Recent content by Charlaquin

Yeah, that was my reaction. Like, not knocking the quality of the piece, but the subject doesn’t really scream “Greyhawk source book” to me

1 new spell is good. More HP and nothing else? Snoozefest.

I have mixed feelings about the quantity of character abilities/features/powers/spells. On one hand, yeah, characters from 3e onward just have so many, it’s often hard for players to remember their own capabilities, which is unnecessary. On the other hand, I as a player would always rather get a...

Yeah, I remember the rumor having been that they were already working on 6e, and that 6e would be OSR inspired. I never believed for a second that would happen. A parallel “Basic D&D” line seems more believable, but still very unlikely. Luke working on a Greyhawk supplement though, totally...

That would make sense

I remember a while back some of the OSR fans were speculating about Luke being in talks with WotC. They convinced themselves it was going to be a new, OSR style edition which was obviously unrealistic, but this does explain what was actually going on there.

AI companies: “wouldn’t you like an unpaid intern who’s wrong about everything, incapable of learning new skills, and needs to drink six bottles of water every time they answer a question?” Corporations: “you had me at unpaid.”

Mmm... I see what you're saying, but the consequences of people's bodies getting flabby are ultimately personal to those people. The consequences of enough people's minds getting "flabby" can easily become global. We already have a massive problem of anti-intellectualism leading to a widespread...

That’s a very good point. I’ll amend my statement; the technology may or may not be inherently harmful to users. But, the way many people are currently using it does seem to be quite harmful. Cognitive debt and “AI psychosis” (I think there’s a less alarmist technical term, but I don’t recall it...

Yes, it was very short

“Dumber” is a reductive phrasing, but it does very much seem to be the case that regular LLM use limits people’s capacity for critical thinking.

And nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can’t play basketball! (I’m joking of course, this seems perfectly reasonable, especially since skeletons are generally on the weak side for warlock familiars)

Oh lord, I hope so!

I don’t know if semicolons and em dashes are still considered indicators of likely AI writing, but I know they were at one point and that frustrated the heck out of me as someone who uses both punctuation marks a lot and has no intention of changing that. And I’m not even writing in an academic...