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Again, something like jumping or bending a bar are relatively simple and don't require an AI to begin with. The parts that are hard (even with an AI) are the more open ended things. Like do I know if trolls have vulnerabilities? Do I know what trolls eat? And until an AI can do that with high...

No, an AI can't create it's rules as it goes. Or, at least, those rules aren't likely to be based on anything functional without a good (large) starting set. Unlike what you see in fiction, current AIs aren't actually capable of though. They just use their data set to calculate the most...

Open ended questions? I don't think so. A pre-determined list of questions the programmers anticipated, sure. Text based adventures like Zork have existed for decades, but were always limited in that they can't do anything the programmers didn't explicitly code for. The advantage of an AI is...

It depends on kind of action you're setting a DC for. For example, for a jump check you might set the DC at 10 + distance in feet. That is easy. On the other hand, setting the DC for more open ended possibilities is far more challenging. Something like, does my character know if trolls have...

I think there's plenty a person can learn from those shows, but it requires perspective. If you were trying to learn carpentry, and you watched a video of an expert carpenter at work, would you despair at not being able to produce the same level of craftsmanship the moment you started actually...

I don't know about academic per se. I've known plenty of academics that were absolutely terrible at teaching. But I do think that the best person for the job would be a teacher. Someone with a real gift for it. Growing up, I spoke English, Hungarian, and German. And when I started to learn...

Fair enough. Have you considered using premade maps? Dyson Logos did a ton of fantasy battle maps a while back that I think were available on DriveThruRPG (just as an example). I wouldn't be surprised if other options exist. It might be interesting to see if there are any AI map makers out...

In fairness, you don't need to go that far with it. While I have done maps and such in the past, recently when we play online (because players are sick) I just run things ToM and use the VTT primarily for dice rolling and automation. It might not be quite as cool as when I had maps, but it's...

There's some truth to this, but it isn't cut and dry. I've run games for as few as two players and as many as eight. The small games are very easy to keep on track but require a large degree of interaction from the DM (IME, significantly greater than 50%). The big games are hard to keep on...

My group rotates between three DMs. The real difficulty of late is that we're all in our 40s and our familial/work obligations sometimes interfere with being able to regularly schedule games. If there is a GM shortage, then folks need to step up. The starter sets aren't bad, and there's a...

In my lore, True Dragons are essentially all the same, but their outer form reflects their inner nature. Red dragons aren't all prideful because they're born that way, but rather they become a red dragon because arrogance is their defining personality trait. A red dragon who chooses to follow a...

That's actually why I prefer weird over, say, something like horror. Horror tends to be pretty consistently "bad weird". Whereas weird has a lot more variety to offer. "Good weird", "bad weird", and (IMO especially) "just plain weird". Weird is a tone, kind of like horror. In horror, you...

IMO, nonsensical is often conflated for weirdness, but they're not really the same. Weirdness may not function according to the principles you're used to, but it should have its own internally consistent principles. They can oftentimes be reasoned out through sufficient observation. Whereas...

I don't think the only two options are to either limit exposure or do something extreme. IMO, the best option for a high weirdness scenario is to maintain the weirdness. Obviously, there will be variance in the level of weirdness. I'm just saying your options aren't simply rare weirdness or...

I too like weird, with areas that are especially weird, though I would rate it at around a 7, personally. (To me a 4 or 5 would be standard D&D weirdness.) In my last session, the PCs (a flumph soul knife, a candy dragon barbarian, a vampiric far realm sorcerer, a tentacle horror monk, a cat...

I never suggested otherwise. My response focused specifically on 5e, because that's what interests me the most at present. It's not like there's any likelihood of going back to earlier editions and fixing martials there, but with the revision I hold out at least a sliver of hope that...

I haven't run it, but based on my read through I liked what I saw. They did quite a bit of tinkering with 5e. The core is still there, but it's significantly modified. It's intended by default to model the kinds of stories in SG-1. So, for example, the default is that combat is non-lethal...

Apologies for two responses, but I had a few more thoughts on this. Even if you compare the level 1 vs the level 20 barbarian, is it really Kratos levels of power? Lifting 210 more lbs? Jumping 4 more feet? Having a +13 Athletics vs a +7? (This is almost double, so I'll grant that this is...

Okay, but make the same comparison between level 1 and level 19 barbarian, and you see the same issues. Subclasses and races don't count if we're talking things that all martials should get. Those things need to be baked into the base classes.