I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. TTRPG DMing can be effort-heavy and my friend group constantly has trouble finding enough time to play together let alone set it up.
In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
With cars if you wanted to bias yourself towards newer cars you could prioritize safety features alongside cost.
A Yaris and a Ranger (who doesn’t love a Ranger!) are going to serve you well, but they’re not going to have the active and passive safety features of a more modern car. Put next to cost it makes it a bit harder to perform maladaptive frugality.
> They circle around an idea using whatever word is within reach, and expect you to understand the meaning based on shared connotations. These people are tiring to interpret.
I find this notion a little strange. The implication here is that words are precisely bounded to bounds of thoughts. Language is a representation of our world (and our individual understanding of it) - we all (including you) will use different words to describe similar-ish concepts. This will always be more clear to you as the originator of the thought -> word process than the receiver.
You can’t hand wave away the work of interpreting (aka listening) to someone.
I’m sure if I spoke to your counterparts in the scenario you described they’d say different words which also ultimately amounted to something like “it’s difficult to interpret what they’re saying.”
That’s quite a take to assume willful blindness to widespread suffering.
What is pretty clear though: your obsession with constantly minimizing the lived experience of a minority with “no ackshually they deserve it because they really are this way” warrants a look in the mirror.
I commend you for the attempt, even if it’s clear that it’s falling on deaf ears to who you’re replying to.
The rest of us Jews appreciate that you didn’t let it slide.
It’s hard not to wonder why they even bothered clicking into this thread other than “oh the name sounds Jewish, I can push my narrative” especially with respect to their comment history.
Thank you! I’m a casual user of Wikipedia but after this thread I went through the history of edits on the article and...oh my.
I have a greater appreciation for folks like you and the other editors who seem to be constantly removing this type of stuf. Some truly horrendous slurs there.
I _really_ enjoyed this and love the concept! Scrolling on desktop was a little odd, but worked really well otherwise.
Content wise it's pretty eye opening just how much of our tax dollars go to things like social security, medicare and interest. Seeing it laid out in the exact dollar amount affecting me is pretty powerful stuff. I wonder how much voting habits would change if this was a common way to communicate the cost of federal programs. I had moments where I was thinking "why are we not spending more on education!" as a result as well.
I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. TTRPG DMing can be effort-heavy and my friend group constantly has trouble finding enough time to play together let alone set it up. In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
I noticed every competitor in this space was a chatbot with only the last ~10-15 messages stuffed into context. They forgot things, made up dice rolls and rules, and was generally not what I was looking for. So far TableForge has been working well for my friend groups and some random folks from Reddit/organic search. Solo TTRPGers seem to like it too.
It's still in early stages but fully playable. I don't feel comfortable charging anything for yet until I know people enjoy it. If you like it enough to hit the free tier limit, send me some feedback in the webapp and I'll gladly extend your free trial. If you hate it, please also let me know!
I’ve used S3 primarily in a professional setting but R2 has been a breath of fresh air on my side projects.
The zero egress cost is big and IMO their free tier is very generous. It’s S3 compatible so if you use any libraries it’ll just work™. One note is that AWS recently released static pricing for Cloudfront - I haven’t explored it in depth yet but it looks compelling if your primary use case is serving data out of S3.
I’d probably switch to S3 at least for app storage if I moved apps into the AWS ecosystem. It’s just easier if you’re already in AWS.
Getting a D&D group together in person has been getting harder and harder, and we've had less and less time to DM. I decided to build an agentic AI to handle the work of setting up and running a campaign so we could all participate. It supports real time (preferred, and probably more fun) or async. The agent performs most functions through tool use so it's all 5e rules based but I wanted to leave it a good amount of freedom so campaigns can go on tangents and have fun surprises.
I'm still playtesting it with friends and it's been fun. It's in early access, I don't feel right charging for it unless other folks actually end up liking it and thinking it's fun. If you sign up, send me a message through "Send Feedback" (or here!) and let me know if you like, but especially let me know if you hate it.
In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
[0] https://tableforge.gg/