Recent content by Gorgon Zee

Not disagreeing with you — that’s why I like linear systems — there is no math to understand. Your skill is 80; you are 80% likely to succeed. No math (at least until you have to decide on extreme results!). I’m going to ignore your “unknown” adjective, because by definition, you cannot know...

For any dice mechanic, there is the distribution of the dice results, which typically are linear (e.g. d100), bell-curve (e.g. 3d6) , or some form of long-tailed (e.g. exploding dice). And then there is the mapping of numeric results to the game-world results, which can be varied, but generally...

Dr. Strangelove for me.

Of these, these are the ones I've played, listed in order of how much they have justified their title: 13th Age is the clear winner. I have run four multi-year campaigns, played in another one and have just started prepping for a new campaign with the latest edition. It's easily my favorite...

While evaluating creativity is hard, there seems to be a reasonable amount of evidence that an LLM can generate material that is perceived as more creative than that created by an average person for a given domain. However the issue is exactly what you have suggested above -- it's creative the...

So you have a citation for this? Because recent evidence is exactly the opposite: https://breakingdefense.com/2026/01/air-force-says-ai-tools-outperform-human-planners-in-battle-management-experiment/

Until I need the space for something I like more. It's entirely pragmatic based on available space.

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...