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WOTC just released the first Errata for the D&D 2024 Player's Handbook: https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog#2024CoreRulesErrata and in PDF! https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/errata/PHB-24/PHB-2024_v1.pdf https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/errata/DMG-24/DMG-24_v1.pdf...

Our book was full color and very reasonable. I didn't know the Monster Overhaul was with them! Interesting!

They just do books but I've absolutely loved working with Friesens. They're family owned, 100 year old company who produces huge quantities of books. Very professional. Good prices. I'm not sure its any sort of solution for EN World but I love them.

We actually tried to drop-ship books from our Canadian printer to our Canadian customers and it was more expensive than shipping books to our NA fulfillment company who then sent them back to Canada.

There is a bit of the Starbucks problem here. People are willing to pay $6 for Starbucks because they know Starbucks. If you crash your black van into a wall in front of someone, leap out wearing your ski-mask, and demand they pay you $6 for your coffee, they're likely to mace you and run away...

I would feel better about both of those approachs than I feel now but there's still a lot to be managed like focusing on using up a lot less power.

I feel different about it when the model is released to the world instead of hidden in a tech bro company trying to scam investors.

I would. They further exasperate income inequality They trick bosses into believing they can fire people They use tons of power and water They continue to evoke a false sense of accuracy They displace human work with cheap trash They artificially inflate stock valuations for publicly traded...

who knows. I wouldn't be surprised if it all collapses but we have a bunch of open LLMs floating around we can use for little things like formatting tables and writing mundane code we don't feel like writing ourselves.

Asking permission also would have been nice.

I wonder what they'd call it if I went and took OpenAI's fancy new model and hosted it on Github. Personally, I'm less concerned about models released in the open than the big commercial models. "OpenAI" has three lies in six characters. It's not open. It's not artificial (its based on human...

This is just one source -- that bigass pile of published books -- there's a lot of stuff beyond this.

The Atlantic had a lookup. My books were there. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

So let’s try to fix that problem.

I want my two dollars. Either my material is valuable to LLMs and thus I should be compensated, or it’s not useful and they shouldn’t get a 400 billion valuation. Clearly the material they used for training is valuable or their company wouldn’t be worth spit. I release all of my articles under...

Many D&D designers do exatly that. Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet made 13th Age. Rob Schwalb made Shadow of the Weird Wizard. Monte Cook made Numenera. Rodney Thompson made Dusk City Outlaws. Why must they currently work for WOTC for us to pay attention to the games they clearly wanted to make?

I don’t think it’s realistic to assume they can do that. It takes a lot of training data to build a reasonable model. WOTC doesn’t have enough material or enough talent. But it’s all hypothetical anyway, I suppose, until Cocks tries to slip it into D&D Beyond to appease their dudebro...

I think of that list as "ranges of dead-ness". When a game's growing popularity begins to soften, some might say its dying. When a publisher stops publishing, others say it's dying. But waaay down at the bottom is "I can't find it and I can't find anyone who's playing it". @TheSword's idea...

We've seen various clickbait titles that "D&D 5e is dead!" or "is the OSR dying?" which, I know, is just there to get a reaction. But the question is interesting to me because of how different this hobby is from many other electronic gaming hobbies where a core company controls the fate of a...

Has anyone ever tried it? If they have, have they ever succeeded? Or is this totally hypothetical? Is the concept of "withdraw" an actual legal bit of movement in contract law? Or are we just making up things to worry about?