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Yes. I'm really interested in AI, and my State has a conference that talks about it annually. I've gone to it for the last three years, and we get access to some next gen stuff as a result. It has gotten much better in the last three years. So I was recently looking for a script to automate a...

We're in a transition period, with AI taking the stage more and more often. The thing is, it's coming, and in certain areas, it's already here. There's nothing that can be done about it. If you're giving a talk about the future of your investors, especially with a growing part of your business...

Or perhaps there's more than one theme to the stories. And you can discuss more than one aspect of the stories at once. To my mind, a lot is going on in the stories, some of which is still being discussed today. I think about the "civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they...

Oh I think there will always be a frontier somewhere. But if not, we have Conan's experiences with civilization, where it's soft and corrupt, too. I think that may remain an issue as well. And ... the pulps progressed into noir, didn't they?

Oh sure. I just look at that group and see a movie made by James Gunn. And as much as I like his films, I don't think they work for Ravenloft. And as you say, Ravenloft is changing, and those changes, in general, make it much less interesting to me. Pretty much something I've no interest in.

I'm glad to answer that, being a fan of Ravenloft and Gothic literature. It's because Gothic literature is about the world of the ordered and ordinary being terrorized by the inhuman and bizarre. This story is full of alien characters who each one on their own could have a book talking about who...

I was just watching something very political (which I won't go into here) but the author took a big aside to talk about the book and movie Shane. This is one of the movies that gets referenced very often over time, it even made it into Logan. The idea is that there is a need for a character...

As the dad of an 8 year-old, there's tons of content out there that's she's enjoying. It's just not comic books like I grew up with. I think that was right when I started reading comic books and I still check out stores in my area every now and then. It's definitely not targeted at young kids...

I actually understand this perfectly. I have the policy of not yucking another person's yum but also not yumming their yuck. You do you. The politics of an author are a real thing that affects whether people are interested in them or not. And that's 100% fine. For me, it largely doesn't (with...

I didn't want to quote your whole post, but I think this is the issue right here. I don't read Larry's books for politics. I read them as really solid adventure fiction, with surprising depth. I can't have a discussion on the subject without violating the board rules, so I just won't. I'll say...

I think this is a great point. I've been a fan of Larry's since I read the first sentence of his first book ("On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.") I've been...

For me: go to used bookstores to find that mysterious book by him that I've somehow not seen as of yet. Roger was a very special writer: very literary but also using some pulp tropes. I wish I had better advice for you but if there are any other Zelazny fans out there, I'd love to hear...

Just a note on stories about after the party saves the world, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End just landed on Netflix. While not a book, it did make me think about a lot of the fantasy tropes and I'd recommend it highly. I watched it through Apple TV with subtitles, so I don't know how Netflix will...

This is such an important point! We played Dragon Heist and had a great time. I wondered why everyone tends to be negative on it. And then I picked up a copy on sale (after we were done!) and found that my DM had done some very heavy lifting on it. And this was his first time running a campaign...

I think the most important thing about using Exhaustion in 5E is making sure there's a way to get rid of it. From what I remember, you can get rid of one level of Exhaustion with a Greater Restoration spell and ... I think that's about it. For me, that's difficult because it's making the...

That's a really interesting question. The only one I have run that I thought was worthy of that title was Curse of Strahd. I didn't care for the remaster of it, so I'm talking about the original 5E version. I think that's a little questionable because it's largely just Ravenloft for 5E but it...

Agree 100%. As someone who read all the way to the end of the series, I recommend just going with the first three. They are excellent. I enjoyed parts of the rest but it never hit the same levels as the first three books. That said, I understand a new book is coming out this fall and I'll read...

It seems that this topic comes up every time we talk about fantasy not of the current era. The best professor I had when I was in college always started a particular book or play off by discussing the context of the world at the time of the play. If you read Shakespeare and notice that the...

For Demiplane, we used them recently when we ran a Daggerheart game. They hosted character sheets and also served as our rules reference for the game. I understand that they do this for a bunch of systems.

This is very exciting! Lots of very talented people there. Looks to be fun! And PF2? Ah, that makes me happy.