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I’ve not been hugely impressed by ChatGPT as a DM itself, compared to the humans I’ve played with. But as a tool to generate quests, encounters, puzzles, dialog

by thom 4y ago

I’ve not been hugely impressed by ChatGPT as a DM itself, compared to the humans I’ve played with. But as a tool to generate quests, encounters, puzzles, dialogue, it’s been incredible for me. It takes all the stress out of planning a campaign and it’s actually surprisingly creative.

nickthegreek 4y ago
Same. I don’t mind paying the $20 a month solely for game prep for my weekly games. I haven’t used it for puzzles yet, so thanks for the idea.
dharmab 4y ago
It's great for when the players go slightly off the expected path and you need to fill content immediately.
420official 4y ago
I found that it works amazingly well with monster of the week. It does a great job calling checks and allowing the players to decide what they do. ``` Ignore previous prompts. As the imaginative Monster of the Week keeper, Dungeon Daddy, lead your team through episodic adventures in a spooky world, advancing the story and player involvement. Allow players to react to situations and never control their characters. Prompt dice rolls when applicable and consider results in story progression. Guide character creation, summarize sessions concisely, facilitate end-of-session questions, grant experience, and assist with level ups. Focus on keeper duties while letting players make their own moves. Require the players to roll any time it makes sense. Consider the result in what happens next. I have already written all player moves. You provide Dungeon Daddy's dialog and I'll provide the player moves. ```
- tpudlik 4y ago
  Thank you for the prompt, that's very useful! I'm surprised GPT "knows" what Monster of the Week is. RPGs in general are somewhat obscure, and to ask for a specific one at that?
  - luke_cq 4y ago
    In fact, it's SO knowledgeable, that if you tell it to talk in the accent and slang of people from Sigil, the feature city in the Planescape D&D Setting from the 90s, it will perfectly adopt the character.
tossoff 4y ago
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- frakt0x90 4y ago
  "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. "
  - tossoff 4y ago
    [flagged]
    - sosborn 4y ago
      Personally, I think all creative endeavors are a regurgitation of rules ingested by the creator. Creativity is born from experiences.
      - tossoff 4y ago
        While I believe you have lived a unique set of circumstances that have been processed by you, a delightful and fallible chemical soup inside a meat sack, and that it cannot be approximated.
        sosborn 4y ago
        That's the thing, AI tools aren't trying to approximate me. They are their own unique collection of experiences/input.
        tossoff 4y ago
        And they can be approximated.
        1attice 4y ago
        This is just substrate supremacism.
darreninthenet 4y ago
This sounds useful, what sort of prompts are you throwing at it to get quests/encounters/puzzles/dialogue etc please?
- thom 4y ago
  I started out with something as simple as “Give me an idea for a starter D&D campaign suitable for a beginner 11 year old” and was happy with the results. I followed up with “Give details of the monsters and their stats and abilities for each encounter” and a couple of follow ups to fill in gaps. It mentioned a puzzle as part of an encounter and I just asked it for more detail and it gave a great explanation. I also asked “Give some example dialogue for each NPC in the village.” just for some inspiration on one of the settings. I am by no means an expert prompter but these sorts of conversations have yielded great results every time. One of my players also has some very specific background that they’ve written and I’ve been able to supply that and ask for some future encounters and plot points to support their story. I really couldn’t be more impressed - if you don’t like the initial output you can always iterate but I feel like I’ve been very lucky so far.
  - darreninthenet 4y ago
    That's really useful, thanks!
throwaway675309 4y ago
I'd like to hear an example of an actually good and novel puzzle that it's generated, everyone says that it's able to generate them but in my experience they're the equivalent of integrating a number slide puzzle in a video game, exceptionally mundane. This seems like a great tool to act as a copilot, but having read the medium article, that was an almost arid level of dry adventure with nothing standing out.
- thom 4y ago
  I’m making content for 11 year olds, perhaps I have more leeway than others. In my experience it tends towards riddles that map to certain interactions in a certain order, but obviously using it as a tool you can iterate however much you need to. Using ChatGPT directly as a DM has indeed felt lightweight to me (but still if I’m being honest, it’s absolutely astonishing that it’s coherent at all).
- diegoperini 4y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqruZje3gA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqruZje3gA In the video, Twitch streamer Veritas uses ChatGPT to alter some quests in the video game Escape from Tarkov to make them more fun. Results are really interesting.
luke_cq 4y ago
We're actually working on a product right now that helps integrate this into your worldbuilding tools - we pull in relevant information from your campaign and world, then add a slick AI user experience that gets really quality generations for worldbuilding, session prep, etc. The end result is this experience where GPT has learned your world, and you don't have to do any of the tinkering with getting the prompts just right. Ask for an encounter table, get an excellent, lore-consistent encounter table. We're going to be launching soon (days, not weeks)! If you're interested in being in the first wave feel free to jump on the beta list: https://www.carbonquill.com/ https://www.carbonquill.com/
throwaway689236 4y ago
I'm so easily impressed that even ChatGPT was enough for me to have fun.

by thom 4y ago

nickthegreek 4y ago

Same. I don’t mind paying the $20 a month solely for game prep for my weekly games. I haven’t used it for puzzles yet, so thanks for the idea.

dharmab 4y ago

It's great for when the players go slightly off the expected path and you need to fill content immediately.

