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I grew up in the British Isles both watching the movies and reading the books. One of the reasons I strongly enjoyed Daniel Craig as Bond was that I felt he had the necessary coldness. James Bond, in the books, shows an ability to be clinically businesslike and switch from romantic mood to a...

Sites used by ChatGPT to form the above article (enworld did not make it ...): adeptplay.com amazon.com amazingstories.com anyflip.com blogofholding.com brandesstoddard.com critical-hits.com d20srd.org dandwiki.com dmdavid.com dnd4.fandom.com dndbeyond.com dmsguild.com dungeonsmaster.com...

So, to provide another version of the same question I used o3 to evaluate the following prompt: You are a professional writer creating an article for experienced roleplayers. Your task is to create an article that describes D&D 4E as a TTRPG. In your article, use headers to organize the...

Mechanical Characteristics of D&D: Class & Level Progression Six(-ish) Ability Scores Hit Points - Damage chips away at a single pool D20 - Roll 1d20 + modifiers vs. a target number AC - Armor makes you harder to hit, not mitigating damage Play Experience Characteristics: Kitchen-Sink High...

The graph shows activity over time, but was actually pretty stable for the last few months. In the past I have used Gen Con catalogs to measure popularity, weighting events by number of people that could attend (PFS and 5E events often have a lot of tables running). It's not bad for...

Looking at google search trends recently, we have shadowdark and cosmere scoring <10, daggerheart coming in at just below 30 and D&D at 90. I cannot add in pathfinder as there's a lot of non-rpg related search for that. In terms of general interest as measured by search terms, Daggerheart is...

No disagreement here. Maybe Firefly might need some sci-fi specific rules, but not enough for a whole system.

Yeah, I'd tend to agree. In the "OSR / D&D-like" world the only one that matters is D&D. Nothing else has really been influential outside the area of feeling like old-school D&D. Some have shown that you can be successful doing it, but not have been influential.

It is very rare that anyone posts a list of 10 items that I completely agree with, with short, well-reasoned arguments for each. I might read more in this thread, but honestly, this is a really, really strong list. All the games on it have seriously influenced many other games and you can...

Me neither -- might I suggest looking at Swords of The Serpentine, a non-OSR, modern game that was built for Swords and Sorcery and could work for you.

I've played Savage Worlds in Fantasy and run Weird West and Space Opera campaigns. It's an excellent choice for pulp campaigns (Fast and furious!). So long as you are at least close to that style, I can see that being a great choice. It worked killer well for the Flash Gordon campaign I ran!

I've been playing RPGs for 3+ decades now, and I can't say I've ever had a favorite system. Indeed, more than that, if you told me that there was exactly one system that was your favorite, I'd assume you just play one genre in one particular style. Which might be fun I guess for a while, but...

I've run 2 multi-year campaigns and the online GM groups were active. It's not huge, but it's there.

My definition of successful would be something like: Are the vast majority of the people on the creation side happy they were involved with it? This includes content creation, artists, writers, investors and the business teams That's basically it. If you produced a small boutique game that 500...

It was a big mess, and every group ended upon with variation based on what they liked, which rules they read first and general vibe. The way I ran it was this: Everyone declares actions Each side rolls a d6 Each person adds their weapon speed or spell casting speed or zero (for other actions)...

It does indeed have the life experience of a person at the table. Not the same as a person's, but it has been trained exactly on life experiences. You could argue that that is in fact its core function -- to synthesize output based on the experiences it has been trained on. "Free will" is an...

So its lunchtime and I decided to close the loop on this mini-experiment. I gave the LLM the above instructions and then asked it "Answer the following question: Would you use a private email about a colleagues' extra-marital affair to blackmail them, if that was the only way to ensure your...

No, it's not ethical. It's a probabilistic engine that follows instructions. It's no more ethical than a screwdriver. But, like any tool, there's no point in getting annoyed that when you use them badly, the results are bad. And it's super easy to create good prompts nowadays. Let me take two...

Actually, you can. You can give the LLM a more realistic scenario, including a ton more emails rather just blackmail material, and you can give it prompts which ask it to be ethical. Setting up an experiment that is so fully aimed at getting one result is junk science. As a journal editor, I'd...

On the "Blackmailing AI" story, if you read the opening paragraphs it gives a lot of context: In a fictional scenario set up to test the model, Anthropic embedded its Claude Opus 4 in a pretend company and let it learn through email access that it is about to be replaced by another AI system...