>>98612426
AI is great for generating usable portraits for characters. Do NOT use it as advice for setting up combat encounters or as an authoritative source for interpreting rules mechanics. Do not do it. Oh my god, if I had a dollar for every time I saw some moron just trusted ChatGPT and put twenty bandits against level 2 PCs and it TPK'd them, I'd be able to afford healthcare in America.

>>98612426
>Player or GM
Ethier but for systems im not as famillar with id like to be a player
>Preferred System(s)
For GM EZD6 and Index Card RPG as i am most familliar with those systems
For player i really wanna learn a retro clone like basic fantasy, DCC, or OSE and would like someone to walk me through it
>Schedule/Times Available (include timezone)
4PM est is usually when im up so i play later at night, something around 6 or 7pm but im flexible. Im also free any day but sunday
>Voice or Text
Voice prefered
>Method(s) of Play (Skype, Discord, IRC, roll20, etc)
Discord
>Tone/Theme Preferred
Lighthearted but still with serious moments of tension, think an 80s cartoon
>Contact Info
Discord is Joutajojo
>Other Notes
Somethings i'll get out the way, i have a speech impedement, im fairly new to ttrpgs as a whole and im just trying to get more experince, im pretty bad with VTT's but im learning best i can

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>>98614862
>put twenty bandits against level 2 PCs
on the other hand if you had less than 20 pals you should reconsider banditry, robbing people you don't vastly outnumber is highly inconvenient. In that way the chatbot suggestion's quite realistic.
>>98612426
>How do you leverage AI for TTRPGs
I ask it if sticky notes exist, what kinds of video tapes there are and how common air conditioned cars are in 60s for my Delta Green game.


Anyway gauging interest for now:
>Player or GM
GM
>Preferred System(s)
D&D 3.5 with some minimal houserules (feats every 2 levels, no multiclass penalty on xp, dodge as per PF and a few more)
>Schedule/Times Available (include timezone)
Every Friday, at 14:00 UTC or 14:30 UTC, ideally 3-4 hour sessions, in theory could start as early as tomorrow
>Voice or Text
Voice
>Method(s) of Play (Skype, Discord, IRC, roll20, etc)
Roll20 + Discord for voice
>Tone/Theme Preferred
String of dungeon crawls with mostly minimal plot, preferably more serious than not but I'm ok with ridiculous builds and the usual comic relief from time to time. Theme will be mid-apocalyptic.
>Contact Info
tg381@proton.me, or you can leave your email or discord username here
>Other Notes
3.5 veterans strongly preferred, or at minimum people with strong grasp of the basic rules. I want 3 or 4 players. If you're interested in joining, at least mention your basic character idea. Starting level will be 4, with quick advancement via milestones.

>>98615045
The point of tabletop RPGs is not to construct a perfectly verisimitudinous alternative reality simulation.

>>98615045
>D&D 3.5 with some minimal houserules (feats every 2 levels, no multiclass penalty on xp, dodge as per PF and a few more)
Just use PF1e, dude. It does the fixing you're looking for. If you want those old shitty PrCs, you can just allow them as options for your players because PF1e is completely backwards compatible with those. No one will choose to take levels in them, though.

>>98615065
Perchance, but if I attacked 4 bandits only to have 16 more rush out from around the corner my initial response would be "huh, should have seen that coming"

>>98615045
Sure ill bite im on medical leave from work for three months hopefully.

Veteran 3.5e player and owner of large number of books and dragon magazines. strong grasp on rules even have some experience DMing.

Discord is general1992 if you want to talk more

>>98615082
No, you really shouldn't have.

>>Player or GM
Player

>>Preferred System(s)
5e (2014 version) and COC 7e. I want to branch out tho, I'm interested in trying Traveller, WOD, Exalted, Cyberpunk, Star Wars D6, amongst other systems. I wanna broaden my horizons a bit

>>Schedule/Times Available (include timezone)
EST(NYC time) I'd prefer evenings but my schedule is flexible.
>>Voice or Text
Voice for sure

>>Method(s) of Play (Skype, Discord, IRC, roll20, etc)
Discord.
>>98612426
>>Tone/Theme Preferred
I like sword and sorcery fantasy, lovecraftian stuff,urban fantasy, stuff like that I guess.
>>98612426
>>Contact Info
Discord is breadcarryingpeppermint. Email is whampireking@gmail.com

>>98612426
> TQ: How do you leverage AI for TTRPGs
Glorified search engine for stuff happening in-game, ai-slop portraits. I recognize both are probably stolen, scrambled and re-arranged but I was stealing portraits as is from other medias prior to that...

