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we wanted to go for a 1920s Cthulhu-style adventure I got GPT-3 to come up with a few ideas & picked one where the group has to investigate a series of ๐š–๐šข๐šœ๐š๐šŽ๐š›๐š’๐š˜๐šž๐šœ ๐šœ๐šž๐š’๐šŒ๐š’๐š๐šŽ๐šœ in a smol village...๐Ÿ™

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map of the village, with GPT-3 created locations:

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the pre-game (we only had a weekend to play in a remote spooky house in rural Germany) was done async over WhatsApp, focussing on character creation, ofc supported by image synths to bring your character to life:

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then, as the AI-augmented game master, I sat in front of my macbook, with an iPad facing the group (an arguably unromantic downside of the setup..) when the group wanted to visit any location, I would prompt it up instantly like this (yep, this is German for "Wumpert Farm"):

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the same with characters - and if I needed a new one, I would run a master prompt in GPT-3 to create one based on the previous lore of the world, and quickly generate an image in SD or MJ - here's a farmer the players could interview:

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Absolutely would not recommend reading this book in that basement though (unless you have insanely high sanity stats), which turned out to be the source of insanity plaguing the village