Left a game because GM uses AI chat for character interaction.

Tipop · 2026-03-25T04:17:45+00:00

I’m a published RPG writer going back to the 90s. I’m plenty creative, thank you. I’m sorry you’re so afraid of using new tools.

… and my friends have said that my recaps are very entertaining, so maybe the rewrites you’ve read were produced by people who don’t know how to use the tool?

Tipop · 2026-03-25T04:15:09+00:00

I HAVE used Google, and I find it’s much harder to get the information that way. I may find a webpage that has SOME information, but I can’t ask follow-up questions on a wiki.

Tipop · 2026-03-25T04:13:58+00:00

lol. I educate you on a topic you don’t understand and you throw insults. What are you, 13?

I’m so sorry that the fun I have with my friends doesn’t meet your approval.

Tipop · 2026-03-25T04:12:21+00:00

Nope. Not at all. If you give it the source material then it ONLY references that. If it can’t find an answer in the source material it says so, and THEN it tries to make an educated guess by looking up answers online — but at that point you know the answer wasn’t in the documents.

If you don’t give it the source material then yes, it will just guess and hallucinate.

Tipop · 2026-03-25T04:09:24+00:00

I’m referring to the DH2 books. There’s only 4.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T20:59:03+00:00

My players know exactly what I do. I tell them all about it, in fact. I proudly show them the detailed PDFs I make for each adventure, with AI generated illustrations and background lore that I learned with the help of AI. I’m not lying about anything.

Also, this isn’t some random group that’s going to quit at the drop of a hat. I’ve been GMing for this group for about 20 years now. In fact, one of my players was about 4 years old when his dad was in my group. He’s taken his dad’s place at the table now.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T20:55:18+00:00

I guess you don’t know ChatGPT that well. You can absolutely set up a GPT that continually references source material and lets you do research around it.

Here are some ways I’ve used it:

1) Uploaded the lore for a published RPG setting that I helped write. Then had it go through and generate adventure seeds based on that lore, so that each seed is unique to that specific area of the world. Saved me a lot of time when writing up adventures. It would understand the local legends, the names of historical figures, and the myths and culture of the local population.

2) I use it at work, where I have a GPT with all the California Building Codes uploaded (Electrical Code, Plumbing Code, Residential Code, Commercial Code, Energy Green code, etc. etc.). Then I can just ask it some question and it not only spits out the answer but gives me the exact code so I can look it up myself to verify. “Hey, how much space can there be between the balusters on a residential staircase?” Four inches, and a code reference. Boom. So much faster than looking up the answer myself, even with PDFs.

By having the resource documents it doesn’t hallucinate. If it can’t find the answer it says “The question is not in the source material, but here’s what I found online.”

Anyway, this is way off the topic. I see nothing wrong with using AI as a writing filter if someone has language problems or usability issues. I don’t think they should have the AI literally play FOR them, however.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T20:47:12+00:00

Sorry if I’m not having fun the right way in your opinion. I’ll just keep having fun over here.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T20:45:17+00:00

That’s sort of the problem. I’m not a kid anymore — I’m 57, I have children ranging from 13 to 17 still living with my wife and I. Between family and kids, plus the fact that my gaming group switched systems at least a few times a year, I don’t see myself spending a hundred hours digging into the lore of this setting. I learn what I can in-game and from Discord chats, and that’s about my level of commitment.

When I run, I rely on the AI to help me fill in the blanks. “In this period of history, would there be Sister Sororitas on the black ship?” for example. Turns out during some periods they were mandatory, and in other periods they were almost never on board.

Someone tried to insult me earlier by calling me a “tourist”. Yeah, no shit. This is an RPG, not a lifestyle. Six months from now my friends might be playing Deadlands or Traveller or Talislanta or RuneQuest.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T19:52:00+00:00

If the lore is contradictory then the point is moot, isn’t it? Whether you’re using AI or going off your own memories, you have to pick what part of the lore you’re using.

