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The BBC is wildly more biased than that - the pro-UK-establishment bias (I mean, Laura Kuenssberg still has a job solely because she's mates with the right people, despite being perhaps the least insightful person to grace her role in the last forty years) is just the longest-term and most...

I think it'd be surprisingly similar to D&D in that characters with magical and social abilities are likely to be wildly more useful and engaged than ones without those. Experiences will factor in a bit of course, and the dominant factor will likely be how engaged the players (not PCs) are, as...

I would say Draw Steel is similar to 5E in crunch, overall - which is pared down significantly from 4E, which inspired it. Two things worth noting though: 1) Draw Steel! has 10 levels, not 20, and L1 is probably the equivalent of L3 in D&D, in terms of what you can do and how many abilities you...

I mean, by that logic, you could say Draw Steel! was a crunchier and more tactical D&D 5E, because you roll 1d20 and the ability typically falls into one of two categories, depending on how well you rolled. In reality, DH and Draw Steel! are very different systems with different ideas, focuses...

Jesus wept. I suggest you read your own post rather then engaging in "bounces off me and sticks to you!". You've completely and totally failed to support this claim. In fact your own examples seem to suggest it is solving problems, and bizarrely, you seem to claim you're operating fiction-first...

That's exactly the issue. With enough practice and effort, they believe (BELIEVE, note, it's not yet proven, but it is proven that they are trying) that they can bias LLMs to specific viewpoints without impairing their ability to recommend a dishwasher. Already LLMs are significantly biased...

Yeah that pretty much sums it up doesn't it. It's a think you could temporarily do as an exceptional situation. You could not continuously run DH that way without massive rules-fighting. That's literally fighting the rules if you're running the game without armour to make it "horror". There's...

It kind of is though. People clearly do blindly believe information that has come from LLMs. Directly or indirectly. Maybe it's not a huge percentage of people yet, maybe it never will be more than low double-digits. Probably techbros who think they can mind-control everyone are idiots. But...

It's clear you don't understand what fiction-first means, and aren't interested in understanding or discussing it so not sure what this out-of-pocket rant is supposed to achieve, but such is life I guess. Also in a fiction-first game, if you fall off a build 200 ft onto concrete and there's...

I don't think you're being very realistic, and your own comment re: "news and print media" should point that out to you. Print and news media have absolutely lied to people's faces and presented insane warpings of the facts, but the reality is, in any given country, a huge number of people...

3E/4E/5E are kind of explicitly rules-first (3E by far the most, with a "rule for everything", including stuff that absolutely didn't need rules), but you can run them fiction-first and some people do, sure. I don't think any of them even present fiction-first as a concept but I could be forgetting.

Yup. Really early on, MC made a clear and weird decision that basically he was going to ignore the KS Backers. Now, if they were drawing a fraction of his Patreon income I could understand that. But his Patreon is, by my calculations ($8/month x a bit under 9k Patrons) like $860k/year. So...

Yeah seems like the bestiaries and pre-made characters would be the major thing.

Yes. This is a very major reason why LLMs are being pushed so hard by various billionaires and other people who want to control society. Instead of having to carefully buy off people, buy influence, run campaigns and so on (which we have seen even the richest man on the planet directly fail...

You mean Prey? That was an amazing movie, with a budget of $65m, which is not nothing. Skirts? Absolutely yes. Armoured skirts, some of them quite short are pretty common in bronze and iron age warfare (and probably later). What wasn't common was a bare midriff you had an armour top. But also...

EDIT - Let me double check Yeah sadly you're right - they're being idiots. They sent Patreon backers the entire Release Candidate on June 24th, and I have no idea why they didn't also send it to Kickstarter backers at that point. It's like, I get the reasoning for why they didn't do that with...

Quite right, yes. If you accept a fiction-first principle, it doesn't matter what the rules exactly are if you slide a dagger through the faceplate in the fiction, it's very unlikely the guy inside the armour is going to have a good day. Or even be alive a few minutes/seconds later. I was...

I feel like it's a sensible rate for academic skills being studied in a calm situation with a lot of time doing other things, but a rather low rate for practical skills being used in real situations on a daily basis. For example, people in WW2 went from never having flown a plane to the greatest...