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In the interview, Meals referred to 5E24 as 5.5. I wonder if that's what they called it internally? Externally they have avoided that name like the plague, and even Next got changed. They are really aiming at name continuity. Someone (sorry I am not rewinding and am bad at remembering names)...

I am a part of the Greyhawk community, and it has become more active since the inclusion of the setting in 2024. Not everyone likes the new take on it, but many seem to be seen an opportunity and are making publishable products. There have been very few Greyhawk products before 2024, and they...

Large language model AI makes it trivial to rewrite rules, I wonder if this will impact the legal situation.

This is how TTRPG business has always worked around here. The GM picks the system to run, and over time people buy the books. Initially we can do with the GM's books but soon we want our own.

I'm with Charlaquin here. Continuing in the ruts you already made seems the least work for your players. 2014 work well up to around level 10 as long as you don't hand out too many +X items. 2014 is better, but the differences are so small only 2014 veterans will notice, and your table doesn't...

I grew up in and still live in Sweden. My mom didn't like D&D because it took time away from other intellectual pursuits she thought more worthy, such as literature, art, and architecture. Dad was to busy to care much. But overall this was not a big problem. Mom never understood my passion even...

I was 13 and a friend of mine had just got the Holmes set [Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set - Wikipedia]. He played an entire party, but his magic-user was the main character. We made LOTS of mistakes, a Hobgoblin has 1 + 1 hit dice... does that it means it has 2 hp? We rerolled hit points for...

The rewards my players care about are generally NPCs and holdings such as houses and vehicles. Fun magic items as well, but some players (and me) have come to lathe the +X items. An item has to actually DO something to be worth messing with.

Neal Stephenson’s Anathem presents a multiverse model based on causal links between realities that also inspires my fantasy cosmology, if less directly. The universe we live in under this model are causally connected, meaning that events flow logically and consistently from one to another...

In Michael Moorcock's The Stealer of Souls (1963) (part of Elric of Melniboné saga), there is a story about how Aubec of Malador creates new lands out of Chaos. After being blessed by Myshella, the sorceress of Law, he travels into the gray, unformed potential of Chaos, creating new lands that...

My view on the "truth" of things planar, spatial, and chronological uses a fictional version of the uncertainty principle. What we see directly in front of us is "true" in the immediate sense. However, when perceiving events across time, space, or dimensions—such as through scrying—what we...

I use it as a language checker, sometimes I adapt what it suggests, sometimes not, and often I juggle it back and forth until satisfied. It is better at the rules of English than I (not a native speaker) am, but is repetitive and unimaginative and needs constant, detailed inputs. I've had the...

I am currently wearing a blood sugar meter, In three weeks I've only had two low sugar alarms, one of them was early and may have been a false alarm, the other was having been the GM for a few hours. The brain needs a LOT of energy!

Which will likely lead to GM burnout.

I'd say this depends on what kind of story you are creating. Does one character being a permanent lycanthrope work for the other players? Is the GM on board with it? Does the group care about game balance? I'd say that if even one player opposes the idea, or if the table in general is not...

This seems to be a cool setting to let PCs become god in. But then I am an optimist. :)

Next up, no word processors? :( My main use of AI is as an automated editor, checking spelling, grammar. Yes, I sometimes ask it for ideas, but that's a very random process that has to be seriously vetted. An AI by itself produces crap. If you are afraid this will win any prizes, you have a very...

I like Savage Worlds and think its a good system for the treasure hunting theme. That said, I find system is less important than the setting, adventures and metaplot. I am personally likely to translate adventures into whatever my favorite hack we're running at the moment.

Once this thread has run its course, it would be interesting if someone would collate the options presented and make a vote on them. I'd say storytelling skills, narration, weaving different plots and character arcs together. Basically being a good editor of the collaborative fiction being told.

I like the 4E cosmology (despite not liking the rules). I like the Blood War being between the ethereal demons and astral devils. I call my own cosmology the Axis Mundi, which is basically a line (or tree if you like Yggdrasil) with one end in the deep Elemental Chaos and one in the lofty outer...