Show HN: I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs
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Show HN: I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs
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Re: Show HN: I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs
#2I'm a former UX designer getting into web development and this is my first actual project. It is a collection of characters for tabletop RPGs, with prompt, a little background info, and a litle chat where you can talk to them, using GPT. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, and would love to hear your feedback!
Re: Show HN: I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs
#3I'm a former UX designer getting into web development and this is my first actual project. It is a collection of characters for tabletop RPGs, with prompt, a little background info, and a litle chat where you can talk to them, using GPT. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, and would love to hear your feedback!
Nice!
Re: Show HN: I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs
#4I got Kaida Stormcaller https://herostavern.com/character/fubvbga8axe63sq The friends are Orintha Windwhisper, Finnegan Stormwatcher and Sylvi Raindancer. It may be nice to make the friends clickable, if it doesn't make the generator to difficult. [If X is a friend of Y, is Y a friend of X?]
Re: Show HN: I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs
#5Hey Rayuaz, your project is pretty cool, does something simple, very well.
My feedback: - the black/white aesthetic seems a bit sterile for a RPG character generator, some more colors would make it more fun.
- if the character description is too long, it cuts into the space of the "Go to next table" button
- The UI is a bit unintuitive:
- "Learn More" makes me think it's going to tell me more about the project, rather than more about this particular character
- There's too much visual distance between "Learn More", and the "- Maybe you could have a "About" button that explains what this website is, and why you did it.
Re: Show HN: I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs
#6I got Kaida Stormcaller https://herostavern.com/character/fubvbga8axe63sq The friends are Orintha Windwhisper, Finnegan Stormwatcher and Sylvi Raindancer. It may be nice to make the friends clickable, if it doesn't make the generator to difficult. [If X is a friend of Y, is Y a friend of X?]
I like this idea, a lot actually, but I think it would be prettty difficult to implement. The characters aren't generated in real time. I created another backend application that generates a bunch of characters and stores them in a database, so that the experience of navigating through prompts is quick and responsive. The people mentioned in a character's description are not actual characters in the database, so to generate actual full fledge characters out of them I would have to create a system that generates new characters for every character mentioned in another characters description and that is an exponential problem lol
But I think I could keep my system of pre-generated characters, and when a user clicks on an connection character it creates that new character and stores it in the database. Having to wait some time to generate the character in this situation wouldn't really be as problematic as in the prompt screen.
Re: Show HN: I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs
#7I got Kaida Stormcaller https://herostavern.com/character/fubvbga8axe63sq The friends are Orintha Windwhisper, Finnegan Stormwatcher and Sylvi Raindancer. It may be nice to make the friends clickable, if it doesn't make the generator to difficult. [If X is a friend of Y, is Y a friend of X?]
I like this idea, a lot actually, but I think it would be prettty difficult to implement. The characters aren't generated in real time. I created another backend application that generates a bunch of characters and stores them in a database, so that the experience of navigating through prompts is quick and responsive. The people mentioned in a character's description are not actual characters in the database, so to g…
How much does it take to generate a character?
Anyway, I'm not sure if my suggestion is useful. So unless more people ask for it, don't try to implement it.
(I was expecting random generated characters created from a hash of the URL, but I think that it's the reverse (the URL is the id number in the database).)