An AI will never be able to replicate the real joy of D&D: asking every minor npc their name and watching as your friend tries to keep coming up with new names on the spot.
Yes - these the kind of things that make TRPGs interesting to me. Not the game mechanics, tedious combats or rote storyline. It's admiring the effort put in into the DM's worldbuilding, amateur acting, group laughter at good and bad jokes, and human interaction built around a shared sense of fun. The ability of LLMs to produce more or less well-realized fantasy worlds is definitely impressive, but I didn't get the feeling that anyone in the linked post was actually enjoying it.
