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This is a great question, and a little hard to address because the technology is such a moving target right now, but officially all of these models (that we have public access to) are supposed to be trained on content that's in the public domain. But the scale of the training, and the fact that...

There's a lot to be said for just making something like Blades whatever you want it to be. Just might mean realizing why things could get unexpectedly wonky (some Playbook and Crew moves becoming much less useful, or hitting an XP/progression ceiling before you've actually gotten a lot of...

It's a complicated topic, but ChatGPT doesn't necessarily lift whole sentences, just as Stable Diffusion doesn't lift whole images. They basically blend data into a slurry and then form new content out of it. The closest they get to what you're describing is when they use the "style" of a given...

By any cognitive measure, yes, it's random. All LLMs do is chase correlations in language. They aren't worldbuilding with any sense of how various themes and elements might fit together, or how they're playing into or breaking genre tropes. They're literally just sticking words together. You...

Really sorry to hear that. In my experience it can take a lot of sessions, and sometimes a lot of different games, to get some players to kick trad habits and really give a Blades-like storygame approach a chance. But some folks just won't ever be into it, no matter what you do as a GM.

That's valid—ChatGPT as a kind of active sounding board or brainstorming participant makes a lot of sense. To a point, I think, like as inspiration. I still think directly using what it actually produces is pretty embarrassing. Your writing partner is the machine learning equivalent of someone...

Sorry to hear you're being dismissed like that, but you're moving the goalposts here—from claiming there's value in criticism without any firsthand experience, to personal clashes. But I can say that after my first game of Scum and Villainy (not Blades, but Forged in the Dark), when I...

That definitely sounds useful. But have you used ChatGPT? That's not how it or Bard or any other large language model works. One of the biggest problems with ChatGPT is that it doesn't—arguably can't—give you sources or point you to what it's ingested. And even if you interpret its output as a...

Nope, didn't say anything about only listening to authorities. I said if you aren't even skimming the game, who cares about your take on it? How did you hop from there to some sort of gate-keeping argument? No one's forcing you to discuss games you know essentially nothing about, even if they...

Truly though, what is the point of seeking out AI-generated setting content when there are more published settings than you could ever play in one lifetime? This is what I really don't get about most "creative" uses of ChatGPT—we don't have a scarcity problem with human-generated text. Gross as...

The idea of appreciating someone's take on Blades in the Dark, or any other game, when they haven't even skimmed it is throwing me into an existential panic. Is all information equally valid? There's no such thing as signal, just endless amounts of noise? Here's what I think: If you're spending...

You're new here—welcome!—so just realize that this thread is inherently about past, present, and future ENWorld skirmishes. Maybe you're just trying to wrap your head around it, but it's ultimately pretty simple. There's a longstanding tradition of discussions about game theory breaking down...

There are some great Discords out there—especially ones associated with podcasts—where folks talk about all kinds of RPGs that aren't D&D. I'm in one where Savage Worlds comes up a whole lot!

I get why tone policing is inevitable in any ENWorld thread about game theory or criticism, but it's always wild when it gets this meta—tone policing during a discussion about how to discuss games. Why don't we just talk about games until the usual people get defensive enough to make the thread...

This is such a depressingly accurate point. Even talking to friends who are also GMs about the merits of some game or playstyle often means dealing with some sort of defensivesness, often based on this unexamined notion that there's one way to play and run RPGs. That really hobbles so many...

I think these two points do more to show just how lost we are, collectively, in trying to talk about this topic. The assumption is that criticism is, should be, or ever has been neutral. I couldn't disagree more. I think a lot of people have some imagined, platonic ideal of what critics and...

The one-second rounds also factored into weird mechanics, like snapshots for guns, and the expectation that if you don't spend a full turn aiming before firing you were a total idiot. Which is fine for the hyperrealism heads, but some of us are just trying to play a game (and one where combat...

Oh totally. I’m actually an extremely wimpy GM, relatively speaking. I just meant that for resources specifically, I like the higher stakes and greater chance for mishap.

I like that Resource dice in Forbidden Lands are harsher—the dice type goes down on a 1 or a 2. And there's no d4, so when your d6 resource gets used up, that's it.

I love inventory mechanics that aren't fiddly and cut to the chase, particularly by getting rid of weight vs. strength calculations (some of the wost record-keeping nonsense in any RPG). For example: -In Alien, you run out of ammo based on rolling 1's when pushing a roll. No ammo tracking other...