Recent content by Gorgon Zee

True for a fair number of Indie games like DitV, My Life With Master, Agon, Hillfolk For more complex systems, I'll be honest -- I probably make more mistakes that alter or omit rules than I do deliberate choices. I just found out yesterday that my belief that cultural maximums in Pendragon...

I'd look into D&D 4E skill challenges -- they are pretty much this, looking for a number of successes depending on the complexity of the task, before a set number for failures. The One Ring Council rules add an interesting twist -- one player sets up the encounter by rolling a skill that...

The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced that the exact opposite is true! If you do something a lot, you will remember the complexity and you often are looking to have different experiences each time, so looking for more options and more detail. Whereas if you do something rarely...

On energy use: Training models is super-expensive, no disagreement. But per-token use is not as large as most people think. Studies on GPT 4o ( the model we use most) shows that expected energy use of a 500 token query is about 0.3 watt-hours. Now to help understand what that means in real...

Ruin, I think you may have been a little careless reading my post. I specifically said that if you wanted details, just ask. Please re-read my post with a little more attention. I’ll address your implied request on energy separately, as i said I would. Ruin, I’m surprised you have no memory...

I think you might be missing my point. The point is that if you are looking for areas where improvement due to AI would be significant, healthcare is a big example. Your statement is very important and supports my position: healthcare is an area where there is large potential for cost reduction...

I work for a healthcare provider to use AI and ML solutions to improve health care. We are a not for profit so our only motivation is patient care while not losing money. We have developed or used multiple GenAI tools, researched costs and quality and run year long trials. There are multiple...

https://contentauthenticity.org/ An analogy might be the Certified Humane stamps that get placed on food. If you care about the issue, you check for the stamp. The goal is not to ensure that all content is authentic, but to provide a mechanism for those who care to identify that it is...

Maybe if we had more positive news stories about .. how it is used to help in medicine we'd have people with a more balanced view of it. I'm not sure that it makes sense to characterize medicine as a "highly specialized field". It's often quoted as being 15% or more of the GDP of the United...

Recently played a 4-session Outgunned campaign, but still feel that Fate works better when I need to run pulp. I'm not a big fan of Savage Worlds, finding it a bit clunky, but I ran a long SW campaign using the Flash Gordon materials, and that worked very well.

I see a number of posts talking about how people are uncomfortable with intimate details in romance. I think it's helpful to understand that romance does not necessarily mean sex, and might not even overlap that heavily with flirting. I don't RP sex scenes ever. I occasionally, with the right...

So, true story time. I am running the Great Pendragon Campaign, and used the rules for the three fatal beauties with Guenever, so on beholding her for the first time, you have to roll to see how deeply you fall for her. Hywel the Cruel one of my player knights, rolled a critical success and...

Obviously, system-dependent. PENDRAGON has a very explicit and complex romance system where there is a certain amount of opposition that must be overcome by performing quests for the object of your affection. At various stages the target person will then allow increasing intimacy (holding hands...

I'll amplify this a bit. Not only is it not a requirement, but it can also be a simplistic or even lazy way to end a story. I feel that the best form of horror is when you could have succeeded, but failed to. Or you survive at a cost that is so high that death would have been preferable. I have...

Starting a mini-campaign tonight, and planning to do what I usually do, which is: Give a general intro to the world and what the story is about. Tell them that as we create characters to think about why you are committed to this story Roll up characters Ask them to write down the reason they...