Terms of Service

Welcome. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) form an agreement between you and Punchboard Studio and cover your use of our website, apps and related services (together, the “Service”). By creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use the Service.

If you use the Service on behalf of a company, team or other organization, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms for that organization, and the word “you” in these Terms refers to you and that organization.

You need an account to design games with the Service. You’re responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials confidential and for anything that happens under your account. Tell us right away if you suspect someone else is using your account.

Games you create live inside a studio — a workspace you own or that someone has invited you to join. Studio owners control who has access, which roles (such as designers, editors and admins) can do what, and can remove members at any time. Members of a studio can see the games, art, rulebooks, playtests and chat activity shared within that studio, so only invite people you trust to see your work.

You must be at least 13 years old (or older where your local law requires) to create an account. If you’re under the age of digital consent in your country, you may use the Service only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Some features of the Service — including AI design assistance and AI image generation — are measured in studio credits. Studios receive a free monthly allowance, and additional credits are available through subscriptions or credit packs when offered. Credits belong to the studio that earned or purchased them and are shared by that studio’s members; they have no cash value and are not a currency.

When a paid feature runs, the credits it costs are shown before or as it runs. If an AI action fails before producing anything, we return the credits it charged. Where a feature consumes credits progressively (for example, a long generation that fails partway), we may refund only a reasonable portion. If you believe a charge was wrong, contact us and we’ll look into it.

Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled, at the price shown at the time of purchase. Price changes are announced before they take effect, and renewal charges always reflect the price shown when you last confirmed or renewed. Purchased credit packs don’t expire while your account is in good standing. Refunds, where required by law or offered by us, are handled through the payment provider used at purchase.

The Service includes AI features that help you draft rules, generate images, check consistency and route conversations to specialist design agents. These features are tools, not designers: you are responsible for reviewing anything they produce before you rely on it — including rules text, balance suggestions, art and component layouts.

AI output can be wrong, incomplete, or unsuitable for manufacturing. Measure printed components carefully, test-print, and prototype before sending anything to a printer. Playtest feedback and complexity estimates produced by the Service are estimates, not official ratings or guarantees of how a game will play.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, AI-generated content is provided “as is” without any warranty of originality, non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose. You own the games and content you create with the Service to the extent that ownership is yours under applicable law; sections 5 and 6 below explain your content and what we can do with it.

“Your content” means the material you upload or create in the Service: game concepts, rules, art you upload, component designs, playtest data and similar. You keep your rights in it. You grant us a worldwide, limited licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for technical reasons (such as resizing or format conversion), and display your content within the Service, solely as needed to operate it for you and your studio — for example, rendering a preview, generating an export, or showing your team a playtest summary.

We don’t sell your content, use it to train third-party AI models, or publish it outside the Service unless you explicitly share it (for example, a public playtest feedback link or a Tabletop Simulator export you choose to distribute). When a feedback link expires or you revoke access, the shared view stops being available.

You confirm you have the rights to whatever you upload. Don’t upload art or rules you copied from someone else’s game without permission, and don’t use our image tools to recreate other people’s protected characters, trade dress or trademarks. You’re responsible for what you publish with your game, including through print partners or exports.

To improve the Service, we may compute and use aggregated, anonymized statistics — for example, how complexity estimates compare across completed playtests, which features are used, and average AI action costs. These aggregates never include your game content, rules text, art, or anything that identifies you, your studio or your games.

When using the Service, you agree not to:

• misrepresent who you are, or access studios or games you weren’t invited to;
• attempt to work around credit charging, rate limits, permission checks or security controls, or to resell or provide the Service to others as a competing service;
• upload unlawful content, malware, or content that harasses, defames or discriminates against people; use the Service to harass other studios or testers;
• scrape, spider or bulk-download content from the Service other than your own games through the exports we provide;
• use generated art or rules in a way that violates the law or the rights of others — for example, publishing a rulebook that copies an existing game’s protected expression, or selling art that infringes someone’s copyright.

We may investigate suspected violations and, where necessary to protect the Service or others, limit features, remove content, or suspend accounts that breach these Terms. When reasonable, we’ll tell you what we did and why.

We work hard to keep the Service available, but we can’t promise it will always be uninterrupted or error-free. Features change: we may add, modify, or retire features. If we retire a paid feature you’re actively using, we’ll give reasonable notice where practical.

Your games are yours to take with you — exports and downloads we offer are yours to use, and we encourage you to keep your own backups of anything you’d hate to lose. We may maintain, repair and improve the Service at any time, which can cause short interruptions.

You can stop using the Service at any time and may delete games or your account where the Service offers that. If your subscription ends, paid features stop working but your free allowance continues for as long as the Service offers one. Credits that came with a paid plan end with it; purchased packs are handled as described in section 3.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that seriously or repeatedly breach these Terms, that put the Service or other users at risk, or that are used for unlawful purposes. Where we do this for reasons other than your breach, we’ll make reasonable efforts to give notice and, where practical, a window to export your content.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement — and we don’t warrant that the Service, its AI features or anything produced with them will be accurate, complete, uninterrupted, or suitable for any particular manufacturing or commercial outcome. Nothing in the Service is legal advice; talk to an IP professional before publishing or licensing a game.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Punchboard Studio won’t be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill or data — however caused — arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim, or USD 100.

Some jurisdictions don’t allow certain limitations in this section; where that applies, the limitations apply to the fullest extent the law allows.

If someone brings a claim against us because of your content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms, you’ll cover our resulting losses — including reasonable legal costs — to the extent permitted by law. This doesn’t apply where the claim results from our own breach or wrongdoing.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the place where Punchboard Studio operates, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing anything, contact us — most problems are solved faster by email than by court. If a dispute can’t be resolved informally, it will be handled in the courts of that place, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it elsewhere.

If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our delay in enforcing a provision isn’t a waiver of it.

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves. When we make material changes, we’ll announce them in the Service (and, for significant changes to paid features, by email where we have one on file) before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after new Terms take effect means you accept them.

Punchboard Studio is operated by River Grand. Questions, feedback or legal notices: email us at hello@rivergrand.us or contact us through the Service. We’ll get back to you as quickly as we reasonably can.