Recent content by Umbran

In tech, of all places, they should understand that clarity matters.

I AM NOT PICKING A FIGHT WITH 13TH AGE! This thread is about Daggerheart. I may have responded to a post that mentioned 13th Age, but my comparison was with D&D! My point is not about 13th Age! I didn't claim any comparison to 13th Age. I don't care about 13th Age.

Explicitly listed as a "Optional Rule", meaning those definitions are not central or required for play. And, the game's introduction has the following (bolding mine): "As a narrative-focused game, Daggerheart is not a place where technical, out-of-context interpretations of the rules are...

It is almost like the actual words I chose matter: I said TACTICAL combat focus. In a game like D&D 3E or later, combat is designed so you can show off how well you play the combat rules game - making specific decisions, round by round, to test your ability to play a tactical wargame...

Daggerheart's focus is not on interesting tactical gameplay, to be honest. So, the question that comes to mind is - Why? What is the design goal here? What problem are you trying to solve? I ask not to say, "Justify your choice!" but because whether this sounds like a viable initial test...

Here's the original. It is almost like people forget they can look up clips...

It has been a while since I checked in here (I don't often keep up to date on shows) - you quote me there, but I did not say that, or anything to that effect. How about you straighten that out, please and thanks?

Um, there's a lot of myth there. Richard Garfield and WotC applied for a patent on "Trading Card Method of Play", with first paperwork filed in 1994 (years before the Hasbro purchase), full description in October of 1995. The patent was granted in 1997. The patent did include tapping, but...

That's not quite correct. Inference is not a portion of development. Inference is the functional operation - a fancy word for "use of the AI after it is trained." Say you intend to have an AI drive a car. You train the AI. Then, you put that AI in a car, and it starts taking in data from...

To quote a modern poet, "You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world." I don't think anyone is going to "revolutionize the RPG scene" with some new mechanics. I've seen 50 years of new mechanics, but I don't know I'd say any of them "revolutionized" the...

If it is the thread I think it was, it didn't have the tag, and so could not be filtered out by that tag.

"Ideas should be protected by copyright" is itself an idea. Do you want it that nobody can express that idea without paying someone for the right to do so?

Making us guess which thread you are talking about is unhelpful. If you want assistance, please include relevant details. Um, probably not? Being in the AI forum does not automatically apply the tag. I just manually applied it to one of the threads in there.

So, this sharing isn't particular to forums. It goes back to the early years of gaming, when there were very few outright publishers, and folks did a lot of their own home-brewed alterations to game systems, which got informally shared around a lot. Okay, so, part of the issue here is...

Morrus is not the U.S. Government, in whole or in any part. Our Constitutional freedom of speech does not apply. You may not have the freedom to post about the death of a particular individual - you might get lucky if we don't see it and nobody reports it... You may not have the freedom to...