• setting Rowley’s eyebrows on fire with a torch
You don’t take a contract to steal an ancient evil artifact from a dragon’s lair if you’re doing great financially
What kind of DM and group do you have that grant your characters 8h of sleep? I agree with all of the other points. But in my D&D times it was often some surprise encounter during the night, or the other characters were fine with just 4h of sleep and I was the only idiot who needed the full 8h.
I let my players get rest because there is zero difference between cramming encounters into resting periods and just having them happen during the day. Total encounters for the day is total encounters for the day, and each one generally takes less than an in game minute to play out since most last 5 or fewer rounds.
Plus not having it be a standard occurrence means having a rare encounter interrupting a rest will have a bigger psychological impact because it stands out.
I just use a ring of sustenance. That would be nice IRL.
Though, that takes 2.500 gp and character level 5. If I had that IRL, I’d also fly for 10mins, deal several d6 of damage and snoop on people with clairvoyance. 🙃
I always kinda wanted to play D&D but never did. Are LLMs advanced enough to be dungeon masters yet? Or is that a dumb question lol
I think rolepley with LLMs is fun. They’re surprisingly creative and cabable of describing fantasy settings. Though, it doesn’t really compare to D&D. I mean first of all your friends are missing and so is the pizza, so it’s a different experience altogether.
And the LLMs are more invested in the storytelling. They don’t strictly adhere to the rulebook. And they don’t do the calculations and dice rolls correctly. They’ll decide to push for a resolution, happy ending or whatever they deem fit. And it’s not a fair game that feels like encounters are settled by the character’s abilities. It’s more storytelling tropes being the deciding factor. And I believe I’m missing a proper story arc… So I think it’s fun, but not D&D.
AI Dungeon exists, but you’ll have way more fun if you find a group to play with. If there is a game store near you then they can definitely point you towards the right places (and probably host beginner-friendly events anyway). There’s also Adventurer’s League, which is the publisher’s way to try to welcome people in to the hobby. It sacrifices some ofthe freeform nature of the game but in return you get some contacts and a pre-arranged code of conduct for everyone
They don’t have the attention span or memory to be good at being a DM, generally. I’m sure someone will figure it out in the next couple years though.
They do a terrible job of making anything coherent. Fine for making monster stat blocks or similar though.
I used one for the first time at my last session. Just to write up some box text–style descriptions of something.
Geez it was awful. It had the statue of an archer “holding a bow taut with the right hand while the left hand was down towards the ground as though trying to grab the dirt”. Or something like that. And it took me three attempts at correcting in before it used both hands to hold the bow.
I mean, if you have negotiable standards of personal comfort, and poor credit, it becomes difficult to build up that level of crippling debt.
Personally, those are both a requirement and a given.
