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Google is worse than it was four years ago because they've been using AI for results. The direct AI results are frequently wrong. The thing with searches is that you have to already be knowledgable about the search to identify the errors. If you search for a lot of topics where the answer...

There's a hypothetical scenario where AI is capable of actual creativity, but it's a very different design than LLMs and requires the Get Rich Quick folks to fund a lot of complex science - an actual deep, multi-decade study on how human creativity works across scores of cultures, plus...

I have no use for fast food regurgitate art, and a search engine that can be wrong is worse than what we had in the 90s. AI literally cannot produce anything I don't already have access to.

Clearly they meant "proceeding". ;p

Glad to see them use a variety of styles. Gives a wider audience a chance to find art they love.

Enjoying satire is not a less legitimate thing than enjoying awkward rules. Lines can be crossed, but the world cannot be only lines.

I am much more inclined to think that WotC's D&D folks just don't share, understand, or prioritize the perspectives of the fans who find things like the gnome cartoon to be a personal dig. Professionals who dwell on grudges against their audience tend to burn out very publicly fairly quickly...

I personally loved the gnome shorts. "I have a lair!" is something I've repeated enough that it's probably why I have lair mechanics in the works. I am also currently playing a gnome in Pathfinder Society games. Humor doesn't always land with everyone, but I never got the impression that the...

The Pinkertons are not the law, they're mercenaries.

You want to have a mix of ages (and other perspectives). Even the most well-read 20-something is going to be lacking in depth and experience. A 20-something might know what's popular on TikTok but someone who has been designing for longer than they've been alive is going to run circles around...

D&D with room for ambition would look a lot more like the TSR days, with people coming up with crazy new settings with tons of material and minis and wacky sideprojects like DL Fifth Age or Dragon Dice. The money (for employees) just isn't there.

It's handy for folks who aren't deeply familiar with the material (common with organized play) and/or who don't have the experience or energy needed for spontaneous description. I've been building up skills, experience, and confidence for decades, so I have no use for it, but I see why it's...

If they planned ahead with an edition they could tag certain abilities for easy removal or addition and make sure that doing so didn't leave gaps. Continuous healing, easy status reset, extreme travel speed, food/water, shelter, teleportation, major divination, easy communication, and...

The observation of falsehoods about things you have deep knowledge of and interest in can be very, very uncomfortable. Nobody is going to start a schism war over it, but if people spent enough time talking about how Baldur's Gate 3 is a great Pathfinder game or the like someone would eventually...

? It was literally the Pinkertons.

I find it helpful to break out specific components of editions rather than taking them as a whole. 2E has that vast and creative lore to it that has the capacity to be mostly rules-agnostic as long as there are sufficient analogues. 3E has a wealth of character ideas of varying execution which...

Mischaracterization is not helpful. Nobody is calling for a lawsuit against Hasbro nor calling the police on them. Nobody is demanding exclusivity. Some people would like to ALSO have their tastes catered to, whether or not that is a financially sound action or something WotC has the right...

I think we can fairly assume that everyone is less happy when the things they like are less available.

Fancy material is a good add-on for a low-magic weapon. A cold iron sword +1 solves a wider range of problems and its benefits can be appreciate without knowledge of mathemagic.

I expect that D&D is at a stage where it is not going to be able to create its own hype outside of its existing audience barring some sort of impossible to predict event. It will get spikes with new editions and new media external to itself (Harry Potter, Dark Souls, etc.) but it's not primed...