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submitted 1 year ago by dpunked@feddit.de to c/boardgames@feddit.de

The next fad after companion apps?

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[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Integrating AI into electronic games is hard, let alone tabletop or board games, and Hasbro's shown the capacity to fuck up the much easier task of "sit on the legendary DND IP, let it function, and just sit back and count the river of money that floods in to you as a result." If Hasbro's performance at operating the DND brand is anything to go by, traditional board game designers have not a lot to worry about in the near future I think.

[-] Redsven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

But in typical fashion, hasbro understands nothing about d&d and will probably almost destroy their property, again.

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. There were rumors of them implementing AI DMs already around the time of the OGL fiasco. I predict that they will ham-fistedly implement some kind of AI tabletop system, it will be hilariously bad, and the evolution of DND into some weird no-longer-a-fad thing will continue apace (with the genuine tabletop fans moving to Pathfinder / Dungeon Crawl Classics / etc, and the casuals going back to just doing something else.)

[-] Redsven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I kind of expect them to fick it up so bad they sell it off and hopefully someone better acquires it then. But I doubt I'll learn any edition past 5th. What I have right now does everything I need it to when I run a fantasy adventure

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