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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.

I set my East Texas University game in 2010 (well, 2011 now after one in-game year) both because it fits the backstory timeline better and because that way I don't have to deal with the current madness.

There are approximately 200 nations in the world, each with different forms of identification (and some have multiple different forms within the nation). It doesn't seem like it would be easy to set up something to analyze them all for age verification purposes.

In the overall resource management scheme, I agree. They are fairly distinct within the encounter itself though, as build-and-spend tends to enforce a particular rhythm in the encounter. To some degree, I believe 13th age does the same via hp thresholds on crowd control spells and the...

That used to be a fairly common occurrence back in the day: Spider-Man and the Punisher were after the same criminals, so Spider-Man had to both keep the Punisher from getting to them first and murdering them, and catch the criminals. There's a post-Brand New Day comic I sometimes see posted...

That has been widespread and common throughout much of history all over the world. I haven't watched the video (TL;DW), but European peasants were required to do work for their lords. Wikipedia article here. For much of history, that's precisely what it did. One of the many things the French...

There's also: 4. Build-and-spend within the context of an encounter. Over the course of an encounter you gain some form of resource, either automatically or by performing some kind of action, and this resource can be spent on various abilities. This is the model Draw Steel uses. 5. Short-term...

I believe that was Persona, not Palantir. But that's still linked to Satan (aka Peter Thiel).

Is it? How do you propose to verify users' ages? Do they have to upload some form of ID? How do you deal with IDs from all the world's nations? How do you verify that the ID is actually the user's? And how do you make sure to keep them secure from data breaches, like e.g. Discord recently...

IIRC, it was also the way to unlock more Power Stunts, or how to use your power(s) in new ways. It was fairly common for one of the more flexible powers (e.g. Earth Control or Telekinesis) to start with one power stunt beyond the power's basic use, and you'd need to develop further ones in play.

In Rolemaster, which is rather heavily influenced by Tolkien, you have three "ranks" of Men: High, Mixed, and Common. High Men are basically Dunedain, and have a specific culture as well. Mixed and Common men have different stat bonuses, but both have the same variety of cultures available (e.g...