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Gosh no. Microsoft last year: Our 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report

Whoa, you made your own telecommunications network?

Thanks, I will remember this for the next time I want to know about things that aren't analogies for what I'm talking about.

I do definitely believe that art direction is creative output, and I do not mean to diminish art direction as an important role. If that endeavor was to send requests for art to a black box, and the black box said "here is a bunch of CC-licensed artwork, please follow their authors' terms of use...

Sorry, yeah, I agree, I shouldn't have said "in his head" in the sense that it's a secret. The players would have to know they're at least under some kind of crunch time, and that their lock picking or combat or whatever are taking away slices of that time. I just meant "in his head" that he's...

I wish I could like this post twice, because both parts of it I agree with completely.

I have hovered so many times over the Post Thread button to explain in adoration how much I love background systems as in 13th Age (and apparently Shadowdark, cool), but I just have not had the time.

I am sorry to say this, but you have deluded yourself.

Your labor is writing sentences and throwing them over the wall and getting a different representation of those sentences, yet you want credit, respect, money, whatever for that different representation. Instead, do the work. The actual work. Or deliver what you did instead. I never said such a...

And before you say "I can't draw, so I use gen AI", know that leads right back to "I can't draw, so I ask the computer to do all the work for me (and steal for me) instead".

The amount of hoops you have to jump through is irrelevant. Your creativity, your labor, the thing you did that you are asking others to respect and/or pay for is not what you are delivering. The result of the prompt is not yours. Your "direction" was fed into an elaborate transformation engine...

This is the fatal flaw in your argument. You don't give the AI instructions, you give it an idea and it is let loose on that idea. It is a transformation of an idea, not an implementation of procedures. Even if it's an elaborate idea, you have released yourself of further involvement once you...

I feel like that's how a lot of good skill checks play out, honestly, but I like that twist of language to get the point across. Clever.

I'm not who you asked, but I really like this question. I think time spent can be a consequence, because I think time is a resource that can (and arguably should) be managed in most adventures. Many if not all dungeon adventures. Success = immediate results, to the point of maybe getting a...

While I also strongly disagree with this, I still think you have gotten lost in the weeds here. You may think that putting ideas into implementation is machine-like tedium (I disagree), but gen AI doesn't even support that premise, considering the amount of energy that is wasted just to produce...

SWADE would probably be my #4 (edged out by Cypher System residing in roughly the same space in my usage), but I would probably put GURPS the system at the bottom of my list of what I've played. It's just too much for me. I like their setting/genre books though.

I don't mean this as a cop-out, but I feel like that's the essence of GM adjudication. Even if players aren't used to it and/or modules are written not as desired.

I think the problem is that it could have only been that way if there was just one "d20" option. Once the door was opened to account for "3e is different than 5e" (which it clearly is), it opened the door for the many "how is X different than Y" d20 games. It reminds me of an "evolutionary tree...

Agreed with what you're saying, and to expand it further, my simple answer to the tool line of thinking is that we as a species have, probably since the advent of tools, chosen to value human way of life more than inanimate tools. A gen AI that respects humanity (or even doesn't so vividly and...

I think it's more about synthesis than fortune or kneecapping hard work/interesting challenges. It's not "this is a evaluation of chance" or "this is the players' cheat code", but more "this is how we abstracted sometimes countless variables". The game is merely synthesizing a (modifiable)...