AugmentedDM

'fuck off' he writes, and blocks.

@salvaterra.bsky.social I like following your art, but you also repost the anti-AI faith circles. These consistently contain misinformation and hate. I'm fully open to factually based discussions on AI, but not those.

A lot of innovation in OSR uses AI, but the older generation (eg Ennies) hate and exclude us. It would be nice to get some coverage! We are not OpenAI, we are just creative gamers.

Also, I'm gonna check out the 'Stewpot' that's mentioned.

Thought provoking post about the scaffolding. I can't agree with the 'every table is doing it right' argument because some tables feel constrained and want to change or develop their systems to better support their role play aspirations.

Really glad you're hammering this home. The main difference in old school was diversity of play styles - not by design but a result of guidebooks being ambiguous, ideas being abundant and groups being relatively isolated from each other.

The other aspect is using an AI to assist frees up the DM to do more or deeper focus on other areas. A huge part of the win comes from that, rather than from the AI doing anything particularly well. #DnD #ttrpg

Like @superdan.net i have been pleasantly surprised at times. But configuring the tools is not easy. I'd love to see more thoughtful discussion about that process.

Asking if an AI can DM is kind of like asking if a pen can write a novel. It can in the right hands with a lot of guidance. But there's no shortage of half arsed attempts.

I'd love to read more about your experience.

I can't see it, but I want to!

Watch 'Cube' the 1997 movie for inspiration on this one..!

I have been thinking a lot about fun dice mechanics, and ultimately conclude it's too dangerous a path to lay for anyone you like.

You can love the dice minigames but still be annoyed that they interrupt the main game every time you try to do something uncertain.

YouTube video by Quartz When wildlife photos are fake

Interesting topic. If you search for "Game Farm photography", you'll find how many (most?) pre-AI 'big cat' photos are actually of captives and of questionable authenticity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZo...

Pretty good yardstick I'd say.
Means "you can GM for ~2 players fewer online than you can in person" and "good prep give you the capacity to handle 1-3 extra players". Those track.

One factor I might add is +1 or +2 if you run a session weekly, -1 for monthly, but +1 for yearly except for one-offs

This is useful! Surprised you don't have any dungeon MLM options though!

Thanks for enabling Bluesky submission! PM'ed you with mine.

Gorgeous! So you had the object already 'created' algebraically, and Claude was able to 'translate' that into OpenSCAD?

100%. The history of #TTRPG s is filled with big threats of legal action, and AFAIK, zero actual court decisions. It might be that every rule system is like a recipe, and minimal IP protections apply. What we know is the owners have talked to lawyers and then... chosen to offer free licenses.

Anyone had success using a generative #AI to produce #OpenSCAD code? Any way to load an STL model into the AI as a reference?

This was fun: "o1, build a simulator of a D&D guild hall. Persistent characters come in, get quests, interact with each other, leave & return, make it procedurally generated"

I kept asking it to add other ideas (relationships, etc) 8 times, got no errors, just worked each time. Desire-based coding!

Nice. I have posted a lot about how AI can augment a DM, and have just recently found Claude can act as a pretty good DM for solo players given the right setup.

Don't plan and invest too much into the chase when the party might just choose an option that ends it in the first 10 seconds. Don't do what I did.

If people are asking 'are RPG blogs dead?' then the hour has come again - that cannot die which eternal lies - gather the blogs for the r/osr blogroll!

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#ttrpg #DnD #bx #OSE #DIYrpg #rpg #GLOG #OSR #POSR #NSR #ASR

Part of the frustration is that there's often no explanation from Reddit leaving users to speculate on the criteria.

The issue is that (in my experience) it is virtually impossible to set up a new account and get posting permissions to /OSR. That might be only for non-US or users, or some other criteria is being used by the filters, but it excludes many of us.

Thanks! Turn on Bluesky messages?

That's a terrible place to host it! Reddit of 2025 is inaccessible to many of us.

My challenge rating for online gaming: the # players, +1 per party split, +2 for discord, +2 for VTT, +1 for improvising detail or +3 for improvising everything. My limit is 10, and sweetspot is 8.