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    Origins Experiences

    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...
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    What should I do at Origins Game Fair 2024

    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.
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    How Many Spells Does a Wizard Need?

    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...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Lied To Me. Gp vs Sp

    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...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Lied To Me. Gp vs Sp

    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...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Lied To Me. Gp vs Sp

    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...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Lied To Me. Gp vs Sp

    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...
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    The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

    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...
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    Most Rewatchable MCU Movies

    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...
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    What should I do at Origins Game Fair 2024

    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.
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    The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

    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.
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    Are our tastes set?

    I generally dislike analogies, but that is a very good one.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Bar hopping across the galaxy
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    D&D General [+] Players, what do you like about railroads?

    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...
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    The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

    Agreed. I don't know what they did, but if this is the basis of your objection, are you saying that if they fed the input directly into the training program without making two copies of it on the computer (indeed potentially just feeding it into a service of some sort and thus never making any...
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    The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

    Seems to be splitting hairs but I'm happy to say "accessed" in place of "obtained' in that sentence without changing it in anyway. The key point is that a copy of the information is copied to and from a whole series of computers before it lands on the computer of the accessor and often stays...
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    The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

    Oh? That's not a contradictory statement. I'm not going to reveal proprietary information about my company either. My unwillingness to do so is not a confession of wrongdoing. And also, that statement doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. I agree that if copyright law in the USA...
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    The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

    I'm not sure how they did it but the key point is that as far as I know they obtained all the data legally. The point I was making was that merely obtaining an electronic copy doesn't violate copyright or everyone's browser cache would make them a felon. Fair enough. At least I admit you...
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    The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

    I don't think it's hijacking at all. I think that the philosophical implications here are central to understanding this and why analogies about meat and sausage are so much self-serving self-deception. I think it's important to address what it actually is, rather than living inside an...
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    The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

    We are impoverished linguistically here. I had believed that Gottlob Frege had fully described language until I started playing with Chat GPT 3 and realized that I was witnessing the intelligent production of language without either the sense or reference of the words. (It certainly lacks...
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