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Someone pick 15 for Faolyn. She needs our help!

A lot of folks struggle to understand their sexuality and gender identity in a society that is often hostile to not following cishet binary norms RPGs let you dabble and try out different identities, which probably entices more LGBT folks to keep playing.

If by 'got better' you mean 'got turned into a giant mantis,' maybe.

Don't laugh, everyone, but: ants. Seriously, my favorite little block of text I wrote was the sample encounters and treasure for fighting giant ants. ... Eclipsar Fey dragon Giant Ants Penitent Mantis Runic Guardian Vaknid

There are billions of other humans already. We are already not special.

Well, okay, the original poster asked us to keep this focused on the tech, not the ethics. My bad. I've got concerns, but I should start a separate thread about those. Sooooo, like, what other interesting discussions are to be had about how the technology works? Like, I heard a podcast talk...

I really like what I wrote for this book, and I hope people enjoy fighting them, but dang, I don't get to talk about it for months!

'How it works' includes the social context of its operation. If we were talking about how internal combustion engines work, once we got past the initial mechanics and maybe chemistry, I think it would prove useful to talk about the extraction of fossil fuels, and the designs of different...

Fair enough. Seems like the energy consumption issue is not a real thing to worry about. So I will continue to focus on the exploitative and undemocratic nature of centralizing power through automation without checks and balances to ensure the output is used for the public good, or to share...

My understanding, which could admittedly be flawed, is that currently the use of large scale computing to generate images and texts is less energy efficient than human labor. My concern is that we're getting mediocre outputs, and it's possible that even if green energy is being used for it...

I was aware of these details. What I'm interested in seeing reporting about is how much electricity it costs to do these processes, as opposed to the energy cost to use a human mind.

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Then, if I'm running L5R, I give each NPC a personal desire (ninjo) and an obligation (giri), plus a demeanor. In Five Rings, there are five 'approaches' which match the 'five elements' of the title. Air is subtle or deceptive, Earth is stoic or focused on precedent, Fire is passionate or...

Well, have some rule of decorum that the PCs must go bring the heirs to the court so they can all plead their case together. This puts the PCs on a little mini-adventure where they can meet the heirs, learn what they're like, and maybe be tempted to let them get killed when an ankheg attacks or...

This is already a long thread so I'm not sure anyone will see this, but has anyone played the FFG Legend of the Five Rings RPG? In it, there are rules for 'intrigues' which are akin to social combat - typically used for things like formal courts or when multiple groups are vying for the support...

Well, do they even have lids on the other ten?

Wayfarer on wayfarer teleportation duel!

And the Paragon Paths were in part influenced by the Themes, which were little add ones everyone got in 4e to give them a mechanical ability tied to the plot and setting elements. Themes were originally developed by WotC for Dark Sun 4e. I don't know anyone who has mentioned running a campaign...