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The problem with today is that people no longer engage in clever satire or over-the-top pranks, it's instead taken as an opportunity to tell blatant lies under the cover of "it's just a joke bruh." Compound this with the obvious evils being made possible by idiotic greedy techbros giving the...

You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.

Blame the mouse.

So the (main) problem with doing it by CR is that WotC really likes giving high-level spells to low-CR creatures, or giving low-CR creatures weird abilities that let them do things only high-level characters would be capable of. It's incredibly aggravating and impedes a number of class fantasies...

I run games exclusively in my homebrew setting. Only two (tweaked) core races, my homebrew races allowed; variant human is default. No core classes, only my homebrew classes allowed. Fighter and rogue are theoretically allowed but need special approval by me, with the understanding the...

System knowledge, something related to producing homebrew, and publishing seem like the three elements of the scale you're using. There probably could be more, maybe something like 3pp knowledge or participation in homebrew communities. Publishing at zero would be "have never published an rpg...

Something multidimensional, at least.

I don't know how to answer this. I essentially treat 5e as a lighter, leaner version of 3e. Most of the adventures I've run in 5e so far have been converted from PF, with monsters redesigned according to an approach that tries to port 4e monster design concepts into 5e. I don't use any core...

I think it helps that the author just leans full-tilt into it. It's so over-the-top that it rolls back around to funny. Definitely.

I am also somewhat working on "converting" Rime of the Frostmaiden to my setting. It's been quite painful, but tackling the question of why RotF is happening to begin with, and determining the goals and motivations of my take on Auril, helped considerably.

I recently picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl. Sure, the premise is very silly. But it's (usually) decently written and it's honestly just fun.

I've run most of Strange Aeons, parts of Shattered Star, and parts of Curse of the Crimson Throne. I'm working on converting most of Age of Worms, parts of Iron Gods, and parts of Ruins of Azlant for future games. I say "most" and "parts" because I rarely run the full AP, and usually mix in...

To me the obvious answer is "you don't." But then, I'm not (particularly) interested in business applications and whatnot. That's not why I got into this field. If you want to keep figuring out how to use a thing that will instruct you to put glue in your pizzas -- that's certainly a choice you...

I get the whole "risk" angle here, but personally I don't care -- I'm already of the opinion this stuff shouldn't be publicly accessible, and the risk thing feels downstream of that. My primary interest is in AGI and figuring out how to move us forward towards that. If there's business...

Emphasis mine. This is the part that people who haven't studied what's going on under the hood don't get. Techbros and their advocates will use clever tricks and outright lies to convince people that the machine -- LLMs, in specific -- really do understand what they're doing. Or do you really...

Garbage in, garbage out. You sound like the sort of person who would put "Q-learning" on a slide, connect it to an LLM in a flow diagram, and then argue with someone who asks you what implementation of Q-learning you intend to use that you totally know what you're talking about when you, in...

As I've pointed out a few times earlier: the techbros are selling snake oil. I assume that they're doing this because they believe that in the background, they can actually get the machine to do the crazy things they've claimed. They can't. It's that simple. The technologies and approaches...

I liked the notion of Blues so much I made them the baseline of what goblins were in my setting, back when they still existed. Shardminds are good, and I have them in my setting, but the name is terrible. I imagine they would've been better received if they had an at least decent name.

I think I understand why these rules exist -- you're trying to encourage players to actually make new spells -- but this is... excessive. This is also probably a very bad idea.

There was. But if it's my opinion that the DM has a moral imperative to do $THING, you can still disagree with that take. Opinions can be argued with, and can be wrong (not to say that Lanefan was wrong, necessarily, just pointing that out).