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After a series of AI scandals, the CEO of Hasbro has revealed he's "excited" about using the technology in "Dungeons & Dragons."

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 87 points 10 months ago

Hasbro CEO is excited about not having to pay humans for their work anymore. Fify

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes please, kill d&d so the creative people currently working on it move to others IPs you don't control πŸ™

[–] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s the year of Pathfinder, y’all

(Or Lancer, if u a freak like that πŸ‘…)

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Me and my homies castigate the enemies of the godhead and ΒΏ%:?extru!de gun.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"I'm probably more excited though about the playful elements of AI," he said. "I play with probably 30 or 40 people regularly. There's not a single person who doesn't use AI somehow for either campaign development or character development or story ideas. That's a clear signal that we need to be embracing it."

So as a DM and Player, yes, there are uses for AI. Generating a good character portrait as opposed to scouring search engines is the obvious one. But I also had good useage with putting my loose outline in to AI story generators, while it only produced garbage cliches that I didn't use. It was a good way to brainstorm and see different angles of my original idea.

Having said all that, I super duper don't want AI to become a core part of DND/MTG, art in products should be ACTUAL art by ACTUAL artists. Not my 8 fingered free placeholder nonsense. I truly struggle to think of a good way that hasbro could be using AI that would help the game.

[–] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Naive hopeful me: maybe they will use it in the way it's described. For gathering ideas, developing concepts. Hopefully a character generation tool. Where it leads you through step by step and keeps track of all things. Probably not gonna happen. Probably they use it to write the damn rule books with them including art.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

They already have a character tools on both Dndbeyond and roll20. The rest are already in the "This is your life" section of xanathars. Nothing AI needed

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sounds like a great reason to not buy any of the DnD 2024 shit then. My players and I are perfectly happy with 5e

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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. cap-think

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

Never "buy" a digital only product. They have already taken them away once

[–] dumples@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

I am happy getting physical products since they can't be changed and I own them. Nothing digital ever again

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I encourage you to try other ttrpgs, as well.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Solidifying that I'm not touching a dnd product again for a very, very long time.

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are so many other Tattoos to choose from now, so it's pretty easy!

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

I assume you meant ttrpgs lol, and yup! My group currently plays Pf2e and Fabula Ultima. We're looking at Slugblaster.

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago

I swear all the CEOs on the planet have lost their damn mind.

And his last name is Cocks, so I guess this tracks.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Expect a lot of smirking, winking, and excessive use of "squelch" sounds. sus-torment

[–] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

Sound terrible

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

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! brrrrrrrrrrrr

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 6 points 10 months ago

It'll definitely lead to a few never-imagined-by-humans campaigns.

Now I want to plug in the rules to ChatGPT and let it run a session, just for fun.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago

How does that even work?

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

AI is already becoming a core part os everything.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Except your spell checking?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Says a hexbear, ha! πŸ–•πŸ½

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

That's a limp deflection. Is it really so difficult to not go around mocking people for typing errors like a 13-year-old?

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

The most reddit response possible

[–] databender@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

OSR is gonna go nuclear over the next year or so

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

That pic makes me think of Gauntlet

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That photo is awesome.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Whatever problems you might have with low-effort digital art, the two are not remotely comparable.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Digital art, at the least, didn't uplift itself at the uncredited expense of the artists themselves, pushing them further into precarity.

[–] UnexpectedBehavior@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Today, I scheduled the first one shot using DC20 rules. If it plays as good as it reads I'll convert completely. CEO decisions should not have any impact on my private entertainment