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Find people that want to play, there’s more than you can think.

Something I learned a long time ago is it's easier to find people who want to play D&D (or whatever game) and make friends with them than it is to make your friends play D&D.

There's probably a nicer way to put this, but frankly most people are a fucking mess. And who can blame them? This is a capitalist hellscape. But that means if you're semi randomly selecting people, you're going to get a lot of people who are barely holding on, and won't make fantasy elf time a priority.. Some of them might sincerely want to play, and overestimate their energy levels. Other people are terrified of confrontation, and will say yes even when they absolutely do not want to do that.

But if you go the other way around, and find folks that seem friendly at a meetup or whatever for RPGs, they're more likely to show up. They already put in effort and showed up somewhere.

I’ll check my local library then, wish me luck.

Or, another strategy:

Whos down for a thing? I'll run a rules medium-light game. Not married to any system or kind of setting, but I default to bitd.

Available evenings or nights Pacific time (gmt-8) Matrix not discord. Sorry; not touching that panopticon trash fire.

Edit: no takers?

I just play with myself

Tbh, try a good PC RPG game. They are the single-player evolution of TTRPG.

I’ll give it a shot, these days I’m giving everything a shot lol.

I have used them as a trrpg DM, there's a model out there i think it's called Fantasy DM llm, but I could be remembering wrong, im not at home to check.

Boring, to say the least. It requires alpt of tlc, writing a full setup and world info with a lot of work, took several hours of writing to get about 30 minutes of delving before I ran out of context. I wouldn't call it bad, just unnecessary, I could find a whole group in that time or get real work done on a homebrew campaign.

That was last year, maybe a new dedicated model is out now, ill check it out and try again.

This is an old project of mine. I made it a few years ago, so it's pretty out of date, but I can tell you my experience with it:

When I was playing around with it, characters tended to be very one-dimensional. They all had a single personality trait, and the AI made sure you knew about it. The particular way I set up the dialog system, multiple AI characters could interact with each other, but that ended up to very long conversations which quickly got off track and everyone forgot the original goal (which is a little bit too realistic) The AIs also found clever ways of speaking for other characters.

As for an AI DM, it just wasn't there yet. It didn't have the initiative to actually switch from one scene to another, and wouldn't create any NPCs to talk to. I often had to manually edit what the DM had printed so the session could move forward.

It was an interesting project, and my friends seemed to love it, but I think their love is mostly due to the custom characters I made for it.

I actually have with ChatGPT, it’s the DM and playing for 6 other characters in the party. So far it’s working fine. But, the hate for AI is ridiculous though, downvotes for even using it.