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I see where that "Monster Overhaul" inspiration gets into your work! Love it - its one of the best monster books the hobby has produced IMO. The more this design intention spreads into other work the better, at least for me :D

I don't know any 90s turn-based tactics game that have real-time active elements in them, to my knowledge there is no such a reference that could be applied here. The active elements in Claire Obscure remind me of the Mario & Luigi RPGs or Paper Mario RPGs :D I honestly don't know if you...

Got back into reading last summer, really enjoying that. Also really want to go back to theatre - I was in a teenager acting school and did a lot of amateur theatre productions. But its really hard to find a group in the city I moved into a few years ago. There are no groups in my age group (I'm...

Great idea. I am fully in love with shadowdark after a few one-shots and plan to start an open table sandbox in shadowdark in autumn.

I read the studies summary, but this is not conclusive evidence of AI making users loose critical thinking ability. The author of the summary has some good sceptical points already but I want to add that the correlation could be explained vice-versa: It could be that people with less...

It already is run by someone evil. I won't go into details because of forum rules, but as far as my morals go I consider many of the leaders of the tech companies running current AIs as evil due to their involvement in politics.

Are there credible studies that claim this? AI is not so long on the market, I would doubt short-term studies at least a bit.

Props to getting a book club gathered, I failed to do so up until now, but had one in university. Its much more motivating for reading and I really enjoy the discussions afterward that bring a lot of additional insight. The Banality of Evil is one of my favourite non-fiction books ever. I am...

I am continuing my Cosmere run after a winter break and read "Warbreaker" by Brandon Sanderson. I was surprised, because this book seemed on reddit and other communities to be treated as one of the better entries in the Cosmere, but for me personally it was the weakest entry up until now. After...

I think you are confused who the target audience of polygon was. Also what you describe was literally NOT the reason. They got bought and new owner strapped them because they probably just want use the brand so people click on some stock and AI generated articles. I liked polygon. Sure, not...

I still read this differently, but if this truly should be RAI, this gets the award for the most stupid D&D rule ever for me. Get this World of Warcraft nonsense out of here. When you are hidden but step out in the bright illuminated room in front of the guards - you are not hidden anymore. This...

Its a bit silly to act like saving a full applications state is the same as adjusting volume and resizing screen. Also checkpoints and saves are not just technical aspect but have overlaps with game design as discussed above. But in the end we all decide with our wallet. The pc hardcores in...

As I said ability scores and the math behind them are NOT necessarily, but some sort of resolution mechanic is needed. I find it silly to call that meta-game though, it is THE game. If its just "The player decides that their character that are only described in text form" then we are at the...

There are a lot of great ideas and inspirations in this thread, but for some reason I want to run a game now where the players are actual princes & princesses and knights in an early medieval Arturian mythical world and not the americanized version of Europe that D&D provides. The vibe of "The...

They are just some sort of abstraction to help define characters that we can use in gameplay for challenge resolutions. We don't need ability scores, but we need some sort of abstraction. There are other systems out there, for example tags that define your characters and can be applied to...

I don't understand how your 8 abilites is more "balanced" than the ideal 6 abilities you post at last. It seems some numbers seem more balanced to you than others without giving any reason? What means balanced in this context and can it really achieved? For a balance you need some sort of...

Its not a really good criticsm if you can't imagine why someone did something and you just moan because it bothers you and you somehow think your experience is universal. You don't need to be a fanboy of a game to be annoyed by that. At least in my bubble its vice-versa, devs get criticized and...

I think the designer is fine with that. If you try to design a game that everyone likes you will fail. I don't like how you use "mandate" as if a designer is some sort of prohibiting politician just because they aim for a specific experience. If you don't like that experience, its fine, but...

You state further below that you only play one genre. Maybe it has a place in other genres?

Yet, somehow any number of modern games do not so. Thats not a proof for anything. If its not a technological challenge - why would not every game do so? And yes with turn based games its easier for the reasons I stated. I also never said its a prohibitive case. Just that its more difficult...