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<choosing to go the ignore route rather than the noise route, apologies for my momentary lapse of judgement>

Well I'll certainly concede that 7E is a game overburdened by unnecessary details, in reality it doesn't play the way it presents. I've played CoC since the mountains were young, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone use the <checks rulebook> brace rules, say, for firearms. If that's what you...

The kickstarter was for the second edition.

And the price for most pedantic post goes to... I don't think the poster meant to suggest that any game that isn't crunchy is automatically horror, roll for SAN for the reductio ad absurdum. Moreover CoC is hardly medium crunch, it's basically a simple roll under through and through (whereas 5E...

Ugh, missed the free copy. Not sure when the kickstarter ran, but there’s no print edition out? Also, how compatible is it with eg. WFRP 4e material?

I’ve always found that it’s not the genre, it’s the group. Paranoia with the wrong group? Excruciating. With the right group, you’ll laugh until you cramp up. Some of my all time favorite games back in the day were in Paranoia, and it all came down to a group of friends who just had one...

Drums. Drums in the deep.

“Best game we ever played.”

I specifically never, ever use the metaphor of a camera and it irks me something fierce when I see it on actual plays: "The camera moves down, it slides across the wet street, it enters a doorway where we see a man..." You're not a freakin' director selling your spec script, don't refer to a...

Maps, drawing, tokens, dice, sharable images and notes. Must be browser-based. User should never worry about versions. Must be simple to use, simple to join. Simple, simple, simple. Most of us just want to get the game moving, not fudge around with "top ten extensions you MUST install!" or "are...

One way to at least get a sense of this would be to track the markers he laid out, like million dollar kickstarters and see where the trend leads.

"It's not complex but..." is the tagline for Rolemaster 😄 I love Rolemaster—in fact I had everything ICE ever made until selling it in anticipation of having to make house changes just a couple of weeks ago; although I haven't played it for years—but to say it's not complicated is not really...

I will buy anything Pelgrane, Gumshoe, GRH, or Middle-earth related, so quadruple bought I guess!

That's how I feel; it's really all about setting the right expectations for yourself. A year or two ago I think the capabilities weren't quite there for it to not lose the plot in a matter of twenty minutes or so, but now it can go well longer. And I think in between longer contexts, RAG, and...

That's a great encapsulation. An additionally there's an expectation that computers act the way we've always expected them to; so they don't 'get the math wrong', but with LLMs that expectation should really be more aligned with how we might think of a person, they in fact do mis-remember...

SMLs are just LLMs but smaller, no? And (generally speaking) their size mirrors in their performance, no? I actually agree that LLMs are going to turn out to be just one aspect of intelligence, and will only get us so far (clearly our skull does not contain a massive datacenter, and yet we can...

Awesome. Where can I try them?

Why play a computer game when you can watch a film? Why watch a film when you can read a book? Why read a book when you can play a TTRPG? Why play a TTRPG when… Because they’re fundamentally different experiences?

It fulfills the need the same way driving a car fulfills the need to take a walk...

Yeah, but... that's not... a ttrpg. Why make an AI participant, DM or player? A lot of people don't have the people to play with, the time to play, maybe they suffer from social anxiety, maybe they just want to play around, maybe they want to explore a mechanic, maybe like solo roleplayers they...