Hear me out: I use ChatGPT in my home game. LET ME EXPLAIN! I don't use image generation, nor do I ask it for plot lines or anything like that. I use it more as a note-taking tool and to iron out some small details on the fly if need be. For example, I had forgotten to finish typing a letter last session,so I asked it to quickly complete it with a quick synopsis of how I wanted it ended. Mostly, I ask it for trivial details like "how did people secure fresh water in medieval times" and "how large of a difference is there in keel size between seafaring ships and river sailing ships?" It saves me time on pouring through Wikipedia articles. Its most important function for me is its recall. I fill it in on what happened the previous session, feeding it my notes, and then request the info later if my memory is fuzzy. And the response is much quicker than digging through my docs.

I fucking love Sam Riegel, he seems like a goofball but when it counts the most he saves everybody.

Wait but isnt xbox giving away their exclusives anyway

Well 2026 is in 1 year and a half 🤷🏻‍♂️ it isnt that much of a wait… on the other hand, Fallout 5…

Oh oui les "custodes" qui sont désormais "féminins"

It’s funny that people don’t seem to mind automation until it impacts them in some way, all I can say to all the crying artists out there is learn to adapt and learn to code.

It all depends on how the AI is being used. Which we dont know based on the job description. It could be in relation to video games as they said, it could be in relation to published books, or it could be something else, like developing a DM assistant AI that can quickly generate helpful Art/sound/text for a dm to use in game We just dont know.

The "6th" part of games are always cursed to be never released easily Gta 6 Elder scrolls 6 Half life 6 Just kidding about half life

Watched this when it was first announced and again now as Amazon is doing their best to nuke it. Wild how a year changes things

One more reasons not buy anything from Hasbro ever again.

Why do you think Hasbro let so many artists go? It's so they could use AI art for everything.

There was a short on the official D&D channel where they were talking about how the 2024 handbook had its art and writing done in tandem, how the art clearly represents what is written. I can’t say this definitively, but it sure did sound like they were skirting around saying that they used the text as a prompt for AI art. Just don’t be too surprised if the book comes out and there’s yet another AI controversy

Same C-suite, same gutting of the actual D&D game and it's creativity. Nothing will change until Wizards is either sold off, or folded into some hellish amalgamation under the Hasbro umbrella.

A scripted dnd show???? 🤥😬 Not sure I like that, its basically the opposite of what dnd is. Thats an audio book 📖 I swear if Sam killed his character to work on this show, I'm gonna be so pissed 😑

I love critical role but I'm very upset that they basically scripted killing Sam in campaign 3 to have Sam help work on reslayers take. Now Relayers is a freaking insult to Dnd and Dnd Players! A scripted dnd show???? 🤥😬 Not sure I like that, its basically the opposite of what dnd is. Thats an audio book 📖 Pre-planned rolls and results is blasphemous and why Tiberious stormwind was kicked off the show.

So they aren't using AI in D&D, they are using AI in D&D videogames.... Splitting hairs much, Hasbro???

AI is a tool that most professional creatives have already begun to use. Pretending this is a scandal, and encouraging people to clutch their pearls is very old man-ish.

Good I hope they lose more so I don't have to always seen stupid clips of their nerd crap daily

I disagree with the central premise that it's nailing the atmosphere and tone, and that it just needs to find it's audience. I'm their audience! I love horror games, period games, and production values. I want to LOVE this show, but it's tone is just one note. Everything I tune in, it's hushed, urgent and vague. I thought Liam would bring it for his arc, but his brow NEVER unforrowed and every word was whispered. He turned his emo up to 11. There should be more humor, more personality, and more emotion range than just fear & worry to more fear & worry. It SHOULD be my favorite show, but I've given up. Watch Haunted City and Time for Chaos on Glass Cannon. Horror RPGs don't need to played so narrowly. This show is just disappointing.

I fully use ChatGPT (Bing CoPilot) in prepping for my D&D sessions. It’s been an absolute game changer for my workflow and creativity. I’m disappointed that TCS keeps using inflammatory headlines that only serves to insight the community vs. inform. I get that this is how KZfaq and social media in general works, but it’s just disappointing. FWIW, I personally don’t see this as a scandal even remotely. It’s a large corporation investigating AI/ML scenarios like every other major corporation is.

I dont know men, First people complain abourt the D&D modules being boring and lacking content, and now Complain about thecontracting of AI experts and people start defending the creative teams of WotC. suddenly all their content is GOLD. I prefer to wait and see.

Thank you for the reporting!

Well it’s WotC so I’m not surprised. Hasbro is even worse so….

better question is, why would we care that they use it? No reason not to. AI is the future, and will grant us much better and cost efficient products.

yes bro i think that there is too much class in ded..make the right choise ✌ ✌ please

He's gonna love the Custodes even more now that they added women, right?

This game is going to be the disappointment of all disappointments if we follow the trends of the games Bugthesda gave us till now. Creative lost all love for developing games and its only about the money now. I'll be surprised if this game comes out in my lifetime.

