💬 Master AI (chat)

The Master AI chat is the heart of GameMasterBuddy: an assistant that answers your game questions by searching inside the indexed manuals and citing where the answer comes from. It is not a generic AI that "guesses": it first finds the relevant passages in the manuals, then the LLM writes an answer based on those passages and shows you the sources. Use it during prep or right at the table, when you need a rule, a description or a piece of the setting in seconds.

What it is for

The Master AI is built for the Game Master who needs a fast, reliable answer without leafing through hundreds of pages by hand. Typical uses:

• Rules: "How does a ranged attack against a target in cover work?"
• Setting and lore: "Who rules the city of X?", "What are the N?"
• Creatures and NPCs: summaries of monsters, powers, tables.
• On-the-fly clarifications: a disputed rule while the players wait.

Every answer comes with sources: references to the manuals it was drawn from, so you can verify and dig deeper.

How it works (behind the scenes)

Understanding the mechanism helps you use it better. The chat works in two steps:

1. Search (retrieval): your question is used to search the indexed manuals and pull the most relevant passages.
2. Answer: the LLM reads those passages and writes the answer based on them, citing the sources.

The practical consequence matters: the Master AI does not make things up. If something is not in the indexed manuals, it tends to tell you it did not find it rather than fill the gap. The quality of the answer therefore depends on two things: that the information is actually in the manuals and that your question is well phrased.

How to ask good questions

The more precise the question and the more it uses the game's exact terms, the better the search finds the right passage.

• Use proper names verbatim: write the exact name of places, creatures, powers or items as they appear in the manual. An exact name is the best search key.
• One question at a time: targeted questions beat a block with five different requests.
• Give context when useful: "at level 3", "in edition 3.5", "in the X setting" help narrow it down.
• If the first answer misses, rephrase with different or more specific words instead of repeating the exact same question.

You can ask in Italian or English: even if the manuals are in one language and you write in the other, the search works cross-language and the Master AI answers in the language you wrote in.

Credits and setting

Master AI answers are an AI feature and therefore consume credits (unlike the tabletop tools and maps, which run for free in the browser). Before writing, pick the setting/world (Vulcania, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Generic): the chat will search that world's manuals and answer in its style. You can also choose the engine (Fast, Balanced, Deep) to balance speed and depth of the answer.