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6/24/2025, 3:49:50 AM
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You don't want it as a co-QM, you want it as a sounding board. Sometimes you run dry on ideas that don't really matter, and that's fine. For example, I'd never use it to try and work out some kind of deep character motivation, but I don't see anything wrong with using it for randomized filler events.
In a civ quest, some use cases could be:
>Helping to determine possible directions for a peasant rebellion, based off input you've given about the society's behavior
>Coming up with the basic premise of a rival civilization that's meant to be squashed/resolved early, and thus has no long-term merit
>Randomly generating relationships between tribe members in some sort of small tribal stage of a civ builder. For example, get it to suggest that caveman 1 and 2 hunted a mammoth together, there's a love triangle with caveman 5, 6, and 7 that might end in murder, etc. Then write the actual content yourself without needing to ideate every human connection individually.
Like ReptoidQM said, don't try using it for stats. It'll get lost as hell. Don't let it do writing either, it uses an extremely irritating and obvious style.
I previously used it to help out when running a Pokemon quest. It's good for non-essential NPC motivations. Sometimes you don't really give a shit about some guy's life story, but you want him to act alive and vibrant anyway, so you can use it to come up with a reasonable base-level motivation. It also helps with personal knowledge gaps. I don't really have pubs near me, but I wanted to capture what british pub food is like, so it just worked like google. This will be particularly relevant in a civ quest if you want to look up how a pottery wheel works in detail, or how ancient civs did animal husbandry, or developed papyrus.
And lastly, be sure to cut off anything that does not fit your vision. I used it to come up with generic slice-of-life concepts, but I'd write the entire ensuing article myself, and eliminate things that didn't fit my lore. Beach cleanup? Yeah, reasonable thing to write about. New species? Relevant info to the readers, I can come up with what exactly this species is, and choose a pre-established locale for it. Trainers sheltering fleeing pokemon? Coincidentally lined up with a previous plot point I had, and I used it as a reminder to revisit it.
You don't want it as a co-QM, you want it as a sounding board. Sometimes you run dry on ideas that don't really matter, and that's fine. For example, I'd never use it to try and work out some kind of deep character motivation, but I don't see anything wrong with using it for randomized filler events.
In a civ quest, some use cases could be:
>Helping to determine possible directions for a peasant rebellion, based off input you've given about the society's behavior
>Coming up with the basic premise of a rival civilization that's meant to be squashed/resolved early, and thus has no long-term merit
>Randomly generating relationships between tribe members in some sort of small tribal stage of a civ builder. For example, get it to suggest that caveman 1 and 2 hunted a mammoth together, there's a love triangle with caveman 5, 6, and 7 that might end in murder, etc. Then write the actual content yourself without needing to ideate every human connection individually.
Like ReptoidQM said, don't try using it for stats. It'll get lost as hell. Don't let it do writing either, it uses an extremely irritating and obvious style.
I previously used it to help out when running a Pokemon quest. It's good for non-essential NPC motivations. Sometimes you don't really give a shit about some guy's life story, but you want him to act alive and vibrant anyway, so you can use it to come up with a reasonable base-level motivation. It also helps with personal knowledge gaps. I don't really have pubs near me, but I wanted to capture what british pub food is like, so it just worked like google. This will be particularly relevant in a civ quest if you want to look up how a pottery wheel works in detail, or how ancient civs did animal husbandry, or developed papyrus.
And lastly, be sure to cut off anything that does not fit your vision. I used it to come up with generic slice-of-life concepts, but I'd write the entire ensuing article myself, and eliminate things that didn't fit my lore. Beach cleanup? Yeah, reasonable thing to write about. New species? Relevant info to the readers, I can come up with what exactly this species is, and choose a pre-established locale for it. Trainers sheltering fleeing pokemon? Coincidentally lined up with a previous plot point I had, and I used it as a reminder to revisit it.
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