Recent content by Nytmare

Oh my god... Is this a browser based Beginner's Cave from the old Eamon Adventures!?

My current campaign does not, but that's because it's set in a post apocalyptic bronze age where the bulk of written material is on clay tablets. Words printed on linen and papyrus exist, but only as mostly indecipherable text found in ancient ruins.

I would put money on that being generative AI. Color scheme, lighting, and balance all point to it being cobbled together and not actually painted. [EDIT] Yeah, checked it against three detectors and they all said it was ChatGPT.

A random smattering of images I had playing as a slideshow on my GM's screen for a Darksun inspired one shot I ran.

This is the big thing in my mind. And not that they weren't able to make money off of it, but the return on investment of having someone on payroll or paying on a per article basis is nowhere near as cheap as getting the unwashed masses to post 3rd rate D&D memes for free. The people at the...

Like most of social media, it USED to be that it would show you the posts (and reposts) of the people you had specifically picked to follow. As time went on, the list of things the application would show you became more and more of a number game of "what posts will squeeze the most engagement...

As should be readily apparent from your time spent on the internet, not every human being is able to properly intuit other people's intent when dealing with the written word. People have a tendency to read their own assumptions as to what a person is really trying to say, and that's only...

On the plus side, like 70 to 80% of those accounts are almost guaranteed to be bots and/or Russian trolls.

You know "things I don't like and/or understand."

I am the HUGEST fan of Peter Chiykowski's Story Engine Decks. https://storyenginedeck.com/ At the cheaper end of the spectrum are Rory's Story Cubes. If you've got a copy of Dixit or Mysterium, those cards are spectacular for brainstorming. The recently reprinted Everway came with an...

It's too bad there isn't a decent heist RPG out there that figured out a good mechanical way to do an end run around all the unnecessary layers of planning, and fall back planning, and contingency planning.

It's weird cause I'm really not a fan of the lit rpg scene, but if you get a chance to listen to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks, they are quite possibly the best produced audio books I have ever listened to. DOUBLY so when you realize that all of the voices you're listening to are one...

I'm not talking about a begrudgingly hand waived acceptance of what the abstractions might look like in real life if you squint real hard. I'm talking about an in-game reality where people in the world know that you have an 18 strength and 142 hit points. They know that a goblin only has a CR...

I have to say, reading how Rich Burlew was running his game in the late 90s, where character stats and levels and hitpoints and spell slots were just open, understood, concrete facets of daily life that characters just talked about without having to hem and haw over anachronisms and meta game...