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I was originally going to add a second line to that post, something to the effect of "well, I guess you could use what is around right now, but it'd almost assuredly be a pretty terrible experience," but didn't because... reasons. So yes, I suppose I did vastly overestimate what some people...

Unless someone out there is hiding something big, we are nowhere near this being feasible yet.

AGI is absolutely feasible. The question is whether or not we have the technology and methods to bring it into being right now, and the answer to that is definitely "no." The problem is that techbros seem to have converged on "LLMs and alignment is how to do AGI" when that is almost assuredly...

I don't know how much you know about the field, but I feel compelled to point out that this is a drastic oversimplification of what is going on under the hood in these models. Contextual language encoding in 7k-dimensional space (or however many dimensions they're using for modern LLMs) is...

Pangolins aren't bipedal. What is it like to be a bat? We have no knowledge of what the mental life of an alien, sapient species would be like. That also applies to fantasy races. We use humans as a baseline because we are humans, and humans are the only thinking thing whose mental life we...

Featherless bipeds with broad, flat nails.

63, actually. Possibly 64, I'm still waffling on that one though.

Pretty sure E6 did that.

And see, this is why having the context of why this was being done is important. If the overall goal is to have pseudo-multiclassing by using feats, why not take an approach similar to how 4e handled it in heroic tier? So instead of having a generic extra attack feat -- well, you might still...

I don't see a good reason for this to be a feat. There isn't a justification sufficient, to me, to make this a thing. That said -- your initial take on prereqs sounds reasonable. If I was somehow convinced that this was needed or a net positive, that would be sufficient. I'm a bit waffle-y on...

For 1e, Dragon 78 introduced a psionicist class, as well as additional psionic powers. Can't speak to how balanced it is, though, as I've never seen it at a table.

When checking if a person would be a good fit, before I tell them anything about how my table works, I ask what they'd like to play from core. If the answer is "tiefling" or "warlock," they're not a good fit. No core races other than human (and I only do variant human, not vanilla), and the...

I haven't bought a WotC D&D product since I picked up the 4e core on release day, whenever that was. ...don't take that to mean I'm still playing 4e. I'm not.

I am currently running a mashup of Dragon Heist, Curse of the Crimson Throne, and Egg of the Phoenix, with a host of alterations and modifications to fit my setting and my metaplot's needs.

Here's my take on the concept. It hasn't undergone any real testing, though. Also the spellcasting mechanics for the caster subclass are going to look funny, because I have a homebrewed casting system.