Recent content by Seven Crowns

I've done a few adventures now. I've found this: Choose a short adventure. Plenty will be added if you're a fun player. Temple of Elemental Evil is not going to work unless you can play it by chapters somehow, but then you see too much of the content. So seek out short adventures. Even homemade...

So far, playing first edition D&D on the Claude.ai has been a rousing success. The only aspect which is failing is the usage limits of the Claude engine. I've exhausted my access for the week, so I guess I'm done playing for the weekend. :cry: I really wanted to keep going. You have to watch...

Ah, I gave up with Grok. I cannot teach this thing. For those who missed my last post. My goal is to play old-school AD&D using an online AI. That makes it a computer game. It's the computer game I've always wanted! Grok was good at manipulating the uploaded files, but it couldn't retain a...

I should really listen to more Black Label Society. I've always liked their sound. Zakk sounds so much like Ozzy, which makes since he was with him for so long, but it's funny because supposedly no one sounds like Ozzy. Demonstrably not true. (I guess I should mention viewer discretion. This...

This was the version I had. It just has an updated '80s cover. I actually have it on display in my office right now. Look at the dude! He's like Saruman times ten. Years ago, I bought all of the old D&D sets on ebay. They're expensive now. I'm glad I struck early. I mean, I could get them...

I've been playing a lot of first edition AD&D, the proper AD&D, for the discriminating gentleman. 🧐 The new trick is that I make the online AIs DM it. So this is a computer game of sorts. It's awesome. It blows the doors off of modern rpgs where they just plug an adventure into Unreal 5 Engine...

You want a moral crisis to flip his behavior at the midpoint. Then he starts approaching the behavior you want. So that's when he gives up politics and becomes a writer. That means the first section of the book shows the stakes (pun? haha) demanding that he stay where he is. So maybe he solves a...

It's called a composite novel. I can only think of "I, Robot" doing this (already mentioned), Foundation (though that's very episodic), maybe Stephen Baxter's "Xeelee Sequence." Those are sort of assembled after the fact, but I guess they count. My favorite like this, though it's not sci-fi is...

This is excellent. I'm impressed you ran those 3 lines so long and they held together! The only thing I can find to change is the final line. (intensifier) .... (intensifier) ................ (intensifier) (The truth was) that (even the) merchants (themselves) I feel those three phrases are...

True. It's the same history again and again.

It's worse than you think. Kramnik is the main suspect. He's suggesting foul play only to distract from his own blame, or maybe this is him being flippant. I don't know. He doesn't seem like a good guy . . . he hasn't for a while. He hounded Naroditsky mercilessly with cheating allegations. The...

GM Danya Naroditsky, age 29. I can't believe it. He was the best chess instructor on youtube. If you play chess seriously, you know why. No ending at that age can be good. Poor guy.

I'm big on grammar. I have many, many books which I've read. But like everyone else has said, you don't really think about it as you write. You've already internalized the structures your voice needs. Your words had better be grammatically correct when you finish though, so it takes many careful...

Finished Expedition 33. I had a choice of endings. I suppose everyone does, but because I powered up a certain character to absurd extremes, I had to go with that one in the final showdown. What a depressing ending, but . . . I uninstalled the game because I really need to be doing something...