Recent content by Thomas Shey

I believe I've said that's sometimes necessary. I just think "No one actually wants to compromise" is not an accurate description when what's actually going on is your acceptable compromises just are in different areas. As I've said, the proper response to "I want to play a humanoid turtle" is...

Given some of the interactions I had with its author, I'd rather shoot myself in the foot.

Here's part of the disconnect. Individual stat sets are not balanced or unbalanced per se. They might be badly distributed, depending on how they were assigned, but that's not a balance issue per se. The lack of balance with rolled stats is in contrast to other stat sets (usually possessed by...

Glad to hear you found something that worked for you, Retreater.

What if the visual imagery is the main interest? I mean, that may be a nonstarter to you, but I'd think you could understand "Being a physical humanoid turtle" as the interest point not being satisfied by any compromise that doesn't include that. It might well be that neither the...

I think there can be differences between what's called the "elevator pitch" and sufficient information to genuinely know what's a good idea to play or not. Among other things, the full campaign handout for a game can be a bit much for an elevator pitch.

Hero was one of my two main go-tos for decades. Admittedly I have some unusual history with it, but still.

If I was feeling really perverse, I'd say "Use EABA instead."

Assuming he can. Its not like most random methods are constrained enough they won't produce outliers point buy or an array won't have as a possible result. I don't have a problem continuing it, I'm just having trouble understanding how you can't understand the difference.

Again, this seems like it assumes "something new" rather than a variation is common in the first place. I'd go look in the D&D AI art thread and look the cases when someone input attempts with similar prompts multiple times and see how different they sometimes are. That's as much or more...

To an outside observer, its liable to be indistinguishable if the person creating the new image was trying for the same basic monster. There are only so many ways people are going to draw minotaurs or beholders, unless they're going out of their way to be baroque. The problem here is, if...

Identical numbers won't. But the chances you'll get identical numbers with random roll is extremely unlikely.

Yet you're perfectly willing to tell me I haven't seen what I've seen. I was very clear that these were creative works that were then being massaged with AI, then gone over by their producers; they weren't factual works. So the question was whether they changed the meaning and tone, and/or...

They could also just be rangy and slight; some elements of strength use probably usually involve body mass.

How likely are two people at a table to roll exactly the same six values with random die rolls? I'd suggest its very, very low. Whereas the only thing two people with point assignment need to do is to decide to have the same six values.