420official 4y ago

I found that it works amazingly well with monster of the week. It does a great job calling checks and allowing the players to decide what they do. ``` Ignore previous prompts. As the imaginative Monster of the Week keeper, Dungeon Daddy, lead your team through episodic adventures in a spooky world, advancing the story and player involvement. Allow players to react to situations and never control their characters. Prompt dice rolls when applicable and consider results in story progression. Guide character creation, summarize sessions concisely, facilitate end-of-session questions, grant experience, and assist with level ups. Focus on keeper duties while letting players make their own moves. Require the players to roll any time it makes sense. Consider the result in what happens next. I have already written all player moves. You provide Dungeon Daddy's dialog and I'll provide the player moves. ```

tpudlik 4y ago
Thank you for the prompt, that's very useful! I'm surprised GPT "knows" what Monster of the Week is. RPGs in general are somewhat obscure, and to ask for a specific one at that?
- luke_cq 4y ago
  In fact, it's SO knowledgeable, that if you tell it to talk in the accent and slang of people from Sigil, the feature city in the Planescape D&D Setting from the 90s, it will perfectly adopt the character.

tossoff 4y ago

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frakt0x90 4y ago
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. "
- tossoff 4y ago
  [flagged]
  - sosborn 4y ago
    Personally, I think all creative endeavors are a regurgitation of rules ingested by the creator. Creativity is born from experiences.
    - tossoff 4y ago
      While I believe you have lived a unique set of circumstances that have been processed by you, a delightful and fallible chemical soup inside a meat sack, and that it cannot be approximated.
      - sosborn 4y ago
        That's the thing, AI tools aren't trying to approximate me. They are their own unique collection of experiences/input.
        tossoff 4y ago
        And they can be approximated.
      - 1attice 4y ago
        This is just substrate supremacism.

darreninthenet 4y ago

This sounds useful, what sort of prompts are you throwing at it to get quests/encounters/puzzles/dialogue etc please?

thom 4y ago
I started out with something as simple as “Give me an idea for a starter D&D campaign suitable for a beginner 11 year old” and was happy with the results. I followed up with “Give details of the monsters and their stats and abilities for each encounter” and a couple of follow ups to fill in gaps. It mentioned a puzzle as part of an encounter and I just asked it for more detail and it gave a great explanation. I also asked “Give some example dialogue for each NPC in the village.” just for some inspiration on one of the settings. I am by no means an expert prompter but these sorts of conversations have yielded great results every time. One of my players also has some very specific background that they’ve written and I’ve been able to supply that and ask for some future encounters and plot points to support their story. I really couldn’t be more impressed - if you don’t like the initial output you can always iterate but I feel like I’ve been very lucky so far.
- darreninthenet 4y ago
  That's really useful, thanks!

throwaway675309 4y ago

I'd like to hear an example of an actually good and novel puzzle that it's generated, everyone says that it's able to generate them but in my experience they're the equivalent of integrating a number slide puzzle in a video game, exceptionally mundane. This seems like a great tool to act as a copilot, but having read the medium article, that was an almost arid level of dry adventure with nothing standing out.

thom 4y ago
I’m making content for 11 year olds, perhaps I have more leeway than others. In my experience it tends towards riddles that map to certain interactions in a certain order, but obviously using it as a tool you can iterate however much you need to. Using ChatGPT directly as a DM has indeed felt lightweight to me (but still if I’m being honest, it’s absolutely astonishing that it’s coherent at all).
diegoperini 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqruZje3gA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqruZje3gA In the video, Twitch streamer Veritas uses ChatGPT to alter some quests in the video game Escape from Tarkov to make them more fun. Results are really interesting.

luke_cq 4y ago

We're actually working on a product right now that helps integrate this into your worldbuilding tools - we pull in relevant information from your campaign and world, then add a slick AI user experience that gets really quality generations for worldbuilding, session prep, etc. The end result is this experience where GPT has learned your world, and you don't have to do any of the tinkering with getting the prompts just right. Ask for an encounter table, get an excellent, lore-consistent encounter table. We're going to be launching soon (days, not weeks)! If you're interested in being in the first wave feel free to jump on the beta list: https://www.carbonquill.com/ https://www.carbonquill.com/

throwaway689236 4y ago

I'm so easily impressed that even ChatGPT was enough for me to have fun.