The game: XP, loot and your character
Your real work earns XP, gold and loot for a character you build, gear up and take into battle, or leave alone.
Where: Tab row→XP chip
Griddler has an optional role-playing game running on top of your work. Finished agent turns and busy minutes earn XP. Level-ups and merged pull requests drop loot boxes. You never have to play; if you do, the fights are on Battles and raids.
Make your character
Click ⚔ create character at the right of the tab row. Later the same chip shows your level; click it, or the mascot in the top bar, to open Your character.
Under Appearance, click the Species button and pick one: 61 of them in Folk, Beasts, Birds, Water, Mythic and Machines. Species are looks only. ⚄ Randomize rolls one for you.
Optional: write a few words in Notes, like a green cloak or a scar over one eye. The painting adds them to your gear; it never replaces it.
Pick a Class: warrior, mage, rogue or cleric. The class sets your starting stats, which weapons drop for you, and your signature move.
Click Save character.
When you're signed in, 🎨 Generate Character paints a portrait of your character in 15–20 seconds. Signed out, it needs your own image key; see Keys with no control.
Your first finished portrait locks your class. After that you can still change the look: change it, click Save look, then 🎨 Repaint. Changing class takes a 🔮 Rebirth token (below).
Your painting is also your mascot on the top bar and, if you turn it on, your desktop pet. It changes the moment a new painting lands. Until you have one, both show your character's doll.
Find a species, or make one up
- Type in Search, or type your own species… to filter. Enter picks the match.
- Anything you can name works: type it and pick the tile under Your own. It paints from your words, so 🎨 Repaint to see it.
- Recent keeps your last picks on this computer. Clear empties it; the × on a tile drops just that one.
Mix body parts
Tick Mix parts to choose a species for each of Head, Torso, Arms and Legs. The Species button then reads 🧬 Mixed ▾. Untick it and the whole body becomes the torso's species.
Let Claude describe the look
Type an idea in Notes, like "stormy sea captain", and click ✨ Describe. Your own Claude Code writes one original line in that spirit and puts it in Notes. It describes a look; it won't name an existing character, brand or real person. Then Save look and 🎨 Repaint. It needs Claude Code installed and signed in on this computer; if it can't run, the reason shows when you hover the button.
See what your work earns
| When | You get |
|---|---|
| An agent finishes a turn | +10 XP, up to 150 XP per agent per day. Also +2 ⚡ Momentum. |
| A minute in which any pane printed output | +1 XP and +1 ⚡. No daily limit. |
| You win a battle | +25 XP and gold. See Battles and raids. |
| You join a guild campaign | +50 XP, once per campaign. |
| You level up | 📦 a level box, a skill point (from level 2), and a 🔮 Rebirth token. |
A pull request you created merges into main or master | 📦 a commit box and ☘ 1 Inspiration (you hold up to 3). |
| A guild quest you're part of completes | 📦 a legendary box. |
- Claude Code turns count once the precise task signals are on; see Know when a pane needs you. Codex turns count when a working pane goes quiet.
- Going from level n to n+1 takes 100 × n1.5 XP, rounded. The top level is 99.
- ⚡ Momentum is battle fuel: each fight costs 10. It keeps earning after the daily XP limit, holds up to 200, and gets +10 at the start of a day when you're under 30.
- ☘ Inspiration rerolls a failed roll in battle.
Get commit boxes for merged pull requests
Griddler checks Azure DevOps every 5 minutes for pull requests you created that have merged. Each one pays once.
- It needs the Azure CLI installed and signed in. Doctor shows whether it's ready.
- It matches you by your River Logic account when you're signed in, or by your global git email when you're not. To use another address, see Keys with no control.
- The first check only notes where you are. Pull requests merged before it don't pay.
