AI GMs

[Bill Zebub]

Wow, the visceral reaction I had to that sentence.

Well, let me clarify:
1) There is a lot about GMing that is unique to the hobby about which LLMs may not know anything. Then again, there is a lot of text information out there about the hobby including examples of play and guidance for GMs, so it might.
2) Then there's just basic storytelling skill. So far I'm blown away by how creative ChatGPT has been. It would not surprise me in the least if it were able to give me feedback on my storytelling skills.

I wouldn't recommend judging what it can or cannot do before exploring this personally.

 

[Rune]

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

Don’t know about that last part. There are a whole lot of GM-advice “truisms” on the internet that I would consider an ill-fit for my preferences. And that’s the stuff (presumably) it would be trained on.

 

[zakael19]

I wouldn't recommend judging what it can or cannot do before exploring this personally.

Naw, Im totally comfortable with judging it on this.

 

[Scott Christian]

I uploaded my own ruleset and lore into Gemini and asked it to run a solo adventure using those rules and the provided lore/cultures/monsters. It did pretty well, although there were times it would take liberties with the lore. (It put in a sandspeeder from the Star Wars universe into my medieval style fantasy setting? But that was its most egregious error. The others were very minor.)

One thing I had to tell it to do is make the campaign last only ten sessions - so it needed to wrap up the story by the end of session ten. It did an ok job with this. There were still some loose ends, and there definitely could have been more sessions.

Lastly, I'd like to point out it did a great job with its setting descriptions and roleplay scenarios. The combat was pretty smooth too, although since it had a unique ruleset, it did ask quite a few questions when it was unsure of how a specific ability would work.

I am curious to see what it will be able to do in the future, possibly by adding images, maps, and a more stable memory.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Don’t know about that last part. There are a whole lot of GM-advice “truisms” on the internet that I would consider an ill-fit for my preferences. And that’s the stuff (presumably) it would be trained on.

Oh, sure. There are schools of thought on GMing that on some points are diametrically opposed.

But if you were to prime the pump with specific guidance/principles it would be able to adapt. A one or two page document outlining the kinds of coaching you want it to do could be very effective.