ChatGPT has been a lifeline for me as a GM with little spare time to prep and far too grand ambitions for the scale and scope of (D&D) campaign I want to run. I’m curious how other GMs have found ChatGPT and similar AI tools useful or helpful in running their own games. I’ll share my own workflow below as a comment, and I hope others find it useful. I’m especially interested in any ChatGPT prompts you have found worthwhile, and you can see some of my own prompts in the examples I’ll share shortly.

  • riotinferno@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use it for ultra-lazy mode:

    • Generate a Dungeons and Dragons adventure about X
    • Ask for more in-depth information on things is mentions.
    • Ask for a random dungeon based on the adventure
    • Ask for a hex map for the area.

    That’s honestly like 80% of the work. I just have to do some editing and jazz on top of it.

    Edit: here’s an example from a couple months ago: https://imgchest.com/p/92493wqm4nk

    • dwgill@ttrpg.networkOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s awesome. ChatGPT seems to do pretty well when your campaign aligns with traditional D&D tropes, but I had no idea it would even generate hex maps! That’s wild

      • riotinferno@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, that was a big surprise to me also! I took its basic ASCII hex map and made a real one with HexKit (that’s the good-looking map) and it seems pretty playable! I’m keeping it in my back pocket for my next one-shot.