The Game Crafter runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 56 installs a week from npm. Last commit 2 Apr 2026.
Design, manage, and price tabletop games on The Game Crafter via MCP.
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Today is the operative word: we check The Game Crafter every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add thegamecrafter -e 'TGC_API_KEY_ID=<TGC_API_KEY_ID>' -e 'TGC_USERNAME=<TGC_USERNAME>' -e 'TGC_PASSWORD=<TGC_PASSWORD>' -- npx -y @alex-gon/tgc-mcp-server{
"mcpServers": {
"thegamecrafter": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@alex-gon/tgc-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"TGC_API_KEY_ID": "<TGC_API_KEY_ID>",
"TGC_PASSWORD": "<TGC_PASSWORD>",
"TGC_USERNAME": "<TGC_USERNAME>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.thegamecrafter]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@alex-gon/tgc-mcp-server"]
env = { TGC_API_KEY_ID = "<TGC_API_KEY_ID>", TGC_USERNAME = "<TGC_USERNAME>", TGC_PASSWORD = "<TGC_PASSWORD>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"thegamecrafter": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@alex-gon/tgc-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"TGC_API_KEY_ID": "<TGC_API_KEY_ID>",
"TGC_PASSWORD": "<TGC_PASSWORD>",
"TGC_USERNAME": "<TGC_USERNAME>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"thegamecrafter": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@alex-gon/tgc-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"TGC_API_KEY_ID": "<TGC_API_KEY_ID>",
"TGC_PASSWORD": "<TGC_PASSWORD>",
"TGC_USERNAME": "<TGC_USERNAME>"
}
}
}
}Put your own values in place of
<TGC_API_KEY_ID> (Your TGC API key ID from thegamecrafter.com/account/apikeys), <TGC_USERNAME> (Your TGC account username), <TGC_PASSWORD> (Your TGC account password).
The author’s registry entry marks them as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
TGC_API_BASE (Override the TGC API base URL), TGC_UPLOAD_BASE_DIR (Restrict file uploads to a specific directory).
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