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@CoyoteTraveller Wildermyth is great! Also now "complete" according to the developer, who just wrapped up with Omenroad.

Haven't tried the new stuff yet, but loved my time with the game previously!

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@Metaph Less: I think a lot of folks undervalue how much of a storyteller role they have to take on to make rules engines fun or interesting, as well as how much of that would need to be laundered back even in limited cases.

@Metaph Putting it in perspective: when you think about a game like Dwarf Fortress, the rules are predictable and boring, as are rote outputs of it. A lot of the fun and feedback mechanisms come from what folks bring to it and the stories they're building/sharing.

So yeah, in the sense of rules arbitration, you'll get an approximation. But you start hitting limits for intrigue/novel story writing really fast, and need people to fill the gap to keep it interesting.

@Metaph Yes and no even for that space tbh. Rules space is limited, being able to get it to DM will kind of still need a referee/house rule to manage. So still requires people to get results from.

From generative spaces in roguelike (as in Rogue) games that don't use LLMs or thefty algorithms: biggest risk is learning the tone/modeling and predicting the output of the generator. Makes campaign bits start to blend together, needs people to make not boring too.

Charlie and some of the downstream replies state my fear on this better than I can.

Both of our political parties in the US are allowing/perpetuating a humanitarian crisis that needs to end yesterday. But only one of them we can actually fight past November; the other will kill protests and protestors dead with impunity, along with a whole lot of the rest of us.

I wish this were better. It isn't yet. Vote when and if you can, please.

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@CoyoteTraveller Less: if the experimental high > overwhelm over progress and deadlines, go for it, it's worth it.

@CoyoteTraveller (Back when I was building one dot in art skill, I was sort of loudly proud about being bad about it and improving without giving into self-deprecation, and didn't take it too seriously. Helped a ton.)

@CoyoteTraveller Good idea if comfortable with being bad at it and failure/improvement. Which is normal for building the skill, but can change internal narrative and self-esteem if susceptible to certain self-talk.

@maddy Verified on real hardware (via Everdrive). Fun map, thanks for sharing it!

(Runs at about 1/2 speed on hardware btw, definitely a limitation of large maps in the maker tool)