It's pretty much a defining quality of Luddites that they do not support a free market in any way, shape, or form.
Which would be respectable enough in itself if they weren't constantly declaiming their allegiance to a "freedom" which only they and their friends are allowed to participate in.
"The community has spoken clearly, and the business incentives align: TTRPG buyers care about human creativity in ways that other consumer markets may not."
The real trouble here is art. It is *expensive* to do good art for a book the old-fashioned way, and it eats up a lot of any Kickstarter budget. Autarch (of ACKS II fame) was lucky in making a sizeable six-figure number for ACKS II, but if you don't have that kind of money, AI is getting increasingly tempting. I suspect it's only a matter of time before the dam breaks.
In five years, no one will care if AI is used other than a few fringe luddites.
Imagine replacing the one AFk player with Claude bot the weeks they miss. Hilarious.
I now want to make Claude run the bad guys for my Blackstone Fortress run Im doing with my son.
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The Luddites can't really believe they will win in a free market.
It's pretty much a defining quality of Luddites that they do not support a free market in any way, shape, or form.
Which would be respectable enough in itself if they weren't constantly declaiming their allegiance to a "freedom" which only they and their friends are allowed to participate in.
"The community has spoken clearly, and the business incentives align: TTRPG buyers care about human creativity in ways that other consumer markets may not."
The real trouble here is art. It is *expensive* to do good art for a book the old-fashioned way, and it eats up a lot of any Kickstarter budget. Autarch (of ACKS II fame) was lucky in making a sizeable six-figure number for ACKS II, but if you don't have that kind of money, AI is getting increasingly tempting. I suspect it's only a matter of time before the dam breaks.
The dirty little secret of practically every creative industry is that the dam has already broken and the genie is not going back in the bottle.
Bradford Walker's Clubhouse will come to pass, while the Industry slowly, then rapidly, becomes a black hole of gachapon phone games.
AI and the Clubhouse will get along just fine.
Indeed, and unlike those sperging Gammas, I have no issues at all with AI.