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There's not really a "has to be" here. One might prefer something but ultimately this is about emotional attachment to fiction, just as the response to Gandalf with a disco outfit would be.

That reminds me - one of the big reasons folks get attached to the lore is many don't get to actually play, but they can still read and imagine.

The Drizz't novels alone brought a lot of people to D&D. Plenty of folks have shelves full of D&D novels and comics, and just like gestures at Dragonlance.

While I would believe it about WotC products, and especially 5E, I don't think most RPGs are designed with the intent of the game world being incohesive and disposable. Dragonlance basically drags you through a novel series. Regardless of intent, people will feel the way they feel.

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Varies, but some folks read RPG books as fiction in itself. Having a story you've been reading - possibly for decades - get retconned can be quite obnoxious as it breaks the flow of the story and worls you've spent a long time learning. Enough changes and a story you've been invested in is now...

I played and ran 2E, 3.XE, and especially 4E, read but didn't play PF1, had a ~6 year long gap between playing RPGs, studied up on 5E24 during the playtests, and found PF2R effortless to pick up once the fiasco hit. It's a standard d20 system with balance so while it's more complex than 4E you...

Notably Pathfinder has a lot of narrative in their supplements (in contrast with Lost Omens, which are Lore). There is often a story being told through the chapters, and sometimes they even sneak in a mini adventure path.

They frequently have very small amounts of mechanics. The Tian Xia stuff even came in two books so they could cram all the player stuff in the second book and leave the main book pristine. Edit: You can actually check the Sources section of the Nethys wiki and see what mechanics show up in a...

As has been stated several times, in this specific context cozy has nothing to do with a vibe and everything to do with how far it gets into sex scenes.

You have to add spells to achieve this. There is certainly a conversation to be had about ensuring spells are all roughly as attractive or at least as likely to be useful, but they're not going to just errata everything from scratch.

The Cozy keyword in Romantasy 26E should not be confused with the Cozy energy type. While a Cozy Romance may use cozy energy its only mechanical implication is censorship resistance.

It's good to see growth in the fantasy genre that's not Harry Potter and Twilight. I'd love to see this sub-genre tackle all of the D&D settings - romance in Sigil or Athas or on a Spelljammer! I would also be amused if Paul Kidd's Justicar etc team found there way into one given other trends...

While magic is fairly common the world is not fully saturated with it and high level casters are still rare and precious and not super likely to want to play with boats or blowing up walls when they could be delving into the secrets of the universe or connecting with creatures from beyond. Plus...

I went ahead and picked up a copy at my FLGS just so I can see what the hype is about. Doubt I'll actually play it, but I may just learn something from it.

I fully agree, but at least the artist consented to the dubious deal - and surely Asmodeus' would approve.

While you should not expect it, it's not impossible to get an artist to provide art under a deal other than an immediate payment. A percentage of profit etc. can work as long as you're not asking for masterpieces. Don't abuse that possibility, but it's there.

LLMs do have some strong use cases when used to detect anomalies at scale, especially for things too complicated or abstract for humans to read, like obfuscated code. An LLM could be used to detect a weird anachronistic writing style being used in an otherwise consistent work.

There is of course the hypothetical scenario of better-designed AI that actually processes the information itself rather than just tokens, meaning it has to be to associate concepts with more than just the requency of assocation with tokens and build complex relationships between them, but aside...

It will remain in a quantum state. I am not willing to state a firm position on your skill without information, nor am I willing to spend the resources of time, privacy, and pedantic debating of the quality of your work to obtain that information. The point to be made is that your past...