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That's certainly a fair assumption. Apology accepted and no hard feelings.

I wouldn't have made a post comparing the privacy risks of the gen AI services discussed in this thread to the privacy risks of other types of AI applications if I didn't understand what gen AI was. But thanks for clarifying what gen AI is for other posters who weren't aware of the difference.

I don't use gen AI, so China won't be getting any user data from me if they reverse engineer Silicon Valley's gen AI services. I'd be much more interested in running open source AI locally for non-generative purposes. In theory, that wouldn't require me interacting with either China or Silicon...

Me, too! Tens of dollars annual revenue. Tens, I say!

On the plus side, it looks like one of the industries AI might destroy is the AI industry. Apparently, Chinese companies are currently using armies of bots to reverse engineer other firms' AI services. (Hilariously, executives at Anthropic are saying, "Whah! Whah! The Chinese are violating our...

You make a fair point about Favored Enemy mechanics. That would probably be a feature of any hypothetical Demon Hunter class. But I'm not sure a Demon Hunter class would just be a copy of the D&D Ranger. It would probably also have some Bard and Paladin class features. And as a new class, it...

"If this is the honmoon I'm supposed to protect, I'm glad to see it destroyed." Edit: Incidentally, I'd argue Mira from Kpop Demon Hunters is True Neutral. She wants Good to win on a cosmic scale, but on a personal level, she willfully embraces blind hatred (a.k.a. Evil) as a personal motivation.

If we take True Neutral to mean actively balancing out one's Good acts and one's Evil acts, I could see certain anti-heroes qualifying as True Neutral. Assuming there are equal numbers of Good people and Evil people in the world, if you believe you should perform Good acts to benefit (only) Good...

As some folks here on ENWorld know, I published the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide: Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara on the DMs Guild late last year. A short while ago, sales of that book hit the Copper Bestseller level. (I'll have to add a Copper Bestseller ribbon to the cover image on the DMs...

Lovecraftian Dark Sun - Mortals have discovered arcane magic they can use to stave off an impending ecological collapse, but the more magic they use to preserve the world, the more attention they attract from cosmic horrors. Humanity wasn't meant to survive this long, and its continued existence...

If I remember correctly, the slow "per level" progression for the thief was offset by the fact that thieves advanced in level much faster than characters of other classes. A thief and a fighter with the same XP total would have saving throws in the same basic ballpark (on account of the thief...

If a steakhouse serves 6-8 properly-handled rare steaks per dinner service, any incidental bacteria are spread thinner than they would be if the steakhouse served 1-3 improperly-handled, well-done steaks during that same dinner service. The DMG just does a bad job explaining why properly-handled...

In case there's someone reading this thread who's thinking about getting into writing for the first time, I’d like to echo some classic advice that many other authors have mentioned online and elsewhere: Firstly, set aside time to write every day, and consistently write during that time. I’d...

Returning to the point I raised at the end of the original post, I learned a fair amount while working on the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide. Some of the things I learned were technical in nature. I’d never attempted to create regional maps for publication before, and I was now creating a...

At this point, it feels like everyone should just start referencing prior events at one another: Poster #1: Grievance from post 337. Question from post 1312. Poster #2: Answer from post 818. Anecdote from post 247. Poster #1: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.