It looks like an offline tool that reviews existing medical records to find indicators of addiction:

Overall, the AI screener was as effective as provider-only assessments in leading to addiction specialist consultations. However, those who received AI screening were 47% less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after initial discharge.

The team calculated that each readmission avoided saved about $6,800 in health care costs during the study period. The findings suggest that investment in AI could help to increase access to addiction treatment, improve efficiencies, and save costs.

Yeah. I’d say that a cool move is being prepared for what the moment needs, and then making the situation significantly better for the rest of the players. 🤷‍♂️

Deep in the ocean of words, the author said something like “doing stuff your character can do according to the rules of the game isn’t cool”. And I totally disagree.

Choosing the right thing, at the right time, to help your party (or even better, enhance your party’s abilities) feels pretty good, and gets accolades at the table.

That is a lot of text. Like, I want to read it, and the reference to buddy’s three rules of TTRPGs is neat, but it rambles.

That’d track

They aren’t gonna leave until it’s untenable here.

Cyberpunk RED has full body conversion cyborgs, but no androids that I’ve seen.

After the Fourth Corporate War, people are pretty leary of connectivity (hence the city nets) and AI (also city nets).

At my table, I’d play most NPCs as hostile towards androids because they’re too similar to AI.

I was checking to see if there’s interest in a Cyberpunk RED community. It doesn’t look like there’s a lot of folks who would be into it, so I’m just posting in this community.

How do you choose when to cut between groups?

Yeah. It’s pretty sparse here. Hiving off into a separate community doesn’t seem helpful realistic ATM.

I’m going to post my RED stuff to [email protected], in the hopes that gets some conversation going.

As a GM, I get players to explain their hustle. For example:

• Tech got a “You sabotaged some equipment - 200eb” so I asked the Tech what they sabotaged and who it was for. The player threw out some fun stuff about sabotaging a DJ’s deck so they lose a DJ competition in a rave. I wrote down the DJ’s name for a future plot hook.

• Rockerboy got the “your song went viral - 500eb” so I asked him about the song. There’s a rival band that he has bad blood with, so they’re probably going to rip it off in future.

The idea is to keep players awake and get them to flesh out their characters a bit. Maybe I can use it later, or maybe it just ties them a little tighter to the world.

My D&D crew wanted to try something different. I tried for Shadowrun, but they didn’t want to mix hitech and high magic. Cyberpunk was the compromise. It didn’t hurt that they’d played the CRPG.

If you have a group that’s getting bored with D&D, you can point them at my onboarding doc.

I’m totally unfamiliar with any of the other versions. From what I hear RED is a simplified version of 2020, but it happens in the same timeline.

Any of the ttrpgs are fine by me - I mentioned RED because I find the subreddit helpful.