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Oh, hell no! Yeah. No way it could develop something -new-. It can compile, it can compare, it can string words together in sentences and fill out formats. But it can't -create-.

Fair. But every player-facing book is still going to have the same mechanical structures. Archetypes, Spells, Feats, Etc. And AI can be trained to fill those things out to specifications. Will they be the highest quality? Probably not. But it'll be cheap and fast. And for corporations that...

There's no basis to assume companies will do whatever they can do to spend as little money as possible to make as much money as possible..? Riiiiiiiiight. Hasbro's CEO is a mouthpiece of the Board of Directors. And WotC can say what it wants. Google's slogan used to be "Don't be Evil" but they...

... yeah this is just a needless attack. But if you want details that support it: 1) Every corporation wants to make as much money for it's shareholders as possible while spending as little money to do it. Cutting their design staff to replace workers with AI would meet those criteria. 2) They...

I've written two, Umbran. Or do you mean an AI book? No. I'm not an ethically bankrupt corporation, I'm a designer. No. You don't. Just tell it to fill out a format and it fills out a format. Do it as many times as you need to to get all the material you need, and then you don't have to pay...

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.