(Mike) Draco 🧙🏻‍♂️

That’s dedication!

Legit!

I dressed up at Ren Faire, but I definitely would have felt silly doing it at the table.

A couple years ago I wore a dragon mask to play a game at a science museum’s Halloween D&D event and had a blast.

I'm old enough to recall when D&Ders would sigh and clarify that no, we don't dress up in silly costumes to play D&D.

Now, gamers happily wear professional level costumes and make money by dressing up to play D&D, and Vampire, and Star Trek, and more.

We've come quite a long way.

#ttrpg #dnd

Oh! Somehow I’d never heard of it!

None of the folks I knew dressed up at the table to play and my first awareness of LARP was Vampire around 1998 or so.

Proto-LARP! That sounds like it was fun.

Do not what?

What’s Swordtag?

I'm old enough to recall when D&Ders would sigh and clarify that no, we don't dress up in silly costumes to play D&D.

Now, gamers happily wear professional level costumes and make money by dressing up to play D&D, and Vampire, and Star Trek, and more.

We've come quite a long way.

#ttrpg #dnd

X is unsafe for many people, period. I wouldn't post on there any sooner than I'd walk into a Klan convention. Literally not even an option.

Just worth noting that if you're primarily posting on X, you're not reaching people like me. You're not reaching people who have been shut out of X because of the racists and bigots. That means you're choosing a more racist and bigoted audience.

Note: apparently the second image is the “preceding” post. Note the change from COO to “Thinking Big Thoughts”.

Ryan Dancey posts on Linked In: This morning John Zinser and I talked about the aftermath of my post yesterday about the ability of Al to create ideas for games. He's decided that it's time for me to move on to new adventures. Sorry to have things end like this. I've enjoyed my 10 years at AEG. I wish the team there the best in their future endeavors. I believe we're at a civilizational turning point. That who we are and how we are is going to change on the order of what happened during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions; and it's past time we started talking about it and not being afraid to discuss the topic. Talking about Al, being honest about what it can and cannot do, and thinking about the implications is something we have to begin to do in a widespread way. Humans have a unique creative spark that differentiates us and makes us special and we should celebrate that specialness as we experience this epic change. For the record: I do not believe that Al will replace the work talented game designer/developers do, nor do I think it is appropriate to use Al to replace the role of designer/developers in the publication of tabletop games. During my time at AEG developed and implemented polices and contracts that reflect those views. It's important to me that you know what believe and what I don't believe on this particular topic, despite what you may have read elsewhere.

have zero reason to believe that an Al couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several Als RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not). Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades. Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things Als are great at.

Apparently there was a post that preceded this but I missed that part of this situation.

All I can say is, wow. Way to burn a multi-decade career down because you have a really poor understanding of a technology that a lot of your peers and customers absolutely loathe with good reason.

#ttrpg #dnd

Make sure you open that "Adjust Donation" Tab and fix it. Since Humble was bought out over a year ago, the proceeds of these get sucked up a lot by Humble now. You can direct how much actually goes to the charity

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

I don’t know!

Like, “ChatGPT give me ideas for a game that is like Carcassonne mashed up with checkers”

Wait, I have an idea! 🤪

Kudos to Zinser, though.

Ryan Dancey posts on Linked In: This morning John Zinser and I talked about the aftermath of my post yesterday about the ability of Al to create ideas for games. He's decided that it's time for me to move on to new adventures. Sorry to have things end like this. I've enjoyed my 10 years at AEG. I wish the team there the best in their future endeavors. I believe we're at a civilizational turning point. That who we are and how we are is going to change on the order of what happened during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions; and it's past time we started talking about it and not being afraid to discuss the topic. Talking about Al, being honest about what it can and cannot do, and thinking about the implications is something we have to begin to do in a widespread way. Humans have a unique creative spark that differentiates us and makes us special and we should celebrate that specialness as we experience this epic change. For the record: I do not believe that Al will replace the work talented game designer/developers do, nor do I think it is appropriate to use Al to replace the role of designer/developers in the publication of tabletop games. During my time at AEG developed and implemented polices and contracts that reflect those views. It's important to me that you know what believe and what I don't believe on this particular topic, despite what you may have read elsewhere.

have zero reason to believe that an Al couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several Als RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not). Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades. Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things Als are great at.

Apparently there was a post that preceded this but I missed that part of this situation.

All I can say is, wow. Way to burn a multi-decade career down because you have a really poor understanding of a technology that a lot of your peers and customers absolutely loathe with good reason.

#ttrpg #dnd

Who knew the LA TTRPG scene was so scandalous. The way people be sleeping around, it sounds like yall describing a restaurant kitchen.

👀

This guy blocked me on my other account for pointing out that female Star Wars fans exist and have an interest in this movie.

@williamadler78 has some seriously unexamined misogyny problems.

Aaaaand he blocked me.

Totally a good look after you’ve been a sexist ignorant ass.

Aaaaand he blocked me.

This guy blocked me on my other account for pointing out that female Star Wars fans exist and have an interest in this movie.

A lot of women want this, William.

Not “nobody”.

Ahhh, that makes sense.

Like...

I only know a couple of them, honestly. There's a lot of insider baseball talk about things (WTAF is "Smosh"??) and people (often with nicknames/internet pseudonyms).

It's just a pattern I've seen play out before.

Everyone is SO COOL to the point of being totally unassailable until something finally breaks and only then suddenly everyone hates them.

Up to and including some of the Dropout and Critical Role adjacent people.

See: Satine.

😂

I've almost always had that vibe from L.A. geek/nerd social circles. It's a step away from Hollywood. The area seems to breed that into people.

I tend to keep quiet because EVERYONE thinks the streamers there are SO COOL and I have a... reaction when people act that way about other humans.