Recent content by Scott Christian

That is a great example. Thank you so much!

@Jacob Lewis While you are on this thread, any chance you have a good format to use for the frontload documents. This is the format I have been using for the frontload document of the characters. # Characters for Campaign ## First Adventurer ### Overview: Name: Emme Barnes. An Allorian who...

Thanks for that information. It's excellent to learn from someone who has more experience than I do. I feel like the token problem is actually a good reason to keep the sessions size limited and the number of sessions limited. At least, that was what I was thinking while reading you answer...

For those curious to the actual text in play. Here is an example: PS - This came after it offered suggestions of heading to the previously discussed location. But instead, my character decided to take a detour. (From this description, I hope you can see it is a bit different from a video game...

Great answer. I agree with every single one of your points. It took me quite a while to learn that as well. Fortunately, I learned some of that while just going over the rulebook with it. The token thing is very very real. Which is why summaries need to be detailed, yet clear and concise.

I do think this is a little different than a typical computer RPG. It is really a new frontier. I think that is what drove me to do it. To, you know, see the hype. I also wanted to see if I could teach it to think within certain parameters. In this case, game mechanics and the rules associated...

Sorry for the second reply, but I just wanted to say thank you for that bit of information. I asked Gemini this question: "Hi Gemini. I am back. (It was quick, I know.) I have a question for you about our campaign: Approximately how many sessions do you plan to have for this storyline? We have...

After each section of rules, I asked it if it had questions. It always did. I often answered those using examples, which were eventually placed in the frontload documents. Sometimes, it also needed non-examples to utilize the rule or lore correctly. I have also added those. That process took a...

That is interesting. Maybe it would be smart of me to add in a desired number of sessions for the frontload document. As for always succeeding, it has asked me to roll the dice for my characters, and they have failed often. It doesn't seem to have difficulty describing how the character fails...

Did you do a dedicated dataset outside the LLM for this? After a while, it will forget your original upload, at least that has been my experience. It might take a while, but it will happen unless you have a dedicated dataset for it to utilize a retrieval system for. (I think that is called RAG.)...

Just wanted to share my experiences at having an LLM (in this case, Gemini) act as a gamemaster. I have completed five sessions, each that ran a couple hours long. The system I taught it was my own. The lore it used was written by me, although I gave it creative license to make-up anything it...

Had to find the shot with my D&D shirt. This was the only one I could find. ;) Great dinner, good friends, and an awesome RPG session the day after. :)

I might add to the bolded statement that they also have nostalgia (for some), and more importantly, boatloads of lore attached to them. While mechanically, they may be "just preselected feats," they are so much more to the player that visually imagines their character.

Quite a while ago, this community had an argument - The Buttons and Dials Argument. To create a class or culture or background, it needs to push buttons (generate interest in the player & GM) or turn a dial (leverage in-game mechanics to alter game-play) or both. Players prefer both, but lean...