D&D General A.I. D&D Session Transcripts and Summaries Example

[quanta_]

Soon it will involve him pushing a single button at the beginning of the session, a single button at the end, and that's it. It will spit out this summary. I think right now it involves pressing four buttons rather than just two.

I went through the steps of the setup so others can see below the hood, but that's almost all a one-time thing. And he's scripting it for others now, so they won't even have to do that part the one time except a couple of initial installations.

This is incredible! I've developed a system that's damn near the same and its wild to read others have been working on a similar problem. I think there is a lot to build off here as I've always envisioned something along the lines of an AutoDM that has all the context of your game and can actually run the table.

Has your friend done more work on the topic? I'd love to hear an update if so.

 

[Distracted DM]

I'm familiar with another one, free AFAIK, Archivist AI Automatic Notes for Your TTRPG Campaign | Archivist AI
It seemed like good stuff, and yet I still couldn't be arsed to keep up with it

 

[evilbob]

@Mistwell This is super cool! Thank you so much for sharing!

I agree that IMO the "tl;dr" is absolutely the best part. In our current game, I'm the DM and there's no "note taker" (which means I'm the note taker). I'd be happy for an AI to summarize the highlights and store them in a group-accessible place. Currently I do this for people who missed on our shared chat (which is a terrible place to store things), and we have a 5 min "so what do you all remember?" at the beginning each time, but this would be better. Foreshadowing in particular gets hard when the party meanders and then it's been a real-life month since NPC X was mentioned and now they're a key part of some other thing.

The trick of course is that it HAS to be something I can do with like two clicks, or I'll never use it. I'm excited to hear more about this and other options mentioned in the thread. It does not surprise me at all that multiple people had the same idea and are working on similar tools already!


Separately: what I'd love even more as a DM is a battle-running AI assistant. Battles are still the worst part of D&D IMO because they take too long. Multiple sources, tracking enemy damage/rolls/spells (uggggh monsters with spells), and having all the rules at my fingertips at any moment would streamline SO MUCH. D&D Beyond helps players track things and know what their spells/abilities do, but I need the DM version. I know something like Roll 20 could work, but if I had time to do prep work then I wouldn't be complaining about how long battles take.

I want something that will do all the prep-work for a battle for me, on the spot. And THEN give me the tools to run it.

 

[el-remmen]

Over on the “How was your last session?” thread I posted the most recent summary that Zoom AI came up with. I had to clean it up for name spelling, conflation of character/player names, and a bunch of redundancy.