OddBookWorm
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Monster Manual is one of the core rule books, Monsters of the Multiverse is a supplemental material, meant to supplement the 3 core materials (Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and the aforementioned third)
Even though you don’t plan on DM’ing, the Monster Manual contains many of the more common creatures you’d be likely to come across. And some of the most iconic. Beholder, drow, doppelganger, purple worm, bugbear, various undead, etc
I'm starting this fall and I've decided to split my classes between two specializations (I haven't decided which one to officially declare, I know I can only have one). Computer Graphics and Interactive Intelligence. The classes are:
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CS-6491: Foundations of Computer Graphics
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CS-6515: Introduction to Graduate Algorithms
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CS-7496: Computer Animation
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CS-6457: Video Game Design and Programming
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CS-7637: Knowledge-Based AI
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CS-7641: Machine Learning
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CS-7632: Game AI
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CS-6460: Educational Technology
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CS-6300: Software Development Process
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Undecided Elective
I know the minimal set I need doesn't technically require SDP, but I am a professional software engineer, so it can't hurt to take it lol.
There's probably something I haven't thought about here though. My hope is that this combination would potentially lend itself pretty handily to something like edutainment. Maybe an education-based game with an AI component that actually targets the user's weak points in a fun and interesting way (***glares at ALEKS***)
Also, these aren't in any particular order, but I was probably going to try to target either CS-6491 or CS-6457 this semester