It lets anyone run a classic WoW server where hundreds of bots have unique, persistent personalities and can banter with each other—using a tiny, dependency-free script and a local LLM—making the game world feel alive without external services.
A tiny (~230-line, stdlib-only) Python shim that gives CMaNGOS + playerbots AI playerbots real personalities by routing their in-game "ai chat" through your local Ollama.
Party bots roast you in character, remember the last few things you said, and banter with each other, all on one consumer GPU, nothing leaving your LAN.
This is the shim behind [that r/homelab post] about ~1,800 vanilla-WoW bots with AI personalities. The bots and the server are stock projects; this repo is the glue that gives them a voice: the persona injection, the per-bot memory, and the bot-to-bot banter tuning.
This shim only handles the personality layer. You need a working CMaNGOS 1.12 + playerbots server first (the one with the native LLM-chat hook). The fastest path, and the one I used, is the prebuilt Eluna-CMaNGOS-Classic Windows builds, which bundle the bots, Eluna, and the extractors:
with-all buildYou supply your own 1.12 game client. This repo distributes no game data and links to none. Once your
bots chat at all server-side, point AiPlayerbot.LLMApiEndpoint at this shim and you're set (see
Quick start).
The playerbots module already has a native "LLM chat" hook: when a bot talks, it POSTs a KoboldCpp-shaped request to whatever endpoint you configure:
POST /api/v1/generate {"max_length": 100, "prompt": ""}
-> {"results": [{"text": ""}]}
So instead of running KoboldCpp, you point it at this shim, which speaks that shape on the front and talks to Ollama on the back. In between, it does the three things that turn "an LLM answered" into "a character answered":
The server's prompt always contains Your name is .. The shim pulls that name out and, if
personas/.txt exists, loads it as the **system me
Give your CMaNGOS/playerbots AI companions real personalities with a local LLM — a tiny, dependency-free Python shim over Ollama. Per-bot personas, memory, and bot-to-bot banter, fully offline.
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