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 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚜 in a smol village...🐙
@midjourneymap of the village, with GPT-3 created locations:
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:
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"):
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:
What's really fun here is ability to visualize anything instantly without the constraints of a pre-written scenario book, including dead-end locations - ofc folks wanted to check out the spooky cemetary, though there were no hints to be found there..
I had GPT-3 come up with range of hints that I could drop for the players if they were stuck, which worked quite well - e. g. "let them roll a perception test, if successful, they notice that the priest is incredibly nervous about something"... Is he hiding sth in that library?
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
overall, this was tremendously fun and interesting experiment, and in theory, the pieces to fully automate the game master are basically all there...
