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    Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th

    I think it would be more fun for them to play a game that fits with their playstyle rather than the struggle they sometimes have now. For me them playing DnD 5e or Daggerhart doesn't matter, I'm not a player so I don't interact with the rules. I don't need to feel I know all the words of the...
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    Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th

    From what I've seen, getting new players to try completely different rules is far easier than asking people with 10+ years experience in doing so — especially if one has mainly played one "game" with different flavours. Old GM trying new rules and explaining them to new people can also be a...
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    Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th

    So instead of taking salary, they get the majority of their income from what they did before — voice over acting and directing, because they're still doing that — while making sure they can pay more people? I wish more company owners did that. Doesn't say anything about previous wealth though...
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    Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th

    I think the Soloist were talking about their boardgames here, not the ttrpgs. I've heard a lot of how their boardgames are a bit lacklustre from non-CR haters. And boardgames are a different skill to make good, so not surprised that they're among the 70% mediocre boardgame makers out there...
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    Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th

    Not sure about that. They have a small team and the people doing CO things are the same people currently designing and writing Daggerheart — which obviously right now got the focus. At least I hope CO get some more support because it was pretty good when taken for what it was and not what one...
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    What are must read short stories?

    A bit of that is because Ellison was really litigious and a loud prick, where-as the estate of PkD wasn't. So only one inspiration got the spotlight that way.
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    What are must read short stories?

    There are quite a few short story magazines still out there, and not every author stops writing for them. Some of them like Clarkesworld, Uncanny Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies also have their back catalogue up on the web for free (epub for a cost)
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    I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart

    Yeah but if the medium maps itself to Daggerheart? It's impossible to answer because the medium is comics and the genre variance within is vast — far bigger than in mainstream US comics. Could you do [specific comic] in Daggerheart can be answered with yes/no/perhaps. Because as I said above...
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    I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart

    And even if one stays within the shonen market, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and One Piece are very different from one another with very different ways of handling powers and they're also worlds apart from series like Haikyu or Bakuman. Trying to generalise is like going "I don't like how talking...
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    Good Television Mystery Series

    Outside of US, there is no Hulu or Peacock. Peacock content can be all over depending on regional differences, Hulu shows are on D+.
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    Good Television Mystery Series

    Will echo some: Only Murders in the Building, Slow Horse, Poker Face, Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries. Would say that Elementary is far superior to Sherlock. The Afterparty on Apple is a comedy of a murder each season and each episode is focused on one persons view of the events. It's really good.
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    I remember seeing how Midjourney had to stop accepting "afghan" an an input because when it was used, it only output images with that looked like variation of the Afghan Girl photo. And that has continued. So that whole "it doesn't copy" has a huge "*) except when it does" attached to it.
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    I don't think perfect pitch was a problem to be solved, but as with a lot of art what makes it is the really specific choices that goes into it. Both auto-tune and keyboards involves this — even when choosing not to, like how Caroline Polachek can mimic auto-tune amazingly with her voice which...
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    No, I read their point to be that AI art is the came as a learned craft and the naughty word it is.
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    ...it's a learned craft. You do know that, right? Anyone can learn to make a table, but we pay for the work and expertise. Especially when we want it to be something that requires the expertise part.
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    Imagine how much boring the world would be if people didn't make music due to not having perfect pitch.
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do." — Bob Ross Natural affinity gives you a push at the start but it doesn't define where you end up, only practice does that. "Pure talent" is people who have affinity and then pursued it as heck. We don't go...
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    BrOSR

    Jeffro Johnson who handled the blog duties on Vox Day's publishing house? That's a bit concerning. (I'm not sure I can say anything about Vox Day that don't break the no politics rule except that he's a really really terrible human being.)
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    That was the monthly bestselling list. I also sorted after best selling last year and these are the top 60 there. Even less doom and gloom, there's some really good books. But once again: far too many Sanderson books imo.
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