FaceDeer

I tend to be involved in very long-running campaigns, so it’s been a slow and excruciating process of attrition to peel myself out of D&D and into a more diverse landscape.

I play with a couple of groups, and everyone can be divided into two distinct groups:

• Those of us who are the most active movers-and-shakers - the DMs, the really invested players, the ones who actually organize the sessions - and who are completely sick and tired of D&D both from a mechanics sense and in terms of the legal/business nonsense.
• Those of us who are casual players who equate “D&D” with “Roleplaying game” because they don’t really think about it all that much but who will just go along with whatever the table is actually using.

I’m in the first group, as evidenced by the fact that I’m posting on a niche RPG community.

The best current treatments for autism depend on knowing as early as possible that a child needs specialized help to have the best outcomes. If there was a tool that decisively identified autistic kids and you destroyed it I would rank you as a particularly heinous monster.

Reminds me of this Oglaf strip (NSFW, of course - it’s Oglaf).

Could you be a sorcerer if you’re related to the DM?

The cleric version of a lich is a Mummy Lord.

Well, there’s plenty of AI that isn’t “corporate” AI, and that is itself open. So the distinction you’re drawing isn’t going to put all AI on one side and all non-AI on the other side.

Heck, there’s plenty of “corporate” RPGs that are near-universal staples of the hobby. D&D is owned by Hasbro, along with a lot of its tools.

That would depend on the wording of the general rule, which would depend on what exactly it’s trying to accomplish.

And if AI is banned from this community, you never will see anything of value from it. Even when such value exists.

You want to ban any discussion of AI except for negative discussion of AI? Worst of both worlds there.

A general rule against spamming should suffice to deal with that.

You don’t think people should be discussing what they do at their RPG tables in a TTRPG community? What do you think the purpose of this community is?

If you want to ban anything that isn’t “open source” you’re going to hit a lot more than just generative AI. Not to mention that there are open models and open source gen AI tools, so you’re not even banning generative AI that way.

Preemptively banning an entire class of tool like that is ridiculous, IMO. Especially before there’s even whatever ill-defined “problem” you’re imagining.

I make a lot of use of AI tools in the course of prepping and running adventures. With the advent of generative AI I’ve been able to produce adventures of far higher quality and depth than I was able to make previously. Dozens of pieces of custom art, high quality battle maps rather than just lines on a grid, custom theme music and songs. I record each session and have an AI transcribe it and then another AI automatically generates detailed notes from the transcript for the players. Every session I post a 4-minute AI-generated “last time, on FaceDeer’s D&D campaign…” video summarizing the previous adventure for players to watch if they feel like they can’t remember what happened.

I don’t know what you’re imagining, but how is any of this a “problem”? Both my players and I love this.

I think you’ll find that if you ban people from posting anything they didn’t make themselves you’ll be cutting out rather a huge swath of material. Even before generative AI became a thing, did you make all your own character portraits? Write every adventure you ran? Invent your own RPG rules? If I were to use Hero Forge to create a miniature, would that be banned?

The best part is that that particular Big Bad was responsible for my character’s origin, so my character became quite the Ouroboros out of that. She was epitome of a self-made person.

I can do one better, in a campaign I was in a few years back it turned out that due to some time travel shenanigans and an attempt to find a loophole in some wish-induced immortality, my character literally was one of the Big Bads. I went back in time, killed her before she became immortal, and impersonated her for 1500 years. To maintain the integrity of the timeline I had to do all the stuff the Big Bad had already done up to the present day, but as soon as the clock struck “Now” I (as that Big Bad) flipped sides to join the party.

I brought an army of minions and plenty of intel about the other Big Bads along, too. Quite a fun bit of plot judo.

Ah, so that’s what those two swellings on her chest are.

You may know IPv6 is ridiculously bigger, but you don’t know it.

There are enough IPv6 addresses that you could give 10^17 addresses to every square millimeter of Earth’s surface. Or 5×10^28 addresses for every living human being. On a more cosmic scale, you could issue 4×10^15 addresses to every star in the observable universe.

We’re not going to run out by giving them to lightbulbs.

Yeah, one-hole boats seem like it’d take away what little “strategy” there is in this game. It’s pure randomness whether you hit one, and as soon as you hit it it’s over.