My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM

Post by commandlinefan » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC

TMWNN wrote: post #82

commandlinefan wrote: post #18

Out of curiosity, I asked GPT3 to write a Friends episode one time. On the one hand, I was kind of surprised how well it knew the show - it knew the characters and how they were related, it knew about the coffee shop and Rachel & Monica's apartment. It wasn't very _creative_ though, it just kind of seemed to talk in circles, and nothing ever actually happened (it also gave Chandler & Joey iphones). This actually seem…

Are you aware of Nothing, Forever ? https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/04/ai-sein... >

Post by _spduchamp » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

wefarrell wrote: post #86

Ha, I had the same idea a few hours ago. One thing I noticed is that the DM will let you do basically anything without fighting you on it. For example I was ambushed by some zombies and skeletons and I attempted to pitch them on a multilevel marketing scheme. Here is the result (my characters are Femribubs and Natnari): In a surprising turn of events, Femribubs and Natnari decide to change their approach. Instead of…

Post by diegoperini » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

throwaway675309 wrote: post #131

thom wrote: post #25

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.

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.

Post by splistud » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 5:58 PM UTC

_spduchamp wrote: post #233

wefarrell wrote: post #86

Ha, I had the same idea a few hours ago. One thing I noticed is that the DM will let you do basically anything without fighting you on it. For example I was ambushed by some zombies and skeletons and I attempted to pitch them on a multilevel marketing scheme. Here is the result (my characters are Femribubs and Natnari): In a surprising turn of events, Femribubs and Natnari decide to change their approach. Instead of…

Oh great! What have you unleashed!? Now we're going to have to deal with hoards of AI zombies selling us multilevel marketing schemes!

Post by fauxpause_ » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 6:04 PM UTC

jameshart wrote: post #209

fauxpause_ wrote: post #96

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I think this is a classic baby DM script tbh. Rolling to find mounts at a vendor is dumb. You should only roll for significant challenges with meaningful differences where failure is meaningfully likely and interesting in its own right. If failing makes a situation less interesting it shouldn’t be an option. Shopping is actually the bigger problem. It’s like asking players to watch other players navigate a menu one b…

When you see a bear dancing, you don't nitpick its choreographic decisions. Because the bear. is. dancing. Do you see? It's a bear. dancing. DM style is a matter of taste. From another perspective, this feels like quite tidy DMing in terms of letting the players explore the systems in an early non-narrative context, just to understand the mechanics. Like a tutorial. The exotic mounts were a secret you could find if y…