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As someone in statistics/machine learning, one of the things that annoys me about this is how "AI" has become synonymous with "a massive...

I wouldn't go as far as to accuse them of being insincere, but in some cases it does seem not as thought through it can be in its...

The original scenario was: They will arrange a lynch mob, but the players have the capability to destroy the entire village, so that...

Unless I'm not allowed to suggest a GM who won't allow someone to even define the village their character comes from is being excessive...

It amused me that before I looked at your text, I'd already picked out the Bouda.

Yes, but if you're more on the gamist end it just adds one more ruddy random check with potentially broad impact in a realm where you...

Just finished reading it and loved what I saw. There's a certain creepy otherworldliness to ancient fairy tales and myths I think modern...

Putting forward a compromise that none of your players considers a compromise tells me it’s a bad compromise.

My two settings have been running since 2002 and I have things cyclical cycle where there are apocalypses etc. I mainly use them as a...

Yes. You did by assuming I was talking about anyone specific.

Yeah, I'm with you; as I've noted your description of your GMing style sounds a fair bit like mine. But there are people who...

Most humanoids are pretty easy to convert over, there's not too many with problematic abilities that can't be handled with the ol'...

This is one of those cases where you're being, if anything, overly generous: I've absolutely hit GMs who would not let players add...

I was just curious whether "If they can be adventurers they can be PCs" was liable to come up against some species that are humanoid and...

I was missing lots of options. Just trying to point out that this is an emotional issue. And it is a complex issue. It deserves to be...