This is pretty wild:https://obie.medium.com/my-kids-and-i-just-played-d-d-with-chatgpt4-as-the-dm-43258e72b2c6
I wonder how many modules the AI raided and filched bits from to patchwork this together.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 8 April 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
:O
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 8 April 2023 00:44 (one year ago) link
There's been some discussion of AI gms using GPT3 on rpg discords I'm on. Even that version you can train it to adjudicate rules and make stuff up, but it starts off "forgetting" things from time to time. It's an area where AI should excel - completely language based with very strong conventions.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Saturday, 8 April 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link
Fuck a AI DM; gimme the AI players.
― ian, Saturday, 8 April 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
Way more players around than GMs.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Saturday, 8 April 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
Yeah but good luck getting your players to try the dozen different rpg systems on your shelf
― ian, Saturday, 8 April 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
The film is great, albeit with potatoes making up more of a regular plot device than I expected.
mixed feelings about any ideas of a sequel, kinda think it exists as a prefect one and done like Dredd.
would eat up some DVD extra that highlights in real time all the Easter eggs like the detective vision mode in Detective Pikachu.
the 80s D&D Cartoon reference was ChefsKiss.gif
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
Gotta say I'm pleasantly surprised by the general reception and I hope to see it soon. I'm glad it is succeeding despite the trailers making it look like it was going to be absolute garbage.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
They sure do
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
It was delightful, the perfect movie to see in a theater (as the cast make sure to tell you in a promo spot before the movie starts) and I wouldn't mind if they cranked out another 2-3 of them using the same writers and directors. Wouldn't even need to bring back this cast, although they were all great.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
yeah I have heard good things
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
Yeah the trailers go heavily for that Guardians of the Galaxy quippiness which to be sure the film does feature a healthy amount of but it's limited to the characters where it makes sense and there's just a very strong emotional arc, plus great setpieces and humour that isn't that, so it doesn't grate.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
I had forgotten about the potatoes until you mentioned them. Looking it up just now, it looks like there was some Lay's crossover advertising.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPF07lbRCZA
― peace, man, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
Took my son (who is into D&D at school) to see this at the weekend. It was pretty good, enjoyed the severe toning down of the usual wink-to-the-audience poochie bullshit.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
This was a fun movie and modestly rich text! Bascially it did all the things Marvel movies are supposed to do (comedy, action, effects, emo bits) but better than Marvel have done it for a long time.
The actions scenes were good, too - lacking in suspense, as is sadly customary for blockbusters these days, but more inventive and well-directed than usual - for once it didn't look like it was directed in a parking lot against a green screen. I thought the final boss battle was gonna be some endless CGI shitfest - and the effects weren't great - but it was brisk and (suprisingly!) emotional.
If anything, a better comparison than Marvel might be Toy Story (achetypes band together and achieve semi-sentience, plus a sad bit). Plus I imagine it's quite rewatchable.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 14 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
Tend to agree with Chuck Tatum: it's like a Marvel film, but better.
― the pinefox, Friday, 14 April 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Haven't seen this but are the potatoes a Dragonlance reference
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
Some people, sure they stop the d&d-ing but still maybe never really get in touch with the other stuff.― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, April 29, 2023
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, April 29, 2023
― the pinefox, Friday, 5 May 2023 07:45 (one year ago) link
Do you have commentary or are we just gonna .....
― ian, Friday, 5 May 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
*rolls for initiative*
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 6 May 2023 08:48 (one year ago) link
pinefox, take your clueless shtick elsewhere plz
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 6 May 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
The "D&D" movie was shockingly well made. Funny, witty, entertaining, engaging, etc., with a couple of really clever action sequences and novel special effects. Of course it basically flopped. I could imagine it making the rounds as a beloved cult film.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 May 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
Thread needs more gelatinous cube content
(Tbh I could never quite get into RPGs or games generally - I just lack the attention span. But I do find it anthropologically interesting that in 1980, the nerd-adjacent codes and signifiers and stereotypes had not quite been established yet.
So, like, yr middle-aged suburban mom could bring home a D&D box set thinking it was something like Scrabble or Monopoly. It had yet to acquire cultural baggage.)
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
I'll see your gelatinous cube and raise you a green slime, an ochre jelly, and a black pudding!
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 14 May 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
I just watched the movie with my son and it was pretty good! Gelatinous cubes for the whole family! Our attempts at doing tabletop RPGs at home have been thwarted by his older brother who can't sit still for them, but even our minimal experience was enough to notice plenty of little moments that felt as though they could have been rolled for
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 14 May 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Loved the film.
Having a zoom call with a group of fellow beginners as a preliminary to our first ever session. We have a friend with a little DMing experience who has kindly volunteered to do the thing. Other than that, I really don't know what I'm in for
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
30-second encounters that take hours to play out
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 14 May 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
I never played much of the game, but I am pretty familiar with it (as a kid I used to read the arcana books a lot): in-jokes and little winks aside, was there anything about the movie that was particularly unique to D&D? I always thought a lot of the appeal of the game was that every campaign is different - personalized characters, unique stories, different enemies and encounters and obstacles - with the only constant being the gameplay, more or less: rolling dice, dungeon masters, maps, namely the things this movie totally (by necessity) lacked. I wonder if it would have done better if it was just called, like, "Heroes and Villains" or something more generic, and they played it up as a self-aware fantasy satire of sorts (which is kind of was) rather than an adaptation of something that is not, by design, adaptable.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 May 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, May 6, 2023 9:35 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
maybe we could not have bullying on the D&D thread, lol
― budo jeru, Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
ok
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
Gelatinous Cube is the name of my Ice Cube tribute band
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
"The Wrong DM to Fuck With"
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
30 second encounters that take hours to play is a modern thing. I think we had three combats in our last 2 hour session, using the 1981 basic d&d rules.
― ian, Sunday, 14 May 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
^^ was gonna say
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Sunday, 14 May 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
Half the time your first level magic user gets hit once and they’re dead, fight over.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 15 May 2023 10:33 (one year ago) link
i had my first game either late 79 or early 80, my 8th grade teacher brought me and a few friends for an overnight trip to some weird DM in suburban NJ, some sterotypical jersey name like Passaic or Parsippinay. tbh my parents thought it might be some pedo front and told me to be careful. anyway the dm was quite good and me and my pals were hooked for the next 3 years. many a trip to the compleat strategist in midtown ensued.
― buzza, Monday, 15 May 2023 10:51 (one year ago) link
ha, seems i've been over this before
i played D&D between 79-82 give or take
the austerity didn't really register
― velko, Tuesday, October 25, 2016
― buzza, Monday, 15 May 2023 10:54 (one year ago) link