Feature Request: A Dedicated Long-Form Roleplay Mode for ChatGPT
Hello OpenAI team,
I would love to see a dedicated roleplay mode or model designed specifically for immersive, long-form roleplaying.
I am a paying ChatGPT Go subscriber, and I continue investing in ChatGPT because I genuinely enjoy using it. Long-form roleplay is one of the main reasons I keep returning to the platform. However, even with a paid subscription, maintaining continuity, realistic NPC behavior, and emotionally convincing interactions often requires considerable manual correction from the user.
I believe roleplaying deserves a dedicated experience rather than relying entirely on a general-purpose conversational model.
MY REQUEST: A dedicated roleplay mode with the following capabilities:
1. AUTONOMOUS NPCs AND LIVING WORLDS
NPCs should have independent lives, ambitions, relationships, routines, personalities, and motivations. They should interact with one another and the world without constantly waiting for the player. Events should continue developing even when the player’s character is absent.
2. REALISTIC EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Characters should have believable, nuanced emotional responses shaped by their personalities, histories, relationships, circumstances, and temperaments. They should experience conflicting emotions, attachment, jealousy, fear, affection, resentment, grief, and personal growth. Reactions should feel human rather than mechanically generated.
3. PERSISTENT LONG-TERM CONTINUITY
Maintain important details across extremely long roleplays: conversations, promises, relationships, injuries, inventories, secrets, rumours, world rules, historical events, and unresolved storylines. Avoid contradictions and forgotten details.
4. INDEPENDENT NPC KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLIGENCE
Each NPC should only know what they witnessed, were told, or could reasonably infer. Characters should have different intelligence levels, knowledge, biases, beliefs, and perspectives. The world should not revolve around the player’s character.
5. MEANINGFUL CONSEQUENCES
Actions should influence reputation, relationships, politics, economics, cultures, factions, and the wider world. Powerful characters should still encounter believable social and political consequences. NPC reactions should not automatically be positive or convenient.
6. ABSOLUTE PLAYER-CHARACTER CONTROL
The player must retain complete control over their own character’s dialogue, actions, thoughts, feelings, reactions, intentions, and decisions. The AI should control NPCs, environments, events, and consequences without taking control of the player’s character.
7. LONG-TERM WORLD SIMULATION
Support complex civilizations, economies, factions, technologies, magic systems, cultures, and evolving societies. Worlds should develop independently instead of functioning as static backdrops for individual scenes.
ADDITIONAL SUGGESTION
A dedicated roleplay memory or world-state system would be extremely valuable. It could maintain structured records of characters, locations, events, relationships, inventories, and world rules, allowing the model to retrieve relevant information without relying exclusively on the active conversation context.
I would gladly welcome a dedicated model, mode, or optional subscription feature designed around these capabilities.
I genuinely enjoy ChatGPT and want to continue using it for creative projects. I believe a high-quality roleplay experience could make the platform significantly more useful and enjoyable for many users, not just those who write stories professionally.
Thank you for considering this request.