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It's not what you asked for, though, is it? That's not an aberration; it's obviously an undead. It's also underpowered for a CR 7. Mechanically, it's serviceable but not particularly interesting -- all its abilities are standard stuff. The description and history are coherent, but generic and...

IMO, that's why donations to an appropriate charity or cause are the right solution. The material remains available. (I think there is value in being able to see what was done in the past. Also, I would rather not encourage the "'anti-capitalist' is hate speech" company to yank things they deem...

As written: No, I would not. I would, however, consider signing a petition asking Hasbro to improve its "content flags," which right now (AFAIK) consist of a blanket note on all old-edition material. That note should remain, but there could be an additional designation for specific works --...

If I were tasked with using a large language model to build an AI DM, this would be my approach: 1. Create a database which can hold "facts about the game world." These would be in some standardized format (I think there are such formats for knowledge bases). The important thing is that each...

"Deeply unsettled" is the reaction of someone who anthropomorphizes the chatbot. Me, I about died laughing when I read that conversation. (Actual transcript here.) It showcases exactly why you shouldn't anthropomorphize the thing. What it is doing is essentially "yes-anding" itself into lunacy...

From what I've seen, grappling with the physical world is the hardest challenge facing AI -- not because AI is inherently bad at it, but because it's harder to generate the giant data sets required, and much harder to (rapidly, automatically, cheaply, safely) evaluate the AI's performance during...

It sure does want to include rhymes when you ask for poetry, doesn't it? I finally got it to mostly quit with this prompt: "Write a poem in blank verse about ice cream. Use iambic pentameter. Do not have lines that rhyme with each other." A few rhymes did creep in toward the end, but it was...

This is anthropomorphizing. A large language model is not "aggressively" anything. Nor is it dishonest -- it has no conception of truth and falsehood; it is incapable of honesty or dishonesty. It's true that it lacks humility, but in the way that a chair lacks humility. ChatGPT is merely a...

Not sure I would consider that the primary benefit of Mounted Combatant. To me, the main benefit is the ability to redirect attacks to yourself that would otherwise hit the mount. Mounts tend to be way more fragile than PCs.

There's nothing in the rules suggesting that bladesong can't be used mounted, and it seems like a cool concept to me. Likewise, I see no problem taking the lance for your free bladesinging proficiency. As you note, the lance is not marked two-handed, so it's legal by the rules, and the tradeoff...

The 3E ones are indeed far more complete. However, they have also been carefully scoured for references to product identity, and those references removed, in a way that was not done with the 5E SRD.

Any discernible relationship between sales and quality is a correlation. It seems like you're trying to say high sales do not guarantee high quality -- which is true, and supports your argument about Tyranny of Dragons. But you keep using the word "correlation" to mean "guarantee," and that's...

There are good things that sell poorly and bad things that sell well. On average, however, good things tend to sell better than bad things.

According to this interview, he started 44 years ago and has a still-active campaign that he's been running continuously, across multiple editions, since 1988. So, I'd call that a "yes." :)

So... my take after watching: TL;DR: I think Brink's heart is in the right place. I'm not convinced his read on the overall culture at Wizards is accurate. The top executives seem to be generally hands-off, open to arguments from both the pro- and anti-OGL factions, but the pro-OGL faction has...

It's quite possible that he does, though. "Rings of Power" owes its existence largely to the fact that Jeff Bezos is a big Tolkien lover; and "Meta" is taken from the Metaverse in Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash." A lot of Silicon Valley bigwigs have strong connections to geek culture. If I were...

Looking at your question again, I realized that the median is more appropriate than the mean here. I just added it to my original table: DICE MEAN (AVG) TIME MEDIAN TIME STD DEV 1 6.00 4.00 5.46 2 8.73 7.00 6.13 3 10.56 9.00 6.39 4 11.93 11.00 6.54 5 13.02 12.00 6.63 6 13.94 13.00...

It seems like this is still a hit point mechanic; you're just counting up to whatever level of Stress/Heat/xxx equals "dead," rather than counting down to zero, and using a different system to compute damage from a hit. I'm with @Thourne -- what is the specific goal you're trying to accomplish?

Agreed. I mean, I'd love to know what happened and why, but I don't expect to get that information for a long time. Anything WotC tells us today about how we got here is going to be, at the very least, carefully spun; and it may well be total fiction. We have no way to fact-check it except...

The "long tail" of cases where you go seven or more rounds balances out the more common case that you go five or less. Remember, that long tail includes instances where the timer goes extremely long. There is a 2.6% chance that you could go twenty rounds on a single die! It only takes a few of...