Recent content by UngainlyTitan

However, that AI does not admit to ignorance and gives and answer anyway is a mark against AI as a general search and research tool.

As a user of both FantasyGrounds and D&DBeyond, I am agnostic on hosting but Beyond is my minimum spec and prefer the DM tools in FG. Probably would not switch without some compelling reason.

At the current rate of publication I may buy 2 to 4 books per year and if I really like or want to use something another version of that for a VTT (sometimes I want to use it and it is VTT only). Ramp up the production rate and I will pay less attention to any given product and analysis...

While I agree with you that putting that kind of investment into tabletop would not be useful and that Beyond needs more developmemt. I think that game studios are orobably a good investment. They have prebuilt ip, as long as they acceot that most games will fail in one way or another but they...

I never claimed that the market would collapse, do not put words in my mouth. What I am saying is that the more content released the less attention any given thing will get and with that lower attention comes a reduced chance any given product will get a purchase. I find I am near that limit...

No, Wizards does not need to produce more boiks. I suspect they are already producing all the books the market can bear. I alredy can neither afford, nor read all the books being produced. More books would nor increase sales to me. It would likely reduce them because I would pay less attention...

I would argue that at the end of this Inigo is at zero hp and Wesley has lost a lot also. But yes, different folks can have legimitely different opinions as to what hp and hits are in D&D or other rpgs. Some other rpgs are more one thing or another though.

Apologies, I meant "Many here appear to disagree". First off, I do not use it often because, in general I tend to take the party from their current location to the other location they want to go to, and each location is a traditional map and key situation. If I want to make more of the a...

It is not a bad way to view HP, but ever since I read the War Spell series by Georg Huff and Paula Goodlet, I have started to think of hit point as an interaction between living things in danger and the magic field. That they are a magical boost to awareness, reflexes and speed that allows one...

No but it is a lot of work in any 3d editor I have tried it in. More than I would want to bother with for an encounter map.

A mix, I voted "Premade", because I tend to use published material but I am no respecter of setting or lore. For setting I will use the maps, maybe the gods, maybe some NPC, some lore and maybe some other lore from somewhere else. Adventures, I use more of, but the players go off script then the...

I think that they are really only doable with some kind of AI. Draw a 2D map and the AI makes it 3d. Use some kind of natural language interface to tweak the map, perhaps add elevation. Provide the DM the ability to add custom decor (or the AI can do it). Or something that would work at...

I tend to think so but may here appear to disagree.

I believe that rangers should have a "scry the land" ability. A spell or ability to generate a topographical map of the area around them out to a days march. Hunter's Mark should be castable on spoor of a creature they are tracking (sympathetic magic) to indicate what way did they go from here...

That is fair but it seems to be a problem in large organisations. Microsoft and other large software outfits suffered a lot from it back when I was a developer (probably still do). Of course, sometimes their best products came from such solo runs. It may be that it was started before the...