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Nope. But that's OK. A million is just an arbitrary number.

No, I said that funding goals are often set artificially low. Not that creators don’t need the Kickstarter funds.

You can’t. A project which doesn’t make its funding goal makes nothing.

Nah, that thing is cardboard. I do have a metal One which lights up and makes noises, but I don’t think I’d risk taking it out on Halloween. I’d only break it or lose it.

Although TV and movies, it's reversed. Fantasy is the unpopular one, and sci-fi rules supreme (LotR and Game of Thrones notwithstanding).

You sound lonely. I'm sorry.

I'm gonna be a Kirk this year. I know, it's a bit easy, as costumes go. This is my trial run. (I tried the bell bottoms, and even bought a pair, but I just can't find boots the right length for them--you either end up with a silly looking stick-like ankle gap, or they interfere with the bell...

You believe that no VTT will ever incorporate an AI GM? Boy are you in for a world of disappointment!

Or just folks like hanging out with each other. Basic human nature.

Some of these are not variants of D&D. Draw Steel and Daggerheart aren't; they aren't even d20 systems--they don't use d20s for their core mechanics! I feel it diminishes them to call them d20 or D&D variants. I'm not familiar enough with some of the others to say whether they are.

Don't worry. There will always be people who want to make and play TTRPGs.

I imagine that at the point TTRPG publishers become video game publishers, new markets for TTRPGs will become apparent. At the point where you're logging onto a VTT to play game run by an AI, you're playing a co-operative video game. Folks have video games already. And future BG3 type games...

Nope!

On that note (while recognising my own complicity) let’s please avoid turning this into Yet Another AI Thread Where One Person Stans It For Pages While Everyone Argues With Them. We’ve had enough of those and we all know how it will go, word for word. Let’s get back to the actual thread topic...

Incorrect. Have a look at YouTube or the Amazon Kindle section sometime. It’s all slop. Fake trailer slop. Fake look-a-like book slop. Crappy incorrect search result summaries. This is now, not a year ago.

Incorrect. AI slop is an excellent way to describe the massive onslaught of low quality plagiarised crap filling YouTube, Kindle, search results, and, unfortunately, RPG books. It is slop in every sense of the word. Maybe AI will one day end up with ethical and good quality uses. Right now...

Funding goals don’t mean much. They’re just an arbitrary number chosen by the publisher. Usually they’re committed to making the product long before the crowdfunder starts and the funding goal is just a marketing tool to message success early. Often they are set artificially low to achieve that.

Check tomorrow morning and multiply by 3.

Well, it’s important when you’re making a show, because it informs what happens in your show.