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Oh they're so bad. WOTC stuff is positively usable in comparison. Here's an example from the second episode in their grand campaign...

I wasn't clear: I am not saying WotC is using GenAI in their marketing materials. What i am saying is that marketing departments appear...

The players guide had to revisit everything already done in 2014, in order to fulfill the mission of making KP’s back catalogue fully...

Advertising and marketing, counter-intuitively, are often the first to get the axe during an economic downturn (which tends to speed up...

I am talking about the marketing department doing their thing, not creative. For example, we just saw Critical Role get burned by...

I definitely am. I still think Shadowdark is the best gateway into D&D and RPGs.

I don’t disagree but I’m finding more and more folks running Shadowdark like that. As a simpler D&D and doing zero to hero type gaming...

I think that's more evidence that its popularity is high than that it's marketing is working. Causality is hard!

I know. I love Shadowdark. But if I were WOTC, I'd consider a single volume D&D basic book that leans more heroic versus dark and dangerous.

Based on what my wife -- an art director for a large reinsurer -- has seen, marketing is one of the first departments to fall to AI...

When you put it that way... Oof.

I don’t think it’s a matter of trying to encourage exploiting the feature with Dash synergies (I’m not even aware of any such synergies...

Mostly it’s just a weird quirk of how the Dash action is written - doubling your movement instead of allowing you to move up to your...

Shadowdark is right there.

D&D Basic edition (I can dream).