D&D General Would You Buy an RPG Product Printed on a Gutenberg Press?

[darjr]

I don’t care if this is a joke.

Yes, yes I would.

 

[darjr]

As far as joking, it would be impossible to read casually cause those presses are heavy.

 

[Bedrockgames]

If you ask me, the move away from oral tradition to written words is where it all went wrong. Give me a man reciting for hours in the baking hot sun, over some hastily scribbled notes any day !!!!!

 

[darjr]

If you ask me, the move away from oral tradition to written words is where it all went wrong. Give me a man reciting for hours in the baking hot sun, over some hastily scribbled notes any day !!!!!

It would make scheduling a game far easier!

If they couldn’t make it then no one should bother!

 

[Reynard]

It does not matter what format it might be, there should be NO D&D books. Knowledge of how to run a D&D game should be handed down orally only, from Master to Student. Those that would steal and disseminate such sacred knowledge should be nailed upside down to an Ashwood tree and their entrails fed to wolves.

 

[Rabulias]

I went with no because the price would likely be astronomical.

Wait till you see the Beadle & Grimm's Ultimate Platinum Edition!

 

[Gorg]

Darn tootin' I would!! Scribes aren't what they once were... Atrocious handwriting, ink blots and spots everywhere, and now they're putting in snarky little opinions in the side margins.

 

[LordEntrails]

No, I do care. What I don't care about is the misguided opinions of children lol. The views of 15 year olds.

I enjoy engaging with you about a lot of things. But such explicit ageism is something I'm just not comfortable going further with.

What an original line of reasoning that no one with concerns about the ethical, economical, and environmental impacts of large language models has ever heard before! I’m sure many hearts and minds will be changed by this insightful and empathetic piece of social commentary.

Well of course it won't change the hearts and minds of the narrow minded. It was never meant to try. It actually wasn't even meant to change the minds of anyone, but rather start a discussion about meaningful ways to lessen the harm of an inevitable change.

In the (I'm afraid not too) long run, this will lead to a greater imbalance of power within society rather than a more equal distribution, like the press did.

Yea, this is a very real concern in my opinion as well. But I think most of such a discussion is out of scope of this board. Hence why my focus on what the community can do to lessen the harm to the TTRPG community of the changing industry.

 

[Necropolitan]

The Gutenberg Press didn't depend on stealing the intellectual property of others to create it, didn't insert lies into what it was used to print, and wasn't primarily used to avoid paying people for the work they did.

AI isn't the printing press, it's Mr. Burns's sun blocker:

 

[kayakingpoodle]

For how long? How long do you think boycotting AI is going to work for? I know you hope that it could be permanent. And that you and those with your views could shutdown AI so it is never used in TTRPGs (and probably more places).

As long as needed for the proper change to occur, it's just a little code and some licensing to sort it out. The TTRPG space went the better part of 50 years without it, I challenge you or anyone to provide an argument that doesn't distill down to laziness and blatant disregard for the people actually creating the basis for the "tools" (parasites) making a living off of them in the name of "progress", and for the "greater good" while refusing to both acknowledgeand compensate those that actually made the LLM's possible. That is all it is pure and simple laziness and lack of value placed on the content "we" either can't, or won't create ourselves but now have an easy excuse not to pay for because a LLM is the actual theif and we are (wink wink nudge nudge) unsuspecting accomplices because it is so easy.

Nope not for me nor at a table I will play at.