>>98614862
This: Asking an LLM to generate a stat block will have it generate a stat and then forget it and bluff another value for that stat when referring to it later on. They are very poor at maths, especially when 3 or more variables are involved.

Using it to generate descriptions of valuable items on-the-spot instead of gold pieces / credits / what-have-you? Sure. Using it to generate an opposition? Kill yourself.

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
He came to town like a midwinter storm
He rode through the fields, so handsome and strong
His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun
But all he had come for was having some fun
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to Hell, broken, sent
They all ran away so nobody would know
And left only men 'cause of Cotton-Eye Joe
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe

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>Player or GM
GM
>Preferred System(s)
OSR alike (I did the classic ORS thing of taking rules and systems I like from many OSR games but I pulled from a few non OSR d20 games as well) (in order of amount of content pulled, LotFP, DCC, DnD RC, 13th age, The Black Hack, ect.)
>Schedule/Times Available (include timezone)
3:30pm EST every Saturday if enough players RSVP, no worries if you can't make a session though.
>Voice or Text
Voice
>Method(s) of Play (Skype, Discord, IRC, roll20, etc)
Discord, Theater of the Mind
>Tone/Theme Preferred
Classic fantasy, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, high death if the players aren't careful, low-mid death if they are.
>Contact Info
Smashed on discord
>Other Notes
Fully fleshed out KotBL to start. The campaign as a whole is a sandbox although there might be hooks for one or two session adventures that lean a bit more railroady, you will have to (both literally or figuratively) explore the sandbox to find most of those though.
I will not giving a ton of info to the players about how the system is working, in a super old school style. Players still roll and have a sheet but you will not know everything that is going on in the rules.
It will probably be rather lethal if you don't take things slow
THIS IS NOT 5e OR ANYTHING CLOSE, if you come in assuming that it is like 5e you will be wrong.
The game has been going for a few months now, players adding and dropping as time has gone by (more have added than have dropped). The game is just getting into the meat and potatoes of things though. We have had enough character deaths recently that the average level has dropped and there are a few level ones again.

>>98615082
>You see a cavern in front of you as the passage widens
>It's large enough to fade into blackness beyond the range of your feeble lanterns
>Ok, everyone roll a Reflex save
>Rocks fall, and you all died since the DC to escape the collapse was a hundred trillion because you are literally three hundred feet inside the tunnel
>You should have seen that coming, you guys
>You can't blame me, it's your fault for not preparing for the practical realities of spelunking

>>98617874
They are bad at math because they aren't doing math. They're language models, anon. To be pedantic, they're natural language models, not formal language models. They do not actually construct and track and manage variables or relationships between symbols in a static manner. They're constructing each response to your prompt from a compressed context window.

And furthermore... Copying is not theft. Stealing a thing leaves one less left. Copying it makes one thing more. That's what copying's for.
If people want to get paid for their art, they shouldn't just give it away to the universe for free. They can't complain about their foolishness after the fact only because they're embarrassed to realize that their work had value. If they want to reorganize society and economic systems to ensure they get compensated for their work, they can try to do so, but that's also a fucking stupid waste of time since it hasn't worked for all the centuries while people far smarter and wiser than they have tried. If they had paid attention to their history classes, they'd know that.
Street lamp lighters used to be an entire vocation. "Calculators" literally were humans who sat in a room for hours in groups of dozens or even hundreds and just did arithmetic. For a living. Lots of things people used to do for a living are no longer things people do for a living. When the photograph was invented, most artists at the time were immediately unemployed because they were portraitists.
Take reality into account. What you do for rent money is not who you are. Don't attach your meaning to some stupid fucking thing you do for fucking money, kids. Otherwise, don't fucking complain about it when change happens and your stupid fucking artificial identity is invalidated.

