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The Forge and the Fable

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The long project · since 2021

Fable Smith

An AI game master that runs solo tabletop campaigns over Discord, with me as the only player. It started with one question: can a machine run a game that feels like a good table? The usual answer is no. AI game masters decide things for you, forget what happened, and rush the story. Fable Smith is my long attempt at a better answer.

Today it runs a whole campaign inside Discord. You start one with a command, build your character with the game master, then play by sending messages. It can run Draw Steel and other rule systems, and before the game master posts anything, a separate referee checks it against the rules and what has already happened.

A Fable Smith combat in Discord: a battle map, then the Narrator describing the turn and the Oracle running the enemy's move

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A rune puzzle for the table, with a game master's view and a player's view that stay in sync.

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Three adventurers from one of my games, standing on a harbour pier