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That advice by the way, is some of the best ever put in an RPG book. We all probably skip the 'how to be a GM' chapter, but this is one book were you should read that stuff line by line, maybe even print out a page of your PDF and bring a highlighter. Because the 'narrative format' is an...

My print copy arrived yesterday, and I grabbed my PDF about an hour ago after a work meeting wrapped up. Seriously geeking out right now. Some fun things: It has FFXIV Miqote - the cat people can be that or furry at your discretion and some of the art has them as miqote. There's a campaign...

I finally looked at that last night and scanned through all entries of them. One of them has 'Void Elf' in parenthesis on it's entry. So I guess that will be an Elf heritage in Starfinder 2E to fill the same lore spot.

That reads like the anti-semitic version of "I have a black friend"... It doesn't "sanitize things". Not sure if they can legally just drop the project, but if they could, that'd be the only actual way to be clean of the issue. Remember when Kevin Spacey turned out to be as toxic as a nuclear...

Back in 1999 I got a job working at a Graphic Design company in the height of the first dot-com bubble. Every one of the designers had been trained on print media, magazines, fashion shows, etc. They'd all taken a few classed in things like using an old 'pre OSX' Mac and using old Photoshop and...

I actually prefer the MM one there. I like the lighting. The MM one has more mood.

My physical copy was on my doorstep a few hours after I made the above post. So it will probably be in local shops within the next 2 weeks. Subscribers get about that much lead time I think.

Pathfinder lore fans often note Travel Guide as a favorite book. Self included. It's a whole book on just what is life like for people in the setting. Things like fashion, foods, sports, common games, trade routes, holidays, and so much more. I'll be mining this book even when I start running...

The Galaxy Guide is out. shipped for me a week ago, and should get here any day. I've had the PDF since last Friday though. It's a lore update for the setting, but also has a lot of character addons - ancestry feats, archetypes, and so on. There's curiously a whole section for new Dragonkin...

It does not have a Foundry key for the beginner box, but the PDF lets you qualify for a discount on that - making the Foundry key $15 I think.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/pathfinder-second-edition-asian-fantasy-bundle-paizo-books It has the Remaster Player Core and GM Core, Monster Core, Remaster Beginner Box, Dark Archives, the 1, 2, and 3 Bestiaries, the fists of the ruby phoenix adventure path, the Tian Xia world and...

It looks like Erol Otus is still around, but I haven't seen art with his name on it since that early D&D stuff. Is there new work out there? Looks like his life passed through some of the same places mine did, but a decade earlier.

I'm quoting myself because a month after posting that I finally sat down with the Daggerheart playtest and... I think it does what I was describing. Casters and Martials mostly work off the same 'time scale' for their resources. There might be a few places where they're still trying to play...

This was my intro to RPGs: And that cover is still one of the best pieces of fantasy art I've come across. Despite not being a 'technical masterpiece' in the blockbuster sense - it grabbed me and hooked me on the concept the moment I saw it. I've seen a lot of RPG art over the years. I've...

I find the new stuff is better in a technical sense. But Erol Otus had more 'emotional punch' in his rougher sketches than any tRPG artist before or after him. His work tends to feel full of drama, action, motion, etc. The only appeal I ever felt for Elmore was when I was a teenager he drew...

I find that even with this many LorA are over trained with unrelated elements so mismatches seep in all too often. They can hyperfocus on one thing you described and remove all other elements, then force that one thing in a certain direction. Even when I do describe all of the other things...

A bit of both I think. Especially when it comes to local installs of AI art tools. Bing and ChatGPT have had people put in content filters to moderate what they deliver and to ensure results. When you do this stuff locally and go out there to grab training files - the top sites hosting them...

Imagine defeating an AI enemy that you can't reason with because it actually isn't smart. And that you can't scare into 'stepping back from the brink' because it isn't trying to survive - it's just trying to make more paperclips. Or worse - you wanted an army so it's making one, and you happen...

I don't think they're using AI Art in that are they? But one side impact of all these new training models is a lot of actual artists are now getting accused of doing Ai Art by the 'anti AI' folks. The training models are just using existing styles, and they happen upon your style, suddenly...