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AI is a tool. An unskilled user or sloppy work gets bad results, often in the uncanny valley, such as a human with hands on their legs or three arms. A skilled user can create inputs and vet the results to get a good result. This takes time, skill, and effort, just like regular drawing does, but...

My experience is one session of Mouse Guard. I felt the resolution system was ripe for metagaming, especially if you wanted "xp". It is more beneficial to fail a few times only to then succeed. To get a full success, the trick is to create a lull at the end of the action so you can rest and...

I don't think Traveler was really made for long campaigns. It wasn't explicitly said, but the deadly combat and lack of an experience system and military bent wasn't conductive to long games. If you wanted to play a long campaign in Traveler, I would suggest you don't muster out - play active...

Presently I am trying out Blades in the Dark, which is a "roll several dice and use the highest" kind of system. It shares an issue with roll-low systems in that difficulties are hard to modify, instead you play around with effect and consequence. From what I said above I ought to not like such...

Late to the thread, have not read all of it so I may be redundant. I prefer roll-over. It seems more intuitive to me to roll and add a modifier than to calculate a number and then try to roll beneath that number. Roll-low systems like BRP or the non-skill proficiencies of early DnD didn't do...

Which makes it perfect for make-up things like RPGs. :)

When it comes to images, I've not found an AI that creates good landscapes, but portraits are doable as long as you are not to precise in what you want. Recently, I wanted to make a portrait of a smith with a hammer, apron etc. The AIs I am using just couldn't come up with a smith's hammer and...

I've been using AI assistance for three months or so. Chat GPT 3 and various image creators. I began by having it expand upon my notes, filling them out into full descriptions, and expanded from there as I learnt what works. A prime use I have for it for now is to alter the CR of a critter. Say...

The current classes that gain expertise are quite dependent on it, mainly the rogue but also the bard. If you make expertise only apply to a subskill, you need to re-balance those classes. I would suggest giving expertise in a subskill an option open to all, while only expert classes get the...

For Blades in the Dark players, a pretty straightforward question. Does your character suffer consequences when you do the setup action? (p 134 in my book) Does tier apply? Setup is described in the Teamwork part of the rules, and all the other options there have special rules, so maybe setup is...

This has come up at my table lately. Not quite sure how to run such situations.

What i hope for is re-balancing the bad spells and a few outlier overpowered spells, to make more spells viable alternatives. I think they will actually try to do this. They may even succeed.

These are my edits, which has not been used. Our one artificer is battle smith. I wrote these a long time ago and have not looked at them since. From Alchemist (5A) - Action Experimental Elixir drinking an experimental elixir a bonus action You know the effect of each elixir after making it...

The point with weapon masteries is to allow non-casters some of the abilities that casters have. Giving casters similar abilities starts the entire process all over again.

This is 100% nt how we do it. If the team has a trap expert, that is the one doing the traps. Overall, we have a certain niche protection in our social contract - if a character specializes in something, that's who will do that thing in most cases. I'm not saying this is the right way, its...

With the Con bonus added I find this is usually sufficent. Healing spells outside of combat basically does not exist at my current table. But we do have pretty short adventuring days with a few, hard encounter rather than slow attrition.

I tend to give more rules systems more trial time than they actually merit. I played the entire Rise of the Runelords campaign converted to 4E before I decided 4E was not for me. I played the entire PF2 playtest set before deciding that PF2 was 4E in disguise. I am playing 5E now for more than...

We're discussing in detail what I only said in passing, but I'll try to explain what I meant. When I analyzed what you said in your post, I framed it as a combat encounter in my mind. You had a room full of NPCs whose objective was contrary to that of the PCs, they wanted to keep the PCs from...

Makes me think of the parrot scene from Knight of the Dinner Table where the players spend their time investigating this mysterious bird, sure that is must hold some secret. :D

Its interesting to look at Candela Obscura against this background. They removed the entire background part and are using BitD action mechanics for a much more conventional rpg experience. The GM's role, in particular, is much more conventional in CO than in BitD. And this kind of works, but it...