Recent content by Gorgon Zee

Yeah, it can be a real issue. If I go to a big con, I might play 8 games and I'd expect one to be awful, one to be great and the rest OK. I've found that unaffiliated GMs running games written 10+ years ago have a high proportion of games towards the awful end of things, sadly. On the other...

I do love it! Pendragon does have 23 events running at Gen Con, which is over a third of one percent of all RPG events, and more than I expected. "My Life with Master" is sadly unrepresented. But honestly I am so happy to hear "Pendragon" and "My Life with Master" categorized as popular I...

I have Synology NAS with a "roleplaying" volume. Within that volume is the folder is the DriveThru app I use backs up to. Also lots of other stuff. It's shared on my mac and the mac's basic search functionality is good enough to find me what I need. I also use Goodreader on my ipad to connect to...

I appreciate that. As I stated, his statement wasn't totally clear. Well, if we define pretty much any game that is less obscure than DramaSystem as "popular", sure. But his actual statement was: "While it's true that a certain few core books are absurdly good value if and only if they're...

If you are tying your two statements together and saying it is incorrect that ALL RPG you buy you will play forever, then sure. Just like saying you will re-read EVERY book you ever buy. This is pretty much common sense. But if you are saying that those RPGs do not exist at all, or even that...

I agree with your overall viewpoint, but I think Paizo is not expecting that people will decide, as a group, suddenly to play SF2 and buy all the books. If my group got into it, my path would be: Play for free at a local con Buy Player's PDF for $20 and play seriously in their Living Campaign...

I’ve also used Don’t Rest Your Head to play Buffy, re-theming the insomnia as slipping into the darkness. It was a darker form of Buffy, but I was quite pleased at how it was able to generate a simialr sort of tone.

So, I have been doing exactly this sort of analysis for a few months now. I learned early on that there are about 70,000 diagnoses, and when you do a diagnosis, you usually specify a single main diagnosis, and any number of secondary ones. So "a match" is actually hard to specify. From a...

Only approved tools can be used for data that is private, sensitive or restricted (includes PHI/PII, financial, etc. -- basically anything not public). Approval is by a committee including me, our VP for compliance and our VP for security. In general, to be approved a tool must: Secure our data...

This is exactly what my org’s stance is at the moment. Any LLM use requires a manual intervention or approval, and the user of the LLM is responsible for the content, just as if they had not used AI to generate it. AI companies are pushing autonomous agents heavily at the moment — agents that...

With an hour's prep I can run many systems so I'd probably pick something to contrast with my current campaigns. Also something that shines as a one-shot rather than a campaign. Right now, I'd run HEROES OF THE HEARTH from Pelgrane Press's SEVEN WONDERS (Seven Wonders) because it's a...

That's not quite as clear as you might think. There have been a few studies that show comparable or better accuracy from LLMs. Lots of caveats, especially since the papers have mostly used synthetic data, but here are some interesting bits of info: Patient records are growing massively. One...

There was a certain period of writing when authors seemed to like to stop in the middle of a story and add a few dozen pages on whatever topic interested them that morning, so long as it was somewhat vaguely related to the text. Or not. There’s an entire book within Les Miserables titled...

Every word, jargon or not, is viewed differently to different people. "Jargon" in this context is a set of words we (this group) uses that are not immediately clear to outsiders. Are they helpful? yes, very much. They enable me to get a sense of what is being discussed immediately. Are they...

I love Moby Dick, but I appreciate that when you are faced with entire chapters such as the following, fury or despair may be warranted: The Whiteness of the Whale Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in...