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AKA Marty. He/Him. Geek Dad, DM, Child of the 70’s #TTRPG blogger. #DnD #RPG #StarWars #CarWars #AFOL
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Sadly, this is a strong possibility.
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I’ve seen him play with Peter Gabriel and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe.
Such an amazing player and so fun to watch!
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Yes, that is true and I grant that POV. If one’s campaign goals are more “gonzo” in style, then a fun house dungeon has its place.
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Use to?
It’s Ovaltine these days but…
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I think you missed my point.
D&D doesn’t have any of those skills. If you don’t like the abstraction that D&D uses, then play a different game.
You know he’s good at pirate related activities because it says he’s a “pirate”.
Rulings not rules.
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D&D also doesn’t have a “sailing” skill (or any vehicle skill for that matter) so it’s not certain what you are looking for in the stat block to indicate that.
Either one likes the broad skill abstraction that D&D uses, or one house rules the “sailor” background (or uses a different game).
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Athletics check would be a +0. That doesn’t mean “can’t swim”.
Also, historically speaking, press-ganged sailors weren’t exactly Olympians and likely most couldn’t swim well if at all.
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I mean… It’s neat I suppose, but who exactly is the market for this?
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Now I’m under pressure to post useful content rather than my usual tripe. 😄
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If anything, mid-tier Druids need MORE interesting beast choices that aren’t dinosaurs which may not fit the flavor of most campaign settings. Instead, Druids have lost 2 of the better shapes on top of being nerfed.
Hugely disappointing.
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Yeah, that’s somewhat “fixed” by having all the animals in one place, but I still find Giant XXXXX’s in the G section to be super annoying.
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I get that the Wildshape was a little powerful at low levels for the Moon Druid, but by tier 2 the 2014 version levels out in power.
Until now.
Giant Owl and Giant Eagle are now “celestials” removing the 2 half decent flying options from the Druid list. WTF Wizards?
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The Druid Wildshape got completely nerfed in the PHB (ironically one of the *only* classes that LOST power in the new revisions) but the nerfing continues with the Monster Manual.
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This feels like a change for no reason other than to be different. It worked for 50 years. Sometimes change not necessary.
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I don’t think anyone was confused by a Red Dragon being under D instead of R. I’d rather have them grouped to easily page through their similarities and differences.
In a digital version, you can easily link the stat block in more than one place. There no reason to alter the physical version.
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It seems that if the monster matches its own creature type, then it gets it own entry (i.e. a cultist is a humanoid whereas a Blue Dragon is a Dragon) but it’s still freaking annoying.
This is the first Monster Manual to break the Dragon/Giant/Elemental/Lycanthrope groupings in 50 years.
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Organization:
I find the pseudo-alphabetization super annoying.
Some entries have monster groups together (Blights, Cultists, Vampires, etc) while other monster groups are not put together - Dragons, Elementals, Giants, etc. Animals also got their own Appendix, but humanoid NPCs did not.
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Obsidian Portal used to offer at least one free campaign wiki (more at a price). I haven’t looked recently to see if they still have a free offering.
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I don’t actually think this tweet is real even if he likely thinks it.
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A corporation generally won’t lie in an earnings report because it opens one up to investor lawsuits or SEC fines.
Link:
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Definitely more generic maps get way more table time. That said, they don’t have to be 100% featureless… but random altars or other very unique features have GM’s saying to the players “That’s not actually there” a lot.
The old King’s Road and Pathfinder Woodlands saw a LOT of use at my table.
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Honestly, Curry probably would make an amazing Doctor but probably considered too old for the role in his late 70’s… 10’tp 20 years ago though? That would have been something.
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That’s… kinda genius actually.
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Thought this one was hilarious…
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I was always curious about this with the SEGA Genesis, but never ended up buying one.
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It did boot once to the Peppermint disc, but I started by running some utilities like checkdisk instead of installing from the get go. After rebooting, the problem with the DVD started. I’m going to try installing from USB stick next.
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Everyone block this asshole.
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Sending mental waves of safety and luck for your neighborhood.
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She blocked me for pointing out that not all machine learning is generative AI. 🙄
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Yeah, it’s disabled in the bios settings by default, but I turned it back on. I tried manually overriding but it didn’t work. The DVD is readable on another machine, but the older drive may be more fickle.
I’m going to pull the hard drive, reformat it with another box and try again. No OS, no boot.
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My point is really not to paint all machine learning technology with the broad brush used to criticize a very small percentage of the actual uses for it (I.e. generative “art”).
There are legitimate and life-improving uses that are being implemented right now.
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Similarly, government agencies are using machine learning to streamline certain regulatory processes, especially in systems where the volume of work creates a backlog and uncorking these bottlenecks would be hugely helpful to the U.S. tax payers.
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Other uses include processing MRIs to help MRI technicians and doctors spot potentially harmful pre-cancerous or even cancerous growths that would be otherwise missed. This is a significantly valuable use of machine learning and is already proving highly beneficial for labs that adopt this tech.
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So… “AI” is often a blanket term used for a lot of different technologies.
Generative AI is the bullshit that steals intellectual property and vomits it back up in a soulless form.
But that’s only about 5% of the machine learning technology use cases. There are lots of other legitimate uses.
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Yeah — absolutely. D&D mythology is much more like the Greeks, Romans, and Norse where it wasn’t a belief in a nebulous and invisible Judeo-Christian god but more that the gods walked among men but were equally fallible and full of vices… but just more powerful.