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Well, yes, deepfakes are a different question not really related to AI generated (adjusted or not) artwork (and if someone wants to...

And yet I'm perfectly comfortable having done so in this case. Given the complete statement I made there (both sentences) if someone...

Why would you play only D&D when there is a wealth of different experiences to be had with other genres and systems?

If I may ask, how does 5e handle PCs from races with more baked in special abilities? Otherwise, it helps to have potentially playable...

Yeah, that seems excessive. I just got my oar in because there are a lot of cases where I think ongoing NPCs on the fly is kind of a...

I remember Dr Catherine Asaro disassembling some jerks on rec.arts.sf.written in the ‘90s who were sure that no woman could grasp...

We're... an interesting country. Look at it this way -- we just named the thing the One Big Beautiful Bill/Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L...

Well, using OD&D as an example here is setting the bar about as low as it can get. Even a lot of pretty lightweight modern RPGs would...

I can do that with one or two numbers, but with others the combination of making them up and keeping them consistent from one session to...

Well, I wasn't thinking of D&D5e because I know next to nothing about it, and most of the games I do GM do not have that sort of...

My favorite subgenre is when "The Incorrect Dude" is trying to make a point where the facts point to the literal exact opposite of their...

A popular one is engineers who think they understand medicine more than biologists or even doctors.

This is one of the reasons I suspect AI art is going to end up being more acceptable in RPG books than purely AI text; at least at its...

So, this reads as, "I, the GM, get to discard your reasons (mechanical, worldview, or cultural influences) as invalid, so you cannot...

That just turns on how much I'm sure someone is going to interact with the NPC in a way that might require some numbers. If that's the...