All charges were dropped for lack of evidence.

Collections add a little something real to an interest. You are into baseball? Collect baseball cards and baseball memorabilia. Some find a tactile connection improves their enjoyment. For some people, it may be old video games, for others it may be coins, stamps, achievements in video games. Yes they are digital, but you can see them in your achievement/trophy list. I think some people are drawn to collections more than others because they favor a certain learning style over another. I’m not educated in behavior in any way so I am qualified to share my opinion on the Internet. There’s nothing abnormal about that. The collecting part. Not the part where I have no real knowledge on a topic but I feel my opinion is worthy of being heard. That’s actually normal, too, probably. But it shouldn’t be.

The only thing they could bring back that would make me consider making an account is TheButton. By the way I was a 42s Blue Hitchhiker.

I have not used it enough to tell. I asked it to make a one-shot for me. It set up the entire plot, created the stat blocks for the monsters, set up the encounters. Created the traps and the puzzles. It even made the magic items, along with detailed descriptions and lore. I’ve had it help with making a custom setting, including custom races and classes. It’s not copy/paste perfect of course, but good enough of a framework that I can easily go in and tweak stuff. Definitely saves hours of work.

I totally agree. But I know I had a folder of bookmarks with all sorts of tools for making NPCs, locations, enemies, names for stuff, treasures, and so on. Now ChatGPT does all that for me. I found ChatGPT is a great tool to inspire personal creativity, too. When I tell it to invent puzzles, they are kinda meh by themselves but inspires me to put something more cohesive together.

Eventually, sooner than you might think, I can see an AI with cameras around the room, so it can see the players’ faces. It will be able to identify common emotional faces and can improvise accordingly. Honestly, I predict there will be live streams of a bunch of humans sitting around a table that is being run by the AI dungeon master.

The tabletop is one of those big digital screen ones, and the the fights are animated as they play. I would totally watch that haha. Maybe at some point it can generate movies based on the game session. I know we’ve all had some epic game moments that would be awesome movie scenes.

Nothing in it leads me to believe it could fully replace a human DM in its current state, but if it was trained specifically on every dnd module, rulebook, fan content, fantasy books and movie scripts, then possibly.

In my opinion that’s what we do. Every homebrew adventure is the product of our combined knowledge of the system and the genre. We use some things designed by others (if you use a creature from a monster manual for example, or run a module), we create our own things. But the things we create still depend on things we have learned. We’re just organic AIs with a slower and less reliable training process lol

I used it to run an impromptu one-shot for some friends. It created the outline, the story hook, NPCs, encounters, traps, treasures and the big boss at the end. I had to tweak stuff and all the combat rolls were made with real dice, but overall it was fun and I said I co-DM’d that night.

It also creates and runs interactive fiction stories. I told it I wanted to play a game like zork with it lol and it wasn’t exactly zork, but it was actually more fun and flexible than zork could have been.

Oh I did not know that. I thought it was a share link lol. I will copy the text to a file I can link

It is the log of my chat with openai.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ocuNIrl8lP13YQZrRGsCcWjcX-57CyDdNagB-7AyH1Y/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT: Copied the OpenAI chat to a Google Doc.

I feel like they all see the inevitability that AI will drastically change the money model very soon. And it will not be to their profit, so best make every penny they can right now is their mentality.

I love this. I especially love the “play at level 1 until it’s not fun”. Progression is secondary to a good story. Back when I was playing 1st and 2nd editions, new players would start as zero level characters, where we roleplayed short adventures around them being apprentices for organizations such as a thieves guild, a church, a fighter’s guild or for some wizard or going to an academy. The characters might end up meeting each other by having similar quests given to them and they become friends who evolve into adventurers.

The likelihood of someone quitting when their character dies is far greater than just randomly abandoning the adventure. But the longest I have done a daily PbP style online with a single group of three was about 2 months. Someday I will find the right mix of players.

I’ve been playing since 1st edition since the early 80s. I am a DM and a player. If I run something, I prefer my homebrew campaign. It’s inspired by some video games I love. Fallout and Horizon Zero Dawn. It’s a post-apocalyptic world, with a viking-esque culture. Pockets of magical energy cover areas of the world, killinging or transforming life. There are ruins of an ancient culture, mostly underground. The society is fiercely anti-magic. For example there is one group whose purpose is to hunt down and kill those who use it (or were born with magical abilities.

There’s custom rules, races and classes. It’s 5e ready. Been working on it since 2020 lockdowns. It’s brutal and death is always possible. Players who discover new races/classes can roll new characters as those if their current char dies. New chars are the last char’s level -2. You could be a twisted one (aka ghoul from fallout) or a magic hunter, for example.

I prefer a play by post, all text method using Discord, AboveVTT and Beyond D&D. With this method, each player makes one action post each day and we progress after every player has made their input. This is done in a 24 hour cycle, so basically you play every day for a short time that works for you instead of once a week at a specific time. If you skip a day, you do nothing that turn. It’s a slow game style. Not for everyone.

Im US on the East Coast. Also open to playing any game through Beyond D&D, as I’ve become comfortable with it.

If 99% of your posts are advertising your content, then you are not engaging with the community, you are looking at it as a free advertising opportunity. It’s no different than those people on social media who only post links to their onlyfans or some other side hustle. I don’t come here to read ads for content. I come here to interact with other gamers, to learn and share, not to profit off them.

Also, why do the rules for this community say “–Posts must have something to do with Texas” ?