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  • The post is basically saying that automating any part of a DnD campaign is wrong, because you don’t take part of a creative process. I argue that automating some part of a TTRPG is beneficial, because there are boring and low-value parts. You can despise LLMs for valid reasons, but we do use them to solve a real problem. Now, if there are other tools that could make the same job while using less computing power, why not. Meanwhile, LLMs are easy to use and can adapt their content to the actual context with low effort on the DM end.
    I won’t shame my DM for not having the time to draw everything by hand, every week, which is what this post is about. We all have a life outside of our hobby.


  • Some parts of the process are truly a waste of time, though. My DM uses ChatGPT to generate loot, and from time to time random encounters. It really doesn’t matter, and it doesn’t prevent him from making a good story and good places to explore.
    AI is there to speed boring things up. I won’t blame him to not want to scroll d20pfsrd for hours to decide what to give us. And I prefer an AI generated (or usually retouched) map over no map at all or more sparse gaming sessions.




  • As far as I understand, a bimbo is commonly a person that is superficial and put a lot of effort in an exaggeratedly hyperfeminine appearance, and people into bimbofication will sometimes want to be (or to look) dumbed-down to fit that persona, and I think this is what this post is referring to.
    The difference between graveyard and exile in this context is that graveyard for non-creature spells is like a pile of old memories that you keep and can still access, while the exile is like becoming non-existent or out of reach.
    Now that I look into it, though, I feel like the mill cards flavor is pretty fitting for the theme. Besides the mill and grind cards, it’s a lot of stuff that plays with your head, like “Mesmeric Orb”, “Mindcrank”, “Mindskinner”, “Fractured Sanity”, “Memory Erosion”, etc. While the cards that exile stuff from opponents libraries are less focused besides a few Faeries.



  • The graveyard can be seen both as a literal cemetery for creatures and as a a pile of forgotten memories. I think cards that exile the opponents libraries are closer to bimbofication, as the knowledge is then forever lost, rather than becoming memories of the past.
    Of course there are fewer cards that can mass exile opponent’s libraries, so it’s a bit tricky to do in a real game. In bracket 2-3, I like Maralen, Fae Ascendent as a clone deck to mill into exile the opponents, especially when playing against green decks.