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The generative AI we have today is really bad at generating long-form content. You might be able to cook up a chatbot trained on the combined writings of Gary Gygax that presents a fairly convincing facsimile of what a chat with him would be like, but trying to get AI to generate a complete...

Not available to druids, but friends and a shovel is an option.

Interesting. Do you have any specific examples?

There is an entire school of literary criticism that holds that authorial intent is completely irrelevant when it comes to understanding a work. The work exists on its own, and only what is in the work matters, not what the author planned to put in there. If an author feels that this is...

Most "peasants" aren't going to earn coin or pay for their living expenses with money, they'll primarily eat what they farm and live in the cottage they inherited from their father, who in turn got it from his father. They'll make do as long as they aren't taxed too hard and monsters are kept at...

Then you should re-examine your assumptions.

But the government allows companies to exist because they provide goods and services. If the only thing companies did was to enrich their owners they would be illegal.

I'm allowed to learn to dance by watching Morrus. Why not let an AI learn too? Why can't it look at anything publicly available and learn just ike people do? There are obvious reasons ... but at the core, that argument will be there and in the end will win.

No, that's not what generative AI does. AI detects patterns in random visual noise that resembles what the user requested, then repeats the process.

No, that is what's called free trade. Capitalism is a system where the means of production is controlled by private owners for profit. Capitalism and free trade often go hand in hand, but they are different concepts.

Terminated! :cool: Hasta la vista, baby!

It's easy to see the appeal of AI generated art when we learn that it took an expert artist more than 2 weeks to paint this piece, while an amateur with an AI can generate a picture that's 90% as good in 2 minutes. My heart goes out to the aspiring artists who see their dream job vanish before...

Not buying the 2024 rulebooks...

I'm sure WotC could have hired engineers to code up a decent alternative to D&D Beyond from scratch for far less than 150m dollars. But getting users would be more challenging. A lot of the D&D players who are interested in an online character generator and rules database are already invested...

Hard to say if this claim is true, but if WotC gets accused of using AI art regardless of whether or not they are, they might just decide there's no longer any reason not to use AI art.

Anyway, I doubt we'll see the older edition SRDs in CC anytime soon. The staff left at WotC after the layoffs probably have more important things to work on than preparing documents that aren't going to earn any money and only a small number of people even care about.

It wouldn't surprise me if preparing the pre-5E SRDs for CC was de-prioritized by WotC management soon after the promise was made, and they have no plans of picking it up again.

The LEGO group is becoming increasingly dominant in in the global toy market, squeezing out rivals like Hasbro and Mattel.

Merry Christmas...

Are there any magical focuses that require you to cast a spell with them to work? All the ones I remember only require the caster to be holding the item to receive the benefits.