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AI CARDs offer you an exciting and easy way to enhance your play with artificial intelligence*. Built from the ground up for use in any fiction†, including tabletop roleplaying games and other forms of storytelling. With nothing more than two 6-sided dice, some highlighters, and one of our cutting-edge CARDs, you can program how characters make small-talk, respond to bargains, react when flirted with, and more!

This modular, wallet-sized RPG tech is ready to be plugged into your favourite game to help your characters come alive, or even used on its own for a rules-lite, freeform role playing experience. Use AI CARDs as a GMing tool or to automate your GM-less play. After all, everything is better with a little AI.

On each CARD you'll find a 6x6 square grid with four probable responses to a given prompt. Using highlighters, pencil crayons, markers, or whatever colouring tools you have on hand, divide the grid into uneven quadrants — a bigger quadrant means the character is more likely to act that way. 

When the situation arises and you need to know how your character will act, roll 2d6 and find the corresponding square on the grid. Think of it like an oracle with probabilities that you adjust for each character depending on their personality. 

Fill out a full set of cards for a character and you have a robust set of reactions to rely on whenever you need to answer the question: "how does this character act?"

AI CARDs now come SUPERCHARGED with the power of Conditional Logic.

With never-before-seen levels of realism, characters installed with AI CARDs will now change their responses according to specific situations in play. With a lightweight "if" check, an opponent who feels outmatched will be more likely to surrender, a character accused of a crime will be more likely to admit fault if you present evidence, and a friend will be more likely to do you a favour.

See it in action!

The party has a meeting with Wess, a manager in the cybernetics department who might have a lead on the malfunctioning augment they are currently investigating. The GM is unsure of how the party will be received but thankfully they have pre-programmed Wess with a predisposition to being friendly to most.

When the party's smooth-talking Rita introduces herself, the GM rolls 2d6 on Wess' GREET CARD to determine his starting disposition. With a 5 and 4, Wess is probably going to be a little flirty, but the GM knows Wess, like Sam Altman, is a wholesome homosexual male with a husband and one human child of his own. This triggers the conditional statement: [if "not my type": Flirty=Friendly], which changes Wess' flirty disposition toward miss Rita into a friendly one.

Business as usual then!

LIE, FLIRT, FIGHT, REQUEST, GREET, ACCUSE, THREATEN, CHAT, BARTER, FREE TIME

AI CARDs v2.0 comes with 10 CARDs rebuilt with a focus on function. The name of each CARD now clearly communicates exactly when it activates.

Almost every CARD responds to a verb that the player can act on. GREET a character for the first time to get their initial disposition. CHAT with a character to find out something about the world. LIE to them and see if they believe you. Want to just put them on autopilot like a Sim when they don't have somewhere to be? That's when the one exception, FREE TIME, comes in.

To make sure this breakthrough technology is accessible to everyone, AI CARDs now come in both a beautiful full-colour version and a printer-friendly black-and-white version. Whether you are at the table or in cyberspace, AI CARDs can be there to enhance your play.

Plus, by popular demand, AI CARDs now has a form-fillable version for you to create your own CARDs! Have a specific response you need to program into a character? Make your imagination a reality with AI CARDs today.

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* Okay time to break character for a moment. Nothing in AI CARDs actually uses generative AI or LLMs anywhere in its production. I made this tech before the contemporary AI surge as a shitpost about digital RPGs and their obsession with "immersion" and "realism" as goals of AI engines. I just figured it was timely to revisit this project given the imminent collapse of today's AI bubble.

You see, analogue RPGs are already exceptionally good at creating lifelike characters and simulating interactions with them. This is obviously because RPGs rely on human input to interpret actions and generate responses. Technology just does not match the capacity for complex storytelling that our brains already possess. [Insert that Invincible meme here.] What then does something like AI even have to offer RPGs?

I found the failures of these systems (which happens quite frequently with things like Oblivion's Radiant AI as demonstrated in the linked video) to be some of the most enjoyable outcomes. I made AI CARDs because I wanted to emulate those failures of technology. Like the AI it is inspired by, AI CARDs tries to poorly approximate the experience of human interaction while also generating unexpected, sometimes interesting, and often hilarious outcomes — all with a straight face.

† or in real life. I'm not gonna stop you.

This was designed as part of the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam.