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AI art can not be copyrighted. At least not in the US. There is growing awareness and backlash against AI-generated art amongst...

At present, most AI is not properly monetized. In other words, people aren't supporting the full cost of the AI data centers. The costs...

For fair disclosure... I merely like STA, not love it. I've run campaigns. 3 of them. I would prefer LUG Trek or PD1 slightly to it for...

I'll be contrary to the bad press. I love the 2D20 system, though I won't call myself a fanboy. Not all variants have been great. Some...

Again, opinionated means more than just having an opinion. And I'm just going to leave it at that.

It means more than that. It means one is "dogmatic in expressing their opinion" or to "firmly or unduly adhere to one's opinion." I've...

Key tropes of BW play: GM builds adventures based upon on-the-character-sheet goals set by players All actions need to specify goal...

I've run TTRPG sessions that mirrored the content type of ultima. I've had entire months where it was one fight into another... And not...

My last to 10th campaign was 6 hour sessions, and it wasn't hard at all for them to get the XP... but in 6 hours, that was 4 to 8...

That's actually slow by my D&D experience, but we did XP for GP, as well as for magic items, and random treasure... and a 1 level per...

Thanks folks. That's actually really helpful. I learned something new today and that's always a good thing.

Ok ok ok....maybe it's time to give them another chance. I do like punching Nazis. (Now....a Duke Nukem RPG...that I could get behind...)

They tweak it QUITE a bit for each. The least tweaked I've seen was using STA's core atts for Space 1999... but the tone of the two is...

Sure, thats also a good reason why campaigns dont finish, some folks simply dont care.

Jumping in late on this… I’ve been in the hobby since 1977-78, in multiple groups across 5 cities in 3 states, in over 100 systems...