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    Crows, James Introcasos MCDM Dungeon Crawler RPG

    I definitely don't agree with that at all lol but YMMV. I don't think Colville would agree at all either, in fact, he stressed that it wasn't. Yet they all work just fine with a D&D and many other RPGs. Hmmm. I guess my issue here is DS! seemed to be intentionally designed not to be compatible...
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    Crows, James Introcasos MCDM Dungeon Crawler RPG

    Yeah I did too. If you're going to make a setting like that, you need to go for it adventure-wise, and they did.
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    Crows, James Introcasos MCDM Dungeon Crawler RPG

    I politely but strongly disagree, and I think your comparison illustrates it well, actually. Daggerheart is very easy, because races are essentially pick two abilities (one top line, one bottom line), combine at will, and the classes map directly to D&D classes, and the monsters are all fairly...
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    Crows, James Introcasos MCDM Dungeon Crawler RPG

    I've only ever seen Kickstarter-type communication as poor and limited as we got with Draw Steel! with two kinds of product: 1) Products having serious production issues, which Draw Steel! was not. 2) Products with a single creator or extremely small team, which are small-money, and are not...
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    Crows, James Introcasos MCDM Dungeon Crawler RPG

    Yeah this is what intrigues me, because I'm not sure there's really much unoccupied design space for this, given it's starting from the basis that Draw Steel! isn't a dungeon crawler, which implies a very narrow and specific definition of dungeon crawler, one which is extremely well-served...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    That's not compatible with: Which is one of the starting points of the thread. If you just didn't use your powers, sure, and didn't actually deal with major issues, sure, it'd be very easy to keep your secret identity.
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    Divinity video game from Larian - may use AI trained on own assets and to help development

    I don't think so mate. Unless there's some kind of huge and obviously AI-looking issue with Divinity (like, the art is really bland and overdetailed, and the dialogue is really space-y and odd), I don't think people will blame AI. Using AI openly like they are does lead to the risk that people...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    To quote the great drag queen Mistress - "Have a blessed night, as will I!"
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    No, you didn't. You said: Which is not supported by your quotes from me at all. You're skipping the entire functional part. Also, you're ignoring any kind of nuance in a topic that's all about nuance. There's a difference between them knowing you could do something, and fearing you would...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    No, and I don't think that's a reasonable read of what I said. What I said was: So explain to me how that's "murdering millions" lol? My point is, all their avenues of blackmail and arm-twisting terminate in harming your friends and family. They can't imprison you. They can't kill you. So...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    Okay, that was a bad assumption on your part, and I don't see where you got that from, but consider that cleared up. My position is that power corrupts and the corrupt particularly seek power. I do. Not all, but most, to at least some degree. A lot of MPs are very lightly corrupt though. But...
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    Divinity video game from Larian - may use AI trained on own assets and to help development

    ROFL. You've got this one nothing argument that you keep repeating. Nope. One tiny counter-argument proves nothing. It's worthless. You're pissing in the wind. Get a real argument. You haven't even produced evidence to support this claim. And no, "it has a tiny benefit so it's not bad" is a...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    That's an interesting question - does power attract the corrupt or does power inherently corrupt? I tend to think both are true myself. But I could see your argument that it's just the former.
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    You mean the mainstream DC/Marvel heroes, right? Because outside of the mainstream, stuff like The Authority is about exactly this. This is something comics authors have been putting in since the 1990s or earlier.
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    It seems like your position is "The intelligence services as a whole, are morons who would do the dumbest thing possible as fast as possible". Now if we're talking about the 20th-century CIA, well, I can't argue with that, but I don't really think MI6 and MI5 are quite as keen on rushing towards...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    If the state killed or tried to kill my friends/family in order to punish me for not doing what they wanted? Sure. At that point they've proven they're completely amoral and monstrous. This is something covered extensively by Invincible and other comics. It's not like this is some shocking...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    I was assuming we all took that for granted. It's not disingenuous, I just had more respect for people's intelligence than you apparently do. Them stopping concealing it means they have no more leverage or control at all, because they have nothing else. Then you are free to act as you will. So...
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    Divinity video game from Larian - may use AI trained on own assets and to help development

    What I'm asking is, is that your argument? Is your argument just defeatism, that because we failed to stop the car, we will fail to stop GenAI being needlessly shoved into every crevice of society? Because if so, we can be certain of environmental collapse, and sooner rather than later, because...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    I've met humans. When they get upset enough, bad things happen, and for most people, the only things ultimately stopping them from doing worse are: A) They care deeply about people around them. and B) They're afraid of the consequences of doing something bad (for themselves and others). For...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    I don't think the intelligence services are quite as outright stupid as you suggest. If they didn't "react well", can you explain, in detail, and with specifics not generalities, what you think they could possibly do? They certainly don't know anything about Kryptonite or Earth's Yellow Sun...
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