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Makes more sense. I see both sides of the argument. I'm not sure what level you are, but you're apparently at least level 6. So, you're taking one attack, and he Shields. Dispel Magic is an Action to cast, so you're NOT taking the Extra Attack and instead using Action Surge to drop the...

After a little googling, I guess it would work. My question would be - you really want to burn a 3rd level spell to take a +5AC off for one round instead of getting in a total of four attacks? For an eldritch knight to have a 3rd level slot, they'll be a minimum of level 13. That reeeeally...

I haven't read Titus Crowe in a long time - I need to revisit it - but the concept I loved, which really fit with Delta Green I thought was that whatever foundation had found a way to create artificial Elder Signs and were 'excavating' places to disguise them planting/burying the Elder Signs.

Discovered AT-AT walkers on Arrakis.

Okay. Arguably not the greatest, but I'd definitely take him over some others. Random side note: General Kael is specifically named after Pauline Kael, the movie critic. Kael's review of the Sound of Music? " [A] sugarcoated lie that people seem to want to eat." Nasty stuff.

Can't believe I had to go this far down before Madmartigan.

I try to boost from Gumshoe for my D&D games. First, the party will always find a clue that moves the story forward. Example: they find a matchbook for a club in the city left at the crime scene Second, generally I'm open to whoever using a skill to try to get more information, but also...

I agree with this. I feel, from my experience, AI's effect on white collar jobs and the arts has caused more of an uproar than automation shifts because it affects people who feel they've 'moved up'. Look at Reservoir Dogs when Mister Pink doesn't tip, on a breakfast he wasn't even paying for...

I apologize. Maybe we've been saying the same thing. Someone had originally posted that the AI will free workers. That was what I was responding to. I'm not against AI, I'm not against automation - but I recognize that both will have a serious impact on workers. The person I had been...

People had to have jobs to work to eat. Generally speaking, I believe a lot of people essentially were sharecroppers for their lords what have you before heavy industrialization. People were building cars before Ford. Ford's assembly line meant four people could make a Model T instead of ten...

I was introduced to her work a LONG time ago when I was 13 or so, joining my first D&D campaign outside of my house with people I met on a BBS. Every Saturday, we'd play and have the best times. Part of what made that campaign so amazing was the use of her Central Casting: Heroes of Legend...

Personally, I feel the line is drawn when one option is 'I use an AI to make a filter on my artwork' and the other is 'I set-it-and-forget-it to have the AI draft my legal documents'. Not sure if anyone has seen this but it's comical. A lawyer submitted claims citing imaginary court cases in...

Right as I got to this post, I was thinking of the TNG episode of Measure of a Man. If we get to the point where AI is every bit as good as a human in thought and able to actively create a new work, we need to address if we're enslaving it.

Exactly this. I don't like the assertion that somehow, automation will mean that people will not HAVE to work. It just means less opportunities.

Birds and beasts also are not under the direct systemic control of capitalism. Hell, even the McDonald's where I live is using an AI system to take orders at the drive-thru. They've already taken out all but two cash resisters and route people through a touchscreen kiosk. So, there are jobs...

They did also do things like release Savage Rifts, to get those Rifts players who love the setting but not the system. (Wonder if they've ever try a SW/Shadowrun cross) I do wonder with their core rules getting bought, how often that was because someone in a group wanted to run some SW...

Those numbers feel 'truthy' to me, to quote gamer Stephen Colbert. The problem will be all these people who weren't in a position to open a game studio and think they can cash in on the 'rage against Wizards' phase - it's like restaurants, not everyone who's worked in a restaurant and sees how...

I think the games that will be best will: Have a good, solid community and support it Want to be successful but do not even have it in their imagination to overtake D&D What I worry about is metrics. Numbers don't lie but they certainly mislead. If we're judging health of the community solely...

I am once again reminded randomly that Red Dawn is a John Millius thing. John Millius, who helped with Star Wars, and gave us Conan the Barbarian and Apocalypse Now and the first two Dirty Harry movies. You know - John Millius, who John Goodman essentially played in the Big Lebowski.

The martial arts campaign you mentioned, I wasn't there for obviously, but I'm assuming people tried having a talk with 'gun guy' and possibly gave media suggestions for the feel they're going for? Just at first glance, I feel that might've been a misunderstanding where you say martial arts...