Recent content by doctorbadwolf

I mean that’s the idea.

An alternate version of the game that: uses skills in place of most other character abilities so that any action is a skill check. Weapon groups and spell schools are skills, etc. replaces HP with something similar to Daggerheart but all damage scaling is dice and so your armor and defense...

The question isn’t about legitimate or not. It’s literally just banning the use of ai to generate medical or legal advice. Thee is no judgement call, there is just “only humans can give legal and medical advice, not spicy autocomplete.” There isn’t any room in that for anyone deciding what is...

It looks good. I wish they’d get women who actually look strong for roles like this, but oh well. Hollywood gonna Hollywood.

Even relying on LLMs for part of your work dulls your acumen. It’s exceptionally dangerous. How? How would a government “take advantage” of a law banning the use of ai in medical and legal casework? Yep. And if a technology being safe relies on humans behaving differently that humans...

So, I’ve always loved big solo boss battles with special mechanics and very interactive environments, like a Zelda game boss or (I know) the best MMO boss fights. In 5e this requires some design work but is doable, but I’m curious about Daggerheart. I only have the SRD stuff, but isn’t there a...

I suspect I’ll eventually end up running solos with more actions and passive control features akin to 5e lair actions and hazards. Boss battles should have mechanics beyond the direct abilities of the boss, like in a lot of video games. Daggerheart is pretty easy to understand by reading...

I’d look to the Swarmkeeper Ranger. Then upgrade spells like Unseen Servant for the class, letting them summon several at once. Give them a skeleton familiar as well. In combat they can spend a spell slot to empower their Horde, making movement within its space difficult terrain for your...

5e sucks are hordes, but the key is simply to treat them as A creature. Either using swarms as has been suggested, or by building specific horde rules that feel more dynamic than swarms do.

That doesn’t mean we don’t push back against the ubiquitous use of something that takes a massive amount more resources per output than what it (very poorly) pretends to replace. Being poor sucks. I’ve done a lot of it, and am happy to not be doing it anymore. The intractable power of...

Very interesting. Thanks! Gonna deep dive now lol

I’m really happy with the new PHB overall, but man between how out of date DDB is, and stuff like this…. Well, I’ve got a decade of experience homebrewing for 5e, and someone will put out a good third party SRD builder that is worth focusing on eventually. Ugh

Now for some real fun, imagine a generation of doctors who think they can just ask chatGPT-MD or some such for the answers to patient diagnosis and treatment. There is a distinctly possible future ahead that is much much much worse in all sectors of life than the present, and LLMs are tugging...

Allowing the use of LLMs is like putting point and click videos games on the media screens of automobiles. It will make every quality level of driver worse, if it becomes ubiquitous. It will cause catastrophic harm.

Right on. Could you share some of the questions? I’m really curious, even if I don’t decide to go the same way.