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I don't know about "vast majority", I don't have the numbers. I imagine the young cohort you are describing that graduates from high school or whatever and then never buys another pack does exist. But completely anecdotally, I know maybe 40 or so players my age (also 40 or so) who have been in...

Without the frenzy over collectability, people probably wouldn't be willing to spend SO MUCH for real cards compared to what it costs to print them. (I do think players attach some amount of nebulous premium onto official cards that isn't easily quantified, but still) WotC would probably have to...

There is a huge clash between people who see MtG as primarily a game to be played, and often played as affordably as possible, and people who see cards as a store of value or even a way to trade and speculate into profit. Often that clash happens within a single person. "I want the cards I own...

This was always stupid and doomed to fail, but it was at least entertaining. There is a whole genre of folk wisdom that has grown up among MtG players about how WotC is legally bound to ensure the collector value of their little pieces of trademarked cardboard, and Mark Rosewater will turn to...

With that resume, I doubt she was hired for any kind of direct customer-facing responsibilities at all. She seems more like the kind of person you would hire if you were trying to shape Critical Role into a brand name that could stand apart from, and compete directly with, the D&D model of...

Yeah I will keep an eye on it! I did notice that they are in the process of fulfillment for physical product, I was just hoping that the pdf would be available for sale since the ability for customers to buy it and download it shouldn't tax their fulfillment infrastructure at all, and would...

This sounded really cool to me, so I went looking-is there any place to currently buy the pdf? All I could find was the old kickstarter, which is long since over and doesn't seem to have any options for late backing, and a webpage for the product...that leads back to the kickstarter!

I read all of book 1 in a sprint and thought it was okay, definitely serviceable as entertainment. I'm also a huge simp for Roman aesthetics in fantasy, superficial or not. I see 100% why people deride it as derivative of the Red Rising books, but I also don't mind derivative if it isn't...

As Dresden is an avowed disciple of the dao of Peter Parker, I suppose it's appropriate that we'd eventually get our "Into the Dresdenverse"!

I personally would say that, if your combats feel like they get locked in stasis, what you likely have is a pacing or engagement issue rather than an issue with too many attacks missing. There are teams of threads and advice about making d&d combat more fun; I won't annoy you by resurrecting...

While I personally would definitely run an unbending lawful good character who was 100% convinced that Omelas was a utopia and the bliss of a whole nation could be weighed against the suffering of one (and you could make a lawful evil sonufab*** who proselytizes the same thing), your post is...

I might argue that strong moral relativism is pretty true neutral. (I might regret making that argument too, but let's give it a shot) It's not actively trying to maintain a balance between "Good" and "Evil", it's arguing that such definitions are actually highly subjective and constructed by...

IMO your launch cost could be 0, and it would still make no sense because you'd need to replace your whole data center every year as pieces burn out and can't be repaired and old hardware becomes obsolete due to the latest chips being released. Banks already won't underwrite chips in data...

This is super off topic, but I'm so curious about these supposed space data centers. Sure, electricity is a big cost in AI, but the other huge issue is cooling. In space, solar is abundant (but not cheap, because you have to build the same solar panels but then launch them into orbit, which is...

Fair enough, and sorry for sniping the reply lol. We're good!

I understand the snark, but afaik a low demand prompt like the ones I ask for typically produce CO2 on the order of microwaving something for a few seconds or...spending several minutes typing on a laptop. For some of my activities I'm particularly slow at, I bet I use less electricity on the AI...

I definitely wouldn't send like, pages and pages of stuff to read to a new player. AI generated or not! I'm more of a "2 pages of bullet points and some short paragraphs" kind of guy. I can see how several pages of AI slop would be an annoying thing to be expected to read through, but IME my...

I guess I'm one of the lonely GMs who actually does use AI for my games. Not usually for creative stuff (though it can be great for shaking me out of writers block in the same way that mad libs can provoke creative breakthroughs from utter randomness), but for example it's really useful for...

Book five is the last one I finished, I think I go a third of the way through the next one or so and then fell off. Which isn't knock against the book necessarily, as that also coincided with the end of the vacation where I'd been binge reading them, and by the time I found more time to read...

Oh things definitely happened with wider ramifications, it's just not a very good self-contained Dresden-style mystery adventure plot. IMO, of course. That's okay though, because it's not really a rip-roaring story of supernatural peril and intrigue this time, it's a story of healing and grief...