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I generally avoid organized play. I have a stable group that has been going for like 15 years now and so I don't need to scratch long form itches. I go to get exposed to new systems and styles of play. In that, this was a successful year, just not a particularly pleasant one. But I had...

This was closer to the opposite problem. This was more the GM as the only player at the able where the players were serving the GMs needs. You were there to witness not to play. And again, I've never said railroad play is bad play and I would say about half the participants genuinely liked...

It's not my first con experience or the only game I played this year. Also, I spent a summer running one shots every Wednesday night at the local gaming shop, with an open table of up to 12 strangers every week - some of whom were driving in 90 miles to get a seat. I understand a little bit of...

Origins Games Three GM Guides Make Choices Nonsense magic house; ten dollars Outrun colleagues and not Wendigo Cloud cuckoo land at Antietam Sad water park blew up

Not really. Because the 2 hour setting exposition is the ONLY material they prep. The game ends when the setting exposition is over and then you are in the trap and the GM kills you "creatively" (having played two sessions, it's not really creative at all, as they have certain rehearsed...

So, while I had some good experiences at Origins, I did have some experiences that didn't sit well with me. I'm principally ranting here, so if you don't want to listen to a rant, ignore this. Because it's a rant, I'm not naming participants, though if you have enough knowledge of the...

Well, that went OK... and also not OK. It's really frustrating how difficult it is to find good GMs or for that matter even GMs that accurately explain the experience that they intend to run.

Gandalf casts at the least affect normal fires, light, hold portal, knock, shatter, lightning bolt, fireball, produce flame, pyrotechnics, 'Gandalf's minute meteors' (as Melf's spell of the same name), invisibility, and phantasmal forces. He also probably knows a number of other spells related...

This gets really complicated and it's hard to analyze the historical sources because of the complexity. In both the modern and ancient world the primary costs incurred by the landlord are the risk incurred by a disreputable guest that might do him or his property harm and the fees and taxes...

This is because in 1e AD&D there were two economies - a semi-realistic silver economy based on Gygax's historical research and simulations that NPCs used and an unrealistic economy based on gamist needs and balance and a desire for huge piles of fantasy treasure that PCs used. This inherently...

D&D price lists (and RPG price lists in general) are so dysfunctional it makes me want to scream. The are invariably not treated as if they were rule production and as if prices don't matter and crafting doesn't matter and economics don't matter, and that's generally true if you stay on linear...

I'm sure someone has said this already, but in older editions it was 20 to 1, which is closer to the reality before industrialized silver mining. I still use the 20 to 1 ratio. The last four years of inflation has distorted this comparison, but I used to tell my players that a c.p. was worth...

I think there is a lot of overhype about the current capabilities of AI. Right now, I think AI offers something of a solution to producers that can't afford to pay for artwork, but that I can't even reliably use it to illustrate my own home campaign. I can't imagine anyone with the money...

10) Iron Man 9) Avengers: Infinity War 8) Thor: Ragnarok 7) Ant Man 6) Avengers: Age of Ultron 5) Avengers: End Game 4) Captain America - Civil War 3) Captain America - Winter Soldier 2) Captain America - The First Avenger 1) Guardians of the Galaxy Honorable Mention: Guardians of the Galaxy...

There are a surprising number of RPG events still open - I put that down to too many hosts putting up considerable fees for their time combined with a relative lack of interest in the new systems that have come out - but you are right, there are no Shadowdark games left.

Regardless of whether copying your data into a data set was right or wrong, you didn't actually contradict him. It is reasonable to distinguish between the training data and the model.

I generally dislike analogies, but that is a very good one.

Bar hopping across the galaxy

I mean, I can't speak for others, but I suspect this turns on what you consider a railroad. I suspect a lot of referees are saying, "I run an adventure that goes from A->B->C and my players willing engage with it. " Because I know a lot of EnWorld posters have expressed the opinion that any...