The Enchanted Scribe
Generative AI for Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPG)
At The Enchanted Scribe, we focus on understanding the digital impact of AI on the timeless, analog experience of players gathered around a table. Through tools like ChatGPT, MidJourney, The GMP, and more, we delve into how AI enhances and transforms the art of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons (D&D).
Welcome to the future of game mastering, where digital innovation meets analog magic.
Four Ways AI Will Change How We GM
AI is transforming how GMs craft and manage RPGs. It fuels creativity in Dreaming, streamlines campaign creation in Building, enhances immersive gameplay in Running, and empowers Publishing by refining and completing campaigns with a global audience.
Featured in TIME Magazine
I was interviewed several months ago by TIME magazine about the use of AI and Role-Playing Games (RPG), specifically Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). They were interested in understanding how I am using ChatGPT to create D&D campaigns based on historical locations, cultures and religions. Contact me if you would like to learn more.
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Dreaming: AI, The Ultimate Assistant for GMs
Imagine having the smartest assistant the world has ever known at your side, ready to help you dream up immersive worlds and unforgettable campaigns. This assistant isn’t just a wealth of knowledge—it’s also a fantasy writer, a storyteller, and a Game Master, equipped to guide you in crafting vibrant settings, intricate plots, and unique characters. With AI, the possibilities are endless.​
How AI Empowers Game Masters in Dreaming:
Comprehensive Knowledge:
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Access deep insights into history, cultures, geology, political systems, religions, and resources to build rich, realistic worlds.
Expert Storytelling:
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AI understands all major fantasy story arcs, from the hero’s journey to Pixar's Story Spine, to redemption and tragedy, helping you create compelling story first campaign narratives.
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Check out 3-Steps to Creating Starting Scenarios for your RPG Campaign using AI GPTs, as this will get your juices flowing when it comes to creating different and unique campaign ideas.
Dynamic Visual Creation:
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Generate stunning images, character portraits, and mood boards to align perfectly with your campaign’s tone and aesthetic.
Tailored Creativity:
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AI serves as your co-creator, offering unique ideas for settings, NPCs, magical systems, and plot twists that align with your vision.
Worldbuilding Frameworks:
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AI understands the different ways, frameworks, to build your world. Whether it is going into intricate detail like J.R.R. Tolkien or focuses on a small region first using the Deep Dive Framework. AI knows each approach and can guide you along the way.
Interactive Assistance:
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All you need is the ability to communicate with AI—ask the right questions, and it will refine and expand your concepts.
Building: From Vision to Playable Adventure
The building phase is where your ideas come into focus, transforming from creative sparks into a fully realized, playable campaign. AI empowers GMs to streamline the process, helping to outline campaigns, craft detailed encounters, populate worlds with dynamic NPCs and foes, and create unique items. With AI, the leap from inspiration to a complete adventure becomes faster, more efficient, and endlessly creative.
Campaign Outlining:
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Generate structured story arcs, quests, and overarching themes for your campaign.
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Create timelines and logical progressions to guide players through an engaging story first narrative.
Detailed Encounters:
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Design encounters tailored to combat, exploration, or role-playing.
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Prepare multiple outcomes for player choices using Parley, Trick, Discover, Combat, or Avoid steps for each encounter.
NPC Creation:
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Populate your world with unique, fleshed-out NPCs complete with personalities, goals, and secrets.
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Generate detailed dialogue options and backstories to enhance role-playing opportunities.
Foes and Challenges:
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Build balanced and diverse foes, from unique monsters to rival adventurers.
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Include creative tactics, lair actions, and motivations for enemies to keep players engaged.
Unique Items and Rewards:
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Craft magical items with unique properties, histories, and effects.
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Populate treasure hoards and shop inventories with AI-generated ideas.
Time-Saving Refinement:
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Save hours of prep time by letting AI refine and fill in details for your campaign.
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Focus on adding your personal touches while AI handles the groundwork.
Player-Centric Design:
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Tailor encounters, NPCs, and rewards to player characters’ backstories and motivations.
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Create interconnected elements that make the world feel alive and responsive to player actions.
Running: AI, Your Real-Time Ally
Running a tabletop RPG session is a dynamic experience, full of unexpected turns, on-the-fly decisions, and countless details to manage. AI becomes your ultimate ally, streamlining session prep, enhancing player interactions, and keeping the story engaging and cohesive. Whether it’s preparing the "rule of cool" moments, crafting dynamic PC dialogue, or helping you improvise in real time, AI ensures you stay one step ahead. And when the session ends, AI helps summarize events, ensuring every detail is captured for the next adventure.
How AI Enhances Running RPG Sessions
Session Prep:
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Use AI prompting techniques to prepare for you next session. Generate detailed session outlines, encounter summaries, and NPC profiles tailored to your campaign.
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Prepare contingency plans for potential player choices, ensuring you're ready for anything.
Rule of Cool Prep:
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Identify opportunities for epic, cinematic moments tailored to each player’s character.
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Develop custom mechanics or narrative twists to amplify the impact of these moments.
PC Character Dialogue:
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Enable your player characters to converse with their characters.
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Personalize conversations based on each character’s backstory and motivations.
Real-Time Improvisation:
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Flexibility is key and AI is the answer, by training AI on your campaign and encounters it allows the GM to quickly adapt, whether it is generating descriptions, NPC reactions, dialog, or unexpected twists in response to player actions, having a trained AI assistant at your fingertips is so beneficial to a GM for real-time engagement.
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Provide alternative solutions or outcomes for player-driven decisions on the fly using the 5 W's Framework.
Session Summaries:
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Use AI to help compile a concise summary of key events, decisions, and character developments.
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Highlight unresolved plot threads or hooks for future sessions.
Publishing: Sharing Your Campaign
Publishing a campaign is the ultimate way to showcase your creativity and storytelling mastery. With AI as your partner, bringing your campaigns to life for other Game Masters becomes faster, easier, and more impactful.
From generating detailed content to creating scripts, videos, and promotional materials, AI helps you transform your campaign into a professional, shareable experience.
Benefits of AI in Publishing
Campaign Tracking:
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AI platforms, like The Game Master Platform, will track every detail of your campaign, from sessions run, sessions notes, next steps, and session feedback. All of this will contribute to a wholistic overview of the GMs accomplishments and experience.
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AI platforms will understand all of the components of your campaign. From the overall story, to the encounters, NPCs, foes and items. By having these important assets pulled out from just a flat PDF file, you can begin to build, at scale, detailed stories, NPCs that matter, foes the strike fear in the heart of the players and encounters that will be spoken about for years.
Publishing
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AI platforms will allow the GMs to publish, share and sell both public and private campaigns to a marketplace. Here is an example of a public campaign.
Content Writing:
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Incorporate polished campaign guides, scripts, and summaries that make your adventure easy to understand and run.
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Create rich descriptions, dialogue samples, and additional lore to enhance the experience for others.
Documenting and Marketing:
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AI platforms now have running memories of your campaign, from every session notes to important assets and NPCs. All of this material is easily at your fingertips.
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Create clear and professional marketplace listings to attract buyers and showcase your campaign’s unique elements.
Tools of the Trade
These are the key tools that I use to create, manage, and run my RPG sessions
As a large language model, ChatGPT processes natural language input and generates human-like responses to facilitate conversation and provide information to users.
​Midjourney is an independent research lab that produces an artificial intelligence program under the same name that creates images from textual descriptions, similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.
Game Master Platform is a story first AI enabled intelligent platform that allows GMs to create, build, mange, and run their campaigns.