We're like the old people saying get off that 'Puter and go outside! Guys AI is everywhere now......we can't keep fighting it like that. The only AI that was "bad" was AI art instead of regular art.

Wizards really doesn't care... they will use whatever they want, whenever they want, how they want... as long as Hasbro makes money, they don't care.

Keep AI where it belongs in video games and away from the products you buy for the table. If a gm wants that at there table they can get it from a number of places them self and its fine.

NOOOOO!!!!!

AI is the future , not just in gaming but in business and society as a whole. Frankly, it’s already here in many places. It’s simply going to happen so folks might as well get used to the idea now.

Ask yourself this: how many times have you heard about stealing stuff in ttrpgs context? No one's ashamed to say that he "stole" that concept, or that idea for a twist, or this character for his campaign? You will find advice to "steal" in so many guides for GM's, using that exact verb. It's okay when you're not making money, but what changes when you write a campaing as a product? Nothing, the process is the same, people will just be careful not to mention stealing ideas anymore.

I was somewhat scared it might just get canceled after events that happened the past months/years with DND. Glad that it will still happen, I don't know a lot about the Mighty Nein, but considering how fun Vox Machina is, I want to watch it badly.

The moment I saw the posting and working in the tech industry I knew it was related to video games so I didn't bother with the outrage. I doubt that Hasbro is willing to risk it all again by trying to sneak AI into their D&D TTRPG and MTG products. Stay vigilant of course but I suspect will be a long time before Hasbro tries again ha.

The scandal is not caused by AI; it is caused by the luddites that are scared of new technology. Production techniques change. Using a printing press took away the job of a lot of scribes. This is not a scandal, it is the future. The scandal is not accepting it (and you will soon, this whole thing reminds me of the people that said they would not want a phone/computer in their pocket, and we all know how long that stance lasted…).

My personal opinion is that it can be a future imagination and job killer. I grew up wanting to emulate my favorite comic artist, so I practiced became pretty good… did mine look like his? No. Why? Because no matter how much we emulate and take inspiration, we are still individuals who’s personal style rises to the top and we can distinguish artist from artist, no matter how much we “copy” the style. You can tell Jim Lee from Rob Liefeld, from Todd McFarland, etc. because of the human element. AI takes one person to say “make me this scene in this style and poof: AI generated laziness that has no soul. I’ll just stop there, cause one, I’m at work (shhhhhh), and two, I could and can go deeper but nobody wants to read THAT much comment under a KZfaq video 😂

How long will it take for people to realize AI is a dumb idea

If we want to see change why not scare them again with mass subscription drops

People need to read the wizard AI statement, they never said they are against it, the statement says they won’t use it for the final product, meaning they will use AI for 95% and then allow artists to fix the problems. It’s PR weasel language like if I tell somebody I won’t kill them, and then I burn the building they are in to the ground and shrug my shoulders with “the fire got them, not me”

Why tf wouldn't I want AI? IDGAF. Nothing unethical about it. Horse transport industry probably whined like that when cars came.

Very good video I Like It Good coverage. But I need you to use your influence to get Hasbro to make a Dungeons and Dragons risk board game

I knew this was coming the instant they included the wiggle words into their AI policy. The key sentence was them talking about how generative AI was not permitted to be used to generate “final” products. I write technical procedures for a living, and if I wanted to ban the use of AI, I’d simply and concisely state, “AI shall not be used.” Anything else I include would be purely for the purpose of baking permissions into the cake, so if I wanted to, say, allow gen. AI to be used for rough concept art to help the writers and maybe to provide to the artists as a “this is sort of what I was thinking, now make it good,” that would be cause for additional words, but if your goal is to put a stop to its use altogether, that’s super simple to write. You could use your gen. AI platform of choice to spit out a full piece of art, pop it open in photoshop and change a few minor details, and submit it to WotC almost entirely untouched by human hands, and you’d be in verbatim compliance with their policy as written, and with the size of their organization, there’s no way that was an accident. TLDR, I don’t believe for a second that this won’t be all over D&D the moment they think nobody’s looking.

Hasbro is cursed: When your woke fan base is more toxic than Vecna'

I'm not an AI nerd or anything, but, AI has been a thing in basically every video game in recent memory. You use it for pathing, dialogue etc I don't see why anyone would get upset about this

Do you want AI art in your Video Games...and do you Trust Hasbro to keep AI away from D&D and Magic The Gathering....or is it only a matter of time before they break that promise? Let us know!

All of this is spot-on, and I've thought it for a while. Even for CR, the four hour time commitment for a single episode is a lot. Another problem, I think, is the cast shuffle for each campaign. People watch programs because they are invested in characters, or they appreciate the chemistry that develops among the cast. Given their commitment to 3-episode arcs (maybe 6 if they start splitting them in half), investment in characters really can't happen. And even when an episode is predominantly CR's core cast, just the one or two guests (combined with the completely different tone) is enough to mess with the on-camera synergy.

"haven't played 10th Edition" just like many people