Recent content by Mecheon

Greyhawk's on the chopping block. Sorry Greyhawk fans, but FR kind of does its job better, and FR has more star power. The setting that gave us Baldurs Gate 3 is not going anywhere

No? That's just saying its high tech compared to most D&D worlds, and its in a city. There is no urban fantasy tropes in all that at all. Just because it takes place in a city, doesn't mean its urban fantasy Once again, ask yourself: Does it sound like Twilight? Or Buffy? Or Anita Blake's core...

The first sentence of the Wikipedia article is "Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in a contemporary urban-affected setting". That is precisely what it says. Vampire and the other World of Darkness stuff is Urban Fantasy. The only time D&D was ever urban...

Urban Fantasy is a very specific niche that tends to involve secret groups in the modern day, particularly in the romance side, with those beings living secretly. Tends to go into romance. Vampire is the obvious example when it comes to RPGs Ravnica is a giant city-wide Standard Fantasy City...

If someone asks for an Urban Fantasy recommendation and you give them Ravnica or Sigil, though, they're perfectly in the right to go "the hell are you on about, that's not urban fantasy?". Because, no, Urban Fantasy is a very specific term and set of tropes, and D&D has only really touched it...

System Mastery is my go-to favourite. Just uh, warning, they're not the biggest fans of D&D. But if you like to hear about obscure TTRPGs, they can't be beat I respect your opinion but, let's be brutally honest here: Does anyone actually remember the draconic pantheon except for Tiamat...

Its also a very interesting book if you're interested in WoW's development. Lands of Mystery, one of the expansions , gave us our first look at Northrend two years before Wrath would release. And if you compare the maps from Lands of Mystery to that in Wrath of the Lich King, its basically a...

It was the Weekend in Hell adventure place if you didn't have anywhere else to go. And, honestly? It wasn't scary. It was so bad at being scary they had to introduce a check that was basically the "Okay you're scared now" check. As the original one shows, its supposed to be the setting where...

I don't think anyone views it this way? This sounds more like a 3.5 era complaint, where Ravenloft gave us the Archivist and all of that cheese.

I don't think its the pixels at all that make it art. I think its the intention behind it, the desire that this will be art. Regular gameplay of a video game isn't art, but it sure as heck adjusts pixels. On the other hand you can then turn it into art by editing and adjusting things

All the best artists have a whole heap of attempts and tries in the past we never saw. The first attempt won't be the best Find something that works for you. I can't draw for anything, but I can make Minecraft skins (I still need to go back and finish a loxodon, because for inexplicable reasons...

Debatable. People have been drawing for most of human history. I'm pretty sure you could put pen to paper and make something. Sure, its not going to be crash hot, but given something as simple as two stick figures fighting launched a whole artistic movement back in the 00s, it can be just what...

His post didn't have any notation about it being digital art only. I hardly took it out of context, it was worded far too generically. Frankly I think it still a valid point as the definition does exclude music which is the obvious one (and music is a bit of a hot button topic with AI generated...

5E is a massively different beast to the early days. Not only do hirelings just, not exist at all, but player death is rare enough in the game that for something to be 'common' when it happens, that's downright unusual That's where character retirement can come in. But I do think its worth...

So? It was a poor definition that does not match how the word is used. The context is irrelevant, you're used a word with a definition and then attempted to re-define it in such a way to exclude things that people unequivocally call art, all to try to prove a point about AI. I can describe food...