Recent content by beaumontsebos

Once Sigil launched I took a look at what was needed in time and effort to get it going and immediately bailed. This is no surprise to me, but it is a shame.

Nice! Good luck with the new campaign!

As mentioned in a previous response, there were actually two concurrent, intertwining groups of characters. Only one group made it to the end. So, for the arc that made it to the end: Character deaths: 7 confirmed deaths, 1 presumed death, 2 unknown, 2 found different paths in life, 3...

We did go slow. But we also had a second group of characters that had concurrent, intertwining story arcs. We would switch between the arcs based on the story beats. I would usually leave them hanging and then switch because I'm evil like that. About a year into the campaign, a player pitched...

Hello! I'm announcing this here because most of the people in my life don't really get the significance of this... My weekly 5E campaign has finally wrapped up! We started in November, 2014 and played three hours every week. It took the characters from level 1-20. Here's the write up of the...

Correct.

Feats. Weapon Master stuff. Choosing where to put ability bonuses. More choice is great for experienced players. Not so much for newbies. If the process was so streamlined now, they wouldn't have felt the need to further simplify it in this starter set. To be clear, I like more choice...

I disagree. There are more choices and moving parts to consider when creating characters now.

Maybe, for some reason I have yet to fathom, corporations in our uber-capitalist economy won't embrace a technology that is cheaper, faster and more productive than humans - even if the quality (right now) is comparatively low. I hope you're right. But judging how corporations have evolved, I...

It can be used to "generate storylines, art, and voices" for an RPG. Note: I don't think AI produces writing and art at a higher quality than humans (yet). But it is cheaper, faster and more productive.

AI is cheaper, faster and more productive than humans. No corporation in an uber-capitalist economy is going to stand by and not use it, no matter what they say.

My main complaint with 5E 2024 is that they increased complexity of character creation. It seems they realize this. Maybe this will help ease people into the complexity of full on PHB character creation. But that doesn't solve the underlying issue. Looks cool, though!

I think Mercer has been following my campaign wiki. https://ur-delth.obsidianportal.com/

As somebody who started playing D&D in the early 80s and extensively suffered the inherent social consequences of the hobby... oh no!!!!!!

"Species" may not be the correct word. But "race" is for sure the wrong one. I've known it since I was a kid and I find it confounding that some people either don't realize the many levels of why it is the wrong word for a major RPG publisher to use, or that some people do realize it's the wrong...