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    D&D General 70% Of Games End At Lvl 7?

    Long running anything are the outliers. Most things are interrupted by life. I have had the fortune of running both 2e & 3e games from 1st-20ish, and playing in a 1st-20th 5e game. Each took years IRL. The 3e game started with just the PHB and ended the week 4e books hit shelves. That's...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Heroes won. The campaign ended. Alternately You mean that really worked? Dnd 5e2014 pastiche of Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Princes of the Apocalypse, Courts of the Shadow Fey and probably other stuff
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    Can you count?

    Its a fun puzzle on a forum and a way to add some hidden bits to a game book for the addicts, but unless its an unlicensed Professor Layton TTRPG, it should never be something a player has to learn for actual play.
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    Starfinder Warframe--Powered By Starfinder--Coming To A Tabletop Near You!

    What a Warframe is, is actually part of the story quests, so its a spoiler of sorts. The player characters start as semi-amnesiacs
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    Studio Agate Takes Over 7th Sea From Chaosium

    I never got to play 7th Sea 1ed, but I loved the mechanics. Felt a bit like shadowrun-meets-deadlands.
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    D&D General What to Do with a Dragon Corpse?

    Magic(+x and/or acid reistant) leather, studded leather or Hide armor, shields Dragon scale mail (specific item) Any items that grant acid resistance or cause acid damage, induce/resist fear, create darkness/see through darkness, summon insects or grants water breathing Magic (+x, acid damage...
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    D&D General Wearing a lantern on your belt?

    Continual Flame is not actually fire, even in 2024.
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    D&D General Wearing a lantern on your belt?

    I vote no. It is not "impossible" but it is foolish & impractical. 1) heat to your nether regions 2) lots of oil lamps leak, especially when shaken by walking, so flammable fuel on said nether region 3) a conveniently well lit target that if hit can coat your nether region in burning oil and...
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    Could say that the Animate Object spell as counts as necromancy when used on corpses. It gives 5-9 medium constructs for 1 minute in 5e2014 or 1-5 medium constructs in 5e2024. While playing a Bard, I have used it on corpses as they are objects. It's not an army per se, but it is a decent...
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    Doctor Which

    Tom Baker because he was my "first" Doctor. Peter Capaldi - Because he was a "mutant" doctor who eschewed the sonic screwdriver and asked "why am I like this?", while most Doctors accepted themselves fully without question. Lastly, the Missy / Bill / Clara /Me arcs could have been trash if...
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    Disney sues Midjourney

    That would be every RPG designer, artist, author, editor, map creator, mini sculptor, journalist, video game designers, programmers, and actors. Essentially everything ENWorld does or reports on. I personally would like to go back to 28 years of copyright but not only blowing up 8% of the...
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    Judge Rules That AI Training Doesn't Violate Copyright

    Nope, not a lawyer and even if I was, copyright law is a notable crapshoot because by statute it is case-by-case and very non-deterministic. However a) I follow former copyright lawyer & Verge editor Nilay Patel who had a recent podcast on the subject and b) Alsop is a judge who learned how...
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    Judge Rules That AI Training Doesn't Violate Copyright

    tI'm not ignoring it, I'm saying that is a different trial than this one. This judgement JUST says that you can train an LLM using books you buy. Hey look! You gave the quote saying that will be a separate trial! And not sure your "again" was directed at the right person since that was...
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    Judge Rules That AI Training Doesn't Violate Copyright

    What this case does NOT cover is the USE of the database/LLM. This ruling is about a case where the AI company bought a huge number of books and then scanned them in a destructive manner. The books weren't resold so the company keeps their right to a copy of each book. Those books could be...
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    How did you learn to run or play Mage?

    I leveraged the other oWoD materials. Some, like the Revenant/Crow, work really well. The black spiral dancer werewolves who can vanish into the spirit world are good long-term foes. Pentax, as either a cultist-run company or a mad Technomancer faction trying to force-evolve humanity...
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