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One thing that I always thought was neat about the ethereal was that is was the place of ghosts and that it touched on the material...

To piggy back on what the previous poster said, the Ethereal borders the Material planes....all of them. So in theory they can wind up...

Thread title is an oxymoron.

Yeah, closer too, rather than actually achievable. It would take that long to write the narrative, never mind make the game!

I assume 2025 and reskin are metaphorical here, because realistically 2028 is the dead minimum and 2029 more likely, because this isn't...

But what players care about varies widely. It's not always about wining or losing. Sometimes it's looking cool in an outrageous hat.

Or, you could take one of the many horror games that already exist and slap a D&D label on it. Ravenloft is very hard to make...

I haven't played a PbtA game, but I have heard games recounted by people who have, and it sounds like they tend to degenerate into the...

How do you make it different from a long journey across hundreds of miles of blank page?

So, there are people who say that. Therefore, you treat everyone as if they are saying that? That's gonna make things better? At that...

I don't think the current LLM approach is going to "get really good", because of three factors: 1) They're out of training material...

It's absolutely being looked into and will continue to be until someone tries it seriously and succeeds/fails (there have been small...

In theory, that sounds like a perfectly acceptable idea. In practice, that’s what made so many people dislike the 2014 Berserker’s...

Just FYI there is a separate What I am reading in 2025 thread. :)

Not at all. The blaster scene was needed. It spoke to the relationship between the characters. It did not harm whatsoever to add a...