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On 04/03/2024 18:23, Justisaur wrote:
> On 3/4/2024 8:40 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 02:39 this Sunday 
>> (GMT):
> 
>> I think there was already an indie(?) AI game called Facade that
>> looked interesting.
> 
> Wow, from 2005!
> 
> I remember someone on dragonsfoot playing around with ai.dungeon.com - 
> an AI text D&D game.  It's more freeform than actual D&D, and you can do 
> that with any generative text AI.
> 

I'll assume you mean aidungeon.com as the link you gave is for a 
somewhat different site!

I have played with AI Dungeon and you can use it to play a D&D style 
setting, that's one of many themes, but the way it plays is really quite 
different. It's more a co-op story game where the player directs the 
action (you can literally say something like I find a key in the 
person's pocket) and the AI makes the story reactive to you. It's fun 
but no substitute for a TT RPG experience.

I have also seen some videos of people's experience with playing D&D 
with ChatGPT as the DM and it seems quite a mixed bag and not really 
there yet. I've also seen some thoughts on its application in TT RPG's 
in general and some of the places I think it could be useful is in 
aiding the creation of locations and NPC's, either out of game or 
in-game. Personally I quite like those moments where the characters come 
up with a good idea that isn't in the scenario and you then have to make 
something up on the fly and reward them for being inventive.