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Huh? If UK is able to produce a version that replaces all AI art with human art . . . you'd rather the AI art version instead? With the gaming content being the same?

We actually have a growing genre of RPGs aimed at a more diverse and inclusive player base. We could certainly use more. And, of course, they all suffer the same problem any not-D&D games does, visibility under D&D's huge shadow. And D&D itself is becoming more and more inclusive, although it...

That was not clear in your initial post. At all. Yes, the problem isn't that there aren't plenty of not-D&D games, but that more casual fans aren't learning about them. So, how can the industry improve on that beyond "better marketing"?

I think it's possible . . . but very difficult to pull off. A lot of the other things we're discussing in this thread, if incorporated into a new RPG . . . could help that RPG truly rival D&D in popularity.

That ship sailed long ago. Inflation, rising costs of plastics and shipping, and now tariffs . . . Relatively inexpensive UNPAINTED minis are starting to be a thing . . . there are several boxed sets on Amazon (and probably other retailers) that are of reasonable quality and price.

It would be cool if another RPG rose to the level of popularity D&D has enjoyed for 50 years now . . . But good luck with that! D&D is the originator of the genre and remains a very compelling game. Gygax and Arneson captured lightning in a bottle, which is incredibly difficult to do once, let...

And yet . . . the most successful and talked about RPGs are "fantasy heartbreakers" or D&D adjacent games, like Shadowdark. So, clearly compelling to a large segment of the fandom. Shadowdark is an awesome game and take on the genre, but it is very much a D&D-style game, a "fantasy heartbreaker".

Publishers creating more resources to help support and encourage gamers to take the GM's chair is a good thing. But . . . expecting your average GM to rise the level of the top stars in various streamed games isn't a realistic expectation. Even with good tools and support. Providing tools or...

Shadowdark isn't a "damn" D&D adjacent game? Anyway, there are a lot of "fantasy heartbreakers" for two main reasons. 1) Lots of designers want to try their hand at "D&D but better/different", and 2) lots of players want to play D&D style games . . . but "better/different". Groups choosing a...

If the D&D Beyond team can't support the mechanics of Symbaroum 5E . . . why bother at all? Free League and DDB have already implemented Lord of the Rings 5E without fully supporting the mechanics of the game . . . and there are official D&D mechanics from various books that have never been...

Personally, I prefer the web format on D&D Beyond to PDF format. Both formats have their pros and cons, of course, but the web books are a lot easier to search during a game. However, it seems odd to release a book on D&D Beyond without including character options. Symbaroum is a 5E-adapted...

Reaching "full accessibility" is like reaching perfection . . . you're never going to get there, but should always be striving to do so. Every publisher should make improving accessibility an important part of their development process. A good start would be reaching out to gamers/fans in...

I don't know about "killing" prep, but tools to reduce prep to as close to zero as possible . . . yes. The hobby assumption is that each group has a DM with the time to lovingly craft a world and story . . . and of course, folks like that are a lot rarer than folks who want to play!

What exactly are you thinking? Sounds interesting . . .

I don't know about the hobby at large, but I know what I'd like to see . . . More publishers putting their stuff on web-based platforms like D&D Beyond and Demiplane. Preferably bundled with PDFs and perhaps other digital formats as well. I'm currently running a LotR 5E campaign, and having...

That sounds like a good plan! If the B&W option is cheaper than the color version, that would be ideal. Not necessarily way cheaper, but a reasonably lower price. IMO, of course. Few publishers do this, but . . . I'd throw in the B&W edition (digital) with higher level pledge tiers, like the...

If I wasn't familiar with the publishing company or the author/creator . . . no, I would not back a campaign where AI-generated art is part of any version of the book. But, in cases where I am somewhat familiar, such as with folks here like @Steampunkette or @Upper_Krust, if I feel there is a...

I'll just drop in to add . . . I'd be happy to back an RPG book that had a mix of artist-commissioned black-and-white illustrations, artist-commissioned color illustrations, "sketches" and even stock art and public domain art. I'd also be okay with a book that is relatively light on art...

I'm excited for your long gestating project to finally come to light . . . But I'm one who won't be backing if AI generated art is used in the book. It's not that YOU are stealing an artist's work, it's that you would be participating in a technology that is based on scraping artists work...

Sorry, what I meant was that the US would benefit from being back manufacturing to the US. And that Canada would benefit from bringing back manufacturing to Canada. Et cetera. And, should we weather this insanity and return to a time where Canada can trust their southern neighbor . . . bringing...