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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

I just can't figure out what sane engineer or accountant or other office worker would use a tool that has a chance, however small, of...

What a bunch of soulless crap. If you cannot make a damn character…there is no hope. I read a lot about history…this includes...

I can't speak for the publishers, and would be interested to hear specific perspectives, but as a general principle, yes it did threaten...

Yet another reason to avoid WotC and their products. Thanks. I'll just add that one to the pile.

And that's fine, as far as I'm concerned. When I have characters flee... I let the player tell me where their character runs off to...

The carbon footprint for these models is largely down to the way they are trained and maintained, so while an individual front-end query...

This thread reminds me that WotC kept making noises about putting previous SRDs under CC, but has never actually made any movement in...

I have a much easier time believing that Chris Cocks and all of his “friends” use AI in everything they do than I have believing any of...

Five kids, 18, 16, 14, 3 and 1. Older 3 very much into dnd, and oldest also happily plays other RPGs like soulbound, edge of the...

I think the big question with AI doing a lot of that stuff is "Why would I want to read something nobody wrote?" and that very much...

It's notable that the wording here is extremely careful. All the actual examples given are ones that consumers don't really care about...

Translation from Execuspeak: "We have enabled Copilot on all Microsoft apps in the company and disabled the user permissions to turn it...

This seems like something that some players would find fun (even me in the right mood) but could be a real headache for the dm if they...