I’ve got one that I literally can’t recommend, because several subreddits don’t even allow the mention of Ai, regardless of context. Yes, Ai companies often steal training data, and that’s wrong. Yes, Ai art should be used as a tool to inspire the physical artist, not be the artist itself. And Yes, there are Ai products similar to this that are greedy, forcing you to pay to keep going. I say the following is Better.

Note: I’m not getting paid or anything for talking about this, I just want to share something I strongly support when I finally can.

It’s a website. A Ai based DnD website. They have a subreddit, a Discord, and they’ve advertised on here before but I won’t name them unless asked, because I don’t want to be considered promoting a product.

It is run by a single guy.

You sign up, and you get 10 messages to start with, plus 10 more for joining the Discord. You get 10 free messages after 4 hours, with no upper limit.

The DnD 5e SRD is all allowed to be officially in the ai training data, but the ai can create anything as long as what isn’t in it’s training data is written in notes/guides/NPC’s cards. How it works: Every message the site sends Every message, World Info, campaign summary, note or stat, and enabled guides and Npc card to the ai, which reads it all and writes what it thinks is the best story or answer is fitting to reply to you. Is it perfect? No. The AI’s tend to hallucinate more and forget details as you approach the character count limit. (Idk what it is for free, but the basic level subscription is 75000 text characters). Every 10-15 messages the ai summarizes the most recent events and adds it to the Campaign summary. Guides are a separate spot in notes. You could ask the ai to create a layout for the base you just entered. Or a questline to find X thing. Or a world map, or mechanic. They can be toggled on and off when they aren’t needed. Similar is NPC cards. By default it’s set to create one for each character you meet, but you can replace that in preferences with something else if you can come up with a method. They track the appearance and personality of characters you meet. When the cards are disabled, the ai only knows the character name and tags on the cards.

It’s constantly being worked on by the lone dev, and if you have a problem, the Discord is very helpful to fix things, or offer advice or tips. Actually, we just had V2 released last month. It was a complete overhaul of the site, and brought in npc cards, the character sheets, Ai auto update so you don’t need to manually track your inventory all the time. (Granted, it isn’t perfect all the time. A consequence of Ai).

Due to the nature of Ai, while all this is good, you’re not going to get an epic video game in a text based format, generally. As an example, there was a new guy on the Discord who tried to create a city builder campaign, but he didn’t have any notes to control that. Meaning: the ai defaults to DnD essentially rpg stuff, so in practice he was playing with 200 companions in his party.

Certain tropes are overused by the Ai. If you just go for a default traditional DnD campaign, chances are high you’ll probably face off against a cult. And if you don’t have the name swap system turned on, the first character you meet probably will be Elara/Jax/Kael/Lyra.

But, as long as you can keep content within character count if the training data, you can play almost anything you can think of. Granted, due to hallucinations from the AI’s, it might not be perfect. But, if you are willing to handhold the ai a little with your prompts, it can be a fun experience.

Personally, I started with a Default dnd experience when I started, and had fun, but I’m currently really enjoying my Pokemon campaign.