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I disagree it's all OCRed. Having seen some scans of TSR stuff, most of it is pretty sketchy looking and not easily read by AI, particularly for training purposes not something they'd scan. In addition, if your concern about AI is unethically taking authors properties without permission and...

Had to look this up, "Walter Benjamin predicted that the technical reproduction of art would lead to a breaking of art’s spell (‘Entzauberung’). Art became less obscure, more accessible and thus less magical because of technical reproduction. … "

Hasbro's previously stated ponderings are that the database used for their AI will include just the stuff WOTC owns for D&D. ChatGPT won't have all that in their database. Indeed, much of it has never been issued in digital text it could access. That's what WOTC can offer that ChatGPT...

I think it will have some. It likely will offer digital miniatures, maybe digital dice, maybe digital terrain, I don't know. But I don't think that will be a primary method they focus on for revenue. I think it will be subscriptions they go for, as re-occurring revenue will be better for their...

If a claim has no support, it probably shouldn't be made in a confident tone like it's common knowledge. That's what I was responding to and you jumped into with these gadfly responses.

The claim was made, so I responded to it. If you have evidence they are planning to push lots of microtransactions, let's see it.

WOTC has yet to advocate for microtransactions. If you disagree, show me a quote.

Yeah the spells states outright it's not invisible, "The dome is opaque from the outside, of any color you choose" which is how creatures so often find us if we just do it out in the open.

Yes he's done that too. Recently in fact. It's forced us to find a secure area to rest, which means more encounters between rests, which was exactly the result he wanted. I hear people say they have 2 encounters total in an adventuring day, with a short rest in between them, and I think that's...

Our DM hates these spells, so runs them literally and to the letter of the rules. Rope Trick lasts 1 hour, you have to rest a full hour to get a short rest, but you have to get into the rope trick and then back out of it, and if you don't exit within the hour it disappears and you fall, and he...

The new Greater Mark of Hospitality will be pretty handy if there is more Exhaustion in the game. Already it can be used to allow PCs to work throughout the long rest on crafting a magic item and remove the level of exhaustion from not sleeping, which is pretty neat. Which is good, because...

I don't know enough to answer that question as well as someone else I suspect.

They're not in a game. It's more like the rules of magic are game-like (for reasons explained in the books), and the main character has a unique interface which is interpreting the rules for the character in a way he can understand, because he's a nerd from Earth who played RPGs.

Indeed. I've only read He Who Fights with Monsters, and only because it was highly recommended to me. And it's good. Worth reading. But I've heard some negative things about some other LitRPG books. So far I have not ventured beyond this series. But Dungeon Crawler Carl will probably be my next...

No there is no game. The author is creating the system, as background, that governs certain aspects of the setting in the novels. It's just a premise which uses the conventions of RPGs with science-fiction and fantasy novels. In this case, the main character is transported to a world which...

They are high on my list (I am reading comedy crime stuff right now). But I can recommend the LitRPG series, "He Who Fights with Monsters" by Shirtaloon. Warning: BIG books, and 12 of them so far, and he puts out a new book relatively often. I prefer them as audio books.

Agreed. And I'd say The Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch is up there too.

As one of my groups approaches switching over to 2024, and having read much more of the new core books than before, I am overall very happy with the 2024 rules but bothered by some elements here and there. The subclasses are overall vastly improved. The monsters are, in general, vastly...

Am I to understand that Mr. Ahmed said in his blog that his depression has not just caused him to not write the sequel, not just caused him to not respond to fans with any updates anymore, but had caused him to complete an entire draft of the sequel and then delete the entire thing? Woof. It...