Recent content by Hex08

I have so much class I have no choice but to multiclass :p Seriously though, I have played multiclass characters in every version of D&D I have played (and that is a lot of them), excluding 4E & 5E since I never played them, including spinoffs like Pathfinder. I always do so because it fits my...

Depends on the game. In D&D or D&D-like systems the answer is no (with some exceptions) but otherwise it depends on the game/setting. My biggest, but not only, problem with it in D&D, at least in the past since I don't play the current system, is that it is usually a totally different subset of...

SWADE Castles & Crusades Two of the Forged in the Dark games (Blades in the Dark, Scum & Villainy or Band of Blades) Call of Cthulhu Arcana Unearthed or Arcana Evolved. Probably the former Tiny Taverns The Strange

I'm not saying I totally disagree with you here but, in my experience, it's not uncommon for the recognition to regularly go to the same people. At a prior sales job myself and a small handful of people always were recognized for the most sales. I didn't think much about it, after all I was...

I've run Night Below twice, Keep on the Borderlands a few times, U1-3 (The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh series), The Temple of Elemental Evil (including Village of Hommlet), Against the Giants several times and a few of those leading into D1 - D3 and Queen of the Demonweb Pits

In 2010 I moved away from my regular gaming group, we had been playing together for decades, and we didn't want to stop gaming together. I bought Fantasy Grounds to keep playing and have been doing so since. I have played in other local gaming groups but they were all work based groups and when...

I think Old Ben, who lives beyond the Dune Sea, fought in the Great AI Wars

Ok, I mistyped. People make mistakes but that impacts my argument not a bit. I'll go back and correct my post. People in this thread have been arguing many different points of view of this situation but we were replying (several times) to each other so the conversation we were having is what I...

I agree with a lot of what you said but this line stands out as something I have to disagree with. AI companies certainly are doing the same thing. Meta got caught torrenting pirated books to train AI and the only difference between me doing the torrenting or Meta is the financial resources I...

Years ago when I first went to college I took an intro to criminal justice class. We had a guest speaker who was an FBI agent and he told us that they only catch dumb criminals for the most part (I'm old so this was before smartphones and social media and surveillance cameras were less prevalent...

I'm not a lawyer but the fair use argument seems to not apply here, at least if it's copyrighted content that is not being offered for free that is being scraped from the internet. If I went to a torrent site and downloaded a few of this years best selling novels and art books and got caught I...

Here's what baffles me. These AI companies can scape (pirate, steal) the internet for copyrighted material and use it publicly and its ok, at least so far, but if some individual pirates or steals content from the internet they could be looking at devastating fines. Other than the difference in...

I bought licenses for Fantasy Grounds when I moved away from my gaming group back in 2010. It does everything I need and my group is familiar with it so I see no reason to change. There was a time where I spent too much money on Pathfinder 1E content that it didn't make financial sense to change...

I started playing D&D in 1980 or 1981 I think. At the time TSR was putting out other RPGs like Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, Top Secret and I think others and I played them all in addition to games like Champions and Villains & Vigilantes and others. I drifted away from playing a few times and when...

Nope