Using ChatGPT AI to write a Dungeons and Dragons adventure module Part 1 

I can't wait to observe how one AI is generating an adventure for three other AI acting as players to deal with it ;D

This doesn't feel like a conversation between an AI and a human, but rather a chat between friends. 😂 It's amazing.

I have been using this program to write the most complete and complex adventure setting I have ever written! I have generated hundreds of monster stat blocks for the ecosystem, an entire, fleshed out culture, and a full description of the environment itself

AKSHULLY, *pushes glasses up bridge of nose* ChaptGPT did include the bit about disabling the shield at 16:50. It would've been better if it had put that part into Act 2 instead of Act 3, but it did remember! This is a great demonstration of ChatGPT's capabilities. Thanks for putting this video together; I'm looking forward to seeing more installments!

Hey, just stumbled across this video and wanted to say thanks. these kinds of things can be immensely useful for creative blocks or inspiration prompts. SO heres a comment for the algorithm and thanks for the great content!

I'm halfway expecting an AI just being behind the channel altogether! 😅😉 I'm happy I stumbled over this channel. I have massive interest into what AI can offer to me as a GM. So I hope it keeps growing and you continue producing quality content.

Love your channel Dave, love your voice. Been Gming for 40 years and just getting into this AI Gming model. Keep the content coming. ❤

Just started using chat gpt. It is just so impressive and your video helps with some prompt engineering. I like the iterative approach you took too. I was just having it generate adventures with a setting and a few suggestions.

Looking forward to part 2! I did something similar and Willowdale made an appearance. Certain tropes appear to have placeholder names. Dwarf names default to Grimbold, for example. I tried generating NPCs and the AI's relentless positivity made it hard to give them dark or traumatic backstories!

I already led a TTRPG oneshot where chatGPT was my co-dm. I used it to generate settings, the basis of the story, player characters, some NPCs, and also the plan of BBEG. It was quite a fun adventure and both the players and I did enjoy it. Quite surprisingly the chatGPT also figured out one or two cool twists in the story.

Wow this is pretty cool! I've been playing around with ChatGPT as well for D&D it's definitely a great tool, I didn't realize though it could get this in depth.

Honestly, as a writer, I love this, like I get to still use all my writing skills it's just faster to do so because the AI is doing most of the legwork, so all I have to do is come up with ideas and polish what the AI writes! This is so cool!

I have been playing chatgpt to help me creat interesting descriptions for rooms and npc's with surprising success. Your video with the A.I is great thank you keep up the great work

this is an incredible technology, clearly this has been demonstrated on the socials but this is also a brilliant, tangible idea, thank you so much for sharing! i used to love the old "choose your own adventure" games and it's hard not to start coding a UI around this for people to build adventures and play with their friends. alas much like the AI, i have some issues narrowing the scope hahaha

I used ChatGPT to act as a DM for me, and I had the most fun doing super immature, unpredictable stuff in-game just to get the NPC reactions. I caused a big scene in the tavern.

love the idea of your channel man and the videos youve made. Keep it up!

Would love more videos on this subject. I just started with ChatGPT after watching this and it is just outstanding, so fa-nominal.

I stumbled upon this method of DND campaign creation yesterday and I have been impressed with it's performance

Amazing. I'd heard interesting things about ChatGPT but seeing it in action was much more edifying.

Time and time again I have been impressed with ChatGPT. I would definitely play this adventure :)

Earned a sub on this one. Thank you for this fun and informative video.

Great intro to this amazing facility, many thanks

Thank you so much for this! I just used this to generate a description of a city I have been thinking about, as well as several factions and their leaders within the city. I just made more progress in a few minutes than I did in MONTHS of mental struggle.

I love this! just getting into AI tools and creative endeavors myself and this stuff is fascinating, you earned a sub from me, going to dive into all your videos now!

This is really cool. I look forward to hearing the adventure unfold.

I'm already doing this for NPCs and such. It's an amazing tool, honestly.

Thanks for sharing this! You just got a new subscriber!😊 I just used it to generate a short adventure. I was very pleased with the work.

