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That is interesting. You "knew what he meant" but still answered in the negative. Huh.

I will say this: I do not like the more recent, more robotic look of the warforged even in the preview art for FotA, or the general steampunkisation of Eberron. One of the cool things about Eberron is that it is still identifiable as D&D high fantasy with a technomagic twist. I want elemental...

Yeah, like I said above, I made a mental leap but did not explain it so I probably came off as an ass. Such is the nature of pet issues, I guess.

I did. That's true. I apologize. In my head the two things wre separate discussions, but I did not express the leap my brain made. For the record, I did not mean to imply you were ableist -- I was exressing a specific hang up I have about certain discussions regarding AI. So that is on me for...

Theaters schmeaters. The best movies came out direct to video.

I was probably not clear: I am not defending AI generated slop. I was speaking very specifically about the voice over part, and how there are potentially valid reasons for using that technology.

We don't have to, of course, but I think there is definitely a discussion to be had (as a society, I mean) about AI and ableism.

Yeah. I am currently running 2024 and do not particularly care for it, but certainly not because it is too narrative. if anything, it slid back away from rulings over rules/natural language by implementing more precise terminology and definitions.

Why would the person who had a speech impediment tell you that?

I don't know. I think mutually understood definitions of terms allows us to have fruitful conversations, rather than descending immediately to name calling.

EDIT: This was a leap of logic I really did not need to make and represents issues I have rather than anything happening here. My Apologies. This is where the question of ableism and AI comes in: what if the YT author has a speech impediment, or has anxiety over their voice, or just isn't good...

How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? I am 50 this year, and we were assigned The Hobbit in 5th grade. We also had the Bashki Rankin-Bass Hobbit and Return of the King movies on television when I was a kid. That said, my parents were both fantasy and sci-fi fans so in my household I...

Is that thumbnail art from WotC, or AI generated? Because that is a robot, not a warforged.

The idea that D&D popularized Tolkien is wild, indeed.

I don't buy many WotC adventures but I really can't think of any that include extended dialogue between NPCs where it might come up.

I am running a Daggerheart convention mini-campaign (4 slots) that is a superhero game set in an aetherpunk city (think Arcane or Eberron). One thing I have decided to do is lead up to the con with weekly newsletters containing new stories that introduce some of the villains, pregens, lore and...

That is my fault. I saw the other one and wanted to talk more boradly and about actual campaigns, rather than systems and mechanics. it may be that had I looked deeper the conversation had already expanded.

I would say that the Forgotten Realms was loosely Tolkienesque, but core D&D has always had at most a veneer of Tolkien by way of its imagery. But D&D elves have never been Tolkien elves, and no D&D setting has ever been as deep or complex as Middle Earth.

It is also worth noting that in superhero games, there are often character generation points tied up in "player background contributions" which puts such things in a somewhat different class than hastily scribbled D&D backstories. The GM can't just kill a sidekick that the player spent 25 points...

Is monthly hype a thing for the adventure paths? I thought sales were mostly subscriptions, so the hype is more around the AP as a whole. It could still be a team but also improve because they can make the 3 chapters more cohesive, developing them simultaneously as opposed to staggered.