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Yeah, but the DM is all-powerful, so they can just boop the character away, or boop 'em back. boop! boop! boop!

Triggering the apocalypse. Ah, good times...

True, but as it pertains to this and almost every convo on enworld involving Gary, it's pretty conclusive that he believed DMs are the deciders, and he favored rulings over rules.

No one can tell me who to eat! This is still a free-ish country!

I picture Gary furiously scribbling his thoughts for some of the sections in the older books on napkins and the backs of envelopes in his car after playing sessions with his friends and colleagues, late at night in his Ford Pinto parked under a lone streetlight, just angrily writing with a...

OK, that might be how a modern adult with the benefit of hindsight views Gygax, but I don't think the 15-year-olds I was playing 1e with were that profound. 😂 We definitely were not peeling back layers of the onion that is Gary. I wish, but we were just picking and choosing from among his many...

I STILL sing that song around the house nearly every day! I want my baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back... I want my baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back... CHILIIII'S BABY BACK RIIIIBS! CHILI'S BABY BACK RIBS...

I would have supported the $?*! out of regulating AI when it may have actually done some good, years ago when the first LLM appeared. Now though? No point. It's too late. Now, U.S. firms have to continue advancing the tech just to keep up with what state-sponsored cybercriminal organizations...

Same!

OK...so, let's say we are just creating the illusion of an economy. And? You've piqued my interest. What's next?

You've got some inaccuracies here. First, it's trivial to create boundaries during play now. You just set a safe word and agree to the parameters you set for using it. You tell the AI not to allow you to break character or override a ruling unless you use the safe word first -- so, unless you...

Ah, the good old days... Kidding! I jest.

That they did.... That they did. :)

It's not you; it's them.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Ooh! I'm intrigued by the idea of keeping the uber-PC's remaining plot armor hidden from them. How would THAT impact play?

You're blowing my mind right now!

Doesn't make sense to me. I was raked over the coals here for suggesting that Hasbro and WoTC had economies of scale due to their size and were able to secure more print capacity for their hardcovers, which never seem to go out of stock despite selling far more copies than DH does, and yet the...

Cloud hosted and managed. I'm already responsible for enough servers. That's not why I'd prefer SaaS / cloud hosted in this case. I just don't want to be responsible for another server.

Isn't there another thread today about how amazingly popular 1E is/was? A poll? Dealing with the flaws and pointless minutiae didn't stop that train.