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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...

I agree with you with regard to greed but I think it is somewhat overhyped because these people have some staggering stock valuations. Big enough that a wobble or any doubt about their technology could bring about a stock market crash that could be society threatening. I am not saying that AI...

The problem they are sounding the alarm and still going ahead. This makes me suspicious, if they were really alarmed why not stop?

It is not just the words, it is anything relating to a particular commonly recurring phenomenon, railroading, simulation, narrative, etc. These things are strange attractors in discourse here and the conversation will start to spiral in one or other when it crops up.

Except we never have a conversation, some outlines something and someone says "sandbox" or "railroad" and the conversation always devolves to 20 pages of the meaning of the words and how they apply to rpgs. There may be some conversation going on but it tends to get lost in the noise.

Again this may be true but not useful in establishing a taxonomy.

You are absolutely correct but if we cannot establish a common usage for "railroad", "linear", and "sandbox", we are never going make any progress on anything more complex.

Then to be honest I would not consider that a railroad. Even less so if the players are playing in an adventure arc. They have already agreed to play in a campaign where they will have to go where the adventure leads. There is more of a case if the campaign was presented as a sandbox but...

I am one of those that think that the term "Railroad" is a negative term and should only apply to the fail state where the DM forces the player to be or do something by negation of decisions. The example of the infinite supply of high level monks to block all paths but the correct one is...

I know all this, I am not the one spending 22 billion on it. Just speculating about that they might be aiming for. As far as your last question, war is a thing of humans and their societies. If lives are not on the line, it is not war, it is a game.

Yes, because it is hard, but I can see the attraction. Modern soldiers lug around a lot of battery and screen weight. Well Microsoft demoed 3D virtual projection about 10 or 15 years ago using modified kinect cameras as projectors but I have no idea how it would be made interactable. They...