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Earthdawn turns this up to 11. A person's ability rating is the average roll for their dice, accounting for dice explosions. I.e. a step 13 is d12+d10, a step 20 is d20+d8+d6 (specific dice vary by edition, but statistics are statistics). Either way, the step becomes a reasonable...

So without any strong context we can't suggest specific numbers as it comes down to the creature types that make sense. But look at it from the other side. If a bbeg of some kind wants to ablate attackers, what should they do? 1. A noisy outer perimeter with good perception. Enough of them...

You avoid the point. If you had a clear vision and the competence to describe it the first time, you could get what you want with a single entry to an image generator. A scenario you described as But you state the act of iterating is the delineator. What you call control. That's not...

Yeah, one is "a prompt" and the second is "a series of prompts." Generally, using a lot of prompts is a bad thing as the LLMs start losing context or just drifting for no good reason. So what you do is have the LLM reduce all your previous prompts down to a single prompt and restart with that...

Notice how much of their stuff was "classics" like shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes? It was trained on works out of copyright, in the public domain. Do that. I'd like image and text LLMs trained solely on pre-20th century art & literature.

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The middle-ground I use for what should be passive rolls in d20 games are to have every player give me 20x d20 rolls as well as all the "passive" skill modifiers. And to avoid NPC die rolls for stealth or whatever alerting players to events (and to avoid anyone being incentivized to fudge dice...

The Storyteller system was developed by Tom Down from the first edition of Shadowrun. It has none of the improvements of SR2. Its actually pretty easy to translate storyteller to SR. Both are stat+skill dice pools, ST has stats 1-5, SR has "common" stats 1-6 with extremes of 9. Given...

I think the Agreed, but again, I posited time constraints should be limited to bosses for the most part. So it should NOT be "constant, never-ending, never-fading time pressure". There should be a lot of scenarios where there are opportunities to take a break/rest (though it does let...

The "all marathon, all the time" meta are "World's Largest Dungeons" and games where each dungeon must be cleared without leaving and there are no non-dungeon encounters. Once the campaign includes traveling encounters, scouting parties, enemies that flee, etc you get a mix of 5MWD and marathon...

Depends. You send a 6th level fighter to gather marsh herbs with zero relevant skills and they may pray for an enemy cavalry charge. "Ooh, its good thing you made your CON save, that poison sumac is only going to give you disadvantage for the next 24 hours." "But. (scratch-scratch)...there...

Ahhh, Cantrip McUpcast. I've heard of you.

{deity} no. We start at 1st level once, maybe twice, each edition. After that its usually 5th, 9th, or 11th. Part of that is that we have a "20 year veteran soldier" as equivalent to 4th level fighter. This is our threshold for "stops a goblin horde with numerical advantage", yours may vary...

I ran 3e 1st-23rd level and played 5e 7th-20th level. I prefer the overall granularity of 3e and would happily go back. Oddly, all the attempts at setting bounding boxes seems to have made getting the encounter's right even more difficult. The 3e CR system was imperfect, but imo once you...

Our house rule is that non-sapients use their HD to heal whenever possible. There's no "planning for the future" there. Which means if we have any AoE healing affects we plan to use on the mounts, we do it before the rest completes.