d20bard

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[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In a high level campaign I ran, I took the design philosophy that the villains were supernatural (e.g, dragon or lich), the average npc was weak (level 3 or less), and the characters were once-in-a-1000-years heros (level 10-20).

Every now and then they would have an obstacle involving regular humanoids or the local government and they had the option of just steamrolling everything (even whole platoons). It provided a great contrast to the magic-boss death matches and let the characters really feel special.

It also drove home that they were the only ones who could save the day.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, you saved me the trouble of writing out a rant. I wonder if the other guy is actually a computer scientist or just a programmer who got a CS degree. Imagine attending a CV track at AAAI or the whole of CVPR and then saying CV isn't a sub field of AI.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Computer vision is AI. If they literally want a robot eye to scan their cluttered pantry and figure out what is there, that'll require some hefty neural net.

Edit: seeing these downvotes and surprised at the tech illiteracy on lemmy. I thought this was a better informed community. Look for computer vision papers in CVPR, IJCNN, and AAAI and try to tell me that being able to understand the 3D world isn't AI.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago

Gets back up, "also, his name is Jolam." Lies back down.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

"I hurt my friend because I took a dumb idea too far" is a very probable story. The part I can't believe though is ending the game over a dire bite. We finally got the schedule together, we're going to use the time, darn it!

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty much, only detail missing is that it was the season for fruit. So, there is an added sense that by all natural laws the tree should have had fruit and it's lack was a particular aberration to a societythat used the fig so much.

Also, thematically, it rounds out God's domains. Up to this point, there had been miracles showing dominion over weather, matter, human life, animal life, spirits, disease and now there's plant life.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

Okay, but real talk, this looks like the equivalent of having a cutsy cuddle session at the firing range.

Even if you like guns/spells, you don't want to be kicking back, listening to your man read poetry while Samantha in the background is repeatedly screaming "IGNIS!" *BOOM* "IGNIS!" *BOOM* in her coked up magic voice.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Another aspect of the puzzle is that not every evil deserves death. A bum who does minor theft almost as a habit, a hateful bitter man who antagonizes everyone but obeys the law, a teenager, a greedy business person who employs half the town but makes everyone's life a bit worse, and so on.

Good should have the self restraint to not go straight to murder.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

Simply ignores it while regurgitating my personal opinion as if reiteration and intuition could trump the cold equations themselves 😎😎😎

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

20 years

20 years

20 years on the other side of the planet with the average citizen so uninterested that weeks would past without a news story on it. How is that not the definition of terrifying? Hell, it was terrifying to Americans who were paying attention.

[–] d20bard@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

Just flee to the Astral plane, bro. They don't extradite.

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