I’ve found it useful for TTRPGs too. Art generators are certainly helpful for character portraits, I also find ChatGPT can be useful for lots of other things. I’ve had pretty mediocre results trying to get it to generate a whole adventure but if you give it tight enough parameters then it can flesh out content for you - ranging from NPC name ideas, to ideas for custom magic items, to whole sections of dialogue.

You can give it a plot hook you have in mind and ask it to generate ideas for a three-act structure and encounter summary to go with it (helpful when brainstorming the party’s next adventure), or you can give it an overview of an encounter you have in mind and ask it to flesh out the encounter - GPT4 is reasonably good at a lot of this, I just wouldn’t ask it to go the whole way from start to finish in adventure design as it starts to introduce inconsistencies.

You also need to be ready to take what it gives you as a starting point for editing rather than a finished product. For example, if I ask it to come up with scene descriptions in D&D then it has a disproportionate tendency to come up with things that are ‘bioluminescent’ - little tells like that which show it’s AI generated.

Overall - you can use it as a tool for a busy DM that can free you up to focus on the more important aspects of designing your adventure. But you need to remember it’s just a tool, don’t think you can outsource the whole thing to it and remember it’s only as helpful as how you try to use it.

But … I thought the 2009 film was an origin story?

It was literally the story of how the Kelvinverse came to exist and it followed Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co from their Academy days.

That was my thought, I’m quite up for this. I enjoyed The Voyage Home, I enjoyed The Trouble with Tribbles - I wouldn’t want all Trek to be like that but there is absolutely a place in the franchise for light-hearted takes on Trek.

last couple of Picard seasons

I mean, that’s a pretty astonishing statement to throw out there, grouping together probably the worst single season of Star Trek with one of the best…

Perhaps today is a good day for my voice to break!

Worf’s Klingon prosthetics literally changed between season 1 and seasons 2-7 of TNG. This obviously raises serious continuity issues about whether seasons 2-7 of TNG are even canon…

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-worf-tng-klingon-makeup-change-reason/

Could they play a Hexblade warlock?

It’s not Orban’s party but that doesn’t excuse him. He’s been in office for the last 14 years and deliberately cultivated a political climate of aggressive nationalist conservatism fuelled by propaganda about historical greatness and foreign betrayal. He’s the one who has moved Hungary’s Overton window so far to the far right that politicians such as these can get elected.

I mean, it’s worth being clear: these are EU citizens who did break the rules, in terms of not registering their (supposedly ULEZ-compliant) cars before driving into the ULEZ zone in London as they are required to. For UK-registered cars, TFL can determine ULEZ compliance directly from the domestic car registry database, which they can’t for foreign cars.

The complaint against TFL is much narrower: the company they used to chase down these rule breakers then itself seems to have broken data protection rules, since ULEZ breaches are civil not criminal matters and so the relevant EU rules didn’t allow for their information to be shared.

But at its core - if these people had just registered their cars as required before they drove into London, none of this would be an issue. It’s not about UK authorities unfairly targeting EU citizens (not least as it’s London we’re talking about - Remainer central!)

Someone should explain to her that all those roubles that appear in her bank account when she says these things aren’t actually worth very much.

They’re pro-choice and pro-contraception.

They understand that abstinence is futile.

It’s Mariner’s sarcastic salute!

https://youtu.be/VnqLFjZD9pg

The movie wasn’t that well-liked and wasn’t the perfect send-off for the original crew of Star Trek.

What a weird thing to say. I’ve always heard it described as one of the best TOS films and I always found the ending quite an emotional and fitting send-off to the TOS crew.

Miles O’Brien in the Kelvin-verse.

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Live long and prosper 🖖

Live long and PARTAY! 🤘

I like worldbuilding too and I’ve probably got a lot more than 50 pages of background on my world (it’s spread over a wiki so I don’t know how many pages it actually comes to). But is that really what you actually give to players at the start? I feel like not many players would have the patience to work through 50 pages of homework before they’re allowed to start playing (but congratulations if you’ve found a group who are that into your worldbuilding!)

A lot of my worldbuilding exists either for long-term campaign options, for peppering into dialogue or events to make the world feel a bit more three-dimensional, or realistically just for my own private fun that will never see the light of day.

For my homebrew world, I wrote a two page document covering:

• Geography: the rough layout of their starting city (the main districts and well-known landmarks), the main species that can be seen around the city (they’re not limited to playing these, but I think it’s helpful if you’re going to play a dragonborn to know whether you’re an outsider in this city or not), and a high-level sentence each on the handful of main locations that can be easily travelled to from the city - i.e. the stuff that any resident should know.

• Magic and religion: the pantheon of major gods and their domains, and a line noting there are other religious/magical traditions but most residents of the city would be unfamiliar with them.

• Politics: how the city is governed, who the noble houses are, and what reputation is widely known about each of them (not all of these are deserved…)

• History: some very high-level history of the city and world (at the level that an average resident would know - the equivalent of the name of this world’s Roman Empire who founded the city, and what happened to them).

I figured that two pages is short enough for anyone to read and get some sense of the world I’m dropping them in, without going into so much detail that it takes away their ability to explore the world (which is dramatically bigger than the city).

There’s also no real cost to people not remembering what’s in the two-pager - people can get away with assuming it’s a fairly generic fantasy world at first and I can easily resupply key info while DMing - but I figure most players like to know a bit about the game world before they start.

‘Boy, have you lost your mind honour, cause I’ll help you find it!’

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Spock died for our sins according to the scriptures;

And that he was buried, and that he rose again in the third movie according to the scriptures:

And that he was seen of Jim, then of the rest of the bridge crew.

-- 1 Roddenberry 15:3-5