In this video, I discuss the pros and cons between different RPG publishing medium, such as print books, PDFs, ePubs, or web based platforms like D&D Beyond. I also muse about what the future of publishing might look like.
In this video, I provide a brief overview of several VTTs (Virtual Tabletops) and discuss whether you really need one to play RPGs online. VTTs mentioned in the video Fantasy Grounds Roll20 Foundry Owlbear Rodeo Alchemy Role Let’s Role Fari
In this video, I share several potentially contentious opinions on maps and minis vs. Theater of the Mind, retro-clones, and religion in RPGs. In previous posts and videos, I shared my opinions on turn order and lore and licensed settings. In this new video, and the post below, I briefly share my opinions on three additional topics. ...
Warning: Humor!!! :) In my little April Fool’s video below, I successfully replace both the GM and player roles with ChatGPT, thereby eliminating all the challenges that can make tabletop RPGs so tedious. Enjoy! ;)
Following up on my previous video on How to leverage AI for RPGs, I wanted to see if the recently released GPT-4 version of ChatGPT can write a full Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC) adventure - complete with boxed text, interesting NPCs, unique monsters with stat blocks, puzzles, rumor table, etc. You can see the result of my experiment in the video below: Conclusion Overall, I thought that ChatGPT did impressively well at writing a full DCC adventure, using a format consistent with published modules. And while GPT-4 does not represent an order-of-magnitude improvement over the previous GPT 3.5 version, there’s a noticeable difference in how much context it was able to keep. But even it ended up stumbling eventually. ...