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Here is a bit of insight on how TTRPG books are written: When I work for EN Publishing or Purple Martin Games or DM Sarah or whomever else wants to hire me (nudge nudge wink wink) I am not told "Write a book" I am told "Write up some backgrounds within 2,000 words." Or "Write up a class within...

What is a player supplement book but a series of spells, archetypes, magic items, etc? Have it write a hundred different spells, 30 magic items, a new archetype for every class, 15 new feats, and a partridge in a pear tree. Then ask it to write an introduction to the archetypes section. And an...

AI. Who would know the difference? I didn't even do a quick pass over it. Didn't even have to format it. That's just how the engine spat it out. Give it to an Editor to maybe change Enchantment to Evocation... or not.

Because twice, now, WotC has said they're gonna go all in on AI and then backed off a little under the backlash. Next time they do it they just won't announce it. They'll JUST do it. Because it's the ultimate goal of any corporation to make as much money as possible while paying the least...

Having a severely reduced writing staff throwing out Chat GPT prompts for monster designs, new spells, new magic items, archetypes, etc. Then doing a little clean up, throw it in a book, and ship it.

People publish novels written by AI after going over it, quickly, for an editing/cleanup pass. And sell them. And make money. Hell. One won the Atutagawa prize in Japan, which is a prestigious award to get. The novelist used ChatGPT for parts of the book and no one noticed until she announced...

What's this? Oh... The iconic art for the Blackguard Stretch Goal class!

Oh, super easy answers, take your pick! 1) They won't tell you. They'll just have the books largely written by AI, send a couple editors through it to chop it into the right shape, then ship it. At least 90% of the customer base won't recognize it's AI. 2) They'll make their own AI. With D&D...

A videogame is being made. The other videogames that were being made and were canceled are still canceled. Those artists, designers, programmers, and developers are not getting paid because their project was canceled.

I mean... 1) Large Language Models will never get there, and really that's all we're looking at. But they -are- good at generating piles of to-format content which is what most D&D writing is. "Make a CR 15 Monster based on the monster art you just created from my prompts." and BAM. Instant new...

Sure! I think paired with the killing of Sigil and Video Game stuff and the press on TV and Movies not going great (internally at Hasbro) we might be looking at a massive restructuring and redirection of D&D. Specifically, I think they're gonna go all in on AI.

He got laid off, Perkins and Crawford bailed, Jess Lanzillo... It's all pretty high profile.

This is turning into a bloodbath...

Bard Archetypes are the absolute worst archetypes to design... And it's not because they get a slot at high end. There's just not a lot of room to tell a story across 3 archetype slots at 3, 6, and 14. Even if players rarely level from 1 to 20, the archetype's narrative is important to spell...

The first of Five just sold! Someone with the initials JC is gonna get their character in the book!

... I do not understand how Backerkit functions, I guess. I set a timer for it to launch at noon Pacific time, and it launched 5 hours early. I repeatedly battled it to try and get it to do the EU and it kept resetting. Now that it -has- launched, fully, it let me change it?

@Nikosandros I hate to be a nuisance, but since I know you're in Europe and it wouldn't let you commit could you check to see if it says it will ship to you, now? If it still doesn't I'm going to send in an email.

Just been fighting the Backerkit interface to get the EU out of the list of excluded countries. I hit 'save' and it just keeps reverting.