Notes from the people building an AI dungeon master for solo play and small tables: how it works, how it compares with the alternatives, and where a real table still wins.
One page, no jargon. Why this is not another chatbot in a fantasy costume, why it is safe for work without being tame, and the one thing it will never replace.
11 September 2026 · 2 min readThey are all good at something. Here is what each one is for, and where we sit, so you can pick the right table rather than the loudest one.
11 September 2026 · 6 min readA dungeon master does five jobs. Most AI RPGs do one of them, and do it well. Here are the other four, and why they are the ones that make a table feel like a table.
11 September 2026 · 5 min readWorlds, stories, dungeons, the weekly board and adventures are different things. Knowing which is which changes how you play, and what you get for free.
11 September 2026 · 4 min readSolo roleplaying has one real problem, and it is not the rules. It is that nobody is there to react to you.
11 September 2026 · 4 min readThe fix for forgetting is not remembering everything. It is remembering what mattered, and letting the rest go, the way a real table does.
11 September 2026 · 4 min readWhere the line is, why it is there, and what happens when a scene wanders over it.
11 September 2026 · 3 min read