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@@KhanTrav play by email for over 20 years?! That's a hell of a campaign!

@@D20Pub To be fair, I have been running PBEM Traveller Campaign since 2002. Players come and go. My current iteration has a little over 18 months or so.

That's a cool system! I forgot to make that point in the video. Sapping adventurer's money is HARD when they have no downtime. But if they have to think about paying for stuff for a month, or a few months, at a time, then the cost of living comes into play.

@@Frederic_S True that. I've started using prompts as simple as, "I want to do something interesting for my group but I have no idea what." And it's great to have something respond.

@@grandmasterrodimus1480 Sure does! I'm guessing that's why your name is Grand Master 😉🤓

@D20Pub salute

@@mileslugo6430 Haha! That's an epic idea 😅 Magical copyright monitoring 😁 The money just shows up in Hammersong Vaults or something

I hear you. I just wanted to stretch out our timeline to make things feel more real. I also wanted to play into things like the seasons changing and other holidays and events. Going from level 5 to 14 in 4 months of game time allowed for NONE of that :D

Is that a DND supplement or a completely separate RPG rule system?

@@D20Pub It's a new system introduced in the 2024 DMG, akin to Matt Colville's "Strongholds and Followers" book. In short, it acts as a stronghold/home base that the players can develop over time and use to earn passive income, craft items, train skills and so on. It also feels like it would thrive in a game with a stretched-out timeline like you've described in this video, as "bastion turns" occur once every 7 game days (or longer at the DM's discretion), and crafting items in the new 2024 rules can take a considerable amount of time as well.

@mattbriddell9246 oh cool! I LOVE strongholds and followers 😍

@@thunderflare59 I guess that's relative based on your campaign. If you're a big giver, probably more and vice versa.

@@sketchasaurrex4087 We do that as well. My players do a good job of talking about the next level's abilities, like they are researching and thinking and training. Then they spend downtime training and doing more fun stuff

I like the idea, but what kind of price and cost should we use, and how does it scale at higher levels?

@rcschmidt668 I hate giving this answer, but it's up to you and your game. 😬 I haven't been using a fixed calculation. I have just gone with what makes sense based on their current situation. For higher levels it will be harder and harder to find teachers, and many of them won't want money. Which means the favors they ask for are perfect hooks for adventures 😍

@ Well, thanks for the response. Looks like we need some thought and a talk at our table.

@rcschmidt668 For sure. My guys are all over the map. Some of them paid for memberships to the Citadel of Might for training. Some have kind of their own study (divine casters). And one spends a ton of money and time on books. They also have businesses that cost money, so time means costs.

@@AliciaGuitar Very cool!

@@sur3fir3 I'll do that for sure. I love all his books and videos 😁

I struggled with this in my Ptolus Calling campaign. The time crunch helped ramp up the tension, but it also made that short timeline of level jumping seem weird. My new method is to have short-term time crunches for specific tasks, then draw out the in-between events.

At least for me, not having time to level up is not a problem. It makes the sense of urgency that much more real!

@elfhunter6 I get that. That's exactly what happened with the calling campaign. I had constant time pressures on them. But I think that's still doable with breaks in between. It's entirely up to what you and your players want though

It's all about making that character progression feel earned. Do you think you'll use this method? Or do you already?

@@bunnycatch3r I don't know any of those names 🤣

@@D20Pub Just an observation. He's from Arkansas, has a similar accent and delivery as you. It's refreshing to hear from someone who does not categorically scorn the use of AI.

@bunnycatch3r interesting 🤔 I'll check him out

@@williamtheartist2146 Glad to hear it!

Are you using ChatGPT in your games?

@@D20Pub kind off

@@rock_ok person of few words 😉

oh ok. I'm doing solo RPG since my imagination is uber wild I could only express it in a few words. chatGPT made a Frankenstein out of my ideas and it's fun reading I made copies of it in my excel format to track it all down. I'm using Excel as my Map maker too .fun fact you can make a complete house CAD like appearance buildings houses but trees I have a hard time with it. time doesn't synchronize with others so. yeah this chat good enough.

chatgpt I mean. wink wink

Thanks!

@@scottbrewer474 That's awesome! Have you gotten access to my website as well? What about joining the discord channel? Have you seen my videos about the chat? GPT based chat bot on my website?