This was amazing. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

We need part 2!!!! This was great.

Very excited for part 2!

I have literally just learned about this all and my mind is quite well and properly blown.

Amazing technology. Awesome presentation of it.

This is stunning! I heard about ChatGPT but didn't care much as like you I had already played with GPT3 to try to figure out how to make a RPG adventure. Its amazing how this AI modifies the whole story based on your very loose counter comments. Incredible!

I'm so excited by the capabilities and _possibilities_ of AI, and I'm always delighted to encounter others who feel the same. As a gamemaster, it can be deeply frustrating to develop game material for one's players, because the people you most want to brainstorm with have to be kept in the dark. So the process can be quite lonely and internal. I love the idea of using an AI to assist in that brainstorming, to help bring the process outside the box of a single brain. Looking forward to seeing how it goes, and how this channel develops!

Amazing, this thingie, somehow knows the concept of a d&d module. It knows what "variables" it needs to fill. That alone is astounding.

I've tried both ChatGPT and "character ai" and at the moment it seems like character ai is noticeably better with dnd campaigns. I use it with a proxy because I don't want to give all my details to the company (google and maybe some others). It seems to try to take control of the main character less than ChatGPT and if there is an error and the page gets blank you can just refresh the page and continue the adventure from where it left off. Also, when closing the site the chat/game remains as a saved game that you can continue when you return. It doesn't seem to have any problems with the user feeding dnd info via links (dnd wiki etc.). So all in all it's a more pleasant experience for this kind of a thing. Its capabilities intelligence-wise seems to be on par with chatGPT. It's being developed by some devs from the team that made LaMDA, the ai that the one of the developers from the earlier and bigger team considered sentient (which I wouldn't agree at all when it comes to ai in general). Anyway, the character ai is free to use so check it out if interested. I'm still a bit underwhelmed by the conversation memory by both chatgpt and character ai although both are really impressive in other areas.

I asked chatgpt to write you a response. It is below. Greetin's, human! As an ork, I gotta say, dis video was one of da best I've seen 'bout writin' adventures for dis fancy game y'all call Dungeons & Dragons. Da way dat chatbot, ChatGPT, talked 'bout comin' up with creative ideas for da boss battles and side quests really got me pumped up for some good ol' fashioned smashin' and lootin'. I was also impressed by how well ChatGPT understood da ork mentality and how to incorporate it into da adventure. Us orks love nothin' more than a good fight and the prospect of lootin' some shiny trinkets, so havin' those elements included in da adventure makes it all da more excitin' for us green-skinned folk. Overall, dis video has definitely inspired me to give writin' a D&D adventure a try myself. I can already picture all da chaos and destruction me and my boyz will bring to da tabletop! Thanks for puttin' dis together, human. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go round up me boyz and start plannin' our next adventure! WAAAGH!

Wow, i started playing with ChatGPT just this last week and stumbled across the idea of using it to DM for me. Worked out rather well. Using ChatGPT to design an adventure like this was my very next thought after seeing how well it performed giving me a DnD adventure

Cool. I knew I wasn't the only one using it for this. I have also been using it to help design some homebrew class/sub classes, as well as spells and features. Even if I don't use all of it, it gives me great groundwork to build off of. Its like having another person to pitch ideas and check my work. Its been pretty awesome.

Super interesting. Happy to discover this. I was hoping you'd ask about the sorcerer's motivations and backstory. Just thinking about how I might use chat GPT to fill out some NPCs. Neat!

