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Lanefan replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Cavalier for 1e AD&D.They need a certain degree of Dex - enough to not be clumsy - but that's about it. Maybe minimum 11? Or even ascend to immortality... -
Lanefan replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Cavalier for 1e AD&D.There's a difference, I think, between --- a character actively renouncing a class and completely starting over by choice (e.g. an...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode.It's a good distinction. CaT is more closely related to CaS than it is to CaW, I think. And elements of all three can crop up even...
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Lanefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with
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I’ve seen the “Combat as War vs. Combat as Sport” framework come up a lot in TTRPG discussions, and I think it’s a very useful... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items.The OP points out nicely the (IMO rather sad) change in items over the editions. Worth noting the same type of chage has occurred with...
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Lanefan reacted to Pamphylian's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
I have a theory that you can learn a lot about a fantasy TTRPG’s design philosophy by looking at its magic items. Further, you can...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.Smart (and wise) chaotic evil? Job one: survive. Remember, if careless you can always be killed by the chaos you create. Job two...
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Lanefan reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil? with Like.
Evil. Lacking empathy, self-centered, and motivated only by self-interest. Chaotic. Dismiss all laws or moral codes of any kind...
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Lanefan replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.I've seen that. But I've never seen that. Assuming it starts from 1, yes. But rolling a d6, high wins, pretty strongly implies it...
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Lanefan reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators with
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"Claude, write me a one paragraph email to use to spam small business owners to see if they need any search engine optimization... -
Lanefan replied to the thread AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators.That's only because the script-writers had to hew to 20th-century copyright timelines because that's when they were writing, even though...
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Lanefan replied to the thread AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators.You have a very nice boss. Keep him! :) Bosses claiming credit for the work of their underlings was IME standard procedure.
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators with Like.
Tools and things cannot create. I'm not a part of the creative process. I am the creative process. The tool is just a thing used to...
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Lanefan reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators with Like.
That’s not what being the creator of a thing means. Society and the law could say you get no rights to your artistic works and you would...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators with Like.
Neither. And there is a very real and significant distinction between building and creating. Just because the AI builds what I...