After a series of AI scandals, the CEO of Hasbro has revealed he's "excited" about using the technology in "Dungeons & Dragons."
Sounds like a great reason to not buy any of the DnD 2024 shit then. My players and I are perfectly happy with 5e
DnD Beyond is laying all the ground work for full enshitification as they do a soft push away from 5e to whatever the fuck live service subscription and micro transaction model they'll be pursuing.
They'll probably try the "blind bag" monetization of minis again... or worse, do "blind bags" of subscription model virtual minis with log-in bonus and "battle pass" shit.
Yep, they're trying to create their own virtual tabletop, which will fit perfectly with that.
At some point start introducing power creep so players want to purchase access to new classes and feats.
At some point start introducing power creep so players want to purchase access to new classes and feats.
4th edition already pulled that grift, making each additional book full of Glowing Eyed Generic Epic People a bit more power-creeped than the last.
Never "buy" a digital only product. They have already taken them away once
I am happy getting physical products since they can't be changed and I own them. Nothing digital ever again
Great time to get into, oh, any RPG that isn't connected to WOTC.
Ton of options available, including many designed to offer similar experiences to various editions of D&D if that's your jam.
When it's not a marketing team bumbling things up, you instead surrender the creativity to someone's fickle whims.
I'm sure this is going to go about as well as the star citizen's devs (or owner) choosing to go with the crysis engine for their massive game on a whim.
you instead surrender the creativity to someone's fickle whims
The corpos want entire game groups to surrender their own creativity to the diluted reconstituted slop churned out by the treat printers... and pay for that privilege.
I'm sure some will go for it, and never experience the joy of being creative themselves, or having a creative Dungeon Master for that matter. Just line up for more IP-regurgitating slop that burns down acres of forest amid all the prompt retries!
Only DND and AI combination I want is a massive random table. I want thousands of good human made ideas that I can query for a random selection using tags. This is not what is going to be made.
Using current AI for DND ideas gives the worse most cliche and generic responses that bore me to tears.
Expect a lot of smirking, winking, and excessive use of "squelch" sounds.
Wow that sucks
AI art is going to do the same thing to fantasy art that digital art did: completely destroy the immersive feeling for the benefit of rich assholes who want to pump out slop quicker and cheaper
Whatever problems you might have with low-effort digital art, the two are not remotely comparable.
Digital art, at the least, didn't uplift itself at the uncredited expense of the artists themselves, pushing them further into precarity.
That's a limp deflection. Is it really so difficult to not go around mocking people for typing errors like a 13-year-old?
