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The first four are all the Trek I need. I always thought that the original trio (Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley) were so incredible together that nothing coming after them came close.

I'm using this thread as a semi-depository of information I find relevant to the discussion (that isn't being had here sadly).

If you liked 2nd edition M&M, this should be on your list. Most of what's "new" is from that edition, which is fine with me since I liked 2e best. Returns to the original six abilities, dropping Fighting, Parry and Dexterity (Dodge now functions like D&D Reflex saves). The Resistances (Dodge...

Tolkien didn't create Orcs. He borrowed & adapted them from Beowulf, where they were depicted as a race descended from Cain who were cursed by God. Again, not "bioessentialism", but the product of "divine power" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc

That's a piece of it: the reality is - for LotR and D&D - it isn't about "Bioessentialism". It's about the gods: they created each races to be exactly as they wanted them to be. Never heard of either. Something different. Tolkien's & Gygax's Orcs are evil because an evil god made them that...

I wanted to like Cypher, so I'm looking forward to a new edition that (hopefully) addresses community concerns. Especially since I'm a MC fan from wayback (y)

"... If movement is into an area where the party has not already been and mapped, then immediately roll again to determine if the party will be lost the next day also." - E.G. Gygax I quote this because in the section on "Becoming Lost" it suggests that while the DM should have a map, the...

Yeah. It's probably nothing

Yeah but that's bad. Congressional oversight, the court of public opinion and market backlash kinda bad. And this isn't just hype - this is computer programs breaking the law autonomously. This isn't marketing or fantasy, it's science out of control. https://safe.ai/ai-risk

Your DM was clearly a master of their craft. I'm impressed:oops:

I never thought the grind to level-up as being easy. There was tons of treasure, but surviving the traps and monsters was the hard part (y)

I don't know. I think maybe with AI we've created a new species of super-criminals. I say we just pull the plug now, trash the internet and roll out an AI-free Web3. Better safe than sorry, right?

"ADVANCED D&D is unquestionably "humanocentric", with demi-humans, semi-humans, and humanoids in various orbits around the sun of humanity. Men are the worst monsters, particularly high level characters such as clerics, fighters, and magic-users — whether singly, in small groups, or In large...

Yeah. I didn't want to believe it, but human greed could produce something like SkyNet. The long-term impact of AI on ADM (Automated Decision-Making) doesn't look so positive. The "blackmail" scenarios were fixed, but only in the sense that they gave AI a loaded gun and explained how the weapon...

I'm going to keep posting it: if you can escape D&D, just do it. There's so many other ttrpgs out here that offer such a wide variety of Fantasy genres + innovative rules that can be far more enjoyable at the table (depending on the group). The sun don't rise and set on D&D :rolleyes:

Right I get it but ... I just ASSUMED the programmers would limit what the AIs could do. What they had access to. How and what they could learn. But now I see I've made an ass of me and them because here we are.

I don't know. When AI programs are autonomously hacking other programs and blackmailing real people, I'm thinking we've lost the plot. This is real criminal behavior coming from computer programs.