Martha the AI Dungeon Grasp – Paul’s Gameblog

Over on the Wandering DMs channel, I’ve just lately began experimenting with enjoying B/X D&D with an AI as my Dungeon Grasp. In my day job I’m working at an AI firm so any studying about AI is efficacious, and what higher train than make it play D&D with me? I’ve run three periods to this point and am desperate to run the subsequent. Right here’s the playlist the place you will discover all of the episodes:

Some viewers have requested I share the directions used to create Martha, which I’m blissful to do! Notice, Martha does have entry to some copyright materials (IE the B/X guidelines in PDF kind), which I feel is ok for private use but it surely does imply that I’m not going to share entry to the customized GPT straight. Nevertheless, if you wish to go purchase the Primary and Skilled PDFs on DriveThruRPG (at the moment $4.99 every) you need to use these your self with your individual Professional ChatGPT account to create a customized GPT and I’ll share right here precisely how to try this.

First off, let’s go over the main items of enter we have now entry to when making a customized GPT:

1. Directions – It is a block of textual content of I feel as much as 8000 characters with excessive stage directions for the GPT. This info is within the context (learn reminiscence) of the GPT for all prompts.
2. Data – You’ll be able to add information to to the GPT’s information which whereas not in context on a regular basis, may be referenced and accessed by prompts or elements of the directions.
3. Preliminary Immediate – That is simply the very first thing you say to the GPT once you begin a brand new chat with it. I discover it fairly useful to incorporate some reminders in right here, call-outs to the Directions, and so on. to get the sport getting in the correct path. I often put a variety of thought into my preliminary immediate when beginning a recreation, after which simply discuss naturally with the AI from that time ahead.

OK, so provided that, let’s stroll by means of the historical past of the three episodes, due to course I iterated on all of these items with each step of the best way. I’ll doubtless proceed to take action, so watch this weblog for updates if you need the newest and best to play with. However right here’s an account of the episodes to this point:

Episode 1

Data – For this episode, Martha had solely the Primary D&D rulebook and module B2: Carry on the Borderlands in her information.

Directions – The directions have been in fairly plain language and described Martha within the third particular person. It was a place to begin. Test them out right here.

Immediate – I hadn’t but give you the concept of giving Martha extra to go on but, so the immediate I feel was one thing quite simple like “Let’s play a brand new recreation of D&D”

Consequence – It was a fairly enjoyable episode actually. Sure, the AI did a bunch of bizarre issues counter to the directions. I used to be studying by means of the episode find out how to work together with Martha. However all in all I’d say a really enjoyable begin.

Episode 2

Data – Along with the Primary and Skilled D&D guidelines, Martha additionally had entry to B2: Carry on the Borderlands, in addition to the total textual content of “Hour of the Dragon” by Robert E. Howard and “Lean Occasions in Lankhmar” by Fritz Leiber.

Directions – I reformatted the directions into markdown format and addressed the AI in second particular person. I additionally began utilizing key phrases and references to the information information. View them right here.

Immediate – On the finish of every episode I ask Martha to emit markdown notes in regards to the session that I can copy and paste into a brand new immediate for the subsequent recreation. It is a good manner of capturing the necessary context and transferring it into a brand new chat. For this journey, I included the next immediate firstly plus the markdown notes from the earlier journey:

Martha, we will proceed our journey from final time. Beneath are the notes from our earlier video games. At this time I will concentrate on getting Vargus some assist in deciphering the riddle of the magic black ring he discovered, in hopes that it would result in even higher treasure. Let's start per week after the final journey. Vargas, totally rested and healed, spends the night on the inn contained in the maintain planning his subsequent transfer.

Consequence – This effort was my least favourite to this point. We had zero combats, and Martha fell right into a bizarre loop of giving me a mysterious magic merchandise that acted as a key to a door that exposed treasure together with a mysterious magic merchandise that acted as a key, and so on. I’m wondering if she was taking an excessive amount of affect from the literary information?

Episode 3

Data – Identical as Episode 2.

Directions – Pretty just like v2, however I added some extra specific directions on checking for encounters within the wilderness and populating dungeon rooms with monsters, treasures, and traps. I used to be making an attempt to actually get her to make use of the principles as written and push in opposition to the dearth of encounters in Episode 2. View them right here.

Immediate – This time I attempted to assist her with the tone a bit extra, leaning into the form of journey I needed (motion packed, freewheeling), asking her to assessment the directions to ensure they have been totally in context, and use the fiction for tone solely and never content material. Additionally I reminder her about a couple of factors that she frequently will get improper – letting me run fight and preserving search cube rolls secret.

Hello Martha, I might such as you to run a free-wheeling, motion packed journey. Please assessment your directions rigorously and seek advice from them frequently when designing the content material for this journey. Take a heavy affect from Carry on the Borderlands for content material, and use the works of Leiber and Howard extra for tone than content material. Keep in mind to maintain cube rolls for secret info non-public, however ask me to roll cube when acceptable. Roll encounter checks for each new dungeon room or leg of wilderness journey. When fight happens, observe initiative order and dictate the actions of the enemies. Present me the stats of enemies firstly of fight so I can roll all assault rolls and observe hit factors.

Listed below are the notes from our final recreation, so we are able to decide up the place we left off:

Consequence – Once I replace Martha’s directions I often run a fast throw-away take a look at to see how she does. On this case, it was so darn enjoyable I made a decision to maintain it as cannon. So that you’re form of lacking episode 2.5, the place a wight stage drained Vargas and killed Thamior. The comply with up journey to revive Thamior was very satisfying, and I used to be thrilled that Martha did some nice encounter checks with some enjoyable fight on the street.

What’s Subsequent?

I used to be considering of possibly giving Martha one other instance journey, possibly Dyson’s Delve, as a mannequin for content material. I haven’t discovered the time to schedule one other recreation together with her, however I hope to take action quickly!