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Pretty much agree. I use Maps for "away" games, but miniatures and terrain for home games. For me, miniatures need to be paired with terrain for maximum impact both aesthetically and in terms of working together to change the game experience, tactics, etc. Otherwise, I'd rather use just Maps...

I make liberal use of the ignore feature so I am less likely to stank up forums arguing with folks with whom I am unlikely to create productive discourse. Most folks have something more interesting to contribute than arguing with me!

I've been very unimpressed by the price and quality offered by Heroforge. I think it's a dead end and will be a niche for the forseeable future. 3d printed miniatures are either brittle, low resolution or, as in the case of those examples, both. I love the customization options that HF offers...

Our general consensus points from yesterday, as teachers who’ve been grappling with AI for a few years now: A) as a content generator it mostly produces palatable BS. From a teaching perspective, it’s worse than just skipping the assignment. Bad writing, I can work with. LLM writing is...

I'll automatically engage with a Snarff thread.

I think it has some elements of my style, like the way I tend to structure forum posts journalistically, with fairly short paragraphs intersperced with one sentence paragraphs to sum up a key point. I probably overuse italics; this piece certainly does, but not in the same way I would. I don't...

I agree - I hope they don't Walking Dead this thing.

I agree that he's not omniscient. Narratively, though, writers have traditionally treated him as morally infallible - even when his actions have led to bad consequences, it's because the world is wrong, rather than him. Though, his actions almost never lead to bad consequences in the end. So I...

In Canada, it's set by each province. But it's broadly similar between the US and Canada. Point is, TSR was not paying him much!

Yeah...frankly, these don't seem much lower quality than the Wizkids norm. Which is objectively poor - these are factory painted in batches, not lovingly painted by a hobbyist with hours to spend on each. I have a hundreds of Wizkids pre-painted miniatures in my collection, and the first thing...

Loving it so far, though last episode did repeat the tired action trope of unexpected help arriving at the last possible second...what are the odds? But as character-driven action-horror, this show has few equals. Post-apocalytpic Seattle is jaw-dropping and haunting, given how well I know that...

My limit is determined by: A) have I started being an ass (like, more than normal)? If yes, time to leave. ("Look around the room and spot the d*ckhead. If you can't spot them, it's you.") B) is it basically the same handful of folks arguing with each other now? C) am I just repeating myself...

We can teach them well, but I guess we have to let them lead the way. Let their laughter remind us how we used to be, and stuff.

I think Superman making mistakes is an awesome plot point, as long as they're honest mistakes. In fact, that's why I describe him as structurally ironic: his simplistic values will inevitably put him in situations where there are unforseen consequences, of course with the best of intentions...

I'm experimenting with testing the parameters of ChatGPT and NotebookLM in various ways - bear with me; we're all doing it in my field of work, and just had another pro-D session on it all day yesterday. Anyway, I asked Chat+ to comb through my Internet history, using my Google login (this one)...

I think Morrus already made this point, but I just don't see Superman's ethics coming from his godlike perspective. I see them as coming from his adoptive parents, who have always been presented as completely salt-of-the-earth, this is right, this is wrong, kinds of folks. Like, he's completely...

Got around to watching episode 4. Vast improvement! Felt much more like Season 1.

That trailer actively irritated me. The "job interview" hook manages to be both a cliche and incredibly stupid, and the rest of it looks like predictable superhero plot, but we've tried to make it for the youth.

See, I really liked this. My Superman is a massive Boy Scout. He dosn't really do shades of grey. He stopped a war, and those who have a problem for ideological reasons or whatever can go suck an egg. Ethically speaking, he's a hardcore deontologist. Snyder tried to give us the morally...

Sigh. Okay, that is cool, but as a fan of the show who has to wait until it is on streaming, can you please not put massive spoilers in the title of a thread.