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Thank you for sharing this, Tokyo is on my bucket list!

I think this is a very mature approach to the situation. The "adult conversation" is important. And in a fantasy game, where people are trying to control a thing (when they have so much imaginative control over their fantasy character's appearance, decision-making, etc.), why are they feeling...

I have a picture of it that I didn't include. That thing is terrifying! Edinburgh's history goes back so far that I unfortunately couldn't include everything, but hopefully the article inspires folks to do their own research!

This is the "stochastic parrot" theory: AI Unplugged: AI Want a Cracker? To your point, it's hard to "prove" sentience, and as I frequently point out, if it can fool one side into treating the other like it's sentient, does it matter? Philosophers argue it does. That said, this isn't really...

Excellent point and I didn't mean to imply they wouldn't accept game designers so much as it seemed the main thrust was fiction writers -- but we actually don't know if game designers were included in the negotiations. They certainly weren't called out in the settlement, but it's possible they...

I visited Edinburgh last year, and it's a fantasy city come to life. Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament, the highest courts in Scotland, and the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence of the British monarch in...

It's actually really good for a low magic campaign, but like most AD&D stuff, the various subsystems overlap and don't perfectly mesh. A party of all fighters certainly could use it though, and I loved the idea of rangers/druids having more access to healing magic than they were allowed (at the...

This actually extends to rolling in general in my experience. Or to put it another way, players like to roll dice and succeed. But there are levels of engagement with success: Beat a DC (and thus "win" that dice roll). This can be a skill check too, which is interesting to me because then...

I love this article. The fact that old lady who helps the warrior seems a little sad at the end haunts me to this day. I feel like there's a whole backstory we never learned about her.