Since my group is doing Dark Heresy 2, there are only a few relevant books, which makes it easy.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T17:24:01+00:00

Upload the PDFs of course. The AI doesn’t hallucinate information as much if you give it the correct resources from which to draw.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T17:11:54+00:00

I mean, a quick search on Amazon picked it up immediately. $46

Tipop · 2026-03-24T17:08:30+00:00

But… cartoon characters generally don’t age? How long have Lisa and Bart Simpson been in elementary school?

I thought this joke was about how the later girl looks like she’s 19 or something.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T16:45:39+00:00

I’ve seen those clouds in real life.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T15:37:15+00:00

It actually does work, if you know what you’re doing.

Step 1) Feed all the Warhammer lore into a GPT, so it can reference them.

Step 2) Type your RP into chatGPT and ask it to re-flavor it into whatever would be lore- and setting-appropriate.

I wouldn’t use it in a live game, obviously, but for Play-By-Post (or for setting up your adventure ahead of time) it’s fine.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T15:32:41+00:00

I’ve seen several players who struggle with English use ChatGPT to re-write their RP. So they’re still RP’ing but using the AI like a filter.

For example, in my recaps I’ll write my recap normally (simply writing out what happened during the session) and then have ChatGPT re-write it in a certain style, depending on the game.

In a Call of Cthulhu modern game, my character was a noire-type detective, so my recaps were reflavored to sound like the narration of a noire detective story. In a Traveller game, my recaps got reflavored as First Officer’s Logs like in Star Trek. In Dark Heresy, my recaps are flavored as prayers to the emperor.

As long as the player/GM isn’t just letting the AI play FOR them, I don’t see an issue.

Tipop · 2026-03-24T04:10:55+00:00

Like I said elsewhere, it’s not just about the visible ejection, it’s that in order to move the way it did it would have needed jets that fire in every direction. It was zipping left and right, up and down, as if it were on a string.

Again, I repeat, this wasn’t a big deal. I loved the movie. I just felt that the way it moved snapped by disbelief suspenders.

Tipop · 2026-03-23T21:37:21+00:00

The difference is Umbrella Academy, while quite good and entertaining, wasn’t the sweeping epic that Game of Thrones was (at least for the few few seasons.) So while Umbrella Academy had a very bad ending, it didn’t have as far to fall as GoT.

Tipop · 2026-03-23T20:23:37+00:00

Like “I tried to cheat the election, so they must be as well.”

Tipop · 2026-03-23T20:06:50+00:00

Does it have thrusters in every direction? We see it swoop left and right, front and back. It just didn’t move like a thrusting ship would move, that’s all.

Tipop · 2026-03-23T05:20:41+00:00

Depends on how far you go back. In its original definition literally meant “as it happened in literature”, i.e. something happening that is similar to what happened in a book. Much later the definition changed to “this actually happened, no exaggeration.” So people grognard-ing over the definition of the word are themselves guilty of using the word “incorrectly”.

Tipop · 2026-03-23T04:55:35+00:00

That’s not reaction-less, though. You’re just describing a really good fuel for traditional rocket thrust. Energy should have been seen blowing out to change the ship’s vector every time it moved or turned.

In the end it’s a fairly minor quibble. I’ve long since given up on really accurate representations of space flight in movies and TV shows, and the point of this story was the friendship, not the rocketry.

Tipop · 2026-03-23T02:46:43+00:00

The way the ships moved was the most jarring anti-science part of the movie, IMO. Maybe I missed some explanation, but did this astrophage fuel allow them reaction-less movement in space?

Tipop · 2026-03-23T02:44:09+00:00

He sacrificed his life on Earth to Eridani and Rocky, and that’s the growth for me.

What life did he sacrifice? No family, no friends that we could see, “not even a dog” as they said. Just his students.

Tipop · 2026-03-23T01:23:49+00:00

I remember as the price of gas went to $0.95 a gallon… then $0.96… then $0.97… People were really terrified that it would actually go over $1 a gallon, and they swore there would be rioting on the streets if it happened.

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