dwgill

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[–] dwgill@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

That's honestly the biggest potential upside with Meta's Threads in my opinion: better chance to grab more of the big online personalities (e.g. it's on the record that they've been reaching out to major celebrities) and (at least for the foreseeable future) Meta seems invested in full-featured Fediverse interoperability including account migration, etc.

[–] dwgill@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel (rightly & legitimately) called out 😭 I literally got two months into my renaissance political intrigue campaign before I discovered Court of Blades. It's a perfect fit for my interests, but now my campaign is lousy with so many d&d tropes (Tieflings! Dhampirs! Changelings! Dragons!) that I more than likely couldn't switch systems without home brewing everything out the wazoo πŸ˜“

 

ChatGPT has been a lifeline for me as a GM with little spare time to prep and far too grand ambitions for the scale and scope of (D&D) campaign I want to run. I'm curious how other GMs have found ChatGPT and similar AI tools useful or helpful in running their own games. I'll share my own workflow below as a comment, and I hope others find it useful. I'm especially interested in any ChatGPT prompts you have found worthwhile, and you can see some of my own prompts in the examples I'll share shortly.

[–] dwgill@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of @slyflourish@ttrpg.network's trick of preparing secrets, clues, or general plot point revelations in advance and without anticipating the context of where or how they will be revealed. That is, you just prepare a list of ten facts or details that will engage the players if and when they learn them, and you improvise how they learn them at the table. It's great for when a player character unexpectedly goes to the library to aimlessly look for clues, or the PCs start talking with an NPC and you need to drop some nugget of info to make the conversation feel worthwhile.

https://slyflourish.com/sharing_secrets.html

[–] dwgill@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

Hot damn that game sounds rad

[–] dwgill@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's TEETH? I'm new to any Forged in the Dark games, and that abbreviation promises to be tricky to find in Google πŸ˜…

[–] dwgill@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was a bit bummed to see that Mike didn't mention any of the Fediverse options but honestly Lemmy and kbin are still cooking as technologies so I don't exactly fault him. I was surprised to hear him skeptical of Patreonβ€”the same incentives are there, surely, but I wasn't aware of any recent actions they had taken.

Replacing Discord will definitely be painful if/when it comes.