Your Virtual DM: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enjoy Solo TTRPGs

Artificial Intelligence is a polarizing topic these days. From Skynet-style flights of fancy to the very real implications for content creators, it’s an evolving technology that isn’t going away anytime soon. But free from worrying about profiting off of others’ work, using AI at the game table can help provide you with a set of tools and a pair of hands that can help lift the sometimes heavy and time-consuming duties of a DM.

In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave sit down to discuss how they’ve started implementing AI into their toolbox, mainly through getting into some good old-fashioned “lonely fun” in some solo-RPGing. For anyone who has thought how AI might effect your games or your DMing, this is the episode for you.

3:00 DM Chris gives the background for turning ChatGPT into a DM for a solo campaign from his previous article, and then he and Tony discuss their solo campaigns they’ve been playing in.

9:35 Just like any game, you know what your character has and does more than the DM – real or virtual.

11:45 The concept of “Lonely Fun.”

12:46 Our experiences with solo TTRPGs, like Mythic, and how tools like ChatGPT can enhance that experience.

16:30 AI as a tool to craft something you need quickly – DM Tony’s Inn.

18:00 Using AI to assist in being another “DM” to bounce ideas off of and to test your prototypes: DM Dave’s new campaign that mixes WEG Star Wars RPG and Firefly: The Board Game.

24:40 Our tangent into the missing Ninja class.

27:37 The difference between solo gaming and party gaming. In a solo campaign, you’re the star of the show.

32:00 Running a solo campaign is a great way to learn how a new system works.

35:25 Final Thoughts.