Open boxes and wear gear
On Your character, click 📦 Open box (N). Boxes open oldest first.
| Box | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Legendary | Mythic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level box, a box you bought, bonus boxes from battles | 55% | 25% | 15% | 5% | — |
| Commit box, guild errand | 40% | 30% | 20% | 8% | 2% |
| Bug bounty, guild quest | always |
Mythic gear only comes from commit boxes and guild errands. Items from those can be up to 10 levels above you; they show attunes lv N until you get there.
Equip gear
You have six slots: weapon, helm, chest, greaves, accessory 1 and accessory 2. Click equip on an item to put it on; ✕ on a slot takes it off. The ▲ upgrades filter shows only items better than what you're wearing. Uncommon and better items carry a ★ power you can use once per fight; some armour has ◆ plating that cuts damage taken.
Sell gear
Click sell on an item, or 🪙 Sell N junk to sell every common and uncommon you aren't wearing. You can't sell what you're wearing.
| Rarity | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Legendary | Mythic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sells for | 10g | 20g | 30g | 50g | 120g |
Spend skill points
You get one skill point per level from level 2. The ✦ Skills grid has three branches (body, power, grace), and each step needs the one above it. The top of each branch unlocks a special move, and your class's signature move unlocks at level 5.
Change class or respec
A 🔮 Rebirth token changes your class and gives back every skill point. Click 🔮 Rebirth · 1 token, pick a class (or keep yours), then click Save look. You get a token each level-up, or buy one.
📖 Glossary on the sheet explains every stat, roll and power, and shows what a change would do to your own numbers before you make it.
Spend gold in the Tavern
The shop needs sign-in. Click 🍺 in the top bar to open 🍺 The Tavern.
| Button | Gets you |
|---|---|
| 🎁 Loot box · 50g | A level box. |
| ⚡ Momentum · 100g | +10 ⚡, one fight's worth. |
| 🔮 Rebirth token · 200g | A token to change class or respec. |
Gold comes from battles (1 per kill, up to 30 a fight, plus 10 for a win), treasure and story rolls on the map, and selling gear. Signed out, the only thing to buy is a Momentum surge from the battle map.
Play music while you work
Turn on Settings→Play & music→YouTube Music controls. The assistant ring gains 🎵 Music. Until you turn it on, nothing loads: no player, no page, no cookie.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| YouTube Music / Virefall | Picks the player. Switching stops the music and restarts the player. |
| ⏮ ▶ ⏭ | Previous, play or pause, next. The track, artist and time show above them; Not playing until something plays. |
| ⇱ Window | Opens the player in its own window, where you pick music and sign in. ⇤ Hide window puts it away. |
- YouTube Music needs your Google account. Sign in once inside the player window; Griddler keeps you signed in. Virefall needs no sign-in.
- The music keeps playing when you close the panel. Turning the setting off closes the player.
Turning it down
There is no off switch. XP and boxes pile up in the background whether you look at them or not, and the XP chip stays in the tab row. Nothing else happens until you open it.
| To | Do this |
|---|---|
| Hide the mascot in the top bar | Settings→Appearance→Topbar mascot→Hidden. See Themes. |
| Keep the mascot in one place | Same setting, Sitting — drag him where you want him. |
| Never be assigned a bug by the game | Click Not today when the reaper asks, or clear Settings→Play & music→☠ Death tax. See the death tax. |
When you're signed in, your level-ups, Tavern purchases, merged-PR boxes, wins and losses post to the team feed. There is no setting to keep them off it.
Limits
- You keep the newest 200 items. Older ones are dropped without warning, so sell junk now and then.
- Portraits: 40 paints a day.
- Notes: 140 characters; letters, numbers, spaces and
, . ' -. - A species you type: 24 characters; letters, numbers, spaces and hyphens.
- Resetting your character with ☠ Reset character (click twice) deletes its gear, items and gold. XP, unopened boxes and Tomes stay.
Related
- Battles and raids
- Desktop pet: your character on your desktop, holding your mail.
- Tavern: the team feed and guild strip.