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neonchameleon posted:They've said that they switched because the combat rules were more streamlined with fewer floating modifiers to bog things down. Also something about how Pathfinder didn't have gun-slinging they liked but Matt could homebrew it in 5E easier?
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Plutonis posted:On another chapter of "People try to use 5E as a Square Peg on a Round Hole" I present: HISTORICAL AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN 5E Turns out they’re focused on education (they’ll send any educator a free copy) and it is substantially easier to just use 5e for familiarity reasons. I have no idea if they’re any good at their mission but the reasoning makes sense to me. Northern Crown was always a bit clunky, though.
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Arivia posted:A little bit. It was mostly framing to have a biased narrator (or two) for sourcebooks that were normally written from an omniscient perspective, so it wasn't nearly as necessary. It got phased out in most publications in 3e, and was gone in 4e nearly completely. The only exceptions were columns Ed writes by himself. I have updated my ridiculous notions accordingly, thanks
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Plutonis posted:On another chapter of "People try to use 5E as a Square Peg on a Round Hole" I present: HISTORICAL AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN 5E Its biggest mechanical flaw is using D&D OSR rules for a setting where armor really isn't a thing. Which is also a problem for a 5e adaptation.
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Plutonis posted:On another chapter of "People try to use 5E as a Square Peg on a Round Hole" I present: HISTORICAL AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN 5E While once again looking for a super hero game, I found out there's like 3 different 5e super hero adaptations and I don't like that at all!! DND barely does its genre conventions well! the ludonarrative is gonna be dissonant as hell edit: oh word 
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I had this idea that D20 Testament would stand as a...well...testament to how you shouldn't do every genre in D20 just because you can. Welp,
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3 Action Economist posted:The battle occurred on Breed's Hill, although poor map skills led to its being called the battle of Bunker Hill. I mean, Flames of Freedom is like almost 700 pages long, so I guess someone figured out something to do in an AWI game.
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3 Action Economist posted:Honestly I'm not sure what you would even do in an AWI RPG. The tv series Turn: Washington's Spies was pretty decent, maybe something based on that?
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Cessna posted:The tv series Turn: Washington's Spies was pretty decent, maybe something based on that? A spy saga could work (but that show is historically awful). Something akin to a small group on the frontier would also work, like Last of the Mohicans except AWI instead of F&I/SYW.
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3 Action Economist posted:A spy saga could work (but that show is historically awful). I can't really disagree. I was just happy to see the AWI get any coverage.
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Halloween Jack posted:Just play Times That Fry Men's Souls instead, it's like $5 Armor class in the times of massed firearms and lack of body armor is just how much plot armor you have. Your highest stat should probably determine your ac in that case. Halloween Jack posted:I had this idea that D20 Testament would stand as a...well...testament to how you shouldn't do every genre in D20 just because you can. Welp, Testament is rad and I still want to run it some day because deriving Daniel’s attack bonus from his bard levels is hilarious. Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Apr 13, 2023 |
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Cessna posted:The tv series Turn: Washington's Spies was pretty decent, maybe something based on that? Revolutionaries goes that way; you’re playing Culper Ring agents.
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Pvt.Scott posted:Armor class in the times of massed firearms and lack of body armor is just how much plot armor you have. Your highest stat should probably determine your ac in that case.
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Halloween Jack posted:The whole thing just begs to be converted to Black Hack, where everything is roll-under-ability-score, and PCs roll to defend instead of monsters rolling to attack. In that system armor is a special rule that works differently depending on the edition/version you're using. Armor in The Black Hack 2E is my favorite implementation of the concept, and I work it into every OSR hack I make.
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It does feel a little funny to call them "armor dice" when the die-rolling aspect only comes in when you try to repair them. I feel like I should be rolling them to reduce the damage or something.
