Endless RPG generates D&D 5e or Pathfinder 1e adventures set in a dungeon, tower, crypt, cave, ruins, fortress, etc. Players explore through a fog-of-war, with encounters/traps/treasure/etc. presented as they discover them, which is good for solo play. nations-software.info/2024/0…

If I had to rank my favorite D&D editions, I think I'd have to go: 1st Edition 2nd Edition 3rd Edition 3.5 Edition Did they make any other editions...?

I was playing Endless Nights III (NWN:EE mod) and had a shadowdancer with a super powerful sword (EN3 is like that) and thought I was invincible until I missed a save vs poison in a wyvern fight. Bam! To the Abyss I go, but I did achieve #1 in my rankings.

Let's not be that way, Joe. She should be able to solicit a prostitute in any of the 50 states. This is America, after all.

I've been making small changes to my Endless Nights III mod for Neverwinter Nights, and I have to fight off the urge to do a brand new NWN module. Is it silly to do for a 20+ year old game (or 8 years since NWN:EE was released)? I know it would be a blast to do another one!

Here's a guy who thinks a 5k deck is going to increase their home's value by 300k.

It sucks for the players, but it is a smart move for the sport and the only way to help fight against the coming chaos. If players are allowed to go pro then go back to college, you WILL have 30+ year old NFL veterans returning to college to finish their eligibility and college teams littered with players who have 5+ years of NFL experience. Remember: If you allow it, you can't disallow based on age. Why wouldn't an NFL player choose to play their last year at an Alabama or Texas for good money and an easier overall personal schedule.

In modern development, you spend much of your time talking to devops about helm charts, fixing the latest bug in ci/cd, planning future stories, approving code changes (human and ai), tweaking ai instructions, promoting ai and oh yeah a little bit of time programming.

Rasel may be right for the ***FUTURE***, but if you are not checking the AI-written code for bugs and/or poor code, you are doing it wrong. Yes, in the ***FUTURE***, AI might get good enough that you don't need to check it as diligently. We aren't there yet.

I actually think the most interesting thing about Warcraft Forever is taking it into context alongside EQ Legends and the slew of remakes we've seen over the last few years. Is it a sign that the industry can't make good games anymore? Games have become Hollywood in the last decade. So much money is invested that the mantra becomes to play it safe rather than build a fun game. This leads to stale, watered-down gameplay that is just a regurgitation of the same game we've played.

I'm so old, I remember when Quora was a genuine question and crowd answer platform rather than a place for trolls to write up stupid and obviously fake questions only to be highlighted in the email digests.

X says it wants original creators. Then it builds the money tools so the people who actually write the original stuff cannot get paid on X. Look at Creator Subscriptions. I have Premium. I have 2,000 verified followers. I post. I am 18+. The only box left is 5 million organic impressions in 3 months. That is not a “are you a real creator” test. That is a “did the algorithm decide to show you to half the internet” test. Subscriptions is supposed to be the thing that lets supporters pay a small creator every month without leaving the app. Instead it is locked behind a reach number most niche accounts will never hit, even when they already have thousands of verified people following them. Revenue Sharing was easier to reach than Subscriptions. Let that sit for a second. The old ad-split had a lower bar than the product that is supposed to be “your fans pay you directly.” Now Revenue Sharing dies on 7 September and gets replaced by Original Content Rewards. On paper X wants original writing, reporting, commentary. In practice: - long articles and blogs do not get pushed - if you put the same piece on Substack so people can subscribe, you are “leaving the platform” - if you drop a Ko-Fi link so someone can donate, the post gets treated like an advert - Rewards pays Premium Home Timeline views on native posts, and reviews you for originality, while the Subscribe button stays grey because you did not print 5 million impressions So the loop is this: X wants original content. X does not promote the original content. X will not let small creators turn on Subscriptions. Small creators go to Substack and Ko-Fi because that is where a supporter can actually send money. X then punishes them for posting the links. You cannot tell writers “make X the destination” while the destination has no till. @X @XCreators @allegrajacchia @elonmusk If you want original work to live here, Subscriptions cannot sit behind 5 million impressions. Tips and a Subscribe button for people who already follow you is the minimum. Right now you are training every small creator with a real audience to build the paid relationship somewhere else.

What we are seeing with LSU and the conferences reacting to it is a fight to save College Football from becoming the NFL minor league farm system, at which point, do we really need colleges even involved? I'm all for college players getting paid because there is too much money involved. But some sanity needs to be restored.

If I wasn't on X, I could post my article on learning to improvise on guitar by learning piano right in this tweet without a penalty... something like this: danielnations.medium.com/how…

Is everyone this stupid or just this guy? Elephants ARE good at hiding in trees. But it's not that they are good at "hiding". That's stupid. Elephants have the same properties as a chamelean. It just doesn't happen unless they are in a tree. Doesn't everyone know this?

I had 10 notifications this morning and 8 of them were from the same account. Is Elon charging for that? Is X so desperate for $$$? Don’t much care for the feature. Although, it’s harmless compared to all the posts I get that were translated from another languages. It’s bad enough that most os the English tweets are made by bots, now I have to skip reading bot posts from around the world??

It’s never a good sign when the dev team needs to repeatedly say they love the game. It means they know they made decisions that were anti-game. Also, why not say they love the fans of the game? Seems like a missing detail.

BTW, most stores offer refunds within a certain time window. Also, writing in to tell them you are refunding because of false advertising might work to get a refund. A stretch to call it false advertising? Well, a free feature suddenly turned IAP in a year-to-year game where it is supposed to be last year's version but better... I think it's fair to say it is false advertising. #CFBplaydontpay

IAP makes money for companies based on whales. Most players won't buy them, but a small percentage are whales who will spend a lot of money on them. #CFBPlayDontPay Problem: This makes the game less fun for the majority, which in turn makes them less likely to buy the next year. This is a mistake a lot of companies (and people) make: taking the short-term gain and ignoring the long-term loss. I think IAP is fine so long as it is mostly cosmetic, doesn't create pay-to-win, or adds expansion-like content. Using it to milk money at all costs is either bad management or a sign that management doesn't see the game lasting as a yearly release for much longer.