Resurrecting the DEAD...game that I love!

AI has garnered some pretty scary headlines and rightfully so. However, working with AI in my classroom I have found it to be an invaluable tool. ChatGPT in particular is incredibly useful.

I am going to be walking you through a basic example of how to use ChatGPT to enhance the rules side of your wargaming experience.

For those of you who haven’t looked into ChatGPT, it is a predictive text AI. This means it reads billions of webpages, articles, and posts and learns based on the words and phrases that are frequently put together. This can lead to accuracy issues as you will see.

To refresh if you haven’t read previous posts, I am resurrecting Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars Miniatures Game that died in 2010. The first profile I am making for the new game is General Quinlan Vos. There is already a profile for Vos but it focuses on his time as a rogue Jedi. I want to focus on his time as a general in the Clone Wars. He led Advanced Recon Force troopers (ARF Troopers). The goal is to have a stealthy hero who commands stealthy, fast moving recon units.

Once you go to ChatGPT a text box will appear where you can enter a prompt. Be specific with your prompt.

Some examples you could enter:

-Suggest house rules to make Medium Machine Gun teams more balanced for their points in Warlord Games’ Bolt Action Rules.

-Create a profile for Galadriel based on The Rings of Power series for Games Workshop’s Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game

See the screenshot below for my prompt and ChatGPT’s response.

It’s a good start. The profile looks decent. He’s a strong fighter so that fits. Some issues:

-It gives a point range but not specific point cost

-Special Ability 3 is nonsensical.

-Special Ability 2 is a bad description of an existing power in the game.

-Special Ability 4 is inherent to being a force using character

-Special Ability 5 is a commander effect (abilities leaders have) not a special ability

The beauty of ChatGPT is that it works like instant messenger and you can reference the conversation and keep it going to refine responses. Below is my response asking for changes and the AI making the changes. This is an imprecise science so be prepared to take 5-10 minutes on this.

I still had some issues so I asked for more adjustments and ChatGPT came through with a final profile I can use

In summary, chat with AI about what you want. Be specific. Give it refinements and be specific.

Now I have a much more daunting task…converting random miniatures into Quinlan Vos.