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In 2010 I moved away from my regular gaming group, we had been playing together for decades, and we didn't want to stop gaming together. I bought Fantasy Grounds to keep playing and have been doing so since. I have played in other local gaming groups but they were all work based groups and when...

I think Old Ben, who lives beyond the Dune Sea, fought in the Great AI Wars

Ok, I mistyped. People make mistakes but that impacts my argument not a bit. I'll go back and correct my post. People in this thread have been arguing many different points of view of this situation but we were replying (several times) to each other so the conversation we were having is what I...

I agree with a lot of what you said but this line stands out as something I have to disagree with. AI companies certainly are doing the same thing. Meta got caught torrenting pirated books to train AI and the only difference between me doing the torrenting or Meta is the financial resources I...

Years ago when I first went to college I took an intro to criminal justice class. We had a guest speaker who was an FBI agent and he told us that they only catch dumb criminals for the most part (I'm old so this was before smartphones and social media and surveillance cameras were less prevalent...

I'm not a lawyer but the fair use argument seems to not apply here, at least if it's copyrighted content that is not being offered for free that is being scraped from the internet. If I went to a torrent site and downloaded a few of this years best selling novels and art books and got caught I...

Here's what baffles me. These AI companies can scape (pirate, steal) the internet for copyrighted material and use it publicly and its ok, at least so far, but if some individual pirates or steals content from the internet they could be looking at devastating fines. Other than the difference in...

I bought licenses for Fantasy Grounds when I moved away from my gaming group back in 2010. It does everything I need and my group is familiar with it so I see no reason to change. There was a time where I spent too much money on Pathfinder 1E content that it didn't make financial sense to change...

I started playing D&D in 1980 or 1981 I think. At the time TSR was putting out other RPGs like Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, Top Secret and I think others and I played them all in addition to games like Champions and Villains & Vigilantes and others. I drifted away from playing a few times and when...

Nope

But that is part of the point of grouping by generation. It's not just grouping by the range of years someone was born into but also looking at that groups general behaviors and characteristics. It's not an attempt to say all people of a certain generation are the same, it's just a...

I don't have any problems with your definitions but emotionally I have a hard time thinking of anyone who was playing 3.x or 4E as a grognard. Man, I am old. Sigh.... Edited to add: I am a Master Grognard myself.

No abuse here. I was introduced with the Basic & Expert boxed sets and quickly moved on to AD&D 1E. I bought my first copy of the Players Handbook at a bookstore in the mall and my mom was driving me to my friend's house right after (we both played a lot). On the way to my friend's, flipping...

Initially I was willing to lean that way but that doesn't seem to be what Mearls actually says but I am am sure that is possible.

Maybe I am missing something but blaming the OGL for D&D being uncool seems way off base. Wasn't it around the year 2000 that the OGL was first released and afterwards D&D rose in popularity? D&D 3.x sure seemed more popular than it's predecessors. I can't speak for 4E since I paid no attention...

I chose college because I have more college grads than anything else but it really ranges from high school to associates degrees to bachelors. Up until a few years ago I had a law school grad and a physicist playing in the same group (they moved).

This doesn't really answer the question of the thread but I never get pushback from my players. I am (mostly) the only one who buys the rulebooks and am the primary GM so they are generally willing to play whatever I want. When I abandoned Pathfinder 1E we had been playing D&D 3.x since it's...

An abomination to all the gods :p

I am nervously hopeful for this movie. I loved the first one. It was the only movie I have ever sat through the end credits without waiting for a mid or post credits scene, I was just emotionally exhausted and had to just sit there for a while. I feel like it stood fine on it's own and never...

Regardless of how you or I define hit points they don't really exist outside of the rules, hence why I say they, among other things in the game, are abstractions of what would actually happen in real life. Those abstractions, as defined by the rules, are what make the game playable but don't...