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My objection isn't that OpenAI read a bunch of data they scanned from the internet. If all they were doing was having their AI read the contents of their browser cache as it was being displayed in the browser window, I don't have any problem with that. I don't think it's possible for a copyright...

Okay, sure. I thought you were requesting plot hooks for adventures that would be thematically appropriate for a plane full of paladins and their gods. I guess I misunderstood.

Did OpenAI train ChatGPT using only the temporary files cached by their internet browsers? Or did they save all the copyrighted files they scraped onto a server; compile those otherwise unmodified works into an indexed training set; and then use that stored data as a commercial asset for one...

To find a certain pilgrimage site, travelers must blaze a trail through an uncharted wilderness, navigate the tunnels beneath an ancient temple, and solve a series of puzzles and riddles. Every leg of the journey is a metaphorical exploration of an important life lesson, chosen by the plane...

I'd say Arcadia is very alien. The sun is a rotating, hemispherical spotlight that never sets, and rivers inexplicably make perfect 90-degree turns. Plus, it's the only Outer Plane that's being slowly devoured by one of its neighbors, as hives of ant-people slowly drag it into Mechanus from...

I like to think of Hades as the Shadowfell of the Outer Planes. It's gloomy, soul-crushing, and creepy, with a bunch of miserable dead souls wandering about. (Edit: also, see Stormonu's comment about Ravenloft in the previous post. Great minds, and all that.) Hades is also the Harkonnen planet...

A few years ago, I started prep work on a long-term project in my spare time: I wanted to gather information from across my library of Forgotten Realms products and compile my notes into a single DMs Guild product. (Update: This was before Wizards of the Coast announced it would be releasing an...

It's cool that your father wrote the old sci-fi novel with that silly cover. No, not that old sci-fi novel, the other one with the same silly cover. No the other one. Look three shelves down, next to all the other old sci-fi novels with the exact same cover. It's the one with the alien planet...

I want all three in a gift set with a slipcase cover depicting Tiamat.

I like that the alt covers are muted shades of yellow, blue, and red. All three primary colors.

Which worlds, if you don't mind my asking?

The eyes, of course.

Seriously. What's with so many of the characters on these covers staring intently at things off to the side? The composition makes my eyes want to follow these characters' lines of sight, and then I'm left staring at whatever's sitting next to the book cover at the time.

Given the lack of dragons on this cover, the alt cover really needs to be Tiamat.

Two brown recluse bites! Yuck. I've had one, and it was more than enough. Although in my case, the experience didn't put me off spiders. Instead, it convinced me I've conquered spiders. "Is that the best you've got, spiders? You tried, and you failed!"

I'm getting some OG Planescape vibes from this cover. Lolth in a vaguely Tony DiTerlizzi style. I'll definitely be getting this instead of the standard cover.

I forgot about the dragon riders on the back of the standard cover. I wish I could get the alt cover with the dragon rider illustration from standard back cover included somewhere inside.

It's a bit refreshing to look at a D&D cover and see characters who could belong to fictional ethnicities which aren't one-to-one stand-ins for real-world ethnic groups. If I squint hard enough, these characters look a bit like any of a dozen different people I know without exactly matching any...

I don't know. That video looks suspiciously like clickbait. I mean, look at that cartoon arrow. :P

Apologies for mischaracterizing your video. I blame the context in which it was posted. Of late on this particular forum, I have to assume any link posted in a thread asking if WotC has screwed up again is clickbait, since accusing WotC of hyperbolic malfeasance at the drop of a hat seems to be...