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In the game(s) or setting(s) you usually play, or like, or sulk about, why did the chicken cross the road?

by Karkared

Do you have a game that you do play, but feel that its characters begin as too weak or get too strong for the intended style of play? Have you thought about solutions, or gone with the rules anyway?

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by Chinkster

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provence wrote:

Thanks for asking!

What has worked well:
- A lot happens quickly vs my analog experiences have been very slow. In the time I played the above I might not have finished creating a character!
- Character creation is very fast
- Less creative brain power needed
- Ability to create in any setting without needed an existing book or ruleset
- Ability to come up with ideas I couldn’t have imagined
- Price! I can try things before purchasing them
fully
- Notetaking and journaling is instantaneous
- I haven’t explorer image making yet but I assume it’s going to be awesome

Trade-Offs
- Doesn’t always follow specific rulesets although if I had pdf I guess zi could feed the AI. But I don’t really care about rules too much. Narrative is more compelling.
- Feels like choose your own adventure with limited options although I can change that anytime to be more open. But I like limited choices as reduces analysis paralysis.

I’m sure there is more but that’s what comes to mind.

Does anyone else experiment with AI?

Yes, I had Gemini help me with my Dragonbane game. I gave up on asking an LLM to track the rules as they always slowly drift back into default 5e rules 🤦🏻‍♂️

But i gave it some keywords from the tables and asked t to generate some obstacles or NPC encounters for me. Worked like a charm.

But I also have to remind it to NOT give my an option on how to overcome said obstacles, which was my initial error as I overlooked that.

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I'm cycling back to a convention topic because it's been on my mind. Dragonmeet it on at the Excel, London, in November. I've never been to a huge convention for games and am quite keen to go. Maybe my eldest would come with me. I am kind of amazed that tickets are only £20 for adults and £10 for kids. This is great for attendance levels of course, but the reason I am so surprised is because I know what the vendor prices are! Buying a space and a table is prohibitively expensive - only big fish can swim in that pool. Surely they want to be approachable by the smaller fish, too? Excel isn't cheap to hire, I get that, but if attendee tickets were a bit higher the venodr tickets could come down and everyone would win. The logic just doesn't stack up for me, but I guess they have their reasons.

Having never looked into any other huge cons, like Gencon, I wonder what their attendee to vendor cost comparisons are?


I actually wasn't surprised by most of these, though I am surprised Kultwasn't higher.
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by DoOverAgain

Related Item: Neon City Overdrive: a game of cyberpunks

Yes. Session 01 of Mothership 3rd party module here.
I hope to have Session 02 tomorrow or Friday.

I'm using Gemini NotebookLM with rules PDFs uploaded, because I want to learn the system, not just role-play, but that's me at this time (I learn best by doing, not reading pages of rules and math).
I used AI to build the prompt found in that Session 01, which only took a couple of minutes once I figured out how I wanted the AI GM to behave.

I'm not always on my A-game, so I often type what my character says, does, and thinks. Then I sometimes have AI clean it up and keep the voice in character based on the personality and motivations I've built that character.

by troacctid

I've recently been intrigued by the action economy in Burn Bryte. The way it works is, at the top of each combat round, the GM declares all the actions the enemies intend to take this round, and each of the PCs can then take turns with that knowledge in mind, giving them the opportunity to disrupt the enemies' plans. During the PCs' turns, they don't have a set number of actions that they can take during their turn—instead, the player can keep going as long as she likes until she fails a roll (suffering consequences as a result) or decides to stop, and the difficulty of the roll she needs to make increases with each additional action she takes, giving it a push-your-luck aspect. Then, once all the PCs have finished, the enemies do their best to complete the actions the GM committed to—which, thanks to the PCs' moves, might now be impossible.

Burn Bryte seems to have largely sputtered out without ever gaining a serious following, which I think is a shame, because I think it has some cool ideas. I like seeing interesting twists on initiative. Other initiative systems I've liked recently are Cosmere RPG's option of taking a fast turn with fewer actions, and Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space's hierarchy of actions where turn order is determined by what you're trying to do (talking always goes first, and fighting always goes last).