D&D Meta Thread

[Joy]

You must specify spell and trigger explicitly in game

[Kashtan]

sorry right. we must think about this more gotta sleep now.

[Joy]

[Joy] Campaign #1 began 03/08/2024 in standard American date format MM/DD/YYYY. The dragon encounter will conclude Campaign #1. Bear has informed me that when or if there will be a continuation and a Campaign #2, with everyone at level 5, depends on a lot of things we don't have full control over. I'm telling you this now because I recently failed in my ability to come up with a more automated way to handle the complexity of DM'ing while not taking hours of Bear's time per day. That doesn't mean I have stopped trying.

I understand many of you also put hours of time in posting, as Ashley did, but the additional burden and coordination along with organization and juggling of this has reached a limit. That would need to fundamentally change to continue. There is still hope in that regard.

Nothing is permanent, nothing has been decided definitively but just so you know, we will be officially stopping this after the dragon encounter without an ETA on when it will continue. So enjoy the rest of Campaign #1 with that in mind.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Alice]

Yeah I get that. Even if it doesn't look like it, and my workload is only a fraction on Joy's, we're not Bear Performers and it does take a toll on us.
I still think it must be possible to train an LLM on this and let it handle the DMing while only providing a framework or intervening when the AI does something dumb. Unfortunately I'm also 2dumb4that. But I'm optimistic we'll be there in 1-2 years. Progress is insane. We'd still have to run everything locally to bypass the inevitable AI safety features and continue our political incorrectness. The bottleneck right now is RAM price. Once we can build something with 128 GB VRAM + 128 GB DRAM without wasting my money, the party begins. My current estimate for a viable PC build is around 10K and I'm not gonna spend that.

Anyway, things are not exactly gonna get easier once I get into my intermediate form. I am almost done working out rules. I already feel sorry for Joy. I try to keep thing simple...

[Joy]

In your case, you will be DM'ing yourself from here on out, I am no longer moderating that. Whatever you think you can do, do it, regardless of balance. You will be facing an ELDER ELDRICH PATRIARCH LICH KING GREEN/WHITE ANCIENT ADVANCED DRAGON so do what you must to win.

[Alice]

You know I hate cheating and cheesy stuff. I am always looking for ways to nerf my character. Do you want me to do my own rolls now or what?
Also can't we just wait until the ELDER ELDDRICH PATRIARCH LICH KING GREEN/WHITE ANCIENT ADVANCED DRAGON flies North or whatever like Daran said? It doesn't have my ship anymore, Summer's the only one who wants to take it down. I got no beef with that dragon. No dragons, no fights, no problems for Joy.

For now, let's go back to Phandalin and accidentally, which nobody could have foreseen, run into the same bandits who already took our whistle and brooches last time.

[Joy]

I have a sneaking suspicion you won't choose to avoid it.

[Τamamo]

No slacking off, lazy alien!
Cat showed Kingir the trap with the giant bugbear greataxe. Was he not paying attention? He's already exhausted, If he carries that thing, we won't be going anywhere.

[Joy]

he went back to consider it before you all left. Can't a dwarf appreciate a weapon?