I did this a couple of weeks ago when Chat GPT started hitting the news with its code writing skills for Python. After using it to try out some API scripts on Roll20, (yep, it knows Roll20 API and Macro writing as well as Python, JavaScript etc...) I used it to create a (AD&D 2E) dungeon adventure based on a map I had already made using Dungeonfog. I described the basic plot, and the goals for the party including a couple of specific items that needed to go into the dungeon. It was basically a Tomb Raid to recover a maguffin, as part of a "Seven Trials" type story-line. Pretty standard stuff! I gave it an overview; how many rooms there were, the age of the tomb, it's geography, and nearby settlements etc, and it immediately started throwing out ideas like the types of monsters that would work, and so on... Then I went through room by room, describing the size and layout and numbering the rooms, explaining the links via corridors and secret doors. Finally adding that I wanted X number of traps, Y number of Monster encounters, and Z number of puzzles. Then it got to work. It took it about 3 minutes... (including a couple of reloads as it either crashed or my connection dropped out...) and it listed room by room the encounters, the traps, and even wrote the puzzles itself. It was a pretty well balanced adventure, but its puzzles weren't particularly great, and I had to give it a few nudges to get them to a point where they would challenge my players. But it is a proper, fairly well written, adventure. The text dialogue, (which I didn't ask for...) is pretty good and the whole thing will be dropping into my game in a few weeks. I've told my players its coming and I'm hoping they can spot which of the adventures of this quest-line was written by AI compared to my normal stuff. Or maybe if they don't... I can keep using it when I hit a block? I also asked if it was familiar with the old Flying Buffalo Tunnels and Trolls solo adventures. It claimed that "Yes!" it was.. so I invited it to run a solo adventure for me in the style of those old game books. It fucking DID it! It came up with its own basic game mechanics, rolled the dice for me, and depending on my success/failure at rolls offered me different options going forward. It tried to make it a short game so I reset the challenge to run me a 20 encounter solo... which it also did. It became a bit "Samey" after a while, but it did it! Again, with well written prose... You have to be pretty clear AND Careful, with what instructions you give it, and that comes with using it and sort of understanding it's logic processes, but the more you use it, the better you get at giving it the proper commands to get what you need back out of it. The guys at WotC are going to be all over this technology... Their desire to drive D&D into their new Unreal Engine VTT, Micro Transaction, Fever Dream has got "Automated DM" written all over it...

I've been playing around with chatgpt testing exactly this sort of thing for a while now, and I was interested to see some of the different approaches you used. I was really interested to see the ai respond well to requests relating to level, and time. For example - generate a single session adventure for 4 players at level 7. The total session should take about 3 hours and have at least 3 encounters. It's amazing to see what it comes up with, and then refine it or focus it down paths.

Helping with the algorithm because this was incredible!

WOW!!! well you got me hooked! I bow down to our new computer overlords and there ability to come up with a cool D&D on the fly. (with a little help from his friend) Let's see where this goes!

Your voice over is amazing!! I would love to work with you sometime. I felt like I was in the story adventure!

Interesting experiment. Subscribed to see where it goes. 👍

Using ChatGPT I'm currently playing as a side character in Brandon Sanderson's "Stormlight Archive" who's just going about their own business during the novel. Expand for spoilers: I ended up getting tangled up with Shallan when she got robbed when she first arrives in Kharbranth, and she hired me on as her bodyguard. I guarded her as looked around trying to find Jasnah, and stood across the room while they went over the details of her apprenticeship, escorted her back to her room for the night, and then went to find a salty tavern down by the docks. Currently in an argument with a toothless drunkard about whether Parshendi really sing or not.

Fantastic! Love the idea of having an AI to bounce adventure ideas off. Looking forward to the next instalment.

It's also great for writing riddles (where you give it the answer), and will even put them in to, say, the style of a Shakespearian sonnet, etc.

love this video. more please

The idea of an AI GM is actually insane to think about!

At 8:10 about making the AI doing the work: you can always ask the AI for some suggestions, pick and choose and even ask for specific changes. I find that this kind of collaboration is what works best. I was trying a scenario were I was playing as a researcher in an underwater base. At one point my submarine was attacked by a creature while I was retrieving a mysterious metallic orb. Back at base I started studying the orb, and at some point I made the researcher suggest that the orb was actually an egg, and the creature that attacked the sub was it's parent. The AI not only accepted this but ran with the idea, making the creature return and circle the base to try and recover it's "child". it was like me and the AI were both collaborating to create an engaging story, very cool.

