Recent content by kigmatzomat

Tom Baker because he was my "first" Doctor. Peter Capaldi - Because he was a "mutant" doctor who eschewed the sonic screwdriver and asked "why am I like this?", while most Doctors accepted themselves fully without question. Lastly, the Missy / Bill / Clara /Me arcs could have been trash if...

That would be every RPG designer, artist, author, editor, map creator, mini sculptor, journalist, video game designers, programmers, and actors. Essentially everything ENWorld does or reports on. I personally would like to go back to 28 years of copyright but not only blowing up 8% of the...

Nope, not a lawyer and even if I was, copyright law is a notable crapshoot because by statute it is case-by-case and very non-deterministic. However a) I follow former copyright lawyer & Verge editor Nilay Patel who had a recent podcast on the subject and b) Alsop is a judge who learned how...

tI'm not ignoring it, I'm saying that is a different trial than this one. This judgement JUST says that you can train an LLM using books you buy. Hey look! You gave the quote saying that will be a separate trial! And not sure your "again" was directed at the right person since that was...

What this case does NOT cover is the USE of the database/LLM. This ruling is about a case where the AI company bought a huge number of books and then scanned them in a destructive manner. The books weren't resold so the company keeps their right to a copy of each book. Those books could be...

I leveraged the other oWoD materials. Some, like the Revenant/Crow, work really well. The black spiral dancer werewolves who can vanish into the spirit world are good long-term foes. Pentax, as either a cultist-run company or a mad Technomancer faction trying to force-evolve humanity...

I think Bond deal I dunno. Bond in a vaguely middle eastern region that controls some key resource as drone swarms flying around blowing things up and militia on horseback fire surface-to-surface missiles at cargo ships at the behest of oligarchs, billionairs, fascist despots and religious...

I listened to a BBC podcast on Ian Fleming. He was personally more M than Bond, never going on any field missions, but by the same token his team "30 Assult Unit" were much more Dirty Dozen than Bond. I think he called them the "Filthy Assault Unit" or something similar (along with several...

I ran MtA 1e back in the 90s. The 1e rules were a fascinating idea with a few dumb decisions. I'm pretty sure 2e and later fixed the "useless" sphere ranks. Plus, I really dislike the WW mechanics and prefer the Shadowrun mechanics it was based on. At a meta-plot level you had to take out...

For pure game world versimiltude, Expeditious Retreat Press's Mgical Medieval Society Western Europe. Part major factions, part village-level politics, mix in a stronghold builder system and some core economic concepts that help a GM have a more complete world. The Dragonlance Atlas was an...

Fun 5e fact: mitrhal and adamantine armors are not merely treasure or unusual materials, they are classified as "magic items" that are rarity "uncommon". By being a "magic item" they lose their properties while inside an Antimagic Field, meaning adamantine doesn't block criticals and mithral...

I'm not surprised. Disney has been behind copyright extensions in the US forever. Just as a vweu superficial copyright overview /"what-if" exemplars including rpg impact ( disclaimer: IANAL, YMMV, etc) 1790 copyright -14yrs that can be extended one time The public domain had most things...

My approach is that most jewelery is fundamentally valued based on material content plus a relatively small amount for labor (10% or less). Some of this is from my assumption of "spec" artisans for expensive things, where the buyer provides the funds for the materials as part of the contract...

Here I was thinking it was Simon Green's Deathstalker series, which is it's own kind of sword & sorcery & super-science.

Escaped dungeon! 20 months IRL! (Princes of the Apocalypse)