Prepping Should Be Fun, Too
This blog post started, like so many do, as me getting mad at a YouTuber. This YouTuber shall remain nameless, because they are dumb and I have devoted enough of my time and energy to their dumbness, but allow me to set the scene. After discussing how D&D Beyond was going to suffer because Gemini was perfectly capable of generating character sheets (which is one of the saddest things I've ever heard), they discussed how Gemini could also create dungeon maps. They then said the following: "The challenge with Dungeons and Dragons, and the reason roleplaying games aren't more popular, is because it's like doing a bunch of homework. And then your players come over, screw up your game, and tell you you didn't do your homework correctly. But with [AI generation], it makes gamemastering easier than ever-at least the dungeon design portion of it." I...have a lot of thoughts about this. There are plenty of discussions of how mainline D&D has a DM shor...
