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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

I always liked using the term "intersubjective."

I don't know that that's true. There's a LOT of indie stuff which has nothing to do with D&D, and doesn't use the OGL. Just take a look...

This seems to be a decent article. Basically it was a move away from basic prediction to chain of thought models. The “Strawberry R...

The monsters, as we have primarily been playing Infinate Staircase and Rime of the Frostmaiden, and are using the encounters straight...

I look at it like phones. Having telephones revolutionized communication. When we went from rotary phones (yes, I'm old) to phones...

Yes, they use the CC instead. The status quo is largely maintained. The industry wasn't transformed. Putting the SRD into the CC is a...

One thing that bugs me about AI is that I feel the C-Suite are using it in the wrong areas. The author Joanna Maciejewska once said, "I...

I don't think that transformed the entire industry the way the OGL did. The OGL brought a new concept to the industry which completely...

I think the 2024 Monster Manual is a bit of a mixed bag, leaning toward overall improvement. Some monsters are definitely better, some...

Classes and levels are both player-facing constructs for creating player characters that are "balanced" against each other. We know...

Yeah. We could all make more money by breaking the law. But we choose not to.

"We'd go out of business if we had to obey the law" is a great line. Tells you everything you need to know about “AI” in one go. A whole...

It is, however, no better at determining the truth value of statements it presents, because it doesn't actually test for "truth". It...