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A Telegram dungeon master bot for family hikes, backed by Claude
To get a 14-year-old out walking, the owner built a Claude-backed Telegram bot that runs a low-key D&D game, checking in at random moments with server-side dice rolls.
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The owner's wife's 14-year-old sister would rather be on her phone than walking, so he built a Telegram bot backed by Claude to turn hikes and mushroom-picking trips into a low-key D&D game. It tells a bit of story, then goes quiet and checks back at a random moment between 5 and 12 minutes, with no way to skip ahead.
Dice rolls happen on the server rather than being narrated by the model, and the people on the walk count as party members. It runs on Docker and Postgres with long-polling, costs a few dollars a month in API usage, and is open source.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Built a Telegram bot that's an AI dungeon master for hikes with my wife's little sister — open sourc
The maker's post on r/homeassistant.
The subreddit's moderators removed it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: Built a Telegram bot that's an AI dungeon master for hikes with my wife's little sister — open sourc (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: JKabela
The project on GitHub.