A game client for DragonRealms and GemStone IV.
Note
Lichborne 1.0 is out, and it now plays GemStone IV as well as DragonRealms. Your characters from both games live in one launcher, side by side.
Free, open source, and built by players who've used Wrayth, Genie and Frostbite for years. It works great with Lich5, and it also connects straight to the game if you don't use Lich.
⬇ Download Lichborne 1.0 · Install steps · User Guide
- Tabs for every character. Switch with
Ctrl+Tab. Send a command to another character without leaving yours (Quick Send). Pop any character out into its own window. - Overview. See every character at once as a live card: health, what's wrong, where they are, and what they just saw. Type to one of them or all of them.
- Teams. Save a group and log them all in with one click. Reconnect Last brings back whoever was on when you quit.
- Stay logged in when you close it. Attach to a Lich that's already running, and closing Lichborne no longer logs you out. Come back later, or pick up from another computer. (How)
- Panels that dock or float. Use a neat docked layout, or drag windows anywhere. They snap together, and you can lock them in place.
- The Living Tableau. A picture of the room and everyone in it. In a fight it becomes a battlefield: who's on you, your balance and position, and your roundtime.
- Moons and Spell Monitor (DragonRealms). See Elanthia's sky, moon phases and weather, and every spell on you as a countdown that turns amber, then red, before it runs out.
- 21 themes, plus a theme editor. Colour-blind, high-contrast, large-print and epilepsy-safe modes work everywhere.
- Automations. Highlights, triggers, macros, aliases, mutes and substitutes, all set up with forms. A health check finds rules that are broken, doubled up, or clashing.
- Slash commands. Type
/to see them all. Add a highlight mid-hunt with/highlight add "goblin" red, or hide spam with/mute add "swirling fog". - Lich, out in the open. See and control your running scripts, edit your Lich variables, and follow yourself on the Lich Map.
- Your setup is just files. Layouts, highlights, macros and themes save per character as plain files you can back up or move. Transfer copies a whole setup to another character.
- Catch Me Up (optional AI). Back from a break? Ask what you missed: who talked to you, what you fought, what you learned. Uses your own Anthropic key, is off until you turn it on, and never sends commands to the game. What it sends.
Tip
Coming from Genie, Frostbite or Wrayth? The import wizard brings your highlights, macros, name lists, gags and substitutes with you.
Downloads are on the latest release page. After you install it once, Lichborne updates itself.
🪟 Windows
- Download the file ending in
-setup.exe. - Run it. You don't need admin rights.
- If a blue SmartScreen box appears, click More info → Run anyway. (Lichborne isn't code-signed yet, so Windows doesn't recognise it.)
- Pick whether you want a desktop shortcut, then finish.
🍎 macOS (Apple Silicon)
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Download the file ending in
-mac-arm64.dmg. -
Open it and drag Lichborne into Applications.
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Open Terminal (Applications → Utilities) and run this once:
xattr -cr /Applications/Lichborne.app
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Open Lichborne from Applications.
🐧 Linux (x64)
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Download
Lichborne.AppImage. -
Make it runnable and start it:
chmod +x Lichborne.AppImage ./Lichborne.AppImage
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If it won't start on Ubuntu 22.04 or newer, install FUSE 2:
sudo apt install libfuse2t64 # Ubuntu 24.04 sudo apt install libfuse2 # Ubuntu 22.04
Keep the name Lichborne.AppImage so updates and shortcuts keep working.
Important
Mac users: don't skip step 3. Without it, macOS says "Lichborne is damaged and can't be opened." It isn't damaged. Lichborne just isn't notarized by Apple (that needs a paid certificate), and the command clears the warning. You only run it once.
- Set up Lich (recommended). Already use Lich5? Open ⚙ Lich Setup on the launcher and click Auto-detect. New to Lich? Start with the Lich install guide. On macOS and Linux you'll also need Ruby 4.
- Add your account. Click + Add account, sign in and pick your game. Lichborne finds your characters and makes a tile for each.
- Play. Click a character to connect, then open Layout to arrange your panels. Everything saves for that character automatically.
Tip
Don't use Lich? Choose Direct on a character's tile to connect straight to the game. You'll miss Lich's extras (scripts, variables, the Lich Map), but everything else works.
⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
Ctrl+Tab |
Next character |
Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+9 |
Jump to a character |
Ctrl+Shift+Enter |
Quick Send to another character |
Ctrl+F |
Search the game text |
PageUp / PageDown |
Scroll the game text |
Ctrl+Home / Ctrl+End |
Jump to the top / back to live |
Ctrl+Enter / Alt+Enter |
Repeat your last / second-to-last command |
Esc |
Clear the command line |
Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0 |
Zoom in / out / reset |
On a Mac, use Cmd for zoom. Set your own macro keys in Automations.
- No code signing yet. That's why Windows shows SmartScreen and macOS needs the one-time command.
- macOS builds are for Apple Silicon only. Need Intel? Ask on Discord.
- A few views are DragonRealms-only: Moons, Spell Monitor and Genie Maps. The User Guide lists what each game gets.
- Maps follow what the game sends. The Lich Map is the most accurate. If a map loses you, type
LOOK.
- 📖 User Guide — every feature and how to set it up
- 🔒 AI Notice — what the AI feature sends and what it never sends
- 💬 Discord — open Lichborne and choose Help → Discord
Made with the DragonRealms and GemStone IV communities.
Developers — Sekmeht, Binu, Tysong
Contributors — Rakkor, Illiahanna, Elore, Morress, Legiro, Rhorgul, Thanator, Mahtra, Zithri, Qij, Kahlen, Vaddon, Crobin
Testers — Cirostar, Damiza, Tirost, Wilhellm
Special thanks to Tysong, who brought GemStone IV to Lichborne, to Thires, whose Genie SimuCoins plugin showed how that feature works, and to the Genie maps team, whose maps the Genie map view draws.
🛠 Building from source
Most people want the release page instead. You'll need Node 24 or newer.
npm install
npm startHow the code is laid out, and how releases are built, is in CLAUDE.md and DESIGN.md. Every source file starts with a short comment explaining what it does.
Open source under the BSD 3-Clause License, the same license as Lich. Copyright © 2026 Sekmeht and Binu.
DragonRealms, GemStone IV and Wrayth (formerly StormFront) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Simutronics Corp. Lichborne is an independent, unofficial community project — not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Simutronics. Playing through Lichborne requires your own Simutronics account and is subject to Simutronics' terms of service.