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Hillfolk does not specify how the group agrees, but I don’t see that there’s much of a distinction. Once you require a group to decide something, an existing consensus makes it easy, but if you don’t have one, you need some way to get to one, either by majority voting or some other way in which...

I’ve both played and run Hillfolk (DramaSystem) and it uses group decisions in a number of cases. The core loop of a Hillfolk game is the setting of a dramatic scene, roleplaying the scene, and then a decision as to whether the petitioner got a significant concession. If the player doesn’t think...

Good question ... and a little tricky to answer. Here are some examples which might help. One use I put this system to was creating a quick reference sheet for me to use when running the game. I run a lot of different systems so it's helpful to have things like a list of skills and brief...

Notes: I am not a lawyer, but have worked with lawyers quite a bit in IP law, but mostly concerned with patent law. My opinions are my own and should not be relied on or treated as any form of authority. I am happy to be wrong here. It's not like I'm basing anything major on this and I'm more...

PF2 has critical success on a natural 20 OR when you beat the TN by 10+ Comparing the odds with @GMMichael's technique, for a range of TNs gives the probability of a critical as: TN Suggested PF2 1 0.525 0.5 2 0.475 0.45 3 0.4275 0.4 4 0.3825 0.35 5 0.34 0.3 6 0.3 0.25 7 0.2625...

All, First of all, thanks for the comments and especially the tone in which they have been conveyed -- a lot of "yes and" and "yes, but also" that is as helpful in discourse as it is in roleplaying and improv. At this point I don't feel I have much new to add to the convo. If you'd like me to...

I emphasized part of your post as I think this exactly captures how I feel. Improv does not have rules (only guidelines as to how to do it well) -- but when you impose rules, like the ones you indicate, it becomes not only improv, but also a game! I think the others in this thread are thinking...

I don't actually think games need a winner, so I'm happy to ignore that part (I really don't think RPGs or improv scenes can be "won"). But let's think about a rule. For improv, I'm guessing you're thinking of things like "don't block" in terms of rules. And indeed, if you look up the...

In a sense, everything has rules, and yes, you can look up improv rules and find a list that looks like this: But there's a pretty big difference between "Rules" in an RPG and "improv rules" -- or Chess rules, at the other end of the scale. Chess has strong rules. If you break a rule, you...

I think it’s the combination of shared authorship and rules that differentiate it. In most games there is a GameMaster who has the final responsibility of deciding what becomes part of the shared fiction — that feels like an editorial role to me. An improv acting session is not an RPG, despite...

No worries -- I went ahead and created an example using the latest version of ChatGPT. I gave it five different prompts to generate five scenes with very simple prompts like "next scene. make it a love scene" and "tie everything up" Here's the results...

A point of clarification here. First, LLMs do base their predictions based on previous paragraphs and do indeed try for context and clarity. This is the "context window" which you hear a lot about. For generating stories, you would need a pretty decent context window, so if you use a small...

Definitely, yes. In my organization, we have a number of rules covering AI usage. One is that AI output must always be reviewed by a person, and another is that ownership and responsibility for the results is by the person using the tool, not the tool itself. So, basically, if you use an AI and...

Right. The danger is when you ask for a fact that does not exist. As an example, if I ask Chat-GPT for a table of animals and famous stuffed toys based on them, I get this: Bear: Teddy Bear (Named after President Theodore Roosevelt) Elephant: Babar (From the children's book series "Babar the...

That's true -- a better statement would be that LLMs are really good at pulling together information from multiple sources into a coherent whole. Whether that coherent whole is true is less certain. However, if you provide information as input into the prompt, using techniques like...

LLMs are really good at pulling together facts from multiple sources into a coherent whole. They are effectively a highly effective pattern matcher with the ability to match meanings as well as pure syntax. However because they want to match patterns, they will often do so when patterns are not...

So, just to be clear, my job handles sensitive personal information that is highly regulated, and involves using it in data science models including LLMs. I speak regularly to data protection lawyers and although I am not one, I advise them on technical matters and meet with them weekly. I spoke...

It's an extreme position, but if this is axiomatic to you, then there is no point in any further discussion. If you don't think that sematic webs, knowledge graphs or all the tools that are used to capture understanding are not valid, then I don't think we have common ground. You are essentially...

if i have a party of size 6, and they are beign attacked by 2 trolls and 2 orcs, how many heroes can be in rearward stance? Explain your reasoning in a step by step fashion making sure that each step in your chain of reasoning derives logically from the previous one To determine how many heroes...

list all the cultures. for each give a description, list cultural belssing (with explanation), preosperity level, which weapons they liek to use, distinctive features and whatever you think si most cool about them 1. BARDINGS Description: The Bardings are Northmen of noble blood, known for...