Tales Of The Valiant
Hasbro continues to push AI content that no one asked for into Dungeons & Dragons in ongoing quest to ruin beloved TTRPG
During a September 10 Goldman-Sachs conference, where one can undoubtedly find serious players of interactive tabletop roleplaying games, Hasbro President Chris Cocks revealed AI is actively being used to develop games at the company, including Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons: "Inside of development, we've already been using AI...It's mostly machine-learning-based AI or proprietary AI as opposed to a ChatGPT approach.
Kobold Press begins playtesting Tales of the Valiant, a D&D 5E spinoff
Back in January when Wizards of the Coast backed off of Open Gaming License (OGL) updates to go with their new edition of Dungeons & Dragons, they also made a second decision that -- while popular -- hadn't seen as much fanfare as of yet: they released the current D&D rules as a System Reference Document, or SRD under a Creative Commons license.
Which of the forthcoming alternatives to D&D are you planning to try out?
April has been an exciting one for the TTRPG community, as the fallout from the Dungeons & Dragons OGL fiasco continues to take shape.