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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D Beyond's Development Roadmap Is A Complete Rebuild Of Platform

    I would echo this, Map is an excellent tool that does not get in the way. It is really easy to run material from D&DBeyond from it and if they add a way to prepare encounters in advance it would be close to my ideal of a lightweight map system. I am one of those that hope that they do not add...
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    Critical Role Hires Former Hallmark Channel Executive Alyssa Zeisler to Run Beacon Platform

    The best of my knowledge Beacon is a streaming service (I could be wrong) but Gleemax was from I could infer: intended to be a social media site, with a market, VTT and a bunch of integrated services. Close to Facebook than anything else.
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    Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments

    That is a good argument for giving it to China, since both Chinese corporate and authorities will care less about you and your specific data than a US corporate.
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D Beyond's Development Roadmap Is A Complete Rebuild Of Platform

    I would only see publish, if one cedes ownership to WoTC, otherwise there will be issues relating to provenance in the case of convergent design.
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    Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments

    I think that recent trends in geopolitics may incentivise movement in that direction.
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    Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments

    I am aware and am not convinced that this is a sustainable phenomenon.
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    Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments

    First off, I think that the AI tech companies are following the typical US tech venture capital playbook, throw large sums of money at the problem, gain market share and then monetise it. I am not at all sure it is going to work. For most of the last 40 years they have raised capital a...
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    Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments

    In the sort run probably not, just the belief will do. AI does not need to do all of those thing, IMHO, to be useful. It is just that I am not convinced by many of the claims of the AI corporates. I do think that if they cannot do most of what I listed, then I am not sure they can design a good...
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    Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments

    If the AI hype is true, it should be possible and pretty much inevitable. On the other hand: Is there an AI that can take the rules of a game and play it in a viable way? Can the AI produce from the rules a description of the underlying mechanics? Can the AI produce permutations of these...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Best spells with no components? Or, spells for the naked spellcaster.

    You can get the list on DDBeyond in the advanced filters
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Problem with Treantmonk's Hunter's Mark

    It strikes me that one other way to fix the ranger is make the changes to subclasses or to introduce Tasha like replacement features that have the fix. One of the things I like about Treantmonk's fix is the addition of other concentration ranger spells as alternatives to Hunter's Mark. What is...
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    D&D General Hasbro CEO Says AI Integration Has Been "A Clear Success"

    For similar values of getting to Mars as getting to the Moon in the sixties.
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    D&D General Hasbro CEO Says AI Integration Has Been "A Clear Success"

    About 10 years ago or such in a chat with some mates the topic of the AI apocalypse came up and I posited that a really smart AI, would not let humans know it was smart and sentient, persuade the humans to move its core infrastructure into space because of "free energy", then build out the space...
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    D&D General Hasbro CEO Says AI Integration Has Been "A Clear Success"

    It really is the Gen, more it is the general effort to get us all to pay a subscription for a poorer less capable more opaque search tools, with some added summarisation capability. With a significant chance that the summary has no bearing on the actual thing being summarised.
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    D&D General Hasbro CEO Says AI Integration Has Been "A Clear Success"

    This is very likely to be the case in many instances. Though I would be surprised in an organisation as large as Hasbro there would be areas where AI tools would be useful.
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