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Great - that's your opinion. No need to raise alarm bells, no need to start pushing back. That's certainly not the opinion of a lot of the artists I follow online. A few of them who have done business with Wizards in the past have already said basically "if Wizards starts using AI art I stop...

If they're doing what you want them to do there's no need to raise alarm bells. It's only when they're going in a stupid direction that you need to raise the alarm. It's not like Hasbro has feelings that get hurt when people get mad about something stupid they're doing. They're a corporation...

It's on the "investor buzzword bingo sheet" right now. Everyone has to find a way to shoehorn it into things that investors might be reading. The audience for the interview is the folks who read VentureBeat which means talking about the things on the bingo card. I think folks are still right to...

The thing is that one of the things that AI LLMs are actually quite good at is producing text that is well polished. If you're using AI anyway there's no excuse for not feeding the document into an AI and have it rewrite it to sound more professional for you. Of course you do need to read it...

I think it may be because I cut my teeth on BECMI for cosmology (which was radically different than AD&D), but I've always liked tweaking the Great Wheel and adding things to it when I do use it. I definitely have this one bookmarked to come back to before the kickstarter ends.

Today I learned that the wargame Chronopia was spun off from Dragonbane. I didn't know that.

Would depend entirely on the DM and the group. I'm willing to play anything with the right DM and the right group. I personally wouldn't want to run a game like that anymore (and as I'm forever DM it would probably be my call for my group) because I like games that fall outside of the typical...

Discworld is a hard fit to an RPG because it's more about tone than any other setting I can think of. It's one where I feel like with the right group any system can work with it as a setting but also that there isn't a system that can make the setting work for an average group of players. I'll...

There's a good question of "why" though. Why not use one of her other guises? Especially if this is a capstone sort of campaign that could involve the same characters who've already met her in that guise? If they'd used Bigby or Fizban instead of Alustriel Silverhand I'd assume it was a way to...

I mean, this might be an objection, but Evil Genius Games was a Venture Capital backed company to the tune of $1.5M dollars. They're not a small company running a Patreon, and while they did have a Kickstarter for their Everyday Heroes game, it feels more like it was the pre-order/hype building...

I don't think developing a game was the goal. I think he really thought he'd found the "one weird trick to get a lot of money out of Hasbro". Get the trademark, squat on it, and force Hasbro to pay out seems like it was probably the plan. If he'd just wanted to make a game he could have easily...

I actually wouldn't be surprised if the DMG doesn't come out until 2025. I fully expect it to be the last book to come out again because it's the book you only barely need to play the game. I do think they'll get the MM out before the end of the year. The Monster Manual of all the books...

I don't know why, but up until I saw the "May 2024" date on the promo piece I just assumed that the PHB would be released in August, the MM a month or so after that, and then the DMG eventually. The 3e release schedule was staggered with the PHB in august, the DMG in september, and the MM in...

The version that @squibbles describes is the orange covered original version of B3 written by Jean Wells. The version that most of us would never have seen back in the 80s/90s because it was pulped with only a handful of copies that escaped the process. The one we would have seen back in the...

Probably Sunless Citadel to be honest. It's light on plot anyway, but I've used the top layer of the citadel for a lot of different games.

I'm not 100% sure it's his actual "worldview". From what I've read he actually sounds like a nice guy in real life and he doesn't seem that cynical about the world. His films, on the other hand, present a deeply cynical worldview where violence is often the best and only solution to solving...

I would not be surprised to find out that both Netflix and Evil Genius came to the same conclusion and that the "amicable resolution" was basically the recognition that the profits from the property were never going to pay for a lawsuit for either of them no matter who ended up owning the...

What's interesting is that with the exception of Battlesystem every other war game they've sold has been a skirmish game. In general concentrating on having synergy with the RPG with the kinds of battles you run in a skirmish game being similar to what you'd do in a roleplaying session...

Yes - just because I buy and mostly play 13th Age as my fantasy game of choice it doesn't mean that I don't also have a number of 5e books as well. Games aren't cars - people can usually afford to own more than one.

No worries - thanks for doing the moderation work over there - this is literally the first time I've seen something like this so you must be doing something right!