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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8160957" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Nay-sayers were saying TTRPGs were doomed in the 1990's. They were not only wrong, but dead wrong; the hobby is larger than ever. (More copies of D&amp;D 5E cores than any prior edition, and supposedly, all prior editions combined. If that wasn't a WotC exaggeration, then it means at least 2 million units sold. 5E PHB was on Amazon's top-100 books selling list (not games, but of all books) for multiple years.People have been saying computer aided gaming is going to displace analogue-only. So far, that's in error too.If you think computer moderated games (games where the computer is the GM) will takeover before true AI arrives, I think you're wrong. Sure, some pretty sophisticated stuff has been done in interactive fiction, but it's not even close to a suitable GM replacement. Automated tables have been a thing for literally decades, but they aren't nearly as widely used as they could be; many, including the teens and 20-somethings I've been GMing for seem to prefer me not having tech at the table except for maps. And I prefer they don't have their phones out during game, too.Many of the kids new to it love the LACK of automation; it's a selling point, not a drawback.To quote my eldest (now adult) child, &quot;Calculators, yes. Computers at the table? F*** No!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8160957, member: 6779310"] Nay-sayers were saying TTRPGs were doomed in the 1990's. They were not only wrong, but dead wrong; the hobby is larger than ever. (More copies of D&D 5E cores than any prior edition, and supposedly, [I]all prior editions combined[/I]. If that wasn't a WotC exaggeration, then it means [I]at least [/I]2 million units sold. 5E PHB was on Amazon's top-100 books selling list (not games, but of all books) for multiple years. People have been saying computer aided gaming is going to displace analogue-only. So far, that's in error too. If you think computer moderated games (games where the computer is the GM) will takeover before true AI arrives, I think you're wrong. Sure, some pretty sophisticated stuff has been done in interactive fiction, but it's not even close to a suitable GM replacement. Automated tables have been a thing for literally decades, but they aren't nearly as widely used as they could be; many, including the teens and 20-somethings I've been GMing for seem to prefer me not having tech at the table except for maps. And I prefer they don't have their phones out during game, too. Many of the kids new to it love the LACK of automation; it's a selling point, not a drawback. To quote my eldest (now adult) child, "Calculators, yes. Computers at the table? F*** No!" [/QUOTE]

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