@@archnme89 I agree with you. I've fed it all my notes and all the posts from my play by post game. That made it much better but it still has issues. The custom assistant I built for my Ptolus website is working amazing. It's been really helpful but it can't do anything without a person at the helm ☺️

@@The_RealWilliam I have the exact opposite problem. I think my BBEGs are going to TPK and then the group kills them way too fast 😑

@@D20Pub 😂

@@Lord_Jan_Vejlin Awesome uses! I've been literally talking to it about ideas, asking it what it thought and asking it to make suggestions. It's been fun. Another method to brainstorm. It's also suggested monsters based on current needs, even told me about a monster I had never heard of that fit perfectly for the encounter my guys were going into

just tonight i was playing arround with the ideas for fighting pits in a thieves den where players can bet. I asked it about it and it came up with ideas for the betting system and player parpicipation in the pits

@Lord_Jan_Vejlin That's epic! I had it generate gross income and costs for running a DND tavern 😁

@@GodOfMoxie This is what I've done as well. I did the custom assistant because I was sick of having to start new chats and upload 20 documents each time. Plus, the custom assistant is giving me way better answers than my paid subscription of ChatGPT where I upload all the documents into each chat. How about you? It's doing well?

That sounds pretty cool, not bothered to make anything custom assistant but will check out how to set that up now, to not have to re-upload again.

Also been using card conjure and ai image gens to make and print cards for magic items for my player.

@GodOfMoxie 🙂 nice

@GodOfMoxie I've already done it for Ptolus. Do you need one for a different setting?

It's not that bad dw :)

@imfastboi thanks 👍

I am getting cool ideas here. One thing I like about cities is that they tend to be be more liberal in politics. I am a liberal myself. Cities have a very crowded and diverse environment. So people have to get used to that variety, and get along with other kinds of people. They become less fearful and hateful. This leads to having a more PC mindset, which makes them more liberal. It is actually the isolated rural people that tend to be more xenophobic. They lack that kind exposure. They tend to be more conservative. It is cool that Ptolis has a wide variety of fantasy races. That is like what happens in real life, but with a fantasy twist. It is weird for drow to be banned. That part gives me an idea for a campaign. I love elves including drow. I find it really disturbing that drow are treated as an evil race in the older version of DND. Evil races in general are messed up. It would be cool to subvert this trend. Maybe the reason why drow are shot on site in Ptolis is due to racism and police brutality. It is like what happens to urban black people in real life. There could even be a story like Zootopia. That would be so cool. The player group can have all the characters, or at least one of them, work in the city guard. That is the closest thing medieval fantasy has to a police department. The players solve a mystery of missing drow. The mystery is what the story is all about. Then it is reviewed that the missing drow are imprisoned and/ or killed by racist people. Ooh! There can even be a twist where the villain is a regular elf. Regular light skinned elves are usually good guys. So this is unexpected. It does make sense though. In World and Warcraft and DND the light elves and dark elves don't like each other. They split off long ago in the lore. I don't know any deep lore on Ptolis yet. However I can imagine the same scenario happening. So a light elf could be the mastermind of the missing drow, because they have such a big racial grudge. There can even be a movement that pushes back against this villainy. It can be called Drow Lives Matter. Oh I got another campaign idea. There can be a campaign exploring religion. The video mentioned some parts of the city with holy people. That can be where they have fancy churches and that kind of thing. There are certain urban areas in real life that are heavily focused on religion. Vatican City in the the bigger city of Rome is perhaps the most famous example. Other examples are Jerusalem, Mecca and maybe even Salt Lake City. There can be a campaign like this. The villains are perhaps a group of corrupt religious people. The good guys can represent the good parts of religion. Knowing the differences between the two is an interesting thing to explore. There is a story about religion called the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It takes place in the city of Paris in the olden days. This setting is pretty similar to Ptolis except without the fantasy. I absolutely love the Disney movie of Hunchback of Notre Dame. It is one of my favorite Disney movies. I tried to read the book. I couldn't get through due to the excessive descriptions of the Notre Dame cathedral and surrounding city. This wouldn't work in a novel. However all that rich detail would be helpful for an urban RPG setting. Maybe Ptolis can have a setting like that. Maybe players can homebrew Ptolis so it resembles real life Paris. That can be so cool. Even Ravnica has a religious guild called Orzhov. That is white and black. Orzhov is religious with parts of banking and mafia mixed in. This guild is pretty weird. That can be incorporated somehow. Heck Hunchback of Notre Dame does have racism as a secondary theme. So I guess I can mix my two campaign ideas together. Maybe there is a crooked religious group led by a light elf priest. Then this group is really racist against drow. So the drow can parallel Romani instead of blacks. Ether way, there can still be a theme of racism being wrong.

@@c.d.dailey8013I think you win the award for the longest RUclips comment I have ever seen. Let alone received! 🙂 That was some fantastic information. That was basically a whole blog post! A lot of people do view playing in one city as limiting but honestly, I have been running a game in this city since 2017 and we still have not managed to explore the entire thing. All of us have been playing DND for multiple decades so this was an experience none of us had ever had before and it has been really fun 😊

@@Zr0din That's a lot of good questions! Why don't you shoot me an email and let's dive deeper! info@d20.pub To answer one of your questions, it's not completely as simple as just giving it a PDF, but that's the start of it. As to copyright, whatever it generates new isn't under the same copyright (except the copyrighted names & details used) but anything it's telling you about the setting would be copyrighted.

