AI GMs

[Micah Sweet]

I strongly feel that LLMs are nearly good enough at this point to run your typical group of casual players through a linear adventure. Given the constant complaints of not being able to find a GM, I expect a year from now there will be decent, reliable services for AI GMs.

Won't have the problems some people here seem to have with the GM restricting your character creation choices either. Perhaps this is the solution for those folks who think too many GMs are power-hungry tyrants

 

[Reynard]

Also several people responded by implying that solo rules are sufficient/better.

I find this strange because while solo RPGing can be engaging, I don't think it is very much like "roleplaying" at all and is more like either discovery writing, or boardgaming, depending on the sort of solo gaming you are doing.

 

[zakael19]

I find this strange because while solo RPGing can be engaging, I don't think it is very much like "roleplaying" at all and is more like either discovery writing, or boardgaming, depending on the sort of solo gaming you are doing.

I think it might be a rare case of designed for adults facilitated childhood make-believe, which is pretty cool actually. Exercising your imagination like that is something most people don't do so much after you "grow up." Since you're imagining the entire world, potentially running through back and forth scenes in your head based off spark tables, adjudicating uncertainty from oracles and devising what happens next - a lot more creativity involved then in a one-sided "typing at an" or probably even playing a single character in a social game.

 

[Rune]

I wonder if AI could run PCs for a human GM.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I find this strange because while solo RPGing can be engaging, I don't think it is very much like "roleplaying" at all and is more like either discovery writing, or boardgaming, depending on the sort of solo gaming you are doing.

I also thought it was a strange question. Sort of like, "Hey I tested out an e-bike..." and getting a response of "What's wrong with the subway?"

Ummm....what?

 

[Bill Zebub]

I wonder if AI could run PCs for a human GM.

It absolutely could. I bet it would even give feedback to help improve GMing.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I asked ChatGPT to generate an image of my hireling, Hobb, in the style of Shadowdark:

 

[Reynard]

I wonder if AI could run PCs for a human GM.

It absolutely could. I bet it would even give feedback to help improve GMing.

I'm not so sure. Remember that LLMs are based on training data, and relative to material by GMs there just isn't that much by or of groups of players. There are actual plays, of course, but in the grand scheme that is a very small data pool and completely lopsided toward professional players.

 

[zakael19]

It absolutely could. I bet it would even give feedback to help improve GMing.

Wow, the visceral reaction I had to that sentence.

 

[zakael19]

I'm not so sure. Remember that LLMs are based on training data, and relative to material by GMs there just isn't that much by or of groups of players. There are actual plays, of course, but in the grand scheme that is a very small data pool and completely lopsided toward professional players.

Yeah, the LLM subreddits are full of people role playing with their chatbots (and forming parasocial relationships etc). This tech is clearly good at extrapolating narrative content forward based on its massive corpus of training data around that.