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I'm not sure what you mean by "a more realistic price." I assure you that I track what I pay for miniatures and 1$ per miniature is my benchmark for whether or not to back a Kickstarter. And that is irregardless of size. For example, I am paying just under that for the recently closed D&L...

This is obviously a question of subjective tastes and standards. My main criticism of Hero Forge is that, given the very high price tag by miniature collector standards, there is a huge disparity between what the customer designs and orders, and what they receive. I consider the miniature shown...

There are as many approaches to doing TTRPG battles as there are GMs, and there is no right way or wrong way. I'm certainly not going to criticize folks who love and collect pre-painted miniatures (PPM). They are not well painted by the standards of hobbyists like me who enjoy painting...

Finally reading Atonement. I kinda thought I had already read it because it was all over the place a few decades ago. But I have a student starting their extended essay on it so I decided to re-read and…nope. Hadn’t read it previously. I’m pretty far into it and it’s really leaning into a very...

Pretty much agree. I use Maps for "away" games, but miniatures and terrain for home games. For me, miniatures need to be paired with terrain for maximum impact both aesthetically and in terms of working together to change the game experience, tactics, etc. Otherwise, I'd rather use just Maps...

I make liberal use of the ignore feature so I am less likely to stank up forums arguing with folks with whom I am unlikely to create productive discourse. Most folks have something more interesting to contribute than arguing with me!

I've been very unimpressed by the price and quality offered by Heroforge. I think it's a dead end and will be a niche for the forseeable future. 3d printed miniatures are either brittle, low resolution or, as in the case of those examples, both. I love the customization options that HF offers...

Our general consensus points from yesterday, as teachers who’ve been grappling with AI for a few years now: A) as a content generator it mostly produces palatable BS. From a teaching perspective, it’s worse than just skipping the assignment. Bad writing, I can work with. LLM writing is...

I'll automatically engage with a Snarff thread.

I think it has some elements of my style, like the way I tend to structure forum posts journalistically, with fairly short paragraphs intersperced with one sentence paragraphs to sum up a key point. I probably overuse italics; this piece certainly does, but not in the same way I would. I don't...

I agree - I hope they don't Walking Dead this thing.

I agree that he's not omniscient. Narratively, though, writers have traditionally treated him as morally infallible - even when his actions have led to bad consequences, it's because the world is wrong, rather than him. Though, his actions almost never lead to bad consequences in the end. So I...

In Canada, it's set by each province. But it's broadly similar between the US and Canada. Point is, TSR was not paying him much!

Yeah...frankly, these don't seem much lower quality than the Wizkids norm. Which is objectively poor - these are factory painted in batches, not lovingly painted by a hobbyist with hours to spend on each. I have a hundreds of Wizkids pre-painted miniatures in my collection, and the first thing...

Loving it so far, though last episode did repeat the tired action trope of unexpected help arriving at the last possible second...what are the odds? But as character-driven action-horror, this show has few equals. Post-apocalytpic Seattle is jaw-dropping and haunting, given how well I know that...

My limit is determined by: A) have I started being an ass (like, more than normal)? If yes, time to leave. ("Look around the room and spot the d*ckhead. If you can't spot them, it's you.") B) is it basically the same handful of folks arguing with each other now? C) am I just repeating myself...

We can teach them well, but I guess we have to let them lead the way. Let their laughter remind us how we used to be, and stuff.

I think Superman making mistakes is an awesome plot point, as long as they're honest mistakes. In fact, that's why I describe him as structurally ironic: his simplistic values will inevitably put him in situations where there are unforseen consequences, of course with the best of intentions...

I'm experimenting with testing the parameters of ChatGPT and NotebookLM in various ways - bear with me; we're all doing it in my field of work, and just had another pro-D session on it all day yesterday. Anyway, I asked Chat+ to comb through my Internet history, using my Google login (this one)...