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Shout out for Jollibee's - their peach mango pie is super tasty.

I've been researching the magic lore of DnD for a possible DMsGuild side project to be published perhaps in between The Trial of Asmodeus and Realmspace Traveler's Guide. The Weave is often mistaken as the "origin" of magic, when it is actually a tool for channeling magical energy and assisting...

A Redditor caught some further shadiness from Unity; apparently a license change tracker was removed, and terms of service "silently" edited by Unity earlier this year. The commenter speculates that Unity is keeping the door open to more abrupt changes to the license in the future.

Looks like Unity posted Q & A on their forums. https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750/ Something sounds bat****-insane about this part: Q: Is software made in unity going to be calling home to unity whenever it's ran, even for enterprice licenses? A...

Another update from the Axios reporter: "NEW - I got a major update from Unity about their new fees Unity "regrouped" and now says ONLY the initial installation of a game triggers a fee Demos mostly won't trigger fees Devs not on the hook for Game Pass"

So apparently a reporter for Axios got a little more detail from Unity. "I got some clarifications from Unity regarding their plan to charge developers per game install (after clearing thresholds) - If a player deletes a game and re-installs it, that's 2 installs, 2 charges - Same if they...

Game devs say Unity’s big change puts studios at risk So apparently there was an announcement about Unity having an install fee PER game copy downloaded. The information is unfortunately vague coming from the company, but this could affect a wide range of games, many of which people might not...

Summoning spells deserve a shout out. So many plots revolve around summoning magic in popular literature.

It's worth noting that teens and 'tweens play DnD too, with teen and 'tween DMs running campaigns with their friends or classmates, so things that may seem common sense to an adult may not be so to a minor who is still learning social behaviors and norms. Reminding the DM about being...

In terms of today's social standards and business marketing, "almost nobody" is practically equivalent to "nobody". I don't make the rules of society; that's just how things are in the world. A few thousand potentially offended people (at best) won't affect the bottom line for a business that...

Almost nobody worships the Olympians anymore, so they would probably get a free "culture pass" to do whatever. Tyr, Tymora, Beshaba, and Silvanus would otherwise have been removed from the Forgotten Realms setting.

A possible narrative reason why Constitution makes sense would be that Counterspell works by disrupting the physical flow of magical energy in the target's body as they're gathering that energy to cast the spell.

I also include compact lists and spell summaries in the beginning of my projects, so it's not a problem for people to find what they're looking for - they don't have to go through the whole book page by page. Keeping it divided by level in the full description text section makes it so that...

A lot of people were moved enough to comment for the way I organized the spells in my projects on DMsGuild, dividing spells by level then arranging them alphabetically in each level subsection, making the spells really easy to look up. I think that 5.5e and 6e need to have better organization...

Modrons are creatures who are a mix of mechanical and biological, so not all parts can be readily replaced on their bodies.

I think that it should be noted that AI-generated images currently have no copyright protection (at least in the USA), which makes them a potential legal liability for businesses. If somebody does a sketch, but then "finishes" it through an AI generated image, the end product may potentially...

Somebody made an AI NPC mod for Skyrim. It's quite terrifying for someone's hobby side project. AI players for DnD might only be years away, not decades.

DJs research the music they use, set queues, adjust mixes, travel, and operate machines for the service they provide. They provide a form of manual labor, they don't flood the music market with copies of unlicensed, illegal mixes (though some probably have tried and gotten in trouble for it)...

There's a difference between being impossible to stop disruption and reducing the impact of disruption. It's not a situation of yes or no, but how far on a scale of 1-10. That's why there is pushback now, before it's too late to make even a small difference.

Digital photography and associated editing suites still require actual work from a human being, often taking a long time to truly master. AI-generated images are created by a non-human set of algorithms with low effort text prompts, and can be mass-produced at a huge rate. The actual human...