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Ominous Jazz posted:While once again looking for a super hero game, I found out there's like 3 different 5e super hero adaptations and I don't like that at all!! DND barely does its genre conventions well! the ludonarrative is gonna be dissonant as hell S5E is actually a very good superhero game which surprised me. I still like Spectaculars better ,though. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/416942/S5E-Superheroic-Roleplaying-for-5th-Edition https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/11203/Scratchpad-Publishing/subcategory/31310/Spectaculars
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Halloween Jack posted:It does feel a little funny to call them "armor dice" when the die-rolling aspect only comes in when you try to repair them. I feel like I should be rolling them to reduce the damage or something. I misread 'reduce' as 'seduce"
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*sexily removes armor die to convince the gargoyle to do no damage this round*
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Pvt.Scott posted:Armor class in the times of massed firearms and lack of body armor is just how much plot armor you have. Your highest stat should probably determine your ac in that case. https://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/defenseBonus.htm
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Halloween Jack posted:*sexily removes armor die to convince the gargoyle to do no damage this round*
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your... other honor
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Chaosium may have found the best use for AI, Elder. It sounds like an FAQ+ trained on the game's rules, which is a pretty great alternative to seeing what Reddit thinks about a rules question.
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On the other hand, you probably don't want a rules question-answering machine to immediately reverse itself if told it's wrong, which most semantic AIs will happily do.
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Oh boy, AI. It answers so many questions that I never loving asked
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Mors Rattus posted:On the other hand, you probably don't want a rules question-answering machine to immediately reverse itself if told it's wrong, which most semantic AIs will happily do. We all know they’re just saying it’s an AI; it’s actually the Mi-Go.
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I can't wait for it to summon an Elder God.
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Narsham posted:We all know they’re just saying it’s an AI; it’s actually the Mi-Go. The Answerer in Darkness
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BattleMaster posted:The Answerer in Darkness Pickman’s Language Model
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Mors Rattus posted:On the other hand, you probably don't want a rules question-answering machine to immediately reverse itself if told it's wrong, which most semantic AIs will happily do. Or to just make poo poo up that sounds convincing, as most large language models will do.
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I mean, we've all been using poo poo like Siri and Alexa for years now, and those, when they came out, were promoted as a kind of AI. The term "AI" is already polluted to the point of uselessness. Using some of the same big data/data mining/natural language interfaces/LLM software techniques to make a more responsive, easier to use search for technical documentation is a thing my own employer is pursuing and I assume it's common in the industry now. It makes a lot of sense for the TG space too. Basically, a model that can parse prompts in a sophisticated way and then produce appropriate responses doesn't have to intentionally ignore accuracy. And it if you're writing it to expose your own content, you have no issues with reproducing that content verbatim because you own the copyright to your material, so you don't have to build in obfuscation and rehashing and poo poo, you can just treat it a lot more like a search engine, per Siri/Alexa etc.
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Been said before, possibly ITT, but I think I agree that 'AI' stuff getting co-opted by the crypto NFT crowd was a sign of the beginning of the end.
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Comrade Koba posted:Pickman’s Language Model 
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Lamuella posted:Or to just make poo poo up that sounds convincing, as most large language models will do. And to be fair, that is very human behaviour.
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Artificial intelligence can be as stupid as a binary "if this, do that, else do the other thing". It doesn't need to be a 128 layer, 28 million parameter deep convolutional neural network. So, yeah, Siri and Alexa are AI, but their apparent abilities (turn off the kitchen light, play music, etc.) are pretty boring. Anyway, the term "AI" was bloated to the point of uselessness a long, long time ago, even before the internet.
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I only want natural grain-feed intelligence
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It helps that it's Call of Cthulu and inconsistencies in how the universe behaves are a feature not a bug. Bring it up to the keeper? Roll for sanity loss.
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Signed up for the 7 day free trial and it seems potentially useful. It seems able to throw out answers to rules queries fairly well (I asked it what sort of magic a cultist of Yig might have and it provided an answer drawing on material from multiple sources and which was accurate) as well as being useful for tossing together original material on the fly (I asked it to make up a new spell for a Yig cultist and it gave me a viable "turn into a snake" spell). It might not be useful for a game where getting the "right" rules answer is very important - ie, something with very competitive, highly balanced tactical combat, where a sloppy monster design will ruin it. But for a game where an answer which is "close enough" will do (particularly for system stuff the players will never need/want to eyeball anyway), it's perfectly fine.
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Can you tell it that it's wrong and does it immediately reverse its position if you do so like all the other LLMs?
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Zak S has claimed another victim in a country with lovely, unbalanced defamation laws. https://twitter.com/boymonster/status/1647678950590779392
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Wow. Banks is a class act and am industry luminary. That's like punching Santa Claus.
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