D&D General I asked AI: "What's the Most Common Cause of Character Death?"

[The Firebird]

Perhaps someone with a lot more skill and confidence (and a paid subscription to an A.I. program) can generate more useful information?

I consider myself a skilled user and have a subscription so I decided to take you up on this. Rather than asking for an answer (poor practice) I asked it to look for reasonable sources. (Also good-- "tell me about the pros and cons" or "discuss some relevant factors").

It ended up giving the same response folks here did--there are no good data. It suggested a few options to look into (AL logs, for example) while discussing their limitations.

And it found a source I wasn't aware of, "FIREBALL", a dataset of text history from games that used the Avrae bot. It proposed looking through that for death instances and compiling them. I didn't go through the FIREBALL data at all to see if it includes enough information. It's an interesting idea.

 

[CleverNickName]

Definitely take judgement answers that require balancing factual evidence and reaching a decision with a pinch of salt.

Yep, agreed. I said as much in the conclusion of my original post.

 

[Rune]

The Ranger stood out as particularly odd to me. Who plays rangers with medium armor? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in 5e that wasn’t dex-based.

 

[Zardnaar]

The Ranger stood out as particularly odd to me. Who plays rangers with medium armor? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in 5e that wasn’t dex-based.

I seen 1. Current one. Players always saying he should be a fighter lol.

 

[ECMO3]

I don't know how YOU feel about A.I., but I think it's a glorified rumor mill, no more reliable than the local bartender who overhears much but verifies little (and is usually drunk.) So I guess this is what the Internet's local bartender thinks of D&D character weaknesses? We should probably take this all with a grain of salt.

Perhaps someone with a lot more skill and confidence (and a paid subscription to an A.I. program) can generate more useful information?

I don't know I think it is pretty good.

I will say the last character I had die was a Barbarian (the only one I ever played) that got disintegrated ..... which is right there at the top of the Barbarian list (Failed saving throw against spells). THis is the only character I had die above level 3 in many years.

Before that I lost a Paladin because we decided to take a rest with a "prisoner" we found and freed who was actually a plant. This was a TPK, when she turned on us she wiped 2 characters in 1 round. But it was "bad decisions and bad luck"

Third PC I lost was an Artificer. She sucommed to a trap and the other PCs were too scared to come in and save me. So it did not get this one.

Fourth most recent PC I lost was a Wizard, who was killed because of low hit points. She was basically 2-shot at level 3 by a Werewolf or some other Lycantherope.

So the AI got 3 out of 4 of my last 4 killed PCs. Not bad.

Also am I seeing something wrong or did it put the Ranger twice, once under Ranger and once under Sorcerer.

 

[ECMO3]

The Ranger stood out as particularly odd to me. Who plays rangers with medium armor? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in 5e that wasn’t dex-based.

My Rangers usually wear medium armor. Mostly because I am pushing Wisdom on a Ranger and Medium armor gives you a better AC than light Armor with a 16 Dex.

I will say I have never been emotionally devastated by the loss of a pet and I am often using them as a meat shield.

 

[Zardnaar]

My Rangers usually wear medium armor. Mostly because I am pushing Wisdom on a Ranger and Medium armor gives you a better AC than light Armor with a 16 Dex.

Yeah im looking at sonething similar on an Eldritch Knight.

 

[FrogReaver]

The Ranger stood out as particularly odd to me. Who plays rangers with medium armor? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in 5e that wasn’t dex-based.

In general you can get the best medium armor long before you can max dex. AC from level 1 to 7 scales up faster with medium armor even though they eventually land in the same place.

 

[FrogReaver]

Fun anecdote. I was in a campaign. Our Paladin was an absolute dual-wielding beast. Out of all the PC's the Paladin was Dominated and then proceeded to smite the rest of the party down 1 at a time. It was sad and glorious all at the same time.

 

[FrogReaver]

For the AI answers. I think it did a fabulous job. Like if a person was actually expected to speculate on the answers I think it's answers are in line with what a real person might have said.

If you just want it to be all star-trek Data and say we don't have the needed data to answer that specific question then okay, but that's not how most actual people talk. People answer questions based on nearly incomplete data all the time.

Is the grade for chat-gpt how much it responds like a person or how accurate it is when responding? I think it needs both, but i'm not sure that accuracy must win out over responding like a person when there's a conflict as it's first and foremost a chat-bot.