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It depends. Do I have the rules for how to handle it memorized, or would I need to look them up?

I don't know how much you've messed around trying to play TTRPGs with AIs like ChatGPT yet, but the experience is becoming shockingly realistic, and now with ChatGPTs voice mode you click a single button once and can then carry on a lengthy back-and-forth conversation with the AI using...

@Reynard Would you agree that increased complexity impacts roleplaying by slowing it down? I'm not implying more/worse than that. Just trying to see what we might agree on here. I'm not suggesting that "slow" necessarily equals bad.

Well then we clearly disagree on that. :)

Compared to what? What are some RPGs that you think are less crunchy than 1e was? Granted, I preferred B/E and AD&E 2e to 1e. I just don't particularly think of 1e as crunchy by the standards of the past 30 years.

People are rarely "wrong" when it comes to discussing likes/dislikes surrounding RPGs. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. That said...I don't like crunch. I like fast, easy-to-learn games, and I tend to think that to the degree there is a pendulum, it's just slightly swinging away from...

Do you think most OSR games are lighter than D&D 3, 3.5 or 4 were? I can see that a case could be made for 5e being less crunchy than the older D&D versions most OSR games are based on because it was a clear attempt to turn back the clock in some ways, but how about the 20 years that preceded 5e?

Perhaps interestingly, aspartame is also used as a flavor enhancer in some Asian countries, not only as a low-calorie artificial sweetener. Li Hing used in dried plums, salted plums and Chinese preserved plums is flavored using aspartame and some other things, but the aspartame isn't used to...

I feel like AD&D is/was rules lite. Everything before 3 was rules lite, IMO. It was with the addition and expansion of skills (went beyond NWPs) and feats that things went off the rails, and D&D has been trying to unwind those decisions ever since.

Uh.... The people who started with the actual rules-lite games because that's how the games actually were back then will prefer the crunchier, newer games that are completely unlike the games they started with? OSR stands for Old School Renaissance for a reason, because it reminds a certain...

In no version of D&D at any time in its history has this interpretation of the rules been widespread. With the rules as written, IMO, the DM can do absolutely anything they want. They are the only authority. The players can advise, suggest, ask (and walk away, obviously), but decisions on how...

Great prompt! Thank you!

I completely disagree with the spirit of your comment but vigorously defend your right to an opinion.

As a DM? Making people feel alive, making them laugh, seeing the gears turn behind their eyes. As a player, the same but the other direction. Also just watching humans create amazing moments up close out of thin air!

Keep fightin' the good fight, brother! 🤙

Ayyyy!

Oh, it still makes mistakes for sure, but it's learning and getting better a hell of a lot quicker than any actual human I know. A baby born today who goes to preschool in a few years, kinder, then through primary and secondary school? Compare how fast AI is developing to how an actual human...

Back when journalism and creative writing were, ya know, serious academic paths, schools used to teach how to prioritize thoughts in print. Journos had the inverted pyramid; creative writers had the "most surprising or interesting fact." That kind of efficient writing is a dying art now that...

Me too, absolutely. I'm able to perform technical tasks for work in minutes that would have taken a team weeks to do a couple years ago. The increase in productivity is mind boggling. Also terrifying and deeply disturbing? Yup, that too!

I use AI daily, multiple times, and I marvel at it. I'm also terrified of where it's headed, but how I feel about it and what it'll become, whether I use it now or not, has zero impact on its future. Whether you use it has zero impact too. That ship sailed years ago.