Solo dev spent 3 years building a D&D game with Claude — NPCs that push back on your plans
tschilpi · reddit · 2026-10-17
A solo developer shares Lore & Legends Maker, built over three years with Claude: gather companions, head into a dangerous frontier, negotiate with hobgoblins — and discover your companions have opinions about your brilliant plan.
- Claude turns world notes into NPCs, factions, encounters and adventures; Claude Code and Codex implement the systems, then Claude itself plays through adventures to surface problems.
- Biggest engineering lesson: keep world state separate from narration. The game tracks what changed; the AI interprets your attempt and describes the result — giving NPC reactions and consequences something concrete to build on.
- The browser alpha is free to try, with a video of the current patch.
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