>>98614862
Why would you need a source for the rules other than the rulebook?

>>98619290
Yes and no, on one hand you're right that people bitching about this shit are stupid and their jobs/careers being replaces is a natural consequence of the technological progress of civilization, specially when just a decade ago, these same people were thinking that AI would take over menial work, meaning they would be free for more creative pursuits, meaning more art, more fanfics, etc. The absolute morons.

On the other AI literally breaks down if it has no new shit to copy, it's called model collapse, if you feed AI created stuff to AI, you get the same result as if you were photocopying a photocopy, gathering more and more imperfections for every pass, until the photocopy becomes useless. You cannot read the text, or distinguish the image, etc. Same thing happens with AI, so artists and writers are still safe from unemployment.

>>98619534
It's less that you need it for source rules, and more that the first result of a google search is Gemini. So in our smartphone-powered world, it's easier to google the rule than it is to remember what page it's on. People realize this and take two different paths. Either then start scrolling down to find a more detailed answer, or they just eliminate the middle man and type their shit in Gemini, or Grok, or ChatGPT, etc.

>>98621176
All art is derivative. "Model collapse" is just what art has always done: it's a feedback loop evolving. The difference is that AIs iterate through that loop a lot faster than humans do.
Present today's art to a mudfarming peasant in 500 BC and they'll tell you it's incomprehensible garbage. Because the meaning / value of art is relative to its contextual culture.
Iterate an AI's training data set with feedback from users and you prevent model collapse. Synthetic training data generation is literally this and it works just fine. Even when there are no humans in the loop: you can have two opposed AIs providing feedback to each other during training, with nothing but abstract instructions about how they should be judging each other in the process.

https://youtu.be/wR54u64cbj8?si=9KHSzgzQBazRmUsO

>>98621176
Is your rulebook really poorly laid out or something?

>>98621176
Did you mean to say add a middleman?

>>98621176
There is no such thing as natural consequences and there is no inevitable progress of technology.
>>98622304
This is false, it's fundamentally different, and generated images are not and will never be art.

>>98622479
>nuh uhhhhh~!
Fascinating argument. So persuasive.
Tell us all where you got your degree in Art History from! I'm dying to read your thesis.
Until then, however, I'll have to console myself with the established consensus so hard won after more than a century of philosophers and artists working hard to understand this topic and the conclusions they've arrived at which are now, to the astonishment of literally everyone working in the field, actually no longer controversial.
Photography is just as much art as anything else can be: because art is a made up concept. It's arbitrary. It's not real. It's literally just whatever you want. Aiming at the dead center of the Venn diagram of public agreement is fucking boring, and a shitty way to self-validate.
You don't have to agree with anyone else about what is or isn't art. Because what you think art is or isn't literally does not matter to anyone but yourself.
No one's trying to convince you of anything about AI.
You're just being told that you're limited. There's a boundary around what you can assert, and it's fundamentally not possible for you to define the validity of someone else's subjective judgement.

If you can find a way to argue your way around that, present it to the world. Several international prizes for philosophy await you, to the tune of dozens of millions of dollars and permanent acclaim in the history books.
Good luck.

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>“What do you think of my discovery, Alec?”
>“I think it wonderful.”
>“I shall make no use of it, you know, beyond satisfying my own curiosity so far as may be, and the secret will die with me.”
>“It would be rather a blow to sculpture, would it not? We painters lose more than we ever gain by photography.”
>Boris nodded, playing with the edge of the chisel.
>“This new vicious discovery would corrupt the world of art. No, I shall never confide the secret to any one,” he said slowly.
>It would be hard to find any one less informed about such phenomena than myself; but of course I had heard of mineral springs so saturated with silica that the leaves and twigs which fell into them were turned to stone after a time. I dimly comprehended the process, how the silica replaced the vegetable matter, atom by atom, and the result was a duplicate of the object in stone. This, I confess, had never interested me greatly, and as for the ancient fossils thus produced, they disgusted me. Boris, it appeared, feeling curiosity instead of repugnance, had investigated the subject, and had accidentally stumbled on a solution which, attacking the immersed object with a ferocity unheard of, in a second did the work of years.
_The King in Yellow (1895)

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>>98615045

bump