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In this case its the art director doing a bad job by commissioning crappy art. AI art directors is the next big thing? :D Likely making an educated guess at what kind of art will appeal to an audience is too complex a job for any AI for quite some time.

I'm sleepless and in a chatty mood, so I'll go off on a tangent. One fault I find with myself as a gamemaster is that I am too willing to give the player's hints about what I consider a reasonable angle of attack against a problem that comes up. Example: The PCs are escorting a carriage...

What AI "replaces" is the art that either pays well or is not used at all. Publishers will still want quality art to decorate covers and attract buyers.

Weird combat emulates sanity rules.

I'm 58, and I agree with the OP about feeling my age, if not as badly. I am lucky to have friends that introduce me to new TTRPGs that are rules-light and play more along what I want that the D&D 2014 I am playing now. So next year it will be Blades in the Dark for us. At the same time I am a...

Can I ask you to pose an example of a GM saying NO in this kind of situation? What would the GM be saying NO to? That might clarify what you mean when you say Always Yes.

To me, always saying Yes as a GM implies the player can override GM inputs. If the GM says that a PC fails at anything, the GM is not saying Yes unless the player agrees. If the player introduces a new plot in the narrative an Always Yes GM cannot say No. So at this point the player can can...

I started another thread here about the availability of AI GMs, and a link was posted in the very first reply: Exists. Any AI Gamemasters Out There?

If I'm to take this seriously, I think the result would not be what we conventionally call a role-playing game, it would be collaborative storytelling. If a group of people come up with a common conceit of a situation and agree to collaborate on what is essentially a letter novella, it can...

He literally posted right above you in this thread. I think quoting is inappropriariate.

I've had games where the players were restricting themselves far more than I was. This of course differs from player to player, depending on personality and personal experience. The important thing is for everyone to be reasonably on the same page. If one player is playing the Hulk and another...

I find VTTs are addictive and hard to get out of. I'd prefer to get my games back to face-to-face, but once the players taste the convenience of virtual gaming, its darned hard to get them back in my living room. :(

Anyone has a clue about how many of DriveThruRPG's customers are using this filter? How many even knows the filter exists?

Associated with the thread on use of AI in RPGs, that thread is mainly about a gamemaster using AI as a resource. But another thing that might appear in the future and might already be here, anyone has actual experience with AI as a gamemaster? I've seen people mention it as a writing prompt...

And now an argument against AI for text and images. :)

Very much this. Technology can worsen the quality of life and still win out. Agriculturalists lived shorter lives, were smaller, and suffered from more diseases than hunter-gatherers. Agriculturalists had one big advantage, they could feed many more people in a certain area. And numbers win...

The Twin Cataclysms in narrative terms are a placeholder for nuclear war, making modern Greyhawk a long-past-apocalyptic setting. Considering how hot the themes of nuclear war were in the 70s it might have seen natural for Gary & Co to play on this theme. Because it was so log ago, the details...

I've not followed the discussion past the first page, but I remember an option from 2014 to increase the time resting takes and make resting more rare. Something like this: a short rest requires what a long rest does now, and a long rest is only possible in a safe place and takes a week of...