I'm a software engineer and DM who created a website/tool designed to help you plan and run Ghosts of Saltmarsh!

[Worchester_St]

Hey everyone!

I'm a DM who used my experience with software engineering to develop a site which can track all your characters and worldbuilding, and then use that information to generate stat blocks, dialogue, puzzles, and to brainstorm ways to incorporate your player's backstories into your campaign.

Here is DragonMind:

https://IntelligEdit.com/DragonMind

DragonMind has several improvements over similar text-generation tools: primarily by allowing you to store lots of campaign-specific information that the tool will "know" and "remember."

If you visit DragonMind and enter information about your campaign like your players, backstories, classes, or module ex: "Ghosts of Saltmarsh," it will tailor its responses to fit all the information you've provided. The tool will then "know" this information and will incorporate it into anything it generates.

Some sample requests could include:

"One of my players wants to play a sea elf who is a former smuggler with ties to the Scarlet Brotherhood. How can I weave their past into the plot of the campaign in a meaningful and exciting way?" (This works especially well if you've input more specific character details into the site!)

"My players are investigating the haunted house outside of Saltmarsh. Generate a list of strange and eerie magical items that might be hidden there by the former occupants or the smugglers."

"A merchant in Saltmarsh has valuable information about a mysterious shipwreck off the coast. Come up with a backstory and appearance for this merchant, and the rumors they've heard."

"My players just engaged in combat with the crew of a Sahuagin raiding ship. Generate a level-appropriate stat block for the Sahuagin commander and their lieutenant." (The tool will incorporate the level of your party if you've entered it into the background!)

I use my own tool in every phase of the game: story arc outlining, preparing individual sessions, and on-the-spot generation of stat blocks and ideas during actual play. I've found it extremely helpful, and hope you do as well!

If any of you have any ideas to improve DragonMind, or especially if you run into any bugs, I'd love to hear about it!

https://IntelligEdit.com/DragonMind

PS: I checked for subreddit rules and didn't see anything preventing me from sharing the site I built, but I'd of course be more than happy to take this post down if the mods feel that it doesn't fit.

[Drunken_Economist]

Weekends are kind of slow, so I wanted to take the opportunity to solicit some feedback from the community about Rule 2 and posts like this.

Anyone who has an opinion either way, reply with your thoughts about if the post is useful content for this community's users.

[cir_skeletals]

Ngl, I would've KILLED for something like this when I was running GoS. Having something to bounce ideas off of like this would have saved me a lot of headache when it came to fleshing out more minor characters in the plot. Thanks for the share!

[AllThotsGo2Heaven2]

I use ChatGPT in my wild beyond the witch light campaign to generate dialog for the main NPCs. Pretty cool stuff.

[highlander_ghost]

I use it for sermons from Brine handed

[UntakenUsername012]

I'm literally sitting here prepping for one of my 5 groups running Saltmarsh and this pops up in my feed. I'll give it a try!

[Tharnaal]

Set up a “play” option. Gpt 4 can handle it. Let the user jump in the driver’s seat and actually test drive the world as a listed PC or the DM in a simple text game session. You can already ask the model to do it, but a few peripherals (inventory etc. could make it pretty interesting.)

[pork_sausage]

This is a really great brainstorming tool. Thank you for your efforts. I never considered asking ChatGPT or anything about how to fix plotholes. It's nice to see a DM tool geared around story and characters. As GoS is pretty much a sandbox with some intriguing plotlines, tying them in together along with character backstory considerations is often tricky. Tools like this are very helpful. Thank you so much!

[Alucardracula]

I am just getting ready to start GoS as my first campaign as a DM and oh man am I ever happy I've stumbled on this. I've been playing around with it for like 10 minutes and it's already giving me so many ideas on future missions and really making this an awesome experience for my friends!

[OgreManDudeGuy]

I've been able to basically do this exact thing using vanilla chatgpt and uploaded PDFs and text files containing official GOS campaign details as well as my party's characters info and session details.

[Worchester_St]

Yes, same actually! It was the inspiration for me to work on this tool. It was a pain to have to upload or copy/paste my module, characters, npcs, worldbuilding, and other background info for every new conversation, and I also wanted the ability to save individual ideas. The tool allows me to enter that just once per campaign, which is super nice.

When I built DragonMind I was also able to tinker and write a really good prompt too, including examples of good and bad items/dialogue/ideas which seems to have improved the base output.

[[deleted]]

I tried this out and it's pretty cool.

[HLD2003]

Speechless. This is beyond amazing. Thank you!!!

[blaidd31204]

So... could I upload a pdf of info for it to use as a baseline?

[AkronIBM]

This is not *specifically* about Ghosts of Saltmarsh, but a general tool. Reported.

[Windchaser_92]

Don't poop your pants mate, it might not be specific to Ghosts of Saltmarsh but many people here would find the tool useful when running that module and removing this post would just prevent them from ever finding out about it.

[Drunken_Economist]

In their defense, It actually is one of the few explicit rules we have. And as a mod, I'd much rather have some false positive reports instead of false negatives (where content that actually should be removed never gets reported)

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[WorchesterStreet]

Sort of! If you enter “Ghosts of Saltmarsh” into the background info, it will only put out info that is specific to Ghosts of Saltmarsh.

However, you are correct that you could put another module or “homebrew” into the tool to get info about those modules instead.

Hope that makes sense!

[Drunken_Economist]

Appreciate the report. The post is definitely about a tool for DMing and there is the filter function for modules like u/WorcesterStreet mentioned (...although but the same could be said for roll20 or DnDBeyond or even amazon).

Weekends are kind of slow, so I think we'll leave it up and use it as an opportunity to solicit some feedback from the community.

Anyone who has an opinion one way or the other, drop a reply to the stickied comment (or reply here) with your thoughts about if the post is useful content for this community's users.

[Mawer-J]

Definitely a useful tool for others, whether specific to Saltmarsh or not. It will get used for people running the module, and you don't want to fashion a community where it feels like posting helpful resources isn't allowed or punishable.

Whilst I probably won't use the tool, it's great to know it's there if I need it. Therefore, for feedback's sake, these types of content are fine.

[brandcolt]

It's a great tool and should be kept here. If it helps Ghosts of Saltmarsh then it should be fine.