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If this were cinema, cut back and forth. But the brain handles cross cutting fine in the span of a few minutes. Tabletop combat sadly just takes too long.

What data is this trained on? What company is bankrolling this? I am broadly wary of large-scale computing generative models that threaten to reduce the ability of creative people to earn a living by making art. I'm not sure how this plays out, but I don't really want to engage with it until...

Someone pointed out to me that I was misinterpreting that spell back in the day. It's not, "spend a level 1 slot to get whatever spell you want with a small risk from the wild surge." It's, "spend a level 1 slot, and you just get a wild surge, but since the surge can refer to the initial spell...

I think it was back in 2014, Magic: the Gathering players were yearning for Wizards of the Coast to reprint a cycle of cards called 'fetch lands' (you could use them to search for other lands in your deck, helping you get the right mana to cast your spells). Many people joked that the cards were...

I'm guessing most of us don't roleplay with pre-modern phrases, but that's okay, because if you watch this video, you can take away that plenty of modern phrases were also used back in the day. They just were part of a suite of options, including many which are no longer popular. You could have...

A recommendation I saw was that they should next adapt the novel Musashi, which basically picks up during the battle the happens off screen at the end of this show. Sure, it's got a very different vibe, but it's more samurai drama from the era of they want to use the props and staff and such.

I wrote some adventures, and have heard from a few dozen people who've played them. Maybe I'm not rich from it, but I feel good to know that my art was enjoyed by others.

I feel you on the Magus thing. My friends and I played Iron Gods in Pathfinder, and we had TWO magi who ripped folks apart.

Where are you in the campaign? What's your character?

When EN Publishing did the adventure path War of the Burning Sky in 2007, it was pretty linear with just a few NPCs who recurred and a few narrative throughline between adventures. When we did ZEITGEIST: The Gears of Revolution in 2011, we upped our game a lot. I had a big notebook to keep...

I'd argue that a mimic is not a threat to the nation that would trigger the rites. Nor a mechanical dragon being deployed basically as an attack dog. In the campaign, it's really for the titans.

If the twist was that after playing for eleventy-one days, you take over as a new character who's thirty-three who has to leave your shire - and suddenly it's a full quest, all while you pine to return home - that would probably be a terrible business decision, but still really neat. Or just...

I think that's all, yeah.

I just got out of seeing it. My take is that clearly the 'villain' is a government that treats journalists as the enemy and that values holding onto power over the truth. That said, there's a vein of criticism in the film aimed against those types of journalists who are motivated by getting...

I wrote or edited the adventures, what, 17 years ago, and yeah, I feel a bit embarrassed by a lot of parts where I think now I could do better. But I think as long as you involve the players in the setting so they care about the people imperiled by Ragesia, the adventures have plenty of fun...

I appreciated the aesthetic and mood of the first movie, but my takeaway from it was that - intentionally or not - it was a film that had nothing to say, but with a main character who thought he was doing something meaningful. It was tragic in that way, and tragic that for a while a number of...

I mean, if any character would be permissible for a GM to say, "He faked his death," it'd be one named Deception, right? In the campaign, Deception shows up in adventure 6, then . . . man, it's been so long, I don't remember. Maybe not at all, or maybe just wherever you want. A recurring...

Ah, well, I was just thinking of the whole 'only one concentration spell active at a time' thing 5e had. Quite different from the 3e era of invisible stoneskinned flying summoners or whatever.