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This holiday season I saw several companies with AI ads. I assume they have big marketing budgets and were able to check if those would alienate many consumers. But then, I might imagine they did the research, and some higher-ups suggested they move forward anyway, anticipating consumers would...

I enjoyed a sketch I saw a few days ago, spoofing the questions people ask writing forums. It presents an author with little experience, who hasn't actually written anything, asking -how long should my chapters be? -should I use first or third or even second person? what about tense? -what...

Yeah, the only clear cases are the simplest "AI produced" example, like "I copied and pasted the output of a prompt anyone could write". Or the simplest non AI example (similar to creative work produced before 2022, but as you note some older tools could be targeted now). What about AI...

The Terraforming Mars Kickstarter, which made over $2 million amongst criticism of AI use, also comes to mind.

Gonna be honest--I don't really know the Internet works now. And I think that's true for most technologies, because the world is so complicated now. There's just not that many hours in a day, and I don't need that much detail. I guess text prediction is a low bar to clear though. I think I...

Yeah, totally agree with you there! The way some of the characters, is another instance. And it doesn't seem like anyone has learned anything by the end. It's incompetence vs cruelty, forever. Anyway, in general I think satire just doesn't do it for me.

It's been very popular and well regarded and worth the watch just for that reason. I didn't have a great response to it, but I also have idiosyncratic taste. If you like Dr. Strangelove or Verhoeven movies in general, I think you'll enjoy it. (For me the problem was that it wasn't ambitious...

Yeah, would be counted as GDP

I think this interpretation, and the others I've seen, are reasonable. But the text doesn't say anything about them. The GM has to provide their own interpretation.

To be charitable to Keith, he has a successful brand and series of books for 5e14. Moving on isn't just a matter of running a new system--it means finding a new, undoubtedly smaller audience for his work. Or, he could continue working in a system he doesn't care for. I get some disappointment in...

I love this, from the article, because it hits on the same pain points I have with the new edition. Especially low level, especially clerics and warlocks. The result probably is better from a balance perspective. That's what the redesign optimized for--they asked highly engaged players to fill...

They have gotten noticeably worse on mobile especially. Back in October it was ok for me to use mobile. Now, I use it only rarely.

It seems to me to vary by location. In LA, most everyone realized the roads are poorly designed and that sometimes you need to get 5 lanes over in the next mile, and would let you through. On the East Coast, and in Chicago, if you put on a signal then people will speed up to block you.

That is...not how a histogram works. (This error by a tenured science professor).

I skimmed the video. It doesn't seem to have much to offer in the way of entertainment. It's more of a tech demo that says "this is how well AI can do long form entertainment". The answer is not well, but better than it used to. Not long ago it couldn't do hands; now it can keep characters...

I agree. I was thinking, if we can get an objective standard, then we can play around with mechanics to see the trade off between gameability and accuracy. But I don't think we really have that, at least for weapon and armor tables. What should the crit chance be for a moderately skilled club...

So this raises an interesting question--if we are trying to design a simulationist game, how do we know we've succeeded? In that the simulation is accurate, not necessarily in that the game is fun. When Rolemaster says 'a club does this well against plate armor', how do we know if that's...

I agree there are a number of cases that could complicate things. But, this is just not an accurate characterization of anyone's position. For example: No one is advocating that we stop giving GMs advice.

I remember seeing the same point made about D&D Beyond. The pitch is: "Character creation can take forever. D&D Beyond’s free character builder makes it quick and easy." Folks...you designed character creation!

I think it is worth reupping this from the OP: The claim is not that a new DM shouldn't encounter any challenges. It's that the game will be fun even with those challenges and they shouldn't let those challenges stop them from DMing.