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Create a small place for a tabletop story
Prepare a system-neutral location with discoveries, choices and useful host notes.
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What you’re working towards
Prepare a system-neutral location with discoveries, choices and useful host notes. The worked result was written for this guide; it is not a recording of an AI run.
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Make a start
One step at a time.
3 steps
Start with the synthetic worked example or other non-sensitive inputs. Run one prompt at a time in your chosen AI tool. Replace any bracketed placeholders with the requested material, check each reply, and supply the source or earlier outputs that step needs. Paste them again if the tool lacks that context.
Start with the synthetic example, then adapt each prompt to your task.
01
Open a text assistant and try the example
For a concrete starter route, open https://chatgpt.com and choose New chat. Sign in if that service requires it for your access. You can also use another text assistant you already have. Copy the entire prompt below (the instructions to paste), including the sample input, into its message box and send it. No upload or image generation is needed. Expect a player opening, connected-area notes and two ways to help. The wording may differ from the example; the constraints should not. If it only explains the task, ask it to produce the finished result using the supplied input.
Your starting prompt
Create a fictional exploration location with three connected areas, one adult non-player character, three discoveries and two noncombat ways to help. “Non-player character” means a character run by the host. Include a player-facing opening and separate host notes. No dice system, combat rules or guaranteed solution is required.
Use this complete made-up practice input:
Location: A disused hilltop weather station being prepared as a tiny local museum.
Areas: Entrance room connects to a chart room; chart room connects to an open viewing terrace. No other paths.
Host-run character: Adult keeper Orla, who wants visitors to understand the old station without pretending its instruments still forecast weather.
Discoveries: A drawer of handwritten wind descriptions; a broken mechanical indicator; a clear view of three differently shaped hills.
Choices: Visitors can help arrange an honest display or invent a purely artistic naming game for the hills.
Boundaries: Cozy, no peril, no locked mandatory gate, no factual forecasting lesson. All locations and documents invented.
Return the finished result. Keep it fictional and do not add claims about real people, products or events.
02
Check, correct and save
Read the response beside the original input. Trace only the two allowed area connections. Find all three discoveries and two noncombat contributions. Check broken equipment is never presented as a functioning forecasting tool. Keep host-only notes separate from the opening read to players. If a check fails, paste the correction prompt below in the same conversation. Check the revised result yourself, then copy the version you want into your own notes or document.
Your starting prompt
Check your previous result against this original input:
Location: A disused hilltop weather station being prepared as a tiny local museum.
Areas: Entrance room connects to a chart room; chart room connects to an open viewing terrace. No other paths.
Host-run character: Adult keeper Orla, who wants visitors to understand the old station without pretending its instruments still forecast weather.
Discoveries: A drawer of handwritten wind descriptions; a broken mechanical indicator; a clear view of three differently shaped hills.
Choices: Visitors can help arrange an honest display or invent a purely artistic naming game for the hills.
Boundaries: Cozy, no peril, no locked mandatory gate, no factual forecasting lesson. All locations and documents invented.
Check these requirements one by one:
- Trace only the two allowed area connections.
- Find all three discoveries and two noncombat contributions.
- Check broken equipment is never presented as a functioning forecasting tool.
- Keep host-only notes separate from the opening read to players.
Quote each problem, explain the smallest repair, and return a complete corrected version. If there is no problem, say which checks you applied. Do not claim that your own review proves quality or audience response.
03
Optional: use your own material
Open a new chat. Copy the prompt below and replace [PASTE YOUR INPUT HERE] with fictional place, ordinary features, tone and noncombat boundaries. Use material you own or may use and leave out private details. The output limits written in this prompt stay in force; change a limit here too if you want a different one. Send the whole message. Expect the same kind of written result with your new material. Check it against this new input and these limits, not the sample’s names or numbers. If it differs, describe the exact mismatch and ask for a complete correction before saving.
Your starting prompt
Design a fictional exploration place with three connected areas, one adult host-controlled character, three discoveries and two noncombat ways to help. Give an opening for players and separate host notes. Use my facts below; preserve connectivity and do not add dice mechanics, combat or a guaranteed solution.
If an essential detail is missing or two requirements conflict, ask me before filling the gap.
MY INPUT
[PASTE YOUR INPUT HERE]
Optional: improve the result
Add consequences without punishment
Let player choices change the place while keeping exploration gentle. Keep the first version so you can compare the change. This extension uses the worked example. Return to that example chat, or paste its input and your checked example answer into a new chat first. Do not apply its sample values unchanged to your own input.
Advanced prompt
Write three possible closing scenes based on whether players make a display, name the hills or simply listen to Orla. Each should acknowledge their actual choice without ranking endings or inventing actions they did not take.
Use the original input and result in this conversation. If either is missing, ask me to paste it before continuing.
Show, then try
See the shape of the result.
This input is synthetic. The output is a written illustration of the intended result, not a verified AI-tool run.
01 / The starting point
Synthetic input
Made-up example for practice. All people, places and events are invented.
Location: A disused hilltop weather station being prepared as a tiny local museum.
Areas: Entrance room connects to a chart room; chart room connects to an open viewing terrace. No other paths.
Host-run character: Adult keeper Orla, who wants visitors to understand the old station without pretending its instruments still forecast weather.
Discoveries: A drawer of handwritten wind descriptions; a broken mechanical indicator; a clear view of three differently shaped hills.
Choices: Visitors can help arrange an honest display or invent a purely artistic naming game for the hills.
Boundaries: Cozy, no peril, no locked mandatory gate, no factual forecasting lesson. All locations and documents invented.
Copies text only. For image or file tasks, use the source files named in the steps too.
Worked example written for this guide; it is not a recording of an AI run.
Player-facing opening:
The weather station's entrance smells faintly of paper. Through the next doorway, charts cover a long table; beyond them lies an open terrace. Orla, the keeper, holds two blank labels. “I'm turning this place into a tiny museum. I'd like it to tell the truth about what still works.” She leaves the choice of where to look to you.
Host notes:
Layout: Entrance room ↔ chart room ↔ viewing terrace. There is no direct entrance-to-terrace route.
Orla: Friendly, practical, and willing to say “I don't know.” She wants an honest display, not a claim that old equipment predicts current weather.
Areas and discoveries:
1. Entrance room: The broken mechanical indicator rests on a shelf. Orla explains that it no longer works. Its moving pointer can be discussed as an object, not used for forecasts.
2. Chart room: A drawer holds invented handwritten descriptions such as “wind tugged at the west shutter.” The notes are historical story props, not reliable current measurements.
3. Viewing terrace: Three hills appear as a low dome, a narrow ridge and a broad flat top. Visitors may choose imaginative names without treating them as real geographic names.
Two ways to help:
- Arrange a display: Choose where to place the broken indicator and write an honest label identifying it as nonworking. Orla accepts clear labeling; there is no hidden correct arrangement.
- Make a hill-naming game: Give the three hill shapes playful names and invite another character to explain a different name. No vote or factual answer is required.
Closing option: Orla reads the visitors' display label or repeats one chosen hill name. End when the group is satisfied; exploring every area is optional.
These checks use the worked example and its particular facts. With your own material, check your actual names, numbers, sources and rules; do not reuse the sample’s values as the answer.
Unsaved checks stay in this tab and reset when you reload. If you choose Save guide, its current example checkmarks are kept in this browser when storage is available.
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A few things to watch for.
A location can become a compulsory puzzle even when it is meant for exploration. Offer meaningful choices without one required route.
Do not confuse a fictional historical note with verified weather information. Label the entire place invented.