Problems…

 

Well, ran into a slight problem. Big problem. Being a ChatGPT noob, I discovered Projects and immediately thought this would be a great way to segregate different games to play without cross contamination between them. I set thing up like this:

With my different games split out into different projects. The documentation says that projects create a walled-garden to allow you to play within that project and not spill out to other projects. I found this actually to not be the case. In more than one instance when I told Chat to start another session in my Niv Lova project (by chatting within that project) and it would begin a session with Osric or Aldric. This sort of bleed through was not always this visible, but quite annoying. Additionally, and probably a larger problem, is the fact that conversations within a single project cannot be referenced in another chat. As you can see in the image, I set up one chat as the character creation, another with the rules, and a third with the session. My thought was that I would organize the sessions in this fashion, keep the character updated in another one. Apparently this is exceptionally misleading and the Chat cannot reach out to these separate chats to reference anything and everything must be in a single chat. This leads to the bigger problem...

The bigger problem however, was that I made a mistake in my set up of my Borderlands game. I uploaded my custom game system, for lack of a better name I called Core System, and the B2-Keep on the Borderlands PDF. I told Chat we were using the Core System RPG and not using D&D. However in practice, it ignored this and created a weird hybrid where it used D&D and Core to create some weird situations where it would use 5E rules (likely because 5E 'is' D&D now) occasionally, mix rules, and create a sort of muddy water where it used different rules at different times. On more than one occasion, it asks for Perception check with a DC of 15, directly referencing the D&D 5E rules and using a d20 (Core System uses only 2d6).

I solved this (I think) but starting completely over and putting everything in a single thread. I also asked it to strip the Borderlands PDF of all references to D&D rule mechanics and create a document of setting, encounter details, monsters, treasures, traps, etc. I then took my Core System and the Stripped Borderlands documents to a new chat and told it that this was how we were going to play this game, removing any mention of other rules.

So...I think I am going to have stop playing multiple games and simply focus on one moving forward. I hope this helps someone and saves them from getting a mixed mess like I did.