With the increase of accessibility of AI for both text and art, the implications on the RPG world have been greatly apparent. I have an ongoing 5e game that I run on a Foundry server, but this can also apply to the other variety of TTRPG games out there as well.
I’ve used Stable Diffusion to create character and scene art and it’s allowed me to output high quality visuals for my players. When I’m having a hard time getting out the words I want to say, I’ve pulled up ChatGPT to help me convey the ideas. I’ve also used ChatGPT to fill out random encounter tables, come up with names, and fill out towns for flavoring. There’s still a lot of work involved and I only keep about 5% of anything that’s generated, but I feel like this is a tool that has helped me become a better DM rather than outright replace me entirely.
I’ve text generation stuff a few times when the party’s done something I wasn’t prepared for and I needed to improvise. In addition to the flavor text and naming stuff you’ve done, ChatGPT’s pretty good at turning prose ideas into brief snippets of poem, or taking a clear idea (“fill the pot with water to open the door”) and obscuring it with metaphor and whatnot that forces them to puzzle through things.
