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As I recall, even before Rowling became super-toxic (or at least before the public was aware of her toxicity) she was very protective of her world, and wouldn't let others expand on it. I have a vague memory of Hasbro licensing Harry Potter back in the 00s and mentioning "role playing" in the...

Tolkien was very much not a Nazi. When his German publisher asked him to certify that he was "Aryan" in order to be able to publish the Hobbit in German, he basically told them to bleep off, but in slightly more polite terms.

I think it's the same all over the EU. There was a case a few years back where, IIRC, the Wikimedia Foundation had to pay some architects' collection society a bunch of licensing money for publishing pictures of covered buildings. Presumably, this would apply using the same terms as any other...

I unfortunately couldn't find a non-karaoke video version of this one: In the sphere where I was born, Lived the oldest gnome I've seen, And he told us of his life In the Gnomish Space Marines. So we jammed up to the sun In our fine well-built machine, And we joined the stately ranks Of the...

It sort of is, though. Or rather, it assembles the image from bits and pieces of those already existing images – to the point where you can occasionally see artist's signatures on the resulting image.

As I understand it, they will send out a discount code to everyone who bought the Heroes book, whether or not that was via the crowdfunder or in the store. This discount code is for their own store, and you can use it for anything there. One of the things you could buy is a Steam code for the...

This is not the same as being an artist. You might make a case for being an art director, but that's pretty iffy as well.

In no particular order: Punk Storm: Nightcrawler: Spider-Man: Classic Power Man: Ms Marvel:

In my East Texas University game, one of our adventures started with someone trying to photocopy pages from a book written in Enochian (Angel-language), and for Mystic Reasons that resulted in (a) a blurry copy and (b) the Power of Creation held within those pages animating the photocopier in...

If your business model can't support paying people for their labor, you shouldn't be in business. It's one thing to use AI art for your home game. I see that as roughly equivalent to using celebrity headshots for various characters ("the Dean of Arts is played by David Selby"). But just like I...

That's not quite what happened. It was more of a "I never thought the leopards would eat MY face" moment, as they realized there was a step between them committing genocide against the kobolds, pixies, orcs, elves, etc. and the paradise future Rajaat promised: genocide against humans as well...

To me, Champion has a very specific context in Dark Sun: the Champions of Rajaat, or what the Sorcerer-Monarchs were before they settled down and became monarchs.