# Create an account and sign in

> How to create your RPG Desk account, sign in, stay signed in and change the language.

Page: https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/comecando/conta/

To play, you need an account. Signing up has two steps and takes a minute.

## Create the account

1. On the sign-in screen, click **Don’t have an account? Create one now**.
2. Fill in the **E-mail** and the **Account name**, and choose **How should we refer to you?** (masculine, feminine or neutral). Click **Continue**.
3. Choose the **Password**, type it again in **Repeat the password**, check **I have read and accept the terms of use** and click **Create account**.

*Screenshot:* The first sign-up step: e-mail, account name and how to refer to the person, with the Continue button.

- The **account name** is how other people see you. It has 3 to 24 characters: letters, numbers, spaces, periods, hyphens or underscores. It must be unique: if it is taken, RPG Desk tells you.
- The **password** needs at least 8 characters.
- The form of address lets RPG Desk’s texts refer to you the right way (this matters in Portuguese, where words change with gender).

## Sign in

On the sign-in screen, use your **account name or e-mail** and your password, and click **Sign in**.

*Screenshot:* The RPG Desk sign-in screen, with the account and password fields, the Keep me signed in option and the link to create an account.

- **Keep me signed in** signs you in automatically next time, in this browser. Unchecked, the session ends when you close the tab.
- **Sign out** is at the bottom of the navigation bar, on the left.

> **Forgot your password?**
>
> Password recovery by e-mail is not available yet. Ask whoever runs the RPG Desk server to change your password. If you still remember it, you can change it in **Settings → Account and security**.

## Language

RPG Desk speaks Portuguese and English. It picks the language of your browser, and you can change it whenever you want:

- on the sign-in screen, in the selector at the top (**English**);
- after signing in, in **Settings → General → Language**.

## In the Windows app

Besides the browser, RPG Desk has a Windows app with the same interface. The first time, if it cannot find the RPG Desk server, it shows a page where you enter the address. Ask whoever runs the server for it.