navigation, spread mode and per-user bookmarks.
Roles For GMs And Players
Create GM and player accounts or guest campaign invites, and restrict a book, system or category to GMs and admins so spoilers stay hidden.
Map And Token Editors
Export an image map as a Universal VTT file with walls, doors and lights, and turn any picture into a VTT-ready token.

Everything You Need To Run Your Game Library 24/7

Managed hosting for Grimoire, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Grimoire 1.8.0 deployed instantly
Community image pinned by digest
Admin password generated for you
Uploads up to 8 GB per file
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Grimoire

Search your rulebooks mid-session
Look up a rule across every PDF you own from a phone, tablet or the laptop already open at the table, instead of paging through twenty bundles by hand.
Run a campaign from one place
Keep the battlemap, token, statblock and last session's notes together, and hide the parts the players should not see.
Share a library with your group
Give GMs and players their own accounts and roles, or send guest campaign invites, without handing anyone your server login.
Keep a growing collection tidy
Filter by genre, system family, edition and tags, and use an admin scan to find duplicate files for you to review before anything is removed.

Grimoire Screenshots

Signed-in Grimoire library showing the tabletop RPG collection

Grimoire vs Alternatives

A shared folder or NAS: Grimoire reads the folder structure you already have and adds page-level full-text search, a page-by-page reader and campaign tools on top of it.
Cloud file storage: Grimoire runs as one container against a library folder on a server you control, and indexes the text inside your PDFs for search.
Kavita: Kavita is a reading server for manga, webtoons, comics and ebooks. Grimoire vs Kavita: Grimoire is built around game systems, maps, tokens, audio and campaigns.
Komga: Komga is a self-hosted library server with its own OneClick page; Grimoire organises files by game system and adds campaigns, character sheets and wiki notes.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Grimoire hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Grimoire sits alongside other media and notes apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Grimoire itself is licensed by its maintainers under GPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own TTRPG Library?

Grimoire on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
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From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Grimoire free and open source?

Yes. Grimoire is GPL-3.0 licensed, so the code is open and the app carries no fee. xCloud charges only for the dedicated Cloud VPS. No paid edition is added, and the template ships no game content, so you bring the books, maps and tokens you own.

Can I run Grimoire with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Grimoire Docker hosting without the assembly. It starts the hunterreadca/grimoire 1.8.0 image, pinned by digest, as one container, proxies port 9481 behind HTTPS and mounts the grimoire_data and grimoire_library volumes. Nothing else runs beside it.

How much RAM does Grimoire need?

Grimoire is one container, and its manifest floor is 1 GB of RAM, one core and 10 GB of disk. We pair it with the 6 GB Cloud VPS for a Grimoire cloud install, leaving headroom for a growing library and its search index. Your PDF collection drives disk.

Does Grimoire search inside PDFs?

Yes. Upstream says every page of every PDF is indexed with SQLite full-text search, including scanned books through OCR, and the template image includes the Tesseract engine. You can also find books by title, author or publisher, and maps, tokens and audio by filename or tag.

How do I sign in to Grimoire?

Use the admin username and the generated password from the installation credentials. The account is seeded on first boot, so nobody can claim a setup screen. Changing the password in the environment later has no effect; change it inside Grimoire under Settings.

How do I add my PDFs to Grimoire?

Upload from Grimoire's file manager, with single uploads up to 8 GB, or copy files into the grimoire_library volume. The books, maps, tokens, audio and models folders exist already. Add one folder per game system inside them, then run a rescan so Grimoire indexes the files.

Does Grimoire have an OPDS feed?

Yes. Upstream's README lists an OPDS catalog with a personal feed URL for each user, so an e-reader app can connect straight to your library. Generate the feed URL while signed in, and treat it like a password because it grants access to your books.

Is this the Grimoire bookmark manager?

No. Several unrelated projects share the name Grimoire. This page covers the tabletop RPG library manager from the hunter-read repository, which organises PDFs, maps, tokens, audio and campaigns. If you want a bookmark manager, this is not the app.

How do I back up Grimoire?

Back up both named volumes together: grimoire_data holds the database, accounts and thumbnails, and grimoire_library holds your files. Stop the container before copying, and keep an off-server copy. Grimoire also writes backup archives under Settings, Maintenance, into the data volume.

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How do I update Grimoire?

Your install stays on its pinned 1.8.0 version until you adopt a newer template version. Back up grimoire_data first, because database migrations run automatically at startup in newer releases. Read the upstream release notes, adopt the update, then sign in and open an existing book.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.