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I run a small D&D group with a couple of friends. I don't know that I'd want to play in a campaign helmed by an AI dungeon master, but the idea of having some help generating plot, assets, etc. when I don't have a lot of time before a game session sounds amazing.

I tend to be an AI pessimist, but this seems like a good example of a way that AI could be used to supplement human creativity instead of just replacing it entirely.

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This whole thread has me re-evaluating my prior assessments of "Ender's Game" and the Mind Game it described.

When the book came out I was a child programmer and I had total contempt for the idea that a player could just decide to burrow into the eye of the giant and that the engine would generate a result.

I was used to Sierra games where you'd click an inventory item on something you saw and the game would tell you "there's nothing useful you can do with that."

I actually currently do this ( for cyberpunk red not D&D). What I will say is it has let me be way more open in letting the game go where the players want it. If they decide chasing after some thread that I wasn't even thinking about is what they want to do, I can stall for a bit and let chatgpt come up with some characters, locations, and interesting skill checks.

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