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Bayformers.

LLMs aren't so much snake oil as they are real but limited (and unethically sourced and horribly wastedul) products with legitimate applications being sold by snake oil salespeople and deluded technocultists who see more humanity in Siri than their neighbors. Technology is frequently harmful...

It's not a refinement, is the thing. It's Elminster is a Barbarian. A similar change would be if they all turned into grape-flavored half-dragons. This is a Super Mario live action movie of a change.

Edited to be less trite: If story doesn't matter then there is no barrier to just changing everything. Elves can be elementals, dwarves can be aquatic blue and beardless, halflings can be 7' tall, and Elminster can be a barbarian. If you're going to add something that has no precident you can...

Like I said, have the LLM build the table. It will otherwise give you a narrow cluster of the same ideas over and over. Ask GenAI to "try again" and it eventually goes in a loop. Even the random table is going to have duplicates if it's long enough, but at least you can identify those ahead of...

Even as a random table you'd be better off asking it to generate a random table, checking to make sure the variety is sufficient, and rolling manually. They are inherently biased to produce similar material over and over again because they literally function on what is most probable.

A calculator is far less useful when you don't know math, and you can't easily spot a bad calculation without that skill. The younger you are the better you are positioned to learn, and the longer you put it off by relying on bad tools the harder it will be to develop the skills that make these...

While I agree that species is too naturalistic and mundane a term for what demons are, "species" is an arbitrary and oft-debated topic in the scientific community. Sometimes what makes one species into two is literally "there is a mountain between them" and if the barrier is gone they would...

Gender identity is going to be individual in any case. There's no certainty that the feminine secondary sex characteristics actually map to reproductive organs, nor that they conform to the reproductive binary. From a historical perspective, we can probably assume that mariliths in official...

It can vaguely allude to it while copying existing attempts from Reddit.

Incidentally, there is a lady pit fiend named Lucille.

Grats!

This. Focusing on the positive is going to usually be focused on creativity, ideation, and theory. "Oh wow Elminster seems to get around, I wonder if he has any mystery kids - wait, what if Drizz't is distantly related to Elminster!?" Otherwise you're just repeating the content.

In the tech spaces there has been a pattern of hyper-specialization as advances in technology increasingly allow people to function more like replacable cogs in a machine, with the side effect of making them extremely limited in actual capabilities and causing them to struggle with big pictures...

While there are paths to AI competing meaningfully with creativity, somewhat requiring creatives to first turn on their own, the general direction is toward banal mediocrity. There is not so much money in TTRPGs that increasing the junk to gems ratio even more toward junk is going to lead to...

It would be quite interesting to see what D&D would look life if, whenever possible, WotC carried lore forward and did their best to adapt the rules to fit, adding things instead of changing. However, they have always made the lore fit the latest design ideas instead, with 4E being the most...

This is going to be a real nasty hit to game stores, book stores, and anything that prints guides for things they sell. I'm glad my FLGS sells food and gaming space so there's a solid chance they can weather this, but this is going to hurt hobbies from every direction.

The accusations of ulterior motives and the rather expansive hypotheticals and disagreements about general canon which are proxy for other opinions have extended this far beyond what it might otherwise be. Ultimately, some people prefer the new one and some people prefer the old one, and how...

That is clearly a marilith.

Hopefully there is, somewhere, "Mariliths have a variety of appearances." etc.