Steve Arnott
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315 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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Yeah. One thing that's been a process for me learning is writing a rulebook as well because that process has been really iterative and the rulebook has changed so many times. And we got a consultation from Paul Grogan who does that because writing for an RPG versus writing a rulebook for a board game is...
Yeah, absolutely.
No, no, because we were still trying stuff out and doing different things as well, so... Yeah, that's always the thing that happens. But no, I've said to Mark, so what happens in the manufacturing process is they will do a digital sample, which is basically like a checking that they've got the right artwork files, the right number of things.
And it's like a lower quality print on demand version of the whole thing. So we'll get that from a manufacturer. And I've said once we've had a look at it, myself and Russ to like, you know, check things like spelling, grammar and everything's there. We'll send that copy over to Mark so you can have the first one. So that'll be like a nice, exciting thing.
Because that'll be the first proper version, like with a bot.
Rulebook, player boards, things like that. Because so far it has just been the deck of cards. And of course, it's like I said, it's going to have player boards and little privacy screens and other stuff that hasn't physically existed in that way. So that'll be really good fun.
Yeah. And you, the listener, can also be involved because we're going to Kickstarter. It's launching next week on Tuesday. So the links are in the show notes. So I'd love it if you go take a look. It's also free to play on Tabletopia, so you can just go in and check it out and have a look on there. Yeah.
But yeah, hope everyone enjoys playing it as much as we've enjoyed developing it and making it.
But before that, I do need to give the information you asked earlier. How many hours of Baldur's Gate 3 at the time of recording have I played? And it's 476 hours. 6.6 hours. Wow. That is how much time I have spent playing Baldur's Gate 3.
Hello, hello. I love that very much. No one has ever described me that way, but I think it's going to be my new tagline.
Yes, it is definitely something I have a lot of fun with, both in my books and in my games. So yeah, looking forward to get stuck in.
Sadly. I went via the memes. It's fine.
I mean, I've used the mobile app pretty recently, but I'm playing what's now a legacy character, I guess, so I haven't seen any of the changes reflected. I've not done any exploring. Yeah, neither have I, so... Well, I don't know about that, so... I do like how in the statement that they made, they said, yes, there are these tech issues.
Also, for some of you, you just had insufficient funds, so please replace your credit card. Some of you are poor, so. Some of you, you're right, it was our fault. And some of you just fixed your payment information.
Which is fair enough.
I've been caught out by that with other kinds of books because, I mean, that's how pre-ordering books anywhere goes is it charges you when it ships. And I've had sort of payment methods that have expired since I made the pre-order and then not been updated.
And so then all of a sudden I don't have my pre-order because by the time it ships, it can't charge it to the payment method I had when I ordered it.
Well, anyway. It's a slippery slope, though, from one to the other. Because if you're using it for those things, we're crossing into the territory of generative AI. Because if you look at... quote of what he said, the first things he talks about, mostly machine learning based AI or proprietary AI as opposed to chat GPT approach, he's talking about, like he says, machine learning based AI.
That's basically really sophisticated autocomplete. It's not true AI. Generative AI is a different story altogether, and this is where the AI is taking things it can find and cobbling it together into something That is the thing that threatens intellectual property. It's the thing that threatens the publishing industry as a whole.
But it's also the thing that people are using to create those images of their characters. And so it's participating in that thing that they are saying they don't necessarily agree with, but in a way that I guess they personally don't feel like is necessarily creating any harm. Yeah.
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