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Ooooh, I'd say he looks just about perfect now.

Looking rad. Too bad there wasn't a way to give him a better Charisma score; as both a Duke and an Enchanter he should have a good commanding presence. But anyway, I like it.

Looks great to me! Nice to see the Sword of Sharpness ability included as a wink to both Monty Python (of course) and the movie Excalibur (lot of chopping limbs off, did the idea of Excalibur doing that originate with those two movies?) and also the original Deities & Demigods version of...

I am very thankful for the concept of multiclassing as introduced in 3E, as it allowed characters to be created according to concept, and my brother and I always considered multiclassing in 3E to basically be custom designing our own classes out of bits and pieces of others. We used this to...

We used the Unearthed Arcana Favored Soul, a subclass of Sorcerer, as the Sorcerer-Priests of Rylor (the God of the Sun, Magic, and Enlightenment, a Greco-Roman style God who valued both intellectualism and physicality, magic and fighting skill; a healthy mind in a healthy body) but Rylor had...

I suppose there is a pretty hefty divide between the earlier Kits such as from the Complete Thief and Complete Fighter that were basically a social role, two bonus non-weapon proficiencies, and a reaction bonus in certain situations, to the more extensive and flavorful later ones like the...

Kits are subclasses. Any distinction is just an artifact of the game mechanics where they decided they didn't want to call them new classes.

I'd actually switch it up to give Achilles an 18 Dex and 14 Str (14 is a GOOD score!) but I like it. Fighting with short swords and javelins makes Dex more important than that raw Str (as noted; "Fleet-Footed Achilles.") Having him as the highest level Fighter in the world is what's most...

Yeah, I didn't think so. :(

Yeah; it sucks but it's better than a lot of people maybe getting sick and possibly dying. Here in Pennsylvania all the schools have been shut down for at least the next two weeks. I don't ever remember seeing anything like this before.

Very cool, I like! I would personally have given her higher Intelligence, but I suppose that's just taste. I'd love to also see Oberon and Puck, to round out the group from Gargoyles... with which those three are forever linked in my mind. Maybe even Macbeth as well! That could be a fun one...

We had a guy join our group just recently who said he hated combat. So I imagined me must like deep immersive roleplaying or something like that... but then he named his character Reebok Spanx, and proceeded to spend the whole session being kind of annoying and making bad jokes. I just don't...

Absolutely true. And I hope that would never happen... because I think I would rather chew off my own head than play D&D the way people on YouTube play it. Fun to Play and Fun to Watch are two totally different things. Lots and lots and lots of pointless talking about the most mundane things...

My fault, I should have been more specific; I wasn't talking about a cosmological singularity, a Black Hole or the Big Bang; I was referring to the concept of the Technological Singularity believed in by some people, which is a hypothetical event supposed to occur when the first true sapient...

There is also the problem of governments and organizations having an improper reliance on algorithms while absolutely not understanding how and what they should and should not be used for, because algorithms are not people, don't think like people, and don't understand what people think, need...

Thank you very much! :) I had the misfortune of coming across some writings about AI from some hardcore "Singularitarians" right after finding that Wired article (specifically some stuff about Ray Kurzweil) and it triggered my BS overflow gag reflex until I just had to write something about...

I love that XKCD strip, and I love the way he drew the Sheeple (Sheeperson?) It always makes me think of Anthraxus (the Oinodaemon.)

From what I understand, Mad Libs is basically about right; the algorithms can generate strings of comprehensible narrative for a while but always ultimately degenerate into gibberish. The problem with current AI research is that computer scientists have a bad tendency to think of the brain as...

I just ran across this, seems interesting: https://www.wired.com/story/forget-chess-real-challenge-teaching-ai-play-dandd/?utm_source=pocket-newtab Also, great to see that they spelled the name correctly with an ampersand rather then the word "and." :)

Yes, that is most definitely a plus! :eek: I'm glad you have access to some nonlethal cake!