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Well, with that resume, I'm certainly not hiring Dancey for my RPG start-up! But I'm not going to hold all of that against him as a person. He was in charge for a lot of that, but not exclusively so, and no doubt holds a reasonable amount of responsibility for the various failed projects (the...

I respect your own recall of events, but . . . I'm taking all of that with a grain of salt without more solid links. Not that you need to worry about solving my curiosity, it's just that I don't recall any of that . . . of course, it's been a long while. D&D 3.5 came only 3 years after 3.0 . ...

What were Dancey's shenanigans during the TSR acquisition? How did Dancey crash and burn with D&D 3.5? What happened with Eve Online and Pathfinder Online? Not that I'm doubting your list of negative Dancey events . . . I'm honestly not familiar with most things on the list!

I agree that learning and playing multiple RPG games is a way to improve your enjoyment of the hobby! I also think the hobby supporting multiple games is healthy for the hobby and industry. Not that there is anything wrong with sticking with your favorite game to the exclusion of other games...

That's a take I have a hard time agreeing with. WotC promoting D&D and working to keep it at the center of the industry by making it an open game . . . certainly incentivized publishers to create d20 products, but didn't prevent them in any real way from publishing non-D&D games. WotC didn't...

Buddy, we'll have to agree to disagree.

If your goal is to reduce the number of game systems out there in favor of D&D . . . I think the "how" you go about it is important. I don't think the goal itself is "offensive". Staff at WotC seemed to honestly believe that "system proliferation" was harmful to the RPG industry as a whole . . ...

I miss the days you were creating content for WotC. Although I enjoy your work with MCG! Was one of Dancey's goals to eliminate all non-D&D games? Or virtually so, at least? Or was one of his goals to further cement D&D in the center of the industry, and lower the number of other, non-D&D...

Good questions. Maybe declaring art that incorporates AI generated elements "not art" isn't helpful. But to me, it is problematic. It certainly isn't black-and-white, your image shared above actually doesn't bother me overmuch, and I understand (I think) why you created it. But the use of AI...

A work of art doesn't need a primary author. Art can be collaborative without an individual needing to be on top. Setting aside the use of AI . . . when you brought all of these artistic elements together, did you create a new piece of art? I think we could argue that, although I'd argue, "no"...

Yes. Obviously, there was a lot of human-generated slop before the rise of our AI overlords. Since the dawn of time actually, before even the rise of social media. But you could follow trusted sources and feel reasonably certain the news you were reading was written by a journalist. I don't...

That's one way to parse what he said. Dancey worked for a game company that wanted to sell more games. He came up with a way to do that, which also preserved D&D 3E (and eventually 5E) as an open game. How terrible. The OGL put D&D 3E into the community as a game anyone could design content...

It certainly isn't going to help Dancey in the job search within the games industry . . . or maybe it will! Dancey isn't the only person in the industry (seemingly) eager to replace creative workers with AI. He should probably apply back with Hasbro . . . Maybe he can start a new company, he...

That's my fear, that civilization ends buried in AI-generated slop. Art, news, all content. I already feel that I can't trust anything that comes across my social media feeds. :(

I don't think Dancey's intent was to slam AEG's designers specifically . . . but rather AI, in his opinion, can create games just as well as humans, not just within AEG but industry wide. He used AEG games as examples, because those are the games he is likely most familiar with. I disagree with...

Dungeonesque (2017) from Rogue Comet. It's been forever since I've read through my copy and I've never played it, but it might be what you are looking for. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/9692/rogue-comet

Some of us enjoy the cinema experience. I already own The Fifth Element on Blu-Ray. I'm excited about seeing it on the big screen again.

Um, yes? A successful money grab?

Money grab? Man, I really dislike that phrase. Yes, they hope to make some money. Why else would they bring the film back to theatres? Movie cinemas are struggling, and one of the things the industry is doing to try and boost income is to bring back older films for a limited theatrical re-run...

Got it. Sorry I misunderstood. But neither of you know the numbers of folks who have decided to leave D&D 5E for another game. Certainly people have, but listening to folks kvetch on online forums is anecdotal at best. I agree that the communities for other games are healthy, vibrant, and...