Similar to my AI-generative experiments with MidJourney, I’ve been dabbling with AI to produce expanded content for homebrew campaign settings. It’s been kind of fun to upload some basic outlines and concepts to something like ChatGPT and then watch what it spits out. After some back and forth fine-tuning, the results end up pretty good (in my opinion). The re-skinned dwarfs I was calling the Komari Xul from the last post turned out pretty good. That started with little more than the Bazen Pur files in my links section and a detailed prompt outlining some thematic goals and sources of inspiration. Below is another example for a OD&D re-skinned halfling class using the same approach and files.
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I'm a former professor of religious studies turned hospital chaplain that has a love for old-school roleplaying, particularly original D&D and B/X D&D. If you enjoy pondering the esoteric nature of early D&D, or just want to poke around and see what another player does in his old-school games, then you should find something of interest here.
Komari Xul –The Severed Breed
A re-skinned OD&D Dwarf Fighting-man for the Bazen Pur Campaign Setting
“We Were Not Born. We Were Broken Into Being.”
Overview
The Komari Xul are not a natural people. They are a crafted breed, shaped by inhuman hands in steaming flesh-vats beneath the Peaks of Dawn, where light could not reach and screams echoed for centuries. They were not born of womb or love, but conjured from clay, bone slush, and fire-glass. Their flesh is packed dense with calcified memory; their sinews laced with arcane ligament runes.
The fun continues. Started my morning exploring the deeper levels of The Lost Dungeons of Tonisburg! D.H. Boggs of Hidden in Shadows ran a fun game interspersed with stories about the history of the dungeon and its rediscovery. I played Menander Ithamis, an Elven Fighter. Good stuff, and I was still alive at the end. Gotta love an early-era dungeon crawl in which one of the players is an alien with a phaser that can be set to kill.
Peace,
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