flopflipbeats t1_iyze2pa wrote on December 5, 2022 at 8:58 AM

Reply to comment by TikiTDO in [D] OpenAI’s ChatGPT is unbelievable good in telling stories! by Far_Pineapple770

That’s interesting, I’ve had a very different experience of it in that regard.

I was running a roleplay through it, where I was a mercenary hired by a king to bring order to his realm. In the roleplay it had me going to a nearby village and clearing it of wolves, but then informed me that the villagers have been terrorised by a wizard living in a cave nearby. It asked me whether I wanted to go and seek the wizard out or move on to the next village.

So instead I told it a different plan - to lure the wizard to me by spreading a rumour among the villagers that a new wizard had arrived, one much more powerful and impressive.

What was so cool to see was chatGPT building off of this and introducing further details. It said that the wizard heard of the rumour and came to the village - but he was not so foolish to come alone. He had come with a small army of devout followers. Luckily with the help of the rebellious villagers who had felt empowered by my actions with the wolves, we were able to defeat him and his followers.

It feels so dynamic to me. I think when you ask it to be more fluid and reactionary, such as by asking it to specifically roleplay instead of writing a story, it works exceptionally well.

TikiTDO t1_iz0fj04 wrote on December 5, 2022 at 3:41 PM

I might try another roleplay session once I'm done work for the day. I feel like I haven't really plumbed the depth of what it can do there.

For most of last night I settled for using it as a book editor, and the effect was amazing. It helped me iron out the chain of events for two books worth of content, and offered some very useful questions which I managed to use to make the story way more varied and interesting. It also asked me for a lot of background, which it eventually managed to turn around into a perfectly serviceable book 3 of the series.

It wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but it managed to introduce a new main character with a name that fit the setting, suggested another new faction, brought up multiple unresolved conflicts from previous books, suggested that I focus on some of the most interesting themes from the previous volumes, and even managed to connect it to events that I told it must happen.

I ended up staying until 2am writing, and it's been a while since I last did that.

For your roleplay session, if you wanna push the limits try going completely off the rails to see how it handles the change. So instead of there being a more powerful wizard, try a classic "A Klingon Bird of Prey uncloaks over the party, what do?" Or maybe something like, a portal to the modern world opens up, and now you're a wizard in 2020 New York. I find that's where it has the most trouble.