We can and do regulate things and regulation is itself an adaptation to avoid an unwanted outcome.
Hell, if we'd had more regulation during the industrial revolutions that shook blue collar workers out of the middle class then maybe we wouldn't have the massive wealth disparity/inequalities we...
Something folks may not be considering is that AI tools like this are trained on other artists work without those artists being compensated.
This results in a situation where someone can undercut the rates of the very artists they are using the AI tool to mimic.
Practical example: Lets say it...
You might want to make it even more clear that this Patreon debacle you're referencing isn't current. Even as a regular Patreon user and after reading your full article I had to double check to make sure I hadn't missed some new Patreon Policy disaster with all this OGL stuff going on.
It's all about the Mountain Dwarf, with +2 to Str and +2 to Con racial you can afford to invest in Dex. With Point Buy you're guaranteed to start with 15 AC (+3 Con, +2 Dex) which becomes 17 AC with a Shield.
MonsterEnvy I don't suppose you happen to know why those weren't included? Quality-wise it's on par compared to some of the other illustrations, but I could see the direction being too similar to Ghouls - that would be my issue with them.
I was a bit disappointed by how many of the new monsters from MToF didn't include art - We got more art for a relatively generic Duergar, but not for the new Duergar constructs for example. The Star Spawn were another where the art was lackluster. All of these new and different Star Spawn and...
Where did the chains come from? Why does it have chains? Is it chained to the.. ground? How does it move? If it's as old as the Abyss itself who made the chains? Gah, so many chain related questions for this thing...