Blue Eyed Samurai.

The answer: a much much better day!!
(A caveat: my two most disruptive students were absent today, I will need to repeat when they are here.)

Every party needs a horny bard.

Where are the active tectonic zones on your world? Is there a structure analogues to the “Ring of Fire” where earthquakes and volcanoes are more common?

Yeah, the real learning opportunity in this tech is for highly knowledgeable students to critique what the AI presents.

Of course: it’s an easy thing and I could see myself - exhausted at the end of a long week - just letting my 5th graders have these chats because it LOOKS like learning.

I strongly dislike being the tank.

I get very little satisfaction from being the main damage-dealer in a combat situation and I like facing the problem of being squishy.

Thank you! This helped!

Yeah, published in ‘78. Three years before Empire came out.

Splinter of the Mind’s Eye is such a wild ride of a book.

Oh, it’s so very good.

Let’s do it.

I have no idea how it knew I have a beard, but I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.