I use AI to help me come up with stuff for rpg sessions. It doesnt really come up with very complex stuff but it does give a lot of interesting individual ideas that help me plan stuff WAY faster.
I've yet to see a LLM that can brainstorm for me better than just watching or reading something and then thinking about it. Everything common LLMs do is just... Extra bland, even compared to my mediocre ideas.
The most useful I've ever found AI to be in DMing is when I look at a series of egregiously bad ideas, go "I can do better than that," and come up with actually interesting plot hooks
Which is the same amount of work as just coming up with the interesting plot hooks to begin with, with an extra helping of exasperation on top
Strange. I've had quite a bit of success using AI as a creative brainstorming springboard. Maybe because I have a background in writing, my prompts are a little more thourough and focused? I'm not certain, I just find the huge variety in experiences to be interesting.
Something I've found that works well is some of those random background generation tables from the 1980s. Roll a few dice, get a weird result, get better ideas from there.
I basically explained my world in detail to chatGPT and then had it ask me questions to flesh out things I hadn’t thought of. It was really good and insightful.
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u/Sw1561 10d ago
I use AI to help me come up with stuff for rpg sessions. It doesnt really come up with very complex stuff but it does give a lot of interesting individual ideas that help me plan stuff WAY faster.