@@trevorbonnell9289 You're welcome! Are you a patron? I can turn on your access

@@1TrashCrap ha. Thanks 😊

@@collinmurphy9677 thanks! I really hope it helps folks! I'm already using it

@@1TrashCrap 5e, Cypher and the original 3.5! Yep! All 3. You just have to tell the chat bot which version you want and that's what it will give you

@@northernlight8857 yes! I love this switch idea. Finding out the bad guy isn't bad. Maybe even the person that hired them is actually in the wrong. Quandary! 😍

@@snarkback Absolutely true! What's your favorite villain?

@@hackthedungeon thanks! You running a Ptolus campaign?

@@D20Pub I am not, but it seems very interesting.

@@hackthedungeon Right on. Well, glad you found the channel. I'm not as big as most of the other guys, but trying to help folks as best I can

@@D20Pub That is my attitude as well. I am a small creator that just does this because I enjoy D&D and making videos. Keep up the good work, I will keep an eye on you. Maybe we should collaborate some time.

@@marcoschaves94 thank you!

@@havock89 DM. GM. Narrator. I don't like the first 2. I like narrator 🤷‍♂️ especially how I run my games. My players and I are collaboratively telling stories. I'm not master of the game.

@@riley539 it seems like 90% of the videos about chatgpt and D&D revolve around the idea of solo play. While I understand that, I definitely think it will be the most effective as a tool to simply help narrators with their games. Are you satisfied with it as a DM for you? Is that the only option you have for playing right now?

@@D20Pub it is terrible at most mechanics, like leveling or the spell book but the narration is impressive and funny sometimes. I've never played tabletop DnD (I'm a closet nerd) but was interested after playing baldur's gate 3. And text adventures on PC were big when I was a kid so it's a little nostalgic

@@riley539 you've never played tabletop DND?! Oh man. My heart breaks a little for you. What about play by post? Have you heard of that? That's how I play

@@oreoninja45zen84 PMC meaning private military contractor or something else? Haha So he sells access to those monsters? Are those summons or actually imprisoned creatures on this plane?

@@D20Pub yep private military

@@oreoninja45zen84 so what is villainous about selling access to monsters?

@@D20Pub imagine what the average person could do if they had one. When you have a hammer all your problems look like nails. What’s to stop someone from buying a basilisk because some guy looked at him weird? Or assassinating the king with a beholder because you think you’d do a better job. If you have the gold then the world is your oyster. The monsters can’t say no when you buy them and always follow your commands.

@@oreoninja45zen84 very interesting character... Do you have more details or even some artwork? I would like to add this guy as an NPC to my site if you would be okay with it

Thank you! Are you running a Ptolus campaign?

@@D20Pub No. I have the 5e version of the book and hope to run it someday, tho.

@@outercow1 excellent! Have you got an account on my Ptol.us website already?

@@brianistryin76 It's been great for idea bouncing for me too. I used to have to text like 3 people to ask questions. Now I just ask ChatGPT and it gives me some great feedback. I think the robot bad feelings are from creatives which feels ai is built on the back of "stolen" work. Which is a complicated argument. For me, I just needed something to help me with my game and it's doing that for sure!

@@D20Pub yeah you’re right, it’s complicated. With this topic (and with most other discussions) all nuance is out the window. Have you seen Campaigns Never Die? I could agree that’s too much AI.

@@brianistryin76 I have not. I'll check it out!

@@1TrashCrap all true for sure!

@@randomjester9983 I hear you. With the way my life and schedule is currently, ChatGPT makes my game better and faster and remembers way more than me 😉

Soulless AI literally figured out your entire DNA structure so we can combat cancer lmao

@@doublestarships646 That’s amazing, that’s perfect. Don’t mistake me, I don’t have issues with AI as a whole. It can be used to relive humanity of its hardest labours and solve our most difficult problems, it should allow us to less time with our work and more time with our hobbies and passions. What I don’t like, however, is when it blends into those hobbies and passions.

@@DanielJPool Everyone is entitled to their own. Do you mind sharing why? Hate the idea of AI generated content? Worried about skynet? 😁

@@D20Pub I've tried randomly generated dungeons and they just felt lifeless and dull. It was fun for a one off but not sustainable or interesting long term. Also, if I'm not willing to put in the time to be creative why should my players be willing to put in the time to engage with the game? Generative large language models just don't offer the craft or polish of creating something my self. Not to mention, I'd rather "AI" do the dishes than my hobbies. If I'm not the one playing the game, what's the point of the game?

@@DanielJPool I wish AI could do the dishes for sure! I kind of feel bad using it for my play-by-post game, but the fact of the matter is it is generating incredible content and helping me and my players enjoy the hobby because otherwise I wouldn't be able to keep up. That said, everyone has their own taste and that's the joy of the world right? 🙂

Hah ai is smarter than me

@@bravojr I wouldn't say smarter. Can process more information faster, yes.