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I mean, Kingmaker and Abomination Vaults are sort of more open than most APs, aren't they? One is closer to a classic multi-delve dungeon crawl and the other is a kingdom-building AP. They get more topics because there's just a lot more ways they can go, so there are more questions to ask.

Playtest is out!

Starfinder going to Paizo 2E mechanics might get me to look more thoroughly at those books. As someone who cut his teeth on WotC Star Wars I was kind of done with 3.X space stuff, but this might perk my interest. It'd have to be really good, though, get me away from Genesys/FFG SW.

Warlord time, baby~! Also apparently the Guardian is going to be the new tankiest tank and the Crusader is taking a slight tankiness nerf with a damage increase? At least that's what someone told me... roughly 15 minutes ago, but I do not know where they got that.

PF2 seems to be doing quite well. Books are coming out at a good pace with good quality, the line consistently charts at the second place in the ICv2 ranks and in this last report they said that they were a place where D&D people (particularly older players) were migrating to. They won't take...

It's a much cleaner game. System-wise it's more balanced, it does retain a lot of the complexity but in different ways that are generally easier to interact with. You still have a bunch of axes of customizability, but overall they've made it so there aren't really "trap choices" and long...

We are starting to get to the point where 3D printing might be able to make up that ground. It's always been a difficult game trying to catch up with D&D-style bestiaries (especially once you get past the common monsters from the first ones), but with print-on-demand maybe it'll make it a bit...

But closer to the topic, I think a lot of those things ("Drawing takes an action", etc) are key to the system and forcing the players to make choices, as well as making things simpler on the GM (No need to hash whether something is a Full Action or a Bonus Action, etc, since you can just say...

I mean, you might want to combine feats into certain packages, so there is less choice but still the same amount of things to do. I would say if you want to capture PF2, the things you want are: 3-Action Economy Robust class skeleton which handles the numerical growth of things. Feats which...

I mean, we'll see how many it needs. It definitely seems more effective than those posts indicate, so I would not be as confident as they are that it's "dead" given that it's only just hit the scene.

As with a lot of AI people, they're probably a bit premature in that: Seems like the limited dataset makes actually knowing difficult to figure out how bad it can be, especially at this juncture.

Yeah, using artists as part of the prompts kind of gives away the game.

I see the exact opposite: an environment of mass AI proliferation benefits large corporations that can afford to have their own private and new art pools and such in the future, while AIs open to consumers will have to work from the diminishing returns of whatever is currently out there since...

No, vision and intent do transform the thing. It's why we have things like satire exceptions. AI doesn't know what satire is and can't create it. Just because a machine can spit something out doesn't make it transformative, especially when it requires the art of others to produce anything.

Because, at the end of the day, these aren't intelligences making something but simply an algorithm imitating something based on prompts. It has no intent, no artistic vision, etc. That just doesn't exist because it's simply taking whatever it can from whatever art it can get. If there is no...

I mean, sure, I could. You might not like it, but I could at least make something. AI can't make anything without the works of others. If you give it a prompt and nothing to scrap, it can create nothing. Sure! Again, I can just do that. I don't need references. You can disagree with my...

Humans can make art without reference, AI currently cannot. If it wants to use art (and it has to use that art to make anything) it should be done with permission and possible recompense to those who made it, otherwise it's just piracy. But while humans can do things and be transformative, AI...

But that's not really the case. Again, the thing isn't drawing off itself, but scanning dozens of pictures and continually using them to make their new art. It's not like looking at something once, but a sort of continual tracing. I mean, it's not like people making AI care about anything...