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I think it's a good general distinction to make, but what's throwing me is this bit: That's absolutely not my experience either running or playing sandboxes. I run open-world sandboxes almost exclusively. I do drop in modules all over the place. But it's never with the intent of pushing the PCs...

Well, both wizards and bards still exist in Dark Sun so you’d still need them. It would likely be easier to make a psionic domain. Could do. The sorcerer sort of has the innate power and elemental theme down. I’m always more a fan of reskinning as much as possible. Thanks.

One thing I always do is look at how you could do something like Dark Sun in whatever fantasy game comes out. Surprisingly there's very little you'd need to homebrew to get Daggerheart to work. Most things are lore choices and renaming or reskinning things. The wide variety of ancestries...

One book for an 11-year-old wanting to GM? For me there's no question the best book is Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master by Sly Flourish, aka Mike Shea. The book takes a minimalist approach of only prepping what you need, understanding that you'll have to improvise so prepping to improvise...

Insert my obligatory rave review of Whizbang Dustyboots introducing me to The Stygian Library.

Actual history, not the Hollywood version.

Mike Underwood is one of the game's designers. His YouTube channel has a few really interesting videos about Daggerheart design. Here's one on campaign frames. He has another on environments.

The only thing I'd honestly want to know at this point is the timing. Were the contracts in place to do CS before he sat next to Jennell Jaquays and denounced Judge's Guild or after. Along with the obvious follow ups either way.

Finally started Playing at the World 2E Volume 1. It's pretty good so far. Definitely an easier read than 1E. I do like the extra resources and citations Peterson is including this go around. Not that 1E lacked citations or resources, only he's since found more and has reworked the book to...

Ah, pedantry at such a level that you haven't seen daylight in months and must subsist on your own fumes. The reason even geeks utterly despise other geeks. Please change. Or get therapy. This is why no one wants to talk to you. "Well, actually..." # Ah, the laziest possible design. Of...

Feels like a good time to remind you that the only Star Trek show currently airing is a prequel to the 1966 series TOS. What's in the past or future, what's done and what's not is really an incredibly mutable thing in fiction. Especially in a franchise with time travel that also botches and...

Yep. And holy hell would I feel better if Asimov's Laws were hardwired into these things. Hell, hardwire it into every piece of technology that's advanced enough to have code.

Yes, and?

It's really a bad analogy because the LLM lacks the life experience and free will of a person at a gaming table. The LLM doesn't have the option to say no, stand up, and refuse to play. It's a program. A tool. Further there's no cognition or emotions behind the LLM's so-called decisions. It...

Or just make enough money to bribe the government to rewrite the laws so it's not illegal. Weird how that works. It's almost like legality and morality are two separate things.

As much as I love the standard planet-of-the-week episodes of ship-based Star Trek, DS9 is far and away my favorite Star Trek because the setup gave us time to really live with the alien cultures presented instead of just getting a single 45-minute episode or the rare return episode a few...

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No. This would be so much worse. Remember in the early bits of the pandemic when everyone was panic buying and the shelves were empty? It only took what...a few weeks. Now imagine that...only it never goes away...and the shelves are never restocked again. Societal collapse levels of chaos. A...

And Liam's inevitable sad, mopey PC is going to definitely be sad and mopey. With a lot of angst. I will say that after having watched two full campaigns from the cast, along with most of the Vox Machina cartoon, they all do seem to have a type and play to that. It would be nice to see them go...

Me: "This will be a short, mechanics-focused playtest." Player: "Cool. Here's a 1500-word rough, preliminary outline of my backstory." Me: head...desk. If I can't stand the default playstyle and assumptions of the majority of players it doesn't matter how much I like a system. Daggerheart...