I grew up playing table-top role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, and I've spent more hours than I'd care to admit flipping through tomes looking up rules. This is old news to anyone familiar with the hobby, but having to stop everything while someone looks up something was one of the least fun things about playing D&D as a kid. If you've ever sat and watched your friend waste 5 minutes trying to find the page with Lich King Carl's spell list on it, you'll know what I mean.
Partly this is because nobody likes a rules lawyer. (We're all here to have fun, not pass a test.).
But also it's because pausing to look up things drags everyone out of the experience and sucks the life out of the game. Evolving to use digital .pdfs instead of physical manuals helped a bit because you can use a PDF reader like Adobe Acrobat to run text searches on these documents and find things (more) quickly.
But even using .pdfs on laptops and tablets at the table wasn't a complete fix because players often still have to scroll through pages and pages to find something they don't know the name of or can't remember details about. So when I saw Adobe added a new AI Assistant into Acrobat that can answer questions about documents, I was intrigued: could having an AI assistant make playing, running and designing D&D campaigns faster and easier? It's a beautiful dream: Imagine being able to drop a digital copy of a thick reference tome into your laptop and ask Adobe's AI whatever questions you have, w.