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Exactly. Lanefan, you seem to have lost the narrative - we are talking about a generative AI offering up an answer for a question for which we know, and you even admit that half-decent records are not being kept in any broadly accessible way. The data has not been collected, and so does not...

Do you recognize that the modern tech space has a lot of snake oil salesmen in it? That they will lie to you, either blatantly or subtly, to sell a product? What it is actually good at, and what they will tell you it can do for you, are two different things. What the product is "made for" is...

With respect - you have missed something important. The programmatic action of ChatGPT isn't inherently dangerous. The User Experience Design however, is - on about the same level as tobacco ads aimed at children. It is specifically and intentionally designed to present itself in a...

The issue isn't the agency and intent of the computer program. The issue is the agency and intent of the company that creates the program, who is therefore ethically, and possibly legally, liable for the results.

No, because the information is not available. Nobody tracks all the deaths in D&D games. You cannot squeeze facts out of a generative AI if nobody on the planet has those facts.

You are correct. However, so long as the company who makes it presents it as "speaking" and "apologizing", then "lying" is the word with the closest emotional truth, and is probably the best word choice for impressing the risk on the audience.

I think, once you've stipulated these plot-armor-points, you need to totally rethink how monsters do damage anyway, seeing as this scheme has very little coherence with a gamist pseudo-sim approach to threats. It is outright gonzo for our normal D&D combat structure.

Well, no, it isn't. As was already noted by Gradine above, at one point Morrus cuts the population by a factor of 20, instead of a factor of 2, by dropping a zero. I don't think the entire planet playing the most dangerous game once a month and lugging their kills around in a cart for the...

You may be missing the forest for the trees, by way of being a bit dismissive. We don't render our worlds in 4k super-duper fidelity. There are valid things to interact with that GMs haven't specified before play. The approaches suggested in the thread are fine for elements that the GM has...

West Marches play doesn't kick the player out if the character dies. Indeed, West Marches particularly supports you having several characters, and you pick from your stable the one that makes sense for a given mission.

Yeah. EN World probably skews older than the gaming population as a whole. I think I've been playing for 43 years, or something like that. When the actual effective range is over twice as broad as your available selection, you're apt to get a big stack in that last bucket, unable to...

Folks, this thread needs to stay out of discussion of regulation because that's basically politics. Thanks.

Interesting, but I expect this approach will also change how the party approaches combat, which will change how many hit points they lose in a given fight. I don't know that it changes how fights go in a predictable way, though. With a fixed, never regenerating resource, some individuals or...

The usual cooking maxim is that if it grows together, it goes together. And the classic...

I would not make such an assumption. I have seen too many GMs (including myself) have to pause an think about the answer to a player's question of, "Is there X in the room?" It says to me that, broadly, we leave a great many details unconsidered. It's a tavern, there are tables and chairs...

Could you please NOT directly quote inappropriate language? Because now I have to edit it out twice, which is annoying.

Well, iirc, Carl is wearing the archetype boxer shorts with hearts on them, which might be hard to find in swimwear. Tights under the boxers will handle anatomy and temperature issues. Speedos or some snug gym shorts underneath would protect modesty as well.

There are these other people at the table, called.players, and they frequently feel no need to be restricted to what the GM plans. One of the foremost reasons some GMs give so much detail is that they abhor players adding material, so they must include everything the players might interact...

To nitpick a bit, what gets released on a self-publishing platform, what gets bought in the broader market, and what gets played are three very different things that are not proxies for each other. Which means we need to be careful - seeing a ton of rules-light games for sale doesn't tell us...

This is excellent advice. Also hals with the fact that boxers can sometimes... hang in an awkwardly revealing way, shall we say? Not for the OP's costumes, and not cheap, but for Victorian and Wild West costuming, it is hard to beat Historical Emporium. This is not "costume grade" stuff, but...