Recent content by Umbran

"That's your get-rich-quick scheme, Frank? Bust up some valuable fossils and make dice out of them?" The problem with this notion is that lower-quality Tyrannosaur fossils aren't actually all that valuable. Like, you can buy something big enough to make a die out of for $50 - $100 or so. It...

There's other information to be gained form the question I asked, that this doesn't get us. What is the intended purpose of calling it "D&D"? Why do you want to call it that? I can imagine a world in which you ask for an apple, and you might get handed a citrus fruit, but I'm not sure that...

Time for the Game of Theseus argument?

So, you can get a perfectly functional role playing game on the d20 framework, without ability scores. I play other games that don't have ability scores. To answer whether it would be "D&D" if you did that... why would you want to call it that? What's the purpose in attaching that name to...

The idea of a one-shot is not to get a full understanding. That's not the goal. A one shot gets you a taste, a feel for how mechanics work, or the opportunity to dig into role-playing of a short scenario. The characters are "throw away" yes, but with that comes a freedom - you don't have to...

Mod note: It seems to me this thread isn't supposed to be about Gygax at all, much less the specifics of possible racism in his work. So, how about we drop that, and keep this thread on its topic, please and thanks.

Yes, I can move this - off to Play by Post it goes...!

So, I went to look up this history.... Ruth Handler invented the original Barbie doll. Ruth had two kids, named - you guessed it - Barbara and Kenneth. Ken Handler went into filmmaking, and eventually did get his own dream house, in Greenwich Village.

With respect, I was responding to (what I thought was), "all classes start simple, and get complex". As in, there would be no simple high-level options. I think the goal of having all classes be simple, but also possibly complex, and all be reasonably balanced, is asking too much - too...

I don't think the number of mods matter at all. The point is that there is no known reliable detection of AI content.

I mean, we can say we ban it. But enforcing that ban? Around here, it would seem to me that'd be issuing a frelling challenge, and be tantamount to asking folks to please, try to slip stuff by us. And when two users who don't like each other accuse each other of AI use? Ugh. No thanks.

shrug. All classes should be made the same way? Why? Are all players the same, or something? I don't see why we should not have some classes be complicated right out of the gate, and some classes just really simple, and some as you describe above. That may not all fit in the same base core...

Mod note: Before you continue to go on about what people you have never met do or don't understand... Please allow me to remind you that Rule #1 on these boards is, "Keep it civil." That means, among other things, that you should be respectful of others and their gaming preferences, and that...

A discussion of all that would break forum rules. It would be great if you were correct. So, there are two different things we could try to ban: 1) Discussion of AI. 2) Actual use of AI-generated content in posts on these boards. The former is relatively easy - there's already subjects we...

Um, no. The alpha of the pack... is Dad. I mean the whole "alpha" thing is a huge misreading of social structures of a mixed bag of wolves thrown together in captivity. The observed behavior, our picture of "alphas", is entirely unnatural behavior for wolves. It is what wolves did when taken...