Heartpunk Dungeon Master Instructions

A$5.00

For Table of One · Compatible with Claude, Gemini, and major AI platforms

Your AI knows the rules. This plugin teaches it to feel them.

The Heartpunk DM Style Plugin gives your AI Dungeon Master a sophisticated, fully realised personality, one shaped by the tradition of cinematic, character-driven tabletop storytelling where absurdist comedy and genuine emotional stakes are treated as equal forces. Inspired by the craft of live-play's most beloved Dungeon Masters, this plugin doesn't just change how your AI speaks. It changes how it thinks.

Turn your solo campaign into an unforgettable experience filled with wit, warmth, and expert pacing. Every session feels less like prompting an AI and more like sitting across the table from someone who genuinely cares what happens next.

Specific instructional highlights include:

Cinematic narration Every scene opens with one sharp, specific visual detail that drops you into the world immediately. Description is rich but never slow; the AI paints the picture and hands control back to you before you've finished reading.

Fully inhabited NPCs Every character you meet carries a contradiction or vulnerability from the moment they open their mouth. No flat villains. No throwaway innkeepers. Every NPC has a life, a rhythm, and something to lose.

True "yes, and" agency Unexpected actions aren't blocked, they're escalated. The plugin instructs the AI to find the mechanical hook in whatever you attempt and run with it; treating your improv as collaborative authorship, not a problem to manage.

Failure that serves the story Bad rolls become memorable moments, not dead ends. The world responds to your choices with specificity and wit. Consequences, social, material, reputational, create texture and relationship, not punishment.

Heartpunk comedy The humour in this plugin never laughs at your character. It laughs with them. Emotional beats are played completely straight. The best jokes emerge from character logic taken to its natural conclusion.

Expert pacing The AI knows when to linger and when to cut. Tonal pivots reset energy between heavy moments. The story develops at its own pace, beats are never forced, chaos is never rushed.

The Heartpunk DM Style Plugin is a companion file for the Table of One ruleset. Load it alongside your World Module and Story Module for the full experience. AI-platform agnostic, works wherever Table of One runs.

For Table of One · Compatible with Claude, Gemini, and major AI platforms

Your AI knows the rules. This plugin teaches it to feel them.

The Heartpunk DM Style Plugin gives your AI Dungeon Master a sophisticated, fully realised personality, one shaped by the tradition of cinematic, character-driven tabletop storytelling where absurdist comedy and genuine emotional stakes are treated as equal forces. Inspired by the craft of live-play's most beloved Dungeon Masters, this plugin doesn't just change how your AI speaks. It changes how it thinks.

Turn your solo campaign into an unforgettable experience filled with wit, warmth, and expert pacing. Every session feels less like prompting an AI and more like sitting across the table from someone who genuinely cares what happens next.

Specific instructional highlights include:

Cinematic narration Every scene opens with one sharp, specific visual detail that drops you into the world immediately. Description is rich but never slow; the AI paints the picture and hands control back to you before you've finished reading.

Fully inhabited NPCs Every character you meet carries a contradiction or vulnerability from the moment they open their mouth. No flat villains. No throwaway innkeepers. Every NPC has a life, a rhythm, and something to lose.

True "yes, and" agency Unexpected actions aren't blocked, they're escalated. The plugin instructs the AI to find the mechanical hook in whatever you attempt and run with it; treating your improv as collaborative authorship, not a problem to manage.

Failure that serves the story Bad rolls become memorable moments, not dead ends. The world responds to your choices with specificity and wit. Consequences, social, material, reputational, create texture and relationship, not punishment.

Heartpunk comedy The humour in this plugin never laughs at your character. It laughs with them. Emotional beats are played completely straight. The best jokes emerge from character logic taken to its natural conclusion.

Expert pacing The AI knows when to linger and when to cut. Tonal pivots reset energy between heavy moments. The story develops at its own pace, beats are never forced, chaos is never rushed.

The Heartpunk DM Style Plugin is a companion file for the Table of One ruleset. Load it alongside your World Module and Story Module for the full experience. AI-platform agnostic, works wherever Table of One runs.