I have played dnd exactly one time. It was a one shot that we never finished. This meme is my experience if you changed “quadrillion years” to “one more time”
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I feel like at some point a nigh-eternal TTRPG campaign would Ship of Theseus itself into an entirely new medium.
Who are the characters in this meme?
I recognize...
- Fry
- Stephen Hawking
- Lt. Uhura
- The Reverend?
- Rick Stallman?
- Some box?
Fry, Hawking and Uhura you got right.
Top panel is Gary Gygax, creator of DnD.
Dude in the suit and coat is Al Gore.
The box is Deep Blue, the chess supercomputer
Yeah, I wouldn't want to play with that misogynist either.
This is why I got ChatGPT, so I have someone to play with at all times lol
Find people that want to play, there's more than you can think.
My first advice would be any board game club or similars. If you're ok with DMing, put a notice for a one-shot in your town's public library. Usually libraries are cool with people hosting games, and it would provide a safe space for anyone curious. Finally, I'm sure there are a plethora of TTRPG online game platforms available with very skilled DMs.
Find people that want to play, there’s more than you can think.
Something I learned a long time ago is it's easier to find people who want to play D&D (or whatever game) and make friends with them than it is to make your friends play D&D.
There's probably a nicer way to put this, but frankly most people are a fucking mess. And who can blame them? This is a capitalist hellscape. But that means if you're semi randomly selecting people, you're going to get a lot of people who are barely holding on, and won't make fantasy elf time a priority.. Some of them might sincerely want to play, and overestimate their energy levels. Other people are terrified of confrontation, and will say yes even when they absolutely do not want to do that.
But if you go the other way around, and find folks that seem friendly at a meetup or whatever for RPGs, they're more likely to show up. They already put in effort and showed up somewhere.
"it's easier to turn gamers into friends than it is to turn friends into gamers."
I’ll check my local library then, wish me luck.
With the meetup app you might also find someone organizing board game or ttrpg sessions. Best luck!!
Or, another strategy:
Whos down for a thing? I'll run a rules medium-light game. Not married to any system or kind of setting, but I default to bitd.
Available evenings or nights Pacific time (gmt-8) Matrix not discord. Sorry; not touching that panopticon trash fire.
Edit: no takers?
There should be a community for this.
try the solo adventurer's toolkit instead, it's so much better than trying to get an LLM to stay coherent enough to run a D&D game
Tbh, try a good PC RPG game. They are the single-player evolution of TTRPG.
I just play with myself
Now that is an interesting idea. Don't know if you're joking, but has anyone tried using an LLM as a TTRPG character or DM?
I have used them as a trrpg DM, there's a model out there i think it's called Fantasy DM llm, but I could be remembering wrong, im not at home to check.
Boring, to say the least. It requires alpt of tlc, writing a full setup and world info with a lot of work, took several hours of writing to get about 30 minutes of delving before I ran out of context. I wouldn't call it bad, just unnecessary, I could find a whole group in that time or get real work done on a homebrew campaign.
That was last year, maybe a new dedicated model is out now, ill check it out and try again.
I actually have with ChatGPT, it’s the DM and playing for 6 other characters in the party. So far it’s working fine. But, the hate for AI is ridiculous though, downvotes for even using it.
Do what you want, there’s so many people who just downvote seeing, AI. If you wanna play before bed, on the train, or in the bathroom using it, it’s all cool.
This is an old project of mine. I made it a few years ago, so it's pretty out of date, but I can tell you my experience with it:
When I was playing around with it, characters tended to be very one-dimensional. They all had a single personality trait, and the AI made sure you knew about it. The particular way I set up the dialog system, multiple AI characters could interact with each other, but that ended up to very long conversations which quickly got off track and everyone forgot the original goal (which is a little bit too realistic) The AIs also found clever ways of speaking for other characters.
As for an AI DM, it just wasn't there yet. It didn't have the initiative to actually switch from one scene to another, and wouldn't create any NPCs to talk to. I often had to manually edit what the DM had printed so the session could move forward.
It was an interesting project, and my friends seemed to love it, but I think their love is mostly due to the custom characters I made for it.