The Orc and The Pie

[mythago]

mmmmmmmmm.....pie

It dawns on me that the Boynton Orc and Pie Picture could be a sort of Children's Thematic Aperception Test. (Hey, it's no weirder than the standard TAT pictures.)

Mr. Mythago and I were laughing ourselves sick over the Scampering Chaos dialogue and imagining our own spawns' reactions to the picture.

Oldest Child: "One of the adventurers could cast Magic Missile to distract the orc, then they could steal the pie and sneak off and eat it! Hee hee!"

Middle Child: "They should nicely tell the orc to share. And then he would share his pie and they would all have a piece and be very very happy."

Youngest Child: "Give me pie pleeeeese! Mine! Faink you pie."

pop D&D quiz: what are the alignments of the above persons?

 

[Buttercup]

I'm sorry, but this was crying out for a bump.

 

[Darkness]

You absolutely rule, Sialia...

 

[Klaus]

I'm bumping this,
Otherwise I'd be remiss.
It's a chance for you to enjoy,
No reason to play coy.
Just remember to reply,
In honor of Sialia's Orc & Pie.

 

[Keovar]

I asked ChatGPT to do a ”fight an orc for pie” rewrite of green eggs and ham, just telling it a few nouns to replace.
Unbidden, it also flipped the script:

DM Seuss: Oh my! You do like fighting orcs for pie!
Krusk: Yes, I do! It gives me such a high!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him on a bridge?
Krusk: I would fight him on a bridge, at the edge!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him with a sword?
Krusk: I would fight him with a sword, I would not be bored!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him in a maze?
Krusk: I would fight him in a maze, in a thousand ways!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him in a hall?
Krusk: I would fight him in a hall, and make him fall!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him with a bow?
Krusk: I would fight him with a bow, and with every shot I would show!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him in the snow?
Krusk: I would fight him in the snow, and make him go!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him in the rain?
Krusk: I would fight him in the rain, and never complain!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him with a friend?
Krusk: I would fight him with a friend, until the bitter end!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him on a hill?
Krusk: I would fight him on a hill, and give him my fill!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him in a crypt?
Krusk: I would fight him in a crypt, and never slip!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him with a shield?
Krusk: I would fight him with a shield, and never yield!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him in the dark?
Krusk: I would fight him in the dark, and make my mark!
DM Seuss: Would you fight him with a roar?
Krusk: I would fight him with a roar, and make him sore!
DM Seuss: Krusk, Krusk, you're quite the warrior!
Krusk: Yes, I am! Fighting orcs for pie is my honor!

 

[Keovar]

Then I asked it to rewrite it preserving the reluctance:

DM Seuss: Would you fight an orc for pie?
Krusk: I will not fight an orc for pie, I would not fight him, Krusk am I.
DM Seuss: Would you fight him on a ship?
Krusk: I would not fight him on a ship, I would not fight him, Krusk would skip.
DM Seuss: Would you fight him in a cave?
Krusk: I would not fight him in a cave, I would not fight him, Krusk's not brave.
DM Seuss: Would you fight him with a sword?
Krusk: I would not fight him with a sword, I would not fight him, Krusk is bored.
DM Seuss: Would you fight him here or there?
Krusk: I would not fight him here or there, I would not fight him anywhere.
DM Seuss: Would you fight him to protect your pie?
Krusk: I would not fight him to protect my pie,
I'd rather make another, Krusk am I.

 

[Aeson]

My version of The Orc and The Pie.
The orc was a literal strawman. The pie was sitting on a table behind the strawman.
The paladin didn't bother looking around. He charged the strawman and was attacked by the table, which was a mimic. The rest of the party had to go in and save the paladin.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Wow, time is folding in on itself!

I feel like we have such interesting opportunities for Orc & Pie variables now... What does a "play to find out" Orc and Pie look like? An OSR Orc and Pie? Pathfinder Orc & Pie vs 5e Orc & Pie? And even more modern, what would ORC & Pie look like versus OGL & Pie???

 

[Keovar]

Wow, time is folding in on itself!

I feel like we have such interesting opportunities for Orc & Pie variables now... What does a "play to find out" Orc and Pie look like? An OSR Orc and Pie? Pathfinder Orc & Pie vs 5e Orc & Pie? And even more modern, what would ORC & Pie look like versus OGL & Pie???

No matter how good the pie may be, it’s still rude to OGLe the ORC.


i really don’t see why people think this thing is going to replace DMs, write term papers, or do anything else besides serve internet search results. Google has cause for concern, but the chatbot isn’t doing anything more than some random tables could do for an RPG, and for the rest, it jumbles things from different sources so often that you’re going to have to check the results afterward anyway, because it mixes things up or just fails to understand the request.
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite a Bruce Dickenson song in the poetic style of Emily Dickenson, and it really didn’t sound like either. I asked it to rewrite Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 as a horror story, and the first third of what it returned was a near-verbatim plagiarism of Poe’s The Raven. These are intentionally weird requests, but that’s the sort of thing which would test human-level creativity. Reporting on ChatGPT makes the chat bot out to be some kind of savant, writing amazing things in seconds. It’s funny in the absurdist sense, but it’s not going to become the next Monty Python. I also asked it to write a scene in which Arther from MPatHG meets Brian from TLoB, and it was somewhat absurd, but not particularly funny.