Recent content by Reynard

Right. Plot armor. That's the point.

If this was a poll, the 3E book would be running away with it.

I am curious what you consider the "modern mechanisms." I don't have Draw Steel, so I don't know how fundamentally different from, say, Savage Worlds its tactical play elements are.

No, just discussions intentionally focused around AI -- the AI GM thread, the various "look how Ai did this bad thing" threads, etc. Because there isn't a tag or subforum, there is no way to mute them without muting content you (okay, i) would rather not mute. And for the record, I KNOW that...

What makes a game a modern tactical game?

I don't think it is terribly different than any other scenario in which you are fine until suddenly you are not. That's D&D from level 1 to 100.

So we can turn it to silent.

On the subject of what sort of game something like this might work in, I was thinking that a zombie apocalypse (or other similar thig, like The Quiet Place) game would be appropriate. Eventually, you are going to run out of luck. Eventually, everyone dies and this singular pool that never -- or...

Right, but the premise was that the level 1 PCs could just rush the BBEG of the campaign and win. There are lots of weaknesses in this dumb idea, but I don't think that is one of them.

Sure. But there is ethical use, too, and I don't have much sympathy for a "journalist" that tried to circumvent doing their actual job by using ChatGPT instead of real research. ChatGPT isn't inherently dangerous -- it is dangerous because the world is full of lazy, dumb chuds.

"Lie" and "gaslight" seem like terms that give ChatGPT far more agency and intention than it is capable of. ChatGPT does not know anything, not can it decide anything.

Again, I am not hugely familiar with JRPGs but I would be surprised to learn they don't have inventory management as a thing.

More importantly, in an actual, not-white-room play situation, the PCs would either flee or be murdered. no dragon is going to stand there for 140 rounds.

Sure, but I still don't know what "emulate JRPGs" means from a TTRPG gameplay perspective.

Despite being a lifelong CRPG player, I have never played a JRPG, so I am not sure how any differences would translate to TTRPG.