Human bicycle hybrid - Game designer
Author of Girl by Moonlight and We Contain Solitudes
(they/them)
Andrew Gillis
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TTRPGs are absolutely vulnerable to encroachment by LLMs, in part because the medium is necessarily an incomplete text, which the player/reader expects to have to complement with/through their act of play.
I'll shout about this one last time, and encourage folks to check out this episode (and the rest of rascal reading club).
It's a great project, talking about TTRPGs, and GMing specifically, through the lens of particular games.
Great critical conversations about RPGs.
And it might be hard to catch, at times, not because of its quality, but just because as part of the practice of play the we are engaged in, we expect to carry the text across the finish line, and will naturally compensate for its shortcomings. We might not even notice we are doing it.
So having a text that is at times incoherent, inconsistent, with limp prose etc. is not a barrier to producing a playable game.
The player/reader expects to do a bunch of work processing the text into play, and they could readily absorb problems in the text and still have played it.
Play We Contain Solitudes
I think it's very likely that, if you are someone who reads and plays broadly within the hobby, you will likely run into some LLM generated text/game in the course of your pursuits. Not because it is good, or inevitable, or anything, but just because people will try to smuggle that stuff in.
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Girl by Moonlight is probably one of my favorite ttrpgs of all time. Highly recommend picking it up not just for the magical girl elements, but if you enjoy playing characters dealing with the impossible while having an incredible amount of sincerity and interpersonal depth!
if I seem militant about AI it's because a lot of my friends are writers, concept artists, QA people, etc, and they are the ones who are currently having their careers obliterated by that shit.
not speculatively. happening right now.
I don't see a need to be soft towards ppl who shrug at that
