You spot the deer and are ready to finish your hunt when suddenly you hear an unusual noise coming from the forest. You have a hunting bow and a quiver of arrows. You are Walker, a ranger living in the kingdom of Larion. I did the one thing that every self-respecting D&D player does when confronted with uncertainty: > find tavern The game dropped me straight into the action: I named my character Walker, in honor of Strider, J.R.R. I chose ranger, as I have pretty much without exception since fifth grade. The game offers a choice of character class - noble, knight, squire, wizard, ranger, peasant, or rogue. I’m an old-school nerd, though, so I went with fantasy. You can choose from five genres, including zombies and post-apocalypse stories. (The game comes as a phone app, too.) AI Dungeon isn’t just for fantasy swords-and-sorcery-style role-playing. I clicked over to the web-based interface and was up and running in seconds. So I was genuinely excited to give AI Dungeon a try. Ranger, Peasant, or Rogue?Īs it happens, I was a teenage D&D nerd of rather startling intensity. It’s like talking to Siri, if Siri were a 7th-level half-elf wizard. Ostensibly, it’s spinning a new and original tale every time. Instead, you’re really conversing with a “live” AI, which is using natural language processing to figure out what you want. Unlike those older games, AI Dungeon doesn’t use a limited set of verbal commands. AI Dungeon is deliberately designed to evoke early PC-era text-based games like The Oregon Trail. There are no graphics or sound (yet), but that’s part of the appeal. It’s made a serious splash in the gaming world, with more than 700,000 players as of March. No other humans required.ĪI Dun geon is a text-based adventure in which the AI plays the role of Dungeon Master, generating narrative and dialogue in response to any action you choose to take. Tabletop D&D game nights are popular online and in real life - even on podcasts - for kids and grownups both.Īnd now, thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence, you can play D&D with an AI-powered collaborative storytelling machine. Nerd culture is ascendant and a recent wave of 1980s nostalgia has turned the pop culture dial back to those Spielbergian days of Doritos and 20-sided dice. The venerated role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons is enjoying a cultural resurgence.
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