Dreaming: Using AI to Create Starting Scenarios for Your Campaign
AI tools can be a game-changer for Game Masters, helping you create dynamic and engaging starting scenarios for your campaigns. Whether you’re brainstorming ideas or refining the details, prebuilt GPTs can save time and spark creativity. Here’s how you can use three specific GPTs to craft a memorable beginning for your campaign.
Read this blog, (Transforming D&D Campaigns with AI: Why Story-First Matters >>), as to why story first is an important approach when creating campaign scenarios.
1. Campaign Idea Generator GPT
The first step in building your campaign is generating a solid foundation. The Campaign Idea Generator GPT helps you brainstorm overarching concepts and themes for your campaign, villains, factions, and player hooks.
This GPT will help you come up with ideas for a campaign.
You will want to save off a starting campaign template document from this first step.
How It Works:
You will be asked a series of questions to help think through the type of campaign you want to create.
The GPT will provide you 3 different outputs for you to choose from and refine.
The GPT will then write a summary for you that you should save as a starting campaign template.
Example GPT Campaign Output for Template
2. Campaign Detail Generator GPT
Once you’ve selected a core idea, the Campaign Detail Generator GPT helps you flesh out the campaign plot, story structure, details—locations, factions, notable NPCs, and overarching goals.
This GPT will help you flesh out the details of your campaign.
How It Works:
Provide your campaign template and walk through a series of questions to flesh out your campaign into plot structures, campaign crux a Story Spine and 3 Acts.
The GPT creates rich lore and details, tailored to your campaign helping you the GM to get clarity and flesh out the nitty gritty details of your campaign.
The goal is to give you a detailed outline for you to edit and update.
GPT Campaign Detail Generator Output
Questions for Campaign Background Output
3 Act Structure Output
3. Starting Scenario GPT
The final step is crafting the perfect introduction for your players. The Starting Scenario GPT connects your players’ characters to your campaign through one of the nine concepts outlined in this blog.
This GPT will help you connect your players to your campaign.
How It Works:
Input your campaign details and choose one of the nine starting scenarios (e.g., “The Relic’s Call”).
The GPT generates several tailored starting scenarios, complete with challenges, player motivations, and campaign hooks.
Why It’s Useful: This GPT ties your campaign world to the players’ characters, ensuring everyone has a personal reason to engage while establishing immediate stakes.
Example Output: The Unified Banner
Supporting Documents
Conclusion: Bringing It All Together
A strong start can set the tone for your entire campaign, creating memorable moments and uniting your party through shared challenges and purpose. Whether your characters are escaping captivity, answering a mysterious summons, or chasing a powerful relic, these nine creative starting types provide endless opportunities to draw players into your world.
With tools like AI-powered GPTs, you can elevate your game even further.
Use the Campaign Idea Generator to spark your imagination, the Campaign Detail Generator to flesh out your world, and the Starting Scenario GPT to connect your players to the story in a way that feels personal and exciting.
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