Dungeons & Dragons

“We have a digital tabletop in development that, that basically brings video game level visuals to life in kind of like a virtual sandbox, but still keeps human ingenuity and human design and human play at the center.”

“One of my biggest jams right now is using a company called 11 Labs to create like cool voices for the campaigns.”

“I have used AI to clone my friends and play test an adventure before I run them through it and they're actually, it's actually pretty good.”

“In fact, I think we've been doing a bunch of middle school and elementary school programs, like We can get to the exact figures after the pod, but it's several million kids per year now that we engage every year to play D&D.”

“The thing where the sports analogy in business often falls down is I find in business, the problems usually are really ambiguous and figuring out what the problem is, is actually a big part of the problem. And, you know, in sports, it's very simple. It's like,…”

“Before that it was like a ten million dollar business to now, you know, a multi-hundred million dollar business.”

“I think, you know, a lot of like the studio leaders of today who are in their forties, maybe fifties, early sixties grew up in that mid seventies to mid eighties timeframe. And they also had a similar experience with D and D where they understood that, you kno…”

“And really, what the team at TSR did, which is Gary's company that he founded in Wisconsin, is they came up with all of these kind of basic game mechanics that today feels like they've always existed, but prior to 1974, no one had ever heard of a hit point bef…”