5e is in this weird space where, on the one hand, it’s loose and flexible, but on the other, it’s designed around balanced encounters and precise readings of kind of a lot of rules.
Don’t worry. It sounds like WotC is planning to fix the issue with not enough people wanting to DM their jank by implementing AI DMs in their new VTT.
They did say before that no one at Wizards was working on AI DMs, but it’s all but officially confirmed Hasbro had a 3rd party working on it for them. That’s why you gotta keep your eye out for those little loopholes. 😲
If video published games publisher put out titles with gamebreaking bugs and expected the player’s computer or console to figure out what was wrong and fix them, there would be riots.
I’m always kind of amazed how many people defend WotC putting out products with so many weird problems and expecting DMs to just shadow-patch the issues and not complain about it.
Right? And a lot of websites provide a front end, but imagine if you had to look up the API docs, figure out auth, and do your own http post to reply to messages here. “it’s more flexible that way. the DM can decide if they want to use like postman, or requests, or write their own tool!”
I’m always kind of amazed that DND is such a big budget game that has so many weird problems.
Don’t need to hire proofreaders when people buy the books and post their own interpretations anyway!
If not for that we wouldn’t have story-driven adventures anyway. The game was initially focused on dungeon crawling.
Mechanically it still is
5e is in this weird space where, on the one hand, it’s loose and flexible, but on the other, it’s designed around balanced encounters and precise readings of kind of a lot of rules.
I found it an exhausting balancing act as a DM.
Don’t worry. It sounds like WotC is planning to fix the issue with not enough people wanting to DM their jank by implementing AI DMs in their new VTT.
They did say before that no one at Wizards was working on AI DMs, but it’s all but officially confirmed Hasbro had a 3rd party working on it for them. That’s why you gotta keep your eye out for those little loopholes. 😲
If video published games publisher put out titles with gamebreaking bugs and expected the player’s computer or console to figure out what was wrong and fix them, there would be riots.
I’m always kind of amazed how many people defend WotC putting out products with so many weird problems and expecting DMs to just shadow-patch the issues and not complain about it.
Right? And a lot of websites provide a front end, but imagine if you had to look up the API docs, figure out auth, and do your own http post to reply to messages here. “it’s more flexible that way. the DM can decide if they want to use like postman, or requests, or write their own tool!”