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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8807850" data-attributes="member: 7028554">If a modern Traveller game leaned all the way into what we now understand as AI advancements and their seeming ubiquity in the future I think it would be a terrible experience. Unless you pull a Dune or similar to explain why everything isn’t AI-ified it would become constant automation by everyone—dealing with nothing but drones and similar using your own drones and similar—but also just heinously boring, as everyone in the group essentially puts on their amateur AI dev hat and debates how the field will evolve, based on their own varying and likely faulty understanding of the technology today. I think “realistic” SF is a nightmare for an RPG. At best it’s the players oohing and aahing over a GM’s overly detailed attempt at worldbuilding through constant exposition. At worst it’s just a running group debate that’s ultimately about which misleading Gizmodo articles people have read and predicting how tech will do everything for your character.</blockquote>