I was under the impression that self hosting meant your own hardware on your own property. Buying a VPS was never self hosting in my eyes.

I’ve never tried something like that, but even if you do remind the party what they have equipped or in reserve, they’ll just make items up. It’s frustrating.

One thing I learned is that you can’t rely on an inventory system (there’s no persistence), so you’re basically always running a oneshot campaign no matter what. After the novelty wore off, I found that quite boring and just played DND on tabletop sim or roll20 with discord friends instead.

I remember those days - using my 3080ti to test the latest Pygmalion model and reporting feedback for how understandable the outputs were to the developers…

I didn’t use my self-host for horny though - I tried being a DM for a DND session with fictional characters :)