D&D 5E The Glimmering - NFT Heroes in a Blockchain Campaign?

[EzekielRaiden]

I seems like a dumb scam, is anything web 3.0 not a scam?

Well, there's actually three kinds of things here. Scams, pipe dreams, and real uses.

Unfortunately, one person having a pipe dream can quickly become ten people running a scam, even if only some of them know that. And one person running a scam can easily attract nine people who see only the pipe dream. That's the real problem with a lot of this: there are a lot of well-meaning but foolish tech-sector types who get all starry-eyed about the enormous potential. In D&D terms, high Int, high Technology skill, low Wis, not trained in Insight.

Thankfully, this time around, the whole point of the technology is to jettison the "traditional" financial system entirely. This means that when things go south, they rarely affect 99% of people. Of course, you can't really get-rich-quick in the current world without connecting to the "traditional" financial system somewhere along the line, so a lot of the early adopters are scammers, grifters, or fakers.

Whether this ends up being like the dot-com bubble (that is, like the absolute explosion of usefulness from the Internet despite all the scams) or like the tulip mania remains to be seen.

 

[Justice and Rule]

Really, really disappointed that this wasn't a Tron-esque "We got sucked into the internet and now we have to survive the insanity plane that is the Blockchain". I would be absolutely down for that sort of thing.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

Whether this ends up being like the dot-com bubble (that is, like the absolute explosion of usefulness from the Internet despite all the scams) or like the tulip mania remains to be seen.

Don't let the crypto bros trick you into thinking blockchain is still a matter of debate. NFTs cratered, crypto is screwed, and web3 is a rebranding attempt. But major companies are out on this stuff, so all there's left is for individual people to trick themselves into thinking this stuff is the same as traditional investments, and then get absolutely fleeced.

 

[MoonSong]

Sounds like they’re trying to apply the economic model from some online games where people play long enough to buy massive spaceships and then sell them to folks who want to have big powerful ships right off the bat.

I don’t believe that model will apply.

However… just spitballing, but this could be a really fun way to create legendary items from a campaign. For example say you had a sword that became imbued with powers over the course of your long campaign and then you could list it at the end on some legendary artifact database for others to get and learn its story. (of course there’s no money in - that‘s the stupid part) but I could see something like that as a community sourced asset database.

But probably way more work than it’s worth but I’m sure there’s some dumb VC I could convince to invest with that elevator pitch (leaving out the no money part of course!…)

This sounds like something that could be run through IPFS.

 

[MoonSong]

Really, really disappointed that this wasn't a Tron-esque "We got sucked into the internet and now we have to survive the insanity plane that is the Blockchain". I would be absolutely down for that sort of thing.

I always wanted to run a podcast/radio novel called "Lost in MySpace" about this kind of thing.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

I seems like a dumb scam, is anything web 3.0 not a scam?

No.

 

[Mind of tempest]

No.

then why bother?

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

then why bother?

Because there's suckers to be fleeced.

 

[J.Quondam]

then why bother?

Because such scams can be very profitable for the scammers, especially in tech where there a lot of superficially "smart" people with too much money.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

And I thought I was dumb for buying blind boxes of minis!

(I actually trade in and buy a lot of specific minis in exchange).

I guess with crypto and this kind of thing, my question. Is: what value do they generate? Good business produce things. Would this be particularly fun to play?

If not it is really not fathomable why the nft in question would be wanted. Scarcity is a thing but without any tangible value I don’t get it.

Back to my basement full of expensive minis. They got me once! But I have toys to show for it