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You obviously haven't been following along. The timesink isn't from determining if an attack hits, that comes in the form of pumping the GM to learn if the damage of sale d attack KILLS juggling weapons and shuffling about the map multiple times because 5.5 explicitly defines all of the...

Barbie might have said it, but it was never true & neither was any of this hand wringing used to justify approaching a multi player team game like a single player experience with your own supporting cast. You and @Horwath have justified ignoring the extreme timesink each player can force on...

Every time I see someone express this sentiment I feel the desire to comment about the fact that few tables are one gm one player and ask "fun for who?" That's a serious question that deserves an answer and not a rhetorical jab. If I have a table with 4-5 players and three or more are making...

Could be true, but it was never polled & the complaints posted took the form of what I described

I think you could be talking about a few different things but.... It never got polled. I remember not even realizing that they standardized subclass feature levels across the bas classes until Crawford noted that they were going to moving away from that because it didn't inspire joy or...

I think it's a reference to the Most writers are human trope but agree with you. Even with a human author it's very possible for a story like the nature of predators to be written about humans and largely maintain an alien PoV by deciding on a believable alternative to star Trek's rubber...

Soooo... What exactly is the flood of all this gatekeeping dressed up as outrage over "complaints" & "anger" if not your specific preferences and wants? .

Back in the day we (humanity as a whole) had no freaking clue what it would take to create an AI & there was some significant support for the idea that if you stuffed enough information into something like the jeopardy ai contestant Watson it would suddenly become something greater than it was...

The three laws are fairly trivial to subvert by narrowly defining harm or human to exclude a lot of activities. It's an old game, but the central premise of Star siege is that an ai defined human in such a way that only it's creator fits the mold. In tunnel rat there are several fully sapient...

I disagree with that sentiment, it has nothing to do with anger. There's a difference between being excited about something and an echo chamber. There are more on the list that I want to be excited about than not, but changing "want to be" into something like a"definitely am" is a thing...

It might be, but the number was not the same back in the 4e days

There are some id like to be more excited about than others, but I'm skeptical about any of them providing the kinds of gm support that comes with long overdue rules frameworks to realign the baseline away from an endless circular loop of "1: give the players what they want 2: see #1" to...

It was a number Hasbro used to divide IP I think. For some reason I want to call it "core brands" but not sure. Whatever the term was it determined if the brand got support or not

True, but skynet is a very primitive and limited form of ai. Its technological advancements are more plausibly attributed to things captured from orforced from humans if not the product of passed timelines that had their methods carried forward into new timelines where humanity was judged...

I think that core programming is too simplistic for a robust and flexible enough breakdown for Skynet's actions across the various timelines. In the case of a ttrpg it's probably going to setup some kind of exploitable logic trap that will feel unfin at the table. Skynet choosing genocide for...

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet. The Terminator Zero anime goes into some of those things in far more depth than it looks like till the last few pieces click into place at the end. He was able to dive deeper into some of the areas attempted in past movies/TV shows that weren't quite...

I don't know hi feel about a 12 level spread because my games tend to spend a good while at lower levels and ultimately go a bit higher (low to mid teens) and players start acting weird when they see themselves nearing the "level cap" imo. With that said, the last table looks very good and I'd...

Not near the pdfs right now I wrote a little about them in 27 And THINK there was some discussion about how they work but not going to reread. There are a lot of interesting things done but one of the most interesting that doesn't require rules discussion is that there is actually a solid...

I think that wotc∆ bought into their own hype rather than gaslighting since it doesn't matter what people who never went through an edition shift thought about that hype at the time surveys were being done. There were a lot of goals that were never even mentioned for people to notice (ie...