Recent content by Umbran

Back when there were EN World Gamedays I attended a few, but none of my current gaming circles spend time here.

My pulpy goodness usually comes in some Fate variant - much of it Fate Accelerated.

I think you are not giving proper consideration of the page after page after page of discussion genAI has had on these boards. I mean, you get to think what you want. Nobody can stop you. But the "I have concerns, and here's why..." has been covered already, numerous times. At this point...

The Anarch movement, as such, was not detailed until a supplement two years later. The movement does not purport much of anything in the six whole sentences it gets in the core book. But, if you want to believe that, in a 260 page book, six sentences set up what the players are supposed to...

So, with respect, you are missing a major point here. If genAI was mostly being used to assist highly specialized practitioners in highly specialized fields, nobody would give two hoots. My own graduate research into what would eventually be called "generative AI" was of that form, but for...

Yeah, one of the best ways to dismiss the concerns of others is to decide they are insincere.

Dude, the Anarchs are barely mentioned in the original core rulebook. I don't have a pdf to search, but I find like, five whole sentences in my hardcopy. Hard to have a game written with an expectation of the players identifying with them, whey they are told nothing about Anrachs in the book!

I don't see how you'd get that expectation, when the core rulebook was all about being part of the Camarilla.

In making orcs and trolls sympathetic to the player, and the victims of prejudice, Shadowrun asked the question, "What is a monster, really?" while standing corporate greed up as an obvious answer. V:tM asked similar questions, but more cynically, allowing the answer, "Well, yeah, I feed on...

With respect, Rice's Interview with the Vampire predates V:tM by 15 years. Terri Windling and the shared universe authors of the Borderlands series, and even Shadowrun with its Tolkienesque races in a modern setting, all got to the topic of the main/viewpoint characters being the monsters...

If it is an emotional issue, it must be discussed in an emotional manner. Neglecting those emotions will lose the nuance that you insist upon. I mean generative AI, specifically. That does not include what we normally speak of when we reference, "machine learning", and several other...

Ah. Yeah, fine. While that's where you may be coming from, that's not where I was, or planning to go.

Ah. Got it. As I understand it, "products" like books and such, are a minor source of income for those who make genAIs. So, it isn't the public's lack of desire for AI text or images that will sink it. As I understand it, the bulk of the supposed values comes in turning to Enterprise-class...

So, this reads as, "I, the GM, get to discard your reasons (mechanical, worldview, or cultural influences) as invalid, so you cannot have it." That is a bogus way to collaborate. Proper negotiation would acknowledge the player reasons as valid, rather than discard them. And we'd also note...

I don't see how it is "bad news". What's so dire about discovering that genAI products don't go very far in the RPG market?