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The most useful phrase I've found for getting ChatGPT to do interesting things is "compare and contrast". "Compare and contrast", followed by "describe object A as an example of object B". I've tried and failed to get it to stop apologizing when my requests scrape up against its ethical...

It's very good at spurring more textured and nuanced ideas. Or for keeping my brain occupied enough that I don't chew my own fingers off.

Brainstorming, mainly. edit: to actually contribute to the conversation, i most recently used it to suggest relationship dynamics for various obscure Marvel characters. I use it to convert creatures/classes from one version of D&D to another. Have it write up dating site profiles or rap battles...

Spelljammer + Oriental Adventures (3.0 but not Rokugan) + (undefiled) Dark Sun. Not the post-apocalyptic environmentalist allegory, but reinforcing the elemental bent of OA magic and coloring the pursuit for Immortality along the lines of Dragon Kings. Super Mario Bros + Masters of the Universe...

If we assume that subraces in D&D are inevitable and indispensable, I 110% prefer for Githyanki and Githzerai to be subraces of a base Gith race. Among a handful of others that also center around their relationship to the Gith Civil War.

I have cried, as a whole-ass grown-ass man, over the narratives of more video games than TV/movies-- and I can tally either on the fingers of one hand. Terminator: Dark Fate is the second-best feature film in the franchise, and is the natural ending of the "trilogy" on every level. If it had...

Right now, unless you count it as part of my free "boring" spending, I'd spend it on repairing/replacing my (high end) office (gaming) computer. It's been down for weeks and... no work and no play makes me a human hand grenade. More than usual. Replace my laptop that broke at the same time. But...

Not the first time that the MCU has shared actors with licensed Marvel properties. Zeus/Papa Kravinoff isn't any weirder than Human Torch/Captain America or Cable/Thanos. Or any of the other weird casting coincidences across the franchise-- like the Hannibal Connection, or the Tolkien White...

Palladium Megaversal: 20th Century games for 21st Century fans! Hey, what's under this sticker?

Can we just table the argument over associated versus disassociated mechanics?

For me, the "sweet spot" is between broad and player/table-defined skills and limited numbers of skills. For instance, Barbarians of Lemuria defaults to about 20 Careers per setting/minigame, and any given player character is highly unlikely to ever have ranks in more than 5 of them, but one of...

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I generally lean toward 2e because of the Player's (GM's) Option line, but without those books... it's hard to choose between them. They're too similar, for starters, and for everything I'm glad 2e cut there's something I wish they hadn't. In practice, I don't choose. I include all of the 1e...

Chinese martial arts fantasy with overtly supernatural elements.

It's a balm, but it's not the balm I'm looking for. I want space opera outside of the superheroes genre, I want modern urban xianxia outside of the superheroes genre, I want the rich diversity of nerd topics coming from the Mouse to be reflected in the film industry outside of the Mouse.

I wish I'd appreciated 4e better when it was in print.

Like I always say, the pineapples are necessary to keep the anchovies from being overpowering.

Funny thing that the one thing all of the best Disney MCU movies have in common is how much I wish anyone but Disney Marvel was making movies like that, independently of the MCU. With Disney setting the bar for so many different genres now... I wish they had more competition. I wish we'd gotten...

I like to do a stingy point buy, or a selection of modest arrays, and then let players roll 4d4 in order against their purchased abilities. That way they're guaranteed minimum functional stats for the class/role they want to play, and are more likely to have "happy accidents" in their dumpstats...

You mean like exactly none of the prior edition numbers made sense? Wizards of the Coast can and should feel free to call their new launch of the core books whatever the Hell they want. Fans of the game are still going to call it Sixth Edition.