Recent content by Umbran

For my gaming circles... When a group is GM and 5+ players, we typically move forward if one player is absent, cancel for that week if there are two or more absent. When a group is GM and 4 or fewer player, and one is absent, we typically cancel for that week. My games are generally on a...

1) You don't get to decide what "needs" to happen - individual posters don't get to exert editorial control over what others post. Folks who aren't interested in that line of discussion are free to not engage. If too few are interested, that sub-topic will die on its own without your...

So, we can start looking at that question with another question: Where does the truly casual player fit in in a game that allows high degrees of combat optimization in play? I think the answer is the same - you have to take some care to either make sure the entire table has similar intents...

We are not limiting discussion to casual players. But explicitly including them. He's asking where do casual players fit in this scheme of narrative play.

If you've got a personal, individual issue, we ask you to take that up with the moderation staff. This is not the place for a discussion of your particular situation.

Missing the point, which was to demonstrate scale in a way that "trillions" doesn't. So, toddlers, having no money, will not be paying anything. Someone else will need to pay their share, increasing the load of the cost on the rest of the population. Thus, it is worse than the minimum I...

My statement includes reinforcement learning. That's how you train a generative AI. In the end, the limiter is still the data. It's a statistics thing that you can't get around without violating laws of thermodynamics. If my generative AI cannot give a weather report without making up cities...

Here's another one, from the National Weather Service... The hallucination is the manifestation of a machine that is best at giving things that look like facts, rather than actual facts...

This shows a critical misunderstanding of how the technology works. Generative AI is, effectively, statistical in nature - the chance you get a good response depends on how much data, and how many connections, you put in. But, it isn't linear. In order to cut the error in the results in half...

If you think art has only one point, you have a limited view of art.

Really. Like, language itself ceases to function without categorization. Every non-proper noun is a category!

Mod note: I suppose that's the cue for me to remind folks about the site inclusivity policies. If you have problems with gender neutral singular pronoun use, that's a you problem, not a problem for the rest of us.

My primary approach is to design encounters such that "dead enemy" is not the actual goal. If killing the enemy is a means, rather than an end, other means will be considered. Which might be more clearly noted in the thought that, given a goal of "dead enemy", the game's math rewards offense...

I agree that most games can be played in a narrativist manner. But I also know you can drive a nail with a screwdriver, if you really need to. Which is to say that there is a difference between a narrativist game design, and a game played in a narrativist manner. A narrativist game design...