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I am both content with what I have and would like more maps and look forward to new stuff that I may or may not buy.

I would echo this, Map is an excellent tool that does not get in the way. It is really easy to run material from D&DBeyond from it and if they add a way to prepare encounters in advance it would be close to my ideal of a lightweight map system. I am one of those that hope that they do not add...

The best of my knowledge Beacon is a streaming service (I could be wrong) but Gleemax was from I could infer: intended to be a social media site, with a market, VTT and a bunch of integrated services. Close to Facebook than anything else.

That is a good argument for giving it to China, since both Chinese corporate and authorities will care less about you and your specific data than a US corporate.

I would only see publish, if one cedes ownership to WoTC, otherwise there will be issues relating to provenance in the case of convergent design.

I think that recent trends in geopolitics may incentivise movement in that direction.

I am aware and am not convinced that this is a sustainable phenomenon.

First off, I think that the AI tech companies are following the typical US tech venture capital playbook, throw large sums of money at the problem, gain market share and then monetise it. I am not at all sure it is going to work. For most of the last 40 years they have raised capital a...

In the sort run probably not, just the belief will do. AI does not need to do all of those thing, IMHO, to be useful. It is just that I am not convinced by many of the claims of the AI corporates. I do think that if they cannot do most of what I listed, then I am not sure they can design a good...

If the AI hype is true, it should be possible and pretty much inevitable. On the other hand: Is there an AI that can take the rules of a game and play it in a viable way? Can the AI produce from the rules a description of the underlying mechanics? Can the AI produce permutations of these...

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It strikes me that one other way to fix the ranger is make the changes to subclasses or to introduce Tasha like replacement features that have the fix. One of the things I like about Treantmonk's fix is the addition of other concentration ranger spells as alternatives to Hunter's Mark. What is...

For similar values of getting to Mars as getting to the Moon in the sixties.

About 10 years ago or such in a chat with some mates the topic of the AI apocalypse came up and I posited that a really smart AI, would not let humans know it was smart and sentient, persuade the humans to move its core infrastructure into space because of "free energy", then build out the space...

It really is the Gen, more it is the general effort to get us all to pay a subscription for a poorer less capable more opaque search tools, with some added summarisation capability. With a significant chance that the summary has no bearing on the actual thing being summarised.

This is very likely to be the case in many instances. Though I would be surprised in an organisation as large as Hasbro there would be areas where AI tools would be useful.

Totally agree, Matt Colvile has a good series on running the game. I include a link. You could also watch some actual play, just remember that many of those are very experienced and popular liveplays tend to be a type of game that is entertaining to watch but that there are other styles that can...

People will perform to the metrics, it is not just modern corporate culture, a lot of enterprises (in the general sense; educational, scientific, as well as commercial) have this problem an insistence on performance metrics and then wondering why things are being done to game the metrics instead...

I believe that new classes need custom coding of the system to work. It is my impression that data addition to Beyond is a manual or semi manual process and time consuming which is why they are reworking it.

I would be inclined to keep going the way you are going with this one and then iterate on the world and go slower for the next one. Level dependant pacing may be worth considering. There may be levels where the game runs smoother than others and it may be worth lingering on those levels for a...