Sadly ChatGPT is now giving a VERY limited number of requests per hour.. it makes it pretty useless for this sort of stuff honestly. It seems like at most I get 15 requests in an hour! I'm slowly using it to make a OneShot adventure myself. It's important to note though that small changes can make BIG changes. I asked it to change ONE thing about the bartenders in a super cool description it gave me for a magical bar / dance club and it changed the WHOLE description of the place. The change I wanted was simple, it said they had wands to conjure drinks, I said "They use finger gestures, not wands" and suddenly the whole place changed description and I can NOT get it to go back to the original desc. It gets close but not quite. I'm gonna probably have to copy and paste it in myself back at it to change it. That being said though, the stuff it comes up with IS pretty darn amazing. It described a whole city for me. Can suggest plot line options and on and on and on. It's great at "remembering" also. I've decided to change something we "talked about" 10 prompts ago and it remember and changes that thign. It also has a stored history so you can go back. I started working with it a month or so ago on something and the history is still there. But, the 15 requests per hour or whatever SUCKS.

You had a very interesting idea for a TTRPG channel. I am curious to see how you evolve overtime.

Subbed! In these cases Im all for A.I as long as it dosent go skynet 😆 just watched your video on my XB youtube and tried to find it again on my mob YT app. Good grief I had to search alot to find your channel.

When you want the AI to come up with its own ideas, I found it helpful to ask it to "brainstorm a list of ideas on (whatever topic)". Like you need to specifically tell it to invent things or it can often default into instructing you how to make an adventure, rather than actually creating an adventure itself. You also saw that it sometimes want to write as speculations, using "could be" in almost every sentence, which also disappears when you are more specific in your prompts, telling it to, for example write in the style of an rpg adventure.

That was fascinating!

Great Channel Idea

I like the 'village elder' with the colliflower ear. My personal favorite, I think. Arrf.

I love how everything is AI generated, even the pictures. I am just now getting into ChatGPT, and so far so good...

What a nifty idea for a channel. To be honest, I was looking at AI as lazy but, brother, did you have to collaborate a lot to get to that clean opening of the adventure. I'm definitely giving AI another look and I'll be back to follow your efforts. Great video!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOWING ME THIS EXISTS!

An AI gm sounds crazy and awesome. Ive got to try it

Chatgpt is amazing it help me design a whole campaign. My first enquiry was "Let's move on and design a bandit camp." I now have a whole land with layers and history.

I stumbled on your video a bit late - but I found a suggestion for you - try prompting like your making a "Choose Your Own Adventure Book" it will give you clear #1 #2 #3 choices which is a lot of fun. It is very much like having a DM AI.

Going to have to try this!

I tried it also with a slightly different approach: I had already some ideas in mind so I asked for 10 headlines for the adventures then asked to merge 2 of them that I found interesting request for a description in X acts ask to add some features (like a special area in Forgotten Realms, a Silver dragon sibbling etc...) ask to rewrite it, do some minor adjustement finally AI gave me the story I had in mind at the begining with more details ;) Great also to generate PC and NPC backgrounds and motivations

I got through like 5 minutes before feeling the irresistible urge to stop and try this myself. The sci-fi setting I've started is so COOL, and the experience of doing this is really wonderful. I'd love for there to be a place to share these and see what others have created. Or have a community challenge where everyone gets 1 hour to create a specific thing (like an adventure, module, setting, random table, etc.) and see what everyone creates.

Fascinating

i love it!

I gave the chat bot a go. So cool, I'm definitely going to run an ai generated one shot at some point

Yes I love this ! Rayne City lives!!!!! It helps if you add as much info as possible . It can feed off it and give you suggestions unique to your setting

Dude, the work I could do as a GM if my voice sounded like yours

Wish this had come to completion. Shame. Was awesome.

