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I think you’re taking for granted a lot of conscious choice that an artist makes - colour, proportion, composition, how light falls on a subject. If you’re not trained in all of that, your exact vision will be lacking (at least for professional use, anyway). A real artist might be able to humour...

It's different enough that someone decided to call them two different things. You need skill for any work of art I would hope - how to make an evocative composition, understanding of light, etc. That would be treating that person like a... well, like a machine. It is probably good you stick to...

That's just automation though. Not generative AI (or LLMs). But you're not drawing on skill from your own mind. If you worked with a human artist - giving them prompt after prompt - "make those eyes bigger", "make that nose smaller" (that would be a really annoying art director, by the...

I've been a Photoshop user for the last 20+ years. I'm not sure what hidden AI features are running under the hood these days - I haven't looked into it. There's the obvious generative tools that seem pretty well sign posted - generative fill, generative expand, etc. You'd have to wilfully be...

That's probably where they'd like to get it though. Maybe AI would finally look good if it got to that point. As it wouldn't just be pulling from a database, it would be pulling from a "real mind" with other sources of inspiration going into the work - like emotions, hopes, fears, life...

I don’t understand how using AI is the same as a paint brush. If you could give the paint brush prompts and it accesses an image database and starts painting for you that might be correct, but the paint brush is just an inanimate object - there’s no 3rd party, no artificial intelligence in it...

You are OK with it?

Anything using AI art I automatically dismiss. 3rd party creators are better off using no art at all if they can't afford to pay a real artist. Then I might check their product out.

What is Luke's work like? I've never read any of his material. eg. the World of Okkorim? Lost City of Gaxmoor?

I hope they simplify it, too, but people with ultra-crunchy RPGs don't tend to do that. (Unless maybe they do a separate "basic set" release but that usually only gets token attention.) And the blurb suggests it is just a rules refinement plus even more options added. I hope I'm wrong, though...

Vecna was a Dark Lord at one stage. I guess he's pretty big being a god.

They sound like a similar size to the Revamped ones. Apparently they were 3.75" x 5.25".

It will be interesting to see what they do with the Tarokka deck. What size it will be and if it will have new art. I think the previous Gale Force Nine one retailed for $10 USD. Was the Tarokka deck from the Revamped set the only ones released so far that were larger than playing card size...

It would be interesting to know what figures mean your company is in a healthy position. For example, the “impression” I get from various posts and comments about Steve Jackson Games is that they can only afford to pay the bills and therefore don’t innovate much on some of their product lines -...

I’ve backed many but will only mention my first and most recent: My first Kickstarter was in 2012 for the Numenera RPG. It was a 10/10 campaign and 10/10 product but I’m not really into sci-fi/fantasy so I shouldn’t have backed it. I was just coming out of 3E and a big Monte Cook fan. I sold it...