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I find that stat amazing given that we live in a world where YouTube exists. I suspect it's a proxy for "I'm willing to be in the same room while my significant other watches it" or "I like to go to Super Bowl parties but I don't care about the game." Or at least I hope it is :) Still doesn't...

Now I have thoughts of SJG marketing Car Wars as a collectible car game. (Using Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars for Car Wars was fun, but man those rules. In 8th grade I thought they were awesome, but the further I get from 8th grade the harder it is to imagine that I can even understand those...

The thing that interests me is how much interest in Star Wars games seemed to fall after Lucas started making movies again. I know part of it was that WEG went bankrupt and so the game was out of print, and Wizards made a d20 version that was contentious with the Star Wars fans, but even beyond...

There are two parts. The first is that what if you don't have to hack it yourself? Take Cortex as an example - there are multiple games published where the publisher uses the Cortex engine to create a game for you. If you want to run a heist game and you're choosing between Blades in the Dark or...

This is because your students are being asked to put together relatively trivial writing assignments that are there to build their skills not because you're asking them to do wonderfully creative work. It's the same in my field - programming. Yes some of these models can put together work that...

My view of general systems fits along these lines. Each system has a playstyle that it supports/enforces/mandates to some degree or another. If you want your game to have the same playstyle of the game you're currently playing, then having a general system is great! Like if I'm playing Spirit of...

Or like I tell my students - we've been "less than 10 years away" from self-driving cars for around 13 years at this point.

One major difference between what ChatGPT is doing and what we do (and there are so, so many) is that ChatGPT can literally only mix together what it has "read" to produce new text. Humans, on the other hand, have a complex system of inputs that include not just what we've read but also what...

I mean to be a little fair - ChatGPT is tuned to be a chatbot. It's not really supposed to be churning out literary text, it's supposed to be responding to queries as if it were a customer service representative on the other end whose job it was to answer whatever inane question you happen to be...

This likely has to do with the resources being allocated to it. The algorithm can be tuned to "remember" more or less of the previous conversation as it generates output and of course the more of the previous conversation it is tuned to "remember" the more resources it uses. When they first...

Nah - Alta Fox's big idea was "Hasbro is at $60/share but Wizards by itself is worth that, so if we spin the company off and have a stock split we'd be back at the equivalent of the $120/share it SHOULD be at and was circa 3 years ago. And then we can finally sell these shares and make back the...

Literally that's what you're going to get from an AI using current methods. In large data models the more examples you have of something occurring in your training set the more likely it will occur in the output. This will trend towards the system proposing things that are similar to but not...

Yeah the current Runequest hardcover is a befuddlement if you aren't already into the setting. I think they've decided that what makes people pick up the big Runequest hardcover is that they already play Runequest. I'll second the folks who say go for the starter set first. It's got a nice...

Way, way back in the day the Star Wars d6 game had a big following. Then WEG went bankrupt and George Lucas started making movies again and it feels like Star Wars RPGs have never been as popular after that one-two punch.

This is true. But I also feel like enworld used to have much broader conversations about other games. Not recently, but, like, 15-20 years ago it felt like there was more general ttrpg discussion about non-D&D games. I'm not even sure what killed it or when it disappeared (or if I'm just...

This was exactly the story I was thinking of, I just couldn't remember who published it. Should have remembered it was Linda Codega's.

Still about double what anyone should actually be paying for it IMO.

BofA is just reiterating what they've previously said in a report to a different audience. So it's not a further downgrade just a reiteration of their previous one with some new data added. Like this little quote: "We remain especially cautious on Hasbro's Wizards segment given its...

Did he actually claim that? Or are people saying that he claimed that? Because that literally does not make sense. The OGL is not a license you have to sign to agree to, it's a license you accept just by agreeing to its terms. I suspect people really are conflating the OGL 1.1 preview that was...

I always thought that a licensed version of Cartoon Action Hour would be a good fit for He-Man. But Spectrum could probably never afford Mattel's prices.