Very interesting

This Is a cool way to use AI :) simply as an experiment

"The Goblins attacked us and we don't know why but basically we do know exactly why!" XD

Insane

Very interesting indeed

It occurred to me to do the same! If I come across a role-playing campaign, it is abandoned quite soon after a few sessions, so I'm fed up with unfinished campaigns that I got excited about with this ChatGPT. But ChatGPT isn't that great, although it often surprises me and writes things I didn't expect or manages to handle situations or conflicts I didn't think it could handle. It is even capable of making random selections of numbers with which you can simulate dice rolls. But it is difficult for it to remember and take into account all the details, it often forgets or fails to take into account characteristics of your character such as changing his hair color or personality, it also ends up forgetting things that the character has done in the past. And in my experience it usually handles a fairly simple, youthful way of writing; already involved in the story, ChatGPT is quite self-righteous, resisting you to do things and always tries to resolve conflicts very quickly and without deaths, especially on the player's side, it usually is very difficult to me that ChatGPT inflicts a wound. I have also verified that it works a little worse than the google translator (I have done some tests and comparisons translating from English to Spanish (something easy) while translating a narrative genre book) and every few parts made mistakes. I also asked it to give me the text of the first chapter of the book Candido or Optimism and apparently it has it saved in it's database in the original language or English because when it gave it to me translated into my language there are many translation errors, rather than using the translator of Google. These AIs still need to mature, but it's already impressive enough, but it's still a long way from working completely well.

Amazing. I am stealing all of this.

if you give it the right prompts, you can explore and play a world like a dnd game treating it as a text based game. but obv with unlimited options, it will even have health, mana coin counters, an inventory, literally anything you want. you can have traits and dice rolls for when you try to perform certain actions, you can add as much as you want really the ai is surprisingly intelligent to know what's worth rolling on and what isn't also.

Intro seems more like a computer game than a ttrpg. On rails , my group would walk past the elder wondering if he stood on a platform all the time as they made their way into the tavern.

I tried playing with chatGPT. I was pretty impressed! That said, the adventure I got it to write was quite generic and I found that many of its ideas were constantly recycled. I can see this being a great tool, but definitely not a replacement. Unsurprisingly, it struggled to come up with "original" ideas. Whenever I kept challenging it, it kept circling back to a few key ideas. I think it will be very cool to see where this goes as it learns more. I found the most success by asking the AI to add contrasting elements to places, people, or things. That seemed to produce more "unique" results.

Subscribed for more AI ttrpg collaboration. Amazing technology, I've been experimenting as well. Sad it will likely soon be locked behind a paywall. I hope it's a reasonable price, or we hopefully get some open source AI chat options similar to the route Stability has taken with Stable Diffusion.

I can’t wait for the ai to control a couple playable character as well as the DM. They’ll all communicate through voice (label even) and interact as though it were a real conversation ( they stop talking when you start talking). It’ll be on your phone so u can just walk around and play anywhere u want.

What's cool is that it can even create stat blocks for characters as well. Not entirely sure how accurate they are, but they seem good enough as a base to work off of.

Train it specifically towards D&D, upload it with all the modules and so on and soon we will no longer need DMs! Finally I will be able to play a little!

This is leading us to the Startrek computer, remember when Scotty picked up a mouse and said” computer” not understanding that the mouse was not a voice input device but now, we can have exactly that. In stead of me clicking on my Quicken checkbook programs, I can just say, open quicken and entry check number 951 to xyz for $10, never having to touch a mouse or keyboard!

i got the ai in developer mode and i made my own typing rpg and its so far cool

I, for one, welcome our new AI DMs.

I tried running Ravenloft with chatGPT as the DM. It didn't do too bad on the whole, but it would forget details, and it didn't really have a sense of enforcing the ruleset, so sometimes my prompts would cause it to basically cheat.

My conversion hq system has hundreads of quests and some of them have ai text so yes its an amazing program

Hey, man. Keep up the work. I'm interested in seeing you stretching the limits of this boon to dms.

Dear algorithm, this is of interest

Finally a friend to play with, an AI 😥 ahwelll life of a sole nerd.

Wonderful presentation on this neat tool. Out of curiosity, you mentioned that you used Stable Diffusion to make those images. Did I understand that correctly? If so, are you planning a video on how you tease such fantastically detailed images from that tool?

Cant wait to try this but it's always at capacity!

I have been playing with chatgpt to help me with my current campaign that I am DMing for. I am actually amazed at what it can do but sometimes it falls over halfway through describing scenarios or plot ideas.

I am having a lot of trouble finding a good image generator. Any tips on how to find one that actually works well?