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overgeeked reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with
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I'll try. The whole point, i think, of a class-based system with adventuring groups or parties is that it somewhat encourages or even... -
overgeeked reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
From the perspective of giving every class something unique, I kind of get it, the problem is if you have more than 3 or 4 classes, it...
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overgeeked reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Game design has moved on though, in a major way. I mean list the actual niches, and then you can go through the 'pure class' 'hybrid...
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overgeeked reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
It really is. For a while at the end of the ‘80s, he and his friend John Ostrander co-wrote 18 issues of a horror comic for DC called...
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overgeeked reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
See the death & legacy section of this guy’s biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Close
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overgeeked replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Sure. Or a Fighter-Thief with a penchant for shrubs. Yeah. Druid is a Magic-User-Cleric with a penchant for shrubs. I tend to think of...
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overgeeked replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Yep. This is why there's really only four classes and the rest are versions of the others mixed together. But even one of those is a...
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overgeeked reacted to Scribe's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with Like.
I know we have Pirate Borg at home, but I'm going to look at this one too...
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overgeeked replied to the thread Horror general thread [+].Since I have reprints of most of the old EC Comics I’ve started reading through those. Starting with Tales from the Crypt and working...
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overgeeked replied to the thread AI/LLMs Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments.Except that it has. All other RPGs are rounding errors compared to the popularity of D&D. Hell, some older editions of D&D are more...
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overgeeked reacted to Swanosaurus's post in the thread AI/LLMs Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments with Like.
I won't claim moral superiority, but once you end up learning several languages - for whatever reason -, you realize how rewarding it...
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overgeeked replied to the thread AI/LLMs Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments.I’m sorry to say The Evil Plan worked. All too well. Forcing the creative bankruptcy of an entire industry to line a few pockets. I hope...
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overgeeked reacted to seankreynolds's post in the thread AI/LLMs Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments with Like.
I was there. Yes, that was the plan.
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overgeeked reacted to delericho's post in the thread AI/LLMs Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments with Like.
Yes. He made the classic management mistake of badly underestimating the difficulty of the job being done by his staff. He then...
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overgeeked reacted to Benji's post in the thread AI/LLMs Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments with Like.
I think the problem dancy doesn't see is that without the people constantly learning by making games that use each others stuff we don't...