Thank you, I’ll check out that PDF!

This is excellent advice, thank you very much. Luckily, I have Call of Cthulhu behind me in my bookshelf which I haven’t even read (6e though, but I’m sure it too contains good advice).

So if we can’t completely 100% deal with a problem, we shouldn’t even try? I mean, you’re correct, but we can’t solve all problems at once. If we deal with at least one, then we’ve made progress. Then we can try to deal with the next one.

Never forbid Player vs Player, tho.

I would consider banning this as a GM, because it makes me uncomfortable. I’ve had bad experiences in the past, and I want to enjoy the game too.

Lol, of course not.

… my cutting hammers are in the bathroom.

Yes. I’ve experimented with this too. This is the perfect use case for LLMs - there are no wrong answers, the LLM should just make something up, which is what it does.

Agreed. As far as I know, there is no actual artificial intelligence yet, only simulated intelligence.

Well, it could be argued that Trump is a cold-blooded fossil who looks kind of like that, so I think this has some merit.