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It is an interesting question. Generative AI is an unambiguously powerful and useful technology. But it requires a huge amount of data...

The ideal outcome according to some is that it becomes so prohibitively expensive that no one does it.

You're hiking in the mountains in Alaska. There are wolves and grizzly bears in the area. What are the odds of you encountering one if...

Interesting to see that the description here seems focused on character ability, not general luck in their endeavors. Many GM moves as...

Good thing you have all that tall grass for the strawman you're constructing. If a GM is adding tall grass after the ambush, I would...

The same issue applies. If it's my skill to be 'cool under fire' then it shouldn't influence my chance of someone coming in at that...

I mean, we've already demonstrated we are fine with cooks on random encounter rolls, we are fine with cooks in the kitchen at dinner...

Right. Past experience tells me that the only way this particular discussion ends is by mod intervention.

This breakdown is absolutely fascinating. It's exactly the kind of post explaining the actual rules of burning wheel that gives me...

Exactly this. The part that conflicts with the sim agenda is that the represented skill at lock-picking (or whatever skill) influences...

What are you talking about? The kind of world that following the 1ed encounter rules lead to have as far as I have seen been extensively...

This is pretty wrong. If the DM failed to note than the grass on the plains the party entered was very tall when they initially...

There is no pretense. Rolling specifically for a random encounter is very different than having an encounter because you decided to...

okay but this is part of the core problem you're missing, yes, the dice roll to unlock the door is something that should be influenced...

I missed this earlier. As the person who came up with the high grass, I specifically mentioned it as being narrated prior to the...