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There’s another solution as well. Amend ‘fair use doctrine by judicial interpretation to include all content used to train AI and put...

This. It’s up to the people who want to use the data to work out who they need to pay for it, and if they can’t, get by without it. And...

That sounds like their problem, not ours. And I think that is where we'll end up. It won't be as bad as you think; new types of...

I’m personally a big fan of Advantage/Disadvantage but I’d really rather 5E picked one mechanism and stuck with it - for instance the...

Having now read Pugmire (which is great, just a really well streamlined version of 5E, I’d definitely consider running it) and the Great...

mouse over text: I learned from Achewood that since this poem is in ballad meter, it can be sung to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Since...

Our Superman was a Brit, Our Batman was a Brit, our Spider-Man is a BRIT. All of these characters are very American. Peter is a kid from...

The one drawback of the Pugmire system (all 3 core games are one system and one setting, in 3 different subsettings) is that it's got...

“I’m not a soda jerk, I’m a valve manifold operator!”

Well I suppose I should post this here. Warning- do not read if you haven't seen the most recent season of Doctor Who! To bring this...

Finished Court of Fives, the first of Kate Elliott's YA fantasy series set around playing a complicated game which feels rather like...

I usually refer to them as "Odd-like games." (Apparently like @Ringtail.) They're pretty fun, though I mostly use them for more...

Since it’s the Matrix I think the AI would just write in Scalzi’s style without asking his permission.

To continue: character creation. 1) You have four attributes (Agility, Charm, Strength, Wits) which start at 1. You have 3 points to...

Yeah, basically depends what Russell T Davies thinks. But otherwise sure, why not.