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I guess I don't understand people who aren't passionate about creating things. All my best dreams are about creative work I would do if I didn't have to earn a living doing something else.

Sorry to hear that. I've definitely been there before, and may be there again soon. That's why I dream of a world where everyone can make a living working in a career they find personally rewarding. I'd rather live in that world than a world where machines provide a bunch of free stuff to...

Now dream of a world where you work full time but get paid nothing, because everyone else wants the fruits of your labor to be so dirt cheap, anyone can afford them. That's the world you're asking professional artists who rely on copyright protections to live in, so presumably, you're okay...

There's a Promotion/Press forum on EN World where posters are permitted to promote their products. Presumably, one could promote fiction there in a thread with the Media tag. (Edit: Burnside posted the relevant link in the next post.)

Maybe their research consisted of watching the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service. One of the characters in that movie was all about unrealistic running blade physics. (It's not a movie I'd recommend, so feel free to take my word for it and save yourself two hours which could be better spent...

Rage Against the Machine I enjoy creative work too much to let AI do it for me. I imagine that’s true of most writers and other artists. While I’m not one of the lucky ones who makes a living doing creative work, I would find it rather depressing if there was no paying creative work left in...

Great suggestions so far! I've been watching Youtube play-throughs of some of the vehicle combat systems mentioned in this thread, and they've given me some good food for thought. Keep the suggestions coming, especially if you want to call out a specific mechanic you think works especially well...

I'm thinking about writing some D&D 2024 house rules for combats involving flying vehicles, and I'm looking for inspiration. Which RPG or supplement would you say has the best combat rules for flying vehicles, and what do you like most about those rules?

NPCs who use sign language appear in several modern WotC adventures (including Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus, Tomb of Annihilation, and Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, if I'm not mistaken). If you look at older editions, sign languages of various sorts are fairly widespread in the Forgotten...

But Dedra did change as a direct result of her experience on Ghorman. Dramatically so. Prior to Ghorman, Dedra did everything by the book. She trusted in the Imperial system. She worked hard to get her superiors to sign off on her inquiries into Axis, because she was convinced she was in a...

Thanks for the comment! If all goes well, the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide will drop in a matter of months. I very much hope it helps you organize your notes! One of my two big design goals: provide a framework people with other Forgotten Realms products can use to organize and build upon...

Some may see that as a drawback to the warlord class. I see it as an opportunity to create a new campaign setting.

I'd say Luthen and Kleya have a father/daughter relationship in which the daughter has long since eclipsed her aging father. She still respects Luthen for showing her the ropes, and Luthen is nominally in charge of their "family business," but Kleya's the one propping up the operation. He's the...

I thought Luthen's backstory was masterclass storytelling, precisely because we find out his persona is a complete lie. The whole time, Luthen's passing himself off as some sort of spymaster/businessman/martyr who's leading the rebellion and then... surprise! Kleya's the real Axis and Luthen is...

Third progress report in a row: (I need to make more progress posting things other than progress reports!) I've added a ten-page list of sources to the end of the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide. For the most part, the list is sorted by topic. A few sources appear under a "general information"...

Perhaps his tragic death will inspire a Dedra redemption arc (or an "I gave my everything to the Empire and this is how you repay me?" arc, in which she catches Andor to prove to herself she can, then lets him go because her bosses don't deserve to benefit from her thankless efforts).

Fittingly, it's the necromancer fan who revives this thread after it was dead for three months :P

I would have liked that, too. On the other hand, assuming the second half of season 2 is decent, having only two seasons of Andor makes my ideal Star Wars viewing order a reality: Episode I: Andor, Season 1 Episode II: Andor, Season 2 Episode III: Rogue One Episode IV: A New Hope Episode V...

The proposed law also creates an obligation for any company that makes GenAI available to Californians. That company must respond any time it receives a written request from a registered copyright owner, even if the company never used any of that individual's copyrighted material. And each time...

I enjoy creative writing too much to let an AI do it for me. Everything I write is purely artisanal. :)