Search results

I am inclined to agree, which is why, if WoTC D&D was to cease, it would be replaced by the closest clone game.

If WoTC D&D vanished in the morning, I think new player acquisition would slow, but I could see one of the near clones (Tales of the Valiant, or Level UP) would probably see an increase in sales. It would take some time though for one of them to ramp up to WoTC's level.

I enjoyed it, the early seasons are a bit mixed, season 2 was poor but I thought the show got better, I enjoyed it and Atlantis but did not watch the end for real life reasons at the time.

Yup ;)

That inspires the thought of reskinning the Illithid as the Gou'ald from Stargate.

I think he envisions more a gray goo scenario but we are screwed either way. And I do not think a world government will help if he is right since I do not believe that assembling massive amounts of compute and training data is the only path to AI. I suspect that there are other ways that we have...

If this guy is correct we really are doomed and there is nothing that can be done. There is no way, that what he wants will be agreed to, or if agreed to, be made stick. Aside form the people with a religious belief that they have a duty to incarnate "Rocco's Basilisk" and the like. AI is the...

Nothing immediately, if they were TPK'ed probably what @Mort already wrote. It was my first ever (despite years of DMing ) having a campaign hold together to get into high levels as a DM or player and I will admit I made mistakes as to running it. I really found it difficult to make encounters...

Humans will be on the battle field as long as humans are fighting and directing the war. Armies are made of people and material. Losses in material almost never decide the outcome of a war. It is losses in people, unit cohesion and position that usually determines the outcome. A battle with no...

I think that this only happens when the DM is too bound by the text and does not tune the encounters or makes logical npc responses to pc actions. For example, when I ran Princes of the Apocalypse if a cult faction leader was killed, I had the faction collapse and flee the area.

Fanfiction all the way down.

This is as more an effect of copyright law and regulatory environment around large dominant corporations and the operating paradigm of those corporations than anything else. If copyright was invested in humans and not semi-immortal corporation things would be different.

Another advantage of a West Marches style campaign is that it will allow crossover between parties as other jobs and roles take up some of the time of the individual players.

I also fear the attempt, I think the society that tries will lose cohesiveness and collapse and that will not be pretty, and I think it is more likely in the absence of sentient Al than not.

The battlemaster is better but the additional masteries are in addition to an existing mastery. So round 1 fighting with a cleave weapon, Bleed: + Cha damage to target 1 and Sap and make a cleave attack on another creature etc, That is, it is an additional mastery effect. Probably best used...

Personally, I doubt that AI will be a singular technology or entity or that it will be particularly technologically exclusive. I also think that LLMs are an attempt to brute force the problems coupled with a belief that there will be a kind of network effect that makes the first to market...

I think Ready Player One is possible without AI, it is just an extrapolation of trends already in play. I am not convinced that the economics of Ready Player One is workable but I am not re-reading the book to find out. The outcome of AI could be anything from the Culture to the world of the...

Just curious, but what do you mean by a game having bad roleplay?

What purpose of the AIs might be served by blacking powergrids, I presume they need the power?

I think you would be playing a game of whack a mole and it would fail. I also think that LLMs are overrated. I also think that it will not be any single AI thing that will change everything but the cumulative effect of a lot of small incremental things converging. If you look at the development...