Recent content by cbwjm

I bought a tablet primarily due to my shite eyesight and wanting something more portable than my PC to read PDFs when compared to my phone (which I still use but am constantly zooming and unzooming documents). I think large print options would be a good idea, when I have a book in front of me...

I don't think anyone I've ever played with even knows about enworld. There're a few on the boards I think would be cool to game with but far more I would definitely not want to play with when I consider past threads that have talked about play style and how they run games.

If that's how it comes across then that's how it comes across. Like when someone uses the term AI slop, it comes across to me as them parroting the anti-AI buzzwords because they feel like they shouldn't like AI. if they instead say something like "I have concerns over AI, and here's why..." I'm...

Yeah, that makes sense. Maybe if we had more positive news stories about how it has helped astrophysics/astronomy by analysing the vast amounts of data to find more phenomena in space, or about how it is used to help in medicine we'd have people with a more balanced view of it. I think part of...

Yeah, some people are just so anti-AI that they can't see its good uses. A lot of the people who complain about it are just a little bit too extreme or overzealous and I get that there are concerns, such as deepfakes, but a lot of the hate comes across to me as insincere.

Which is what an AI can do, in fact I'd say that is a great use for it.

A decent word processor should be able to pick up on grammatical mistakes, though I've found some are better than others. I wouldn't have thought that a word processor would be able to pick up that the author called Mr Johnson Mr Smith at one point in the writing or be able to say that you only...

Assuming you just used that AI as an editor, I really don't think that counts as using AI for content. It's letting you know that you had an incorrect name, some minor grammatical errors, and only a single clue that might be missed leading to you, presumably, filling in the blanks. If that's all...

Well now that just makes it seem like I bought a very expensive bowl of fries... Auckland prices do tend to be a bit on the high side, I guess even the special deals reflect this.

I think the lack of downtime means people don't really think about it, I feel like many adventures instead have a story arc and you follow that, finish it, then start the next campaign.

There's a place in Auckland called Mr Murdoch's that does a beer of the week for $6. It can be a bit hit or miss since sometimes you'll get a fortune favours but the next week you get lion red. I know of a couple other places here in Auckland that do a happy hour, but normally it's just a...

I haven't used a DM's screen in ages, and didn't even know about them until I started playing 2e and bought some box sets that came with them. Each setting had a unique DM screen which was pretty neat. I likely mostly used them for saving throws, I can't recall what else was on them.

Not an RPG, but apparently, everyone plays UNO wrong and you don't collect the "go to jail" money when you land on free parking in monopoly. I think with RPGs, the original theme is going to quickly melt away once players understand the mechanics and realise what else can be done with the...

I get that most of the time people already add in permanent modifiers, I definitely did, but there will often be other modifiers due to spells or circumstance (if they're remembered). I guess since this thread is for 1e that most people back then would have played with a chart, it was before my...

I don't care if some/all of the art is AI, but if there is some RPG book which has a collection tables or ideas that are all AI generated then I'm less likely to buy it and instead go and generate my own info using chatgpt. There was apparently some amount of AI art used in the loading screens...