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The weirdest thing is that you don't reincarnate, a new, completed body is created. That's clearly magic, but is that really reincarnation? I think reincarnation means you're literally reborn. You're not going on adventures unless your comrades are ready to change your diapers (assuming you even...

Well, if people can't afford it anyway, then you're not going to see many games rely on this feature. They need people buying their games, after all. Heck, it might be cheaper to simply disable the feature for the developers so they don't need to deal with people complaining about bugs and...

On the other hand, the GenAI face seems to look a bit more like it's a real person, it just isn't the one it's supposed to be. I would expect that an "artist" that has DLSS5 capabilities and can test it around might alter the original so the AI produces something more closely to the real...

Probably no one would have minded if Mass Effect: Andromeda's "artistic vision" had been disintegrated for the sake of the character faces and facial animations.

I found over the years that I am really bad at identifying make-up, and that I am not alone. "You look good even without make-up" is a compliment mistakenly made towards people that are using make-up (and, I learned, also not neccessarily hat big of a compliment as some think: Some people are...

"We don't know how to make our orphan-crushing factories not to crush organs, so we oppose legislation that would require us to operate factories without crushing orphans. But hey, going with the times, how about we offer you Noble-Orphan-Crushing-Peace-Prize?" I'd say: "If we can't figure it...

And the studio that is cut down development cost relying on crutches would have delivered excellent work if it wasn't for that pesky DLSS? I doubt it. I am looking forward to what the studios that have skilled artisans that care and have a nice budget can pull off with it.

8-bit graphics worked for a lot of gamers back in the day, but now the lot of gamers consists of a lot more people. :) I totally would enjoy if faces were even more realistic. I think of a game like Cyberpunk 2077 which really had amazing facial details and animations and yes, it matters to...

I don't see the washed out texture on the NPC in the original as an "artistic" vision. That seems more like "That's all we can do with what we have right now, it's good enough". The DLSS 5 one seems to say: "We can do more now!". And yeah, maybe that's 'yassified', but it also has facial details...

One could almost say... sloppy?

This might be the worst exaggeration that I have read ever, by which I mean in the last few days? Come on, games had day-one patches, micro-transaction, gacha-mechanics, forced always-online features even for single player games, kernel-level anti-cheat systems intruding in your systems, and so...

That is IMO only a problem because that's how people handle poison so far. We can change that. Poisons only have an effect when you're taking an injury from the attack with a poisoned weapon. YOu could be very "generous" (for the poison user) to say it works once the person is injured/bloodied...

I'd say it's simply something you cannot use for anything that requires using an off-hand weapon. But I wouldn't require you to draw the weapon if it's already in your hand, though I'd actually have to check the exact wordings on drawing weapons (is it even "drawing", or is it "readying"?) to...

The trick is that humans also gets a benefits package. So there is no need to worry about imbalance, and power creep across edition is pretty much irrelevant. Each edition has its own baseline, and the only power creep that would actually matter there is if they alter the narrative notably. A +2...

I think the right treating hit points as stamina works best if you want somethnig diegetic that doesn't contradict itself all the time. I would prefer to add some mechanics that allow injuries to still happen. Conceptually, something like the wounds + vitality system like some of the d20 Star...

I don't think that was an issue. The trick to GMing here was - you don't need to know 100 different maneuvers. You only need to know the maneuvers your NPCs can pull off, and the all fit on a single page or less usually. The maneuvers the players could do? That's their thing. You know the basic...

That leads probably to an entire different discussion. I want to point the thing isn't whether Gold Dragons or Superman should exist in a setting, but whether they really need stats, and if they do, if you really need to consider what these stats mean particular for players fighting them...

But does that always happen with meta-currency? Some examples here are simply. "Let's you reroll a check" or "let's you succeed on check". You don't need to twist the narrative to anything, because if there was a check, a positive outcome was already possible. There are other meta-currency...

Why would a DnD party fight against Superman in the first place. He's a good guy, they are good guys. You just need to fight long enough until you realize you're on the same side! (Maybe mention Martha, I heard that works. Might be meta-gaming, though.) But if you want to force a fight with...

I like meta-currencies. I also like the idea of having an interplay between the GM meta-currency and the player meta-currency, though it isn't required. I don't mind if the meta-currencies actually is not entirely meta, like Torg possibilities are, but I wouldn't require it for a system. In...