Any AI Gamemasters Out There?

[Longspeak]

If it helps, M, I'm there with you. Video games are fun and all, and BG3 in really good in the depth of choice and how it interacts with those choices... but it still ain't a role-playing experience. You need people for that.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

AI GM aren't mutually exclusive with people -- a storyteller AI would allow the whole group to play, with a replacement for the GM job only. Even if it's not as good, it beats cancelling a session/losing a group of people because no one wants to step up and GM...

 

[Gorgon Zee]

A friend notified me of this: https://boingboing.net/2025/01/14/ai-might-be-your-next-dungeon-master.html

Reading the paper, it appears only 7 people used the LLM version, and the LLM had a detailed prompt that had several paragraphs handwritten for the canned module that the LLM was running, and of the 7 players, 3 reported feeling railroaded. Further, the scores for creativity were based on the players asking for a room description and the resulting text was what was scored for creativity. Additionally, the system was used for a one-player only game without social interaction.

I think there’s still quite a distance to go …

 

[Bohandas]

Possibly relevant:

AI-dventure Call. A very gimmicky playthrough of AI Dungeon by a bunch of twitch streamers. The AI was the main game master; the human game masters merely tracked inventory and objectives and read out the output from the AI. (Also for some reason the players, in addition to playing the PCs, were also in character as different players; it was gimmicky)