Recent content by Umbran

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...

Alas, a hug might give a temporary respite, but will not fix what ails us.

"Technically correct is the best kind of correct." - Futurama I think you would do well to reconsider what "hyperbolic" means. Billions of dollars of content were taken without permission, in an attempt to make trillions in revenue, for which the content creators are apt to receive precisely...

And then there's the matter of considering it separately as a matter of game design, table execution, and individual player action. As in, the perfect scenario is that the game is designed for it, the table is executing it in that mode, and all players are equally engaged. But there's also a...

Look, I already know it isn't up for actual discussion. Just allow my commentary to pass, and let's move on.

Right. Moldvay Basic. Published in 1981. But this feature is "modern". Sure. That makes sense. (Narrator: No, it did not make sense.)