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Looks like they cleared their goal, with a bit over a day to go.

The 3P Manual of the Planes was dramatically better than the official 5E Planescape set. I've read every non-adventure PS book and have been a Planescape fan since the day it launched, so this isn't a casual opinion.

Worth noting they have an early bird discount and everything is in Canadian, so cheaper than it appears at first glance for US folks.

True. And there are D&D groups composed entirely of famous Hollywood stars, super models, active military, or librarians.

Ultimately he's showing that either he doesn't have a common experience and/or he says false things about what experience he does have. A millionaire CEO is unlikely to ever really have an average person's experience given their position.

Thinking about it, I could see one way AI could have an impact: Helping indecisive and distracted players. If it could give them a tiny tiny menu of options they could just push the button on it could speed up play for some tables.

I feel that AI is unlikely to increase revenue in a significant way. The income of players will not increase. Online play already exists and is free. Gaming tools already exist. I do not think the market for AI DMs or players is terribly large, and it would compete with real gaming communities...

I imagine he's talking a lot more about professional activities and experiments rather than typical organic hobbyist activities.When I was a game tester I "played video games with" tons of people and "played" all kinds of games that I would never so much as look at.

AI is currently a buzzword being applied to various automation efforts. Typically the current usage applies to Generative Models, which analyze existing data, reduce it to a simplified form, and can then remix it based on requests made to it.

When a solution is available it's pretty normal to identify all possible applications for it. You should see how many ways people use peanuts.

It would likely be a trivial cost. Depends on the LLM and plan they use, but it could easily be a rounding error if they're already paying for it for other things.

That's exactly why the technology would be helpful. Zero Effort is easier to sell than Some Effort.

Even just helping writers avoid accidental lore contradictions would lower the blood pressure of some of the better-read fans.

Yeah. Getting and digesting old data, sure, cool. Creating new data? Get a human. Edit: You don't need to get sour because you misunderstood my original statement. No shame in it or need to save face by mocking it now that you understand. <3

D&D Beyond has all the facts from every edition of the game? So I can ask it what color clothing thri-kreen interact with most often?

Sure. Who is going to generate those spreadsheets for every possible fact across several hundred documents?

For D&D it would be so much better to use LLMs as a research tool to help digest all of the existing works into usable data points and references to help humans catch up with decades of information without spending decades reading. "What are all the dragons that have acid powers" or "which...

I dislike 5E and 5E24 on their own merits, but WotC/Hasbro are why my disinterest and disappointment are coupled with active negative feelings.

That's 6-7 rounds! That's almost a turn.

Imagine how audiences would respond to an action move where every fight was concluded in 9-12 seconds.