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1e - Initiative Rules - declaration of intent before actions are resolved... which means Weapon Speed and Casting times for spells affect your initiative roll (EDIT: and yes, "roll low is good" but it does kind of conflict with my 3e choice of the d20 mechanic where higher is always better) -...

Going back to the OP, I'll say that Pathfinder does have one of the most interesting systems for magic item customization in the "Relics" rules but it does require some work on the part of the DM, and I've found is most effective when combined with the PF2E rune system to allow the Relic to...

I think a lot of the fights around THAC0 can be summed up thus: 1. THAC0 is harder than ascending AC vs “no it isn’t.” Problem: “Harder” is a subjective judgement, and those that disagree with the sentiment above hear it and argue it is not true (because in their opinion, it is not). Those...

Happy belated birthday!

I’ll bite. “Believe” is only possible when there is effectively no way to discover whether or not an objective fact is involved. Opinions are a subset of belief. If I claim apples taste better than oranges and you believe oranges taste better, that is a difference of belief or opinion, as...

So this seems to speak to the assumption that everyone "back in the day" knew what "number" they were aiming for on the d20 roll after applying math. That wasn't the way it worked in most groups I played with at all - the conversation generally went something like the below: 1. Player rolls a...

One of the things I really liked about GP as XP as a mechanic (especially with monster XP generally being paltry in comparison) was it makes it crystal-clear to the players that "violence is not the only option" - in fact, it's probably in your INTEREST to consider "bilking the ogre out of his...

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. I am using US terms here as that is where I am based; other legal systems likely have analogous but not identical terms (in the UK, I believe they use the term "Fair Dealing" where the U.S. uses "Fair Use"). The issue is that while you cannot...

(Emphasis Mine) This. You did the match ahead of time to generate your "to-hit" chart; of course, once you started swapping among magical weapons with different +X values, you were probably "adding the plus to the roll" dynamically rather than "shifting X columns over on the to-hit table" in...

There are four cases into which I find boxed text falls when I'm running adventures: 1. "The Hook" - Especially for one-shots, this serves to ground the players in the world. It's also something I usually give the players to read in a handout in advance and I'll read a couple very short...

True. It won't surprise many that know me that BG3 wasn't really my cup of tea (I don't usually care to run adult content in my games - probably because I'm still running games that often have teenagers whom I am not the parent of and I don't want to have conversations about that kind of stuff...

I am not going to apologize for the fact that my tastes in D&D art run about the same as my taste in music... as in, "I prefer the stuff that was in vogue when I was in my teenage years" - because most of us psychologically are in the same boat... for most of our lives, our preferred "stuff"...

There are kind of two different intertwined threads going on in this video: 1. Trying out RPGs that are not D&D. 2. Playgroups where the players expect the DM to do the prep work but they do not want to do any work other than show up. (This is the "Forever DM" or "my players would never run")...

If my players are curious, when I run pre-published adventure, I am willing to tell them what it was I ran them through AFTER they are done with it.

Again, an LLM itself does not contain copyrighted material. It is basically a collection of facts ABOUT the copyrighted material (mostly 'what word probably follows this other word' but still is not the copyrighted material itself). Placing the LLM into the public domain would not give access to...

I am reminded of Weird Al's (rather tongue-in-cheek) reputed take on Napster - source: Items in your collection - World of Weird Al Yankovic when it was popular. He got "both sides" immediately. The problem, as with all things, is that when bad things happen to us, it's a tragedy, but when the...

In my defense, I did read the OP. I didn't initially read the article the OP linked to. ;) Hopefully my more recent posts show I have since read the actual article.

After reading the article linked in the OP, the below seems especially relevant" So yes, Meta's downloads definitely seem illegal to me (again IANAL, TINLA) and I would think that any LLM derived from it is not a "neutral" proposition but is also infringing ("fruit of the poisonous tree") but...

Ah, I didn't see that's where you were going with this. That makes it a fairer question. I did find an interesting article on the subject here: On Copyright, “Facts,” & Generative AI. I'll highlight a couple of excerpts here: I'm not familiar with the specifics of the Google Books case above...

C'mon Morrus, you know that's a "do you still beat your wife?" sort of question. Perhaps I should clarify when I made the statement above, every one of them was referencing physical books (I grew up before e-books existed - I know, I'm old!). I had a deep and abiding love affair with my local...