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Generating content for tabletop gaming with my friends (especially wacky ideas, like character names themed after items on the Taco Bell menu)

I had to buy some spare tools where I cared more about price than quality and it helped me choose some suitable brands

As mentioned, you can tell it a bit about a person (and feed in their wishlist if they have one) and it'll help you pick something they'll probably like

Finding something to do to spend an afternoon in a city while traveling

In general, anything where there is no objective best answer (meaning I can ask it to generate multiple possibilities and filter out the bad ideas) and where I value speed over correctness.




> Generating content for tabletop gaming with my friends (especially wacky ideas, like character names themed after items on the Taco Bell menu)

I've been going ham with this. Pay for ChatGPT Plus for work, so GPT-4's been helping me design encounters, plan sessions, and brainstorm ideas for one-shots. It gives me a sort of bland, vanilla idea for something, I suggest a twist on it, it goes, "oh great idea, here that is with your changes:" and I iterate with it from there.

Likewise I love theming characters, plotlines, and settings after songs, bands and albums, so I'll dump in a bunch of lyrics and ask ChatGPT to help me intertwine subtle references into descriptions, names, and plot points.




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