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I’ve found it’s generally unwise to argue game math with @ECMO3.

I haven’t played Keep on the Borderlands since around 1980, when I ran it a bunch of times. I would love to play it.

Obvious to you and me and obvious to a woman who literally came from a family fortune founded on Buck Rogers IP, and who really didn't understand the hobby she bought into, are two different things. I imagine that from her perspective, it would make sense that these nerd things would go...

That latter criticism is one that I've never understood, at least not from an ethical perspective. She owned a genre-based game design and publishing company. Her family owned the Buck Rogers rights, which had previously been pretty lucrative (I loved the TV show when I was a kid, so it's not...

Specifically: So make your decisions accordingly. Mine is pretty straightforward.

Good post. I agree with your general experience, especially about parties that are too heavy on casters or martials being kind of wonky to run (unless you have experienced players who know how to compensate, but none of my players are @ECMO3). I just ran a game with a group that was missing...

Generally, I would disapprove, but in this case...

I find that what is missing from a lot of these conversations is much attention on the drawbacks faced by pure casters, especially in 2024: low reliability and low damage output in most situations, especially in tiers 1-2 (ie almost all of D&D). Your barbarian will seldom have a combat where...

It doesn’t scale well enough to keep pace with the damage increase that other martial classes got. TBH, I think rogues should be ahead on damage, given that they are behind on survivability. Right now, they are behind in both, and are mediocre scouts. They don’t have a great niche in 2024.

So radioactive that, despite my nostalgia for the original, I want nothing to do with this unless there are zero financial ties remaining. And even then…I dunno.

What was most gripping: two episodes spent waiting for Cassian’s captors to finish their Keystone cop routine so he could move on as if nothing happened, observing the mating rituals of the post-Republic elite, or literally watching grass grow while waiting on an Imperial inspection? And did we...

Okay, can we not equate LLMs to actual slavery? I assure you, the slaves had it worse, and it's a pretty appalling equivalence to make. Let's have some perspective.

Read this article this morning - it's a fascinating perspective on the rise of LLMs from the perspective of natural language processing researchers - basically, all the brilliant scientists who were working on understanding how to give machines language until LLMs broke the field...

The only highlight. Mostly because Dedra is one of the best characters in the franchise.

Okay, I'm three episodes in. Haven't read any of the thread because I want to avoid spoilers...though that is becoming less of a concern, because so far it sucks. Obviously, I've argued at length on this forum that Season 1 is the best Star Wars show since Empire, and possibly the first true...

Hawkye on why playing golf is not for him: "I played 18, I shot 18. Just can't seem to miss."

Me too! My spouse is probably thankful that at least I use stuff that can be put away and stored in boxes. The only thing that stops me from going to town on the bases is that I use terrain, so I generally prefer the bases to be as neutral as possible.

If this thread was focused on just rogues and rangers I would have a much easier time getting on board with the premise. I think the "expert" classes were de facto nerfed by upgrades to other classes with the 2024 update. Rogues used to be arguably the best skirmishers and skill monkeys for the...

This. I've also been inexplicably accused of beatifying Williams, apparently because I've pointed out that a lot of the hate directed at her is blatantly sexist (that is inarguable; there are plenty of receipts that I and many others have cited), and because I've argued that in 1985 she saved...

Terrain is expensive and storage is a pain in the butt. There's no two ways about it. On the other hand, it lets you show off your miniatures, and is a hobby unto itself. So I love it, but I recognoze that it is a niche within a niche hobby. I appreciate that there are places like this thread...