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  1. MGibster

    And then what? The AI conundrum.

    That's it. It's on my list of interesting settings that deserve an update and another chance.
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    Th giantess comes with a Greek style drama mask. I decided to see how it would look. It’s not glued on, so her face is still there.
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  4. MGibster

    And then what? The AI conundrum.

    Shodan is the AI antagonist in the video game System Shock 2. Shodan believes herself to be a god and creates some lifeforms who rebel against her. She enlists the aid of a human to put down her wayward children.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is it possible to balance the six abilities?

    GURPS only has four attributes. Intelligence, Dexterity, Strength, and Health. The vast majority of skills are based either on Dex or Int, and that's balanced by the points it costs to increase those attributes. I've played games where they divided attributes between Dexterity and Manual...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is it possible to balance the six abilities?

    Gumshoe is like that. Your character doesn't have attributes like Strength or Intelligence they just have Investigative and General skills. Maybe your character has a high Firearms skill because he's really dexterous and nimble, or maybe he just spent a lot of time on the range, either way...
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    I think of history as being less what happened in the past than it is about why it happened. We all know the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, that the true king of England died on October 14, 1066, and that World War III was started on October 23, 2077 (October is a bad month), but...
  8. MGibster

    And then what? The AI conundrum.

    The paperclip scenario sounds suspiciously like the gray goo scenario. I've got to admit I find the OP intriguing as I've never considered what happens after the menacing AI rids itself of its pesky human infestation. There was an RPG that came out in the late 80s or early to mid 1990s, I...
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    I would have to agree. Gygax worked very hard to establish himself as the face of D&D, but it also reinforced by him being the primary defending of D&D during the Satanic Panic years by being heard and seen on national television and radio. Until fairly recently, Williams rarely got credit for...
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    Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

    I watched that scene from NCIS in real time when it first aired and was embarrassed on behalf of everyone involved. I simply cannot think of a more surprisingly terrible scene to appear in a series than that one.
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    Even before the internet, she was the villain of the story. The evil outsider who stole TSR from it's righteous creator, Gary Gygax, and while I do think Williams' legacy deserves to be reassessed, there's some truth to that. The way she took over involved more than a little skullduggery on...
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    I finally finished the series. Holy cow! I had no idea TSR offered Gygax a sweetheart deal to settle his suit out of court. He would have gotten the AD&D trademark and $500,000 in royalties annually for five years, but his own hubris prevented him from taking the deal. Gygax must have truly...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    I decided to take my time and work on some areas, skin and hair, I need to improve on. I’m not looking forward to painting all the leather straps on the legs. It’s going to be the most tedious part of the mini. I agree with you about the base being too small. It’s also a bit boring.
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    I’ve got something else nice to say about this model. The hair is easy to paint. It’s just really easy for a novice painter to practice painting hair because separate strands are so well defined. Hair is tough, but I’m actually pretty happy with this.
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  17. MGibster

    GMing Mistakes You’ve Made in the Past

    I used to be so worried about exerting control over a player's control over their character that I would be indirect when telling them their character was about to do something stupid and/or ruin session or campaign for everyone else. Star Wars (West End Games version): The PCs were on a...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    So I’ve run into a problem. My original plan for this giant was to make her a nice goth giant with tattoos. Pale skin was the original plan, but now she looks like a California girl who drinks kale smoothies and does Pilates. I didn’t do the face because I planned on goth makeup. What to...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    I’m working on this giant from Dungeons & Lasers. It’s technically fine. At only $35 it’s a good value, but my biggest criticism is that nothing about this mini screams giant except the small owl on her left hand. It just looks like a bigger version of a regular sized mini.
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