To all those who saw this — Thanks for the encouraging words! It was heartening to see people find joy (however much) from it. And THANK YOU for the privilege of letting me entertain you! Even if it was only for some 40–odd seconds or so.

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DAWNTRAIL is here! I'll be streaming my run through the MSQ! Gonna focus on the text and voices, so no avatar for now. I'm SO HYPE!

Back from a loooooong vacation! With Dawntrail early access starting next week, I'll be streaming my run through the MSQ and prep for raiding for the next couple weeks. See y'all soon!

Also, YT mirror here: https://t.co/Uqf7YEmUr9

A video edit inspired by the quoted post. Cunk on Faerun - The Nuke (Beware Act 1 Spoilers) #BaldursGate3 #BG3 x Cunk on Earth

I got a new pair of shoes today, and I'm reminded how the Spongebob loop-de-loop song got me over my fear of learning to tie shoelaces as a kid.

I hope my rambling is nowhere close to what'll actually happen to D&D in 2024 and beyond. We've seen what the IP can be when given to people who are passionate about the game itself. I am taking stock, though, and looking to what else such passionate minds achieve instead. 25/25

But! There will likely be a lot more "official" D&D content for their consumer base. If they're feeling generous, maybe the prices will be reasonable, to tantalize them away from competitors, though I don't personally bet on it. 24/??

And that's because corporations like Hasbro will find a way to cost-cut and dominate a market to the point that it becomes increasingly nonviable for the individual to have security in the space outside of the niches of smaller companies. 23/??

However, in the long term, like with any situation where the "market" starts to become more saturated, which in this case actually would feed the efficacy of my AI-generated content theory, it does become harder for any single individual to make it their dream job. 22/??

This isn't necessarily bad. The focus on digital could open the hobby not just to players, but to more content creators, and there are enough of those snapping at the bits to use D&D as their springboard. I think that's fair, and we can't blame anyone for taking advantage. 21/??

Will enough people turn away to the point that this level of cost-cutting isn't profitable? I wanna be optimistic, but a combination of a mostly online presence, focus on digital products, the marketing for the VTT and other media likely means D&D will still reach farther. 20/??

What about quality? And honestly, I don't know for sure if it'll necessarily be judged as bad-quality content, mostly because it boils down to a question of, who will notice outside those who had to initially work on it? 19/??

Establishing that, a worse scenario would be AI-generated text vetted and edited by a skeleton crew. Presented to the community be a front-facing representative and playtested, then again ran through the skeleton crew for refinement. Get rid of freelancing fees, but... 18/??

Admittedly, it is a bit tin foil hat–y. I mostly considered the possibility because they have a massive repository of text content they could use to train AI, not just in their official published content, but also in the cream of the crop of DMsGuild. 17/??