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Even with spell use they could be a fighter subclass. Some days I think we should go back to the core four classes and make everything else a subclass. Barbarians, paladins and rangers are fighters. Bards are rogues. Druids are clerics or maybe wizards. It's a little harder to shoehorn the...

Platonic solids are cool, and there aren't any between d12 and d20. The d10 snuck in because it's useful.

And now with OneD&D, their spell list is identical to that of the druid's, apart from evocations. (Why do rangers need spells at all, anyway? None of their usual archetypes cast spells. Is it just to give them a rationale to not just be fighters?) It's always kind of annoyed me that bards are...

Another great one-shot, provided you like story games, is Kingdom. My group has had great fun with it. Follow, by the same author, is explicitly for a single session, and it is also fun. (Kingdom can in principle be played as a campaign.) They're both by Lame Mage games, run by Ben Robbins.

Interesting. I can kinda see it. Fair is fair! Why don't rangers have the same limitation, though?

Except for the DM, that's basically what Order of the Stick is.

Really? Who, exactly, believes that? Now you're equivocating on "algorithm". I would invite you to state the single algorithm by which I have grown. Good luck! But in case... ChatGPT doesn't even have the means to try to assess whether what it's saying is true or false. Until that day comes...

It fundamentally is a dumb robot, because by the nature of the case it is just jumbling words together to appeal to humans. There's no 'there' there. The Turing test is a red herring, as it depends entirely on human gullibility. ELIZA managed to convince some people it deeply understood them...

So... many... jokes...!

Why do they have a problem with metal armor in the first place? Is metal somehow not part of the natural order? Maybe they have a problem with iron, specifically, for somewhat the same reason that the fey traditionally do.

That's a sad commentary on today's yout'! I asked it to write an essay on the 2016 election, and it thought that the Democratic nominee was... Bernie Sanders. ;) I assume that wouldn't get an A in your class.

I don't know about the entirety, but it's definitely different! We didn't decide on the scene before playing it, but it was definitely a lot more collaborative. You're more like the writers and the actors in a TV show, rather than the characters themselves. We have found it tremendous fun every...

I don't think we'll be seeing an AI GM any time soon. Simply because, as has been said, it doesn't actually have any idea what it's saying. Where I do think it can help, as demonstrated by my thread, is to provide prompts to the human. :) In other words, when you're stuck, asking it a question...

While I agree that it generally isn't helpful to call something "bad" without further detail - bad at what? - I also don't see it as a criticism of those who enjoy it. If we couldn't enjoy things that have flaws, it would be an impoverished world! I think AD&D is in many respects badly...

Re: OneD&D, it's marketing, pure and simple. They tried the same thing during the 5e playtest, if you recall: "D&D Next". Which thankfully didn't stick. No matter what they say, OneD&D is 5.5e. And no doubt there will be a 6e down the road.

Prime Time Adventures makes a fantastic one-shot, but you have to be willing to let go of a lot of assumptions that go with playing other RPGs.

One D&Dism that's always bemused me is that Minecraft has undead harmed by healing potions and healed by harming ones. It's so counterintuitive in the absence of "positive and negative energy" that I can only assume that it was taken as given.

It can't create a campaign setting out of whole cloth... But it can provide prompts to react to when you're stuck, and iterate on them. I tried this here.

Finally, I asked ChatGPT to write a sonnet about this campaign, and this is what it came up with: Amidst the ruins of a world destroyed, A secret Order guards the remnants rare, Of magic's power that once overjoyed, And caused explosions that we cannot repair. The Lunars too have magic, though...

Pete came back to awareness within his own body. Nuada's hand was still inside his chest, but there was no longer any pain. He took hold of the fey's forearm and pulled it out - the silver hand was white-hot, but it registered only as pleasantly warm on his nerves. Nuada's eyes widened, and...