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Od&D monsters are generally less powerful than modern D&D monsters. an adult white dragon is about a 9th level encounter. A 9th level fighter should be able to kill a stone giant singlehandedly. This power level of a 9th level character has been baked in since the beginning. Now in early...

no most modern writers tend to use relative morality which means your morals are determined by the situation rather than actually having morals. My point wash didn't do that. Sure you can find lots of things to gripe about conan but trying to pin moral relativity on him doesn't really work.

No Howard never tried to sugar coat what Conan did and make it out to be some grand good deed. It was just savagery and he embraced it.

have fun with it. Maybe the Devil is actually working against a Demon Lord. Imagine the fun when the devil starts telling his or her patron to help paladins or the like.....Keep em guessing what the hell (lol) is going on.

pretty much every change starting with the godswar in 2e was senseless.

I'll give you the argument that writers these days live in a moral swamp and have no idea what morals even are. You want to argue that sneaking in and murdering everyone isn't heroic I'm right there with you. Sneaking in and destroying enemy supplies and stocks and getting out again that's...

correct. but the deadly max range is usally assumed to be 300 meters. though there are recorded instances of Longbow shots up to 450 yds. As skill wind velocity, direction and strength of bowman all come into play. But still as I said earlier. The longer the range that becomes normal the...

I feel like when they stop showing up at the game they have abandoned the game and by default the character. It's hard to own something in a world you don't play in. Nothing keeping you from hanging on to your copy of the player and doing other things with it though.

if you abandon property it can be claimed by others and then it becomes theirs. At least in most countries in the world. I'd argue same thing applies with characters. If you abandon the game then the property (character) can be destroyed or claimed. Doubt we'll ever agree here but int he...

I don't know. If someone with more resources is the bad guy sneaking onto their ship and exploding their powder would be heroic. Unless heroic is being defined as only face to face combat. In which case you've just defined Wizards, priests and all spell casters as unheroic.

Thing is if you are staying with muskets and early cannons then they aren't much better than siege weapons and crossbows. In fact they load slower. If we are worried about not doing guns right then longbows have been screwed since 1st edition and a longbow should do the damage a sword does...

From Science Daily. "The people who made LLMs call it "hallucinating" when they make things up; although Chemero says, "it would be better to call it 'bullsh*tting,'" because LLMs just make sentences by repeatedly adding the most statistically likely next word -- and they don't know or care...

Well the chance of changing their opinion if you don't is exactly zero. Also I don't really understand how you educate people on how to identify the bad stuff if you don't spend the time contradicting it, engaging with people and trying to change it.

so the big issue now is the AI bots (though smart scripting bot's is a better term. they aren't really AI) were all trained using data scraped from the internet using Fair Use Doctrine. Now the issue is the Bots aren't smart enough to not violate copyright law or other intellectual property...

every kind of intellectual property has these kinds of people leeching off the system.

I thought the first 4 worked very well even though the were cramming multiple episodes per episode it seemed to flow well. loved it up to the island. After the island the pacing gets wonky and and feels way off. I feel like they needed about 3 or 4 more episodes to make the pacing work...

or monks could have access to ki or magical powers that give them stoneskin, ironskin etc as they level. But it needs to be something like rage powers that can be used a lot not just a few times a day like spells.

Magic needs to be wiped and completely redone. We can keep the vancian leveling if the sacred cow is too big but we need to go back to each type of caster has thier own spell list that the Devs can keep appropriately powered per level and quit giving everyone access to everyone elses spells...

well only rewarding what you the DM feels is important is everything we've talked about that tends to go wrong with Milestone Leveling. Experience comes from everything you do or it's just a railroad.

Of course when magic items weren't passe and bad they were a good way to reward players. Awarding XP happens for unimportant things too when the party decides to go the wrong way, refuses to do the main quest and does a side quest or just jacks around in town and gets crossways with the...