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The present discussion impacts the white collar, college educated jobs. But its doubly insidious. Here's why: - The impact of COVID19 has revealed that a lot of those white collar jobs can be done remotely (something many of us already understood, but larger businesses and government did not...

Congress never really addressed the dumb loopholes in it. And all the fun of requesting Google remove links and have them then post them to Chilling Effects, making them easier to find.

AI is everywhere now but it is just now colliding with the market of expressions of intellectual property, which is far, far larger an issue that encompasses the worries in this little vertical market of RPGs. What we haven't really seen yet are new laws and rulings under current laws. The...

There are some limited conditions under fair use, which applies to humans.

That's where its going to get especially interesting if courts begin to consider the intent of the training on one hand, and separately on how it is used. We could see a huge explosion of 'trade dress' related lawsuits.

I think while there seems to be no intellectual property protection for the output gives us a very short moment to consider other factors. I predict that once appropriate lawsuits are pursued, we will see some additional protection. For example, any training derived from non-permitted learning...

It is a problem exacerbated by being on a 'gold standard.' Most non-business transactions should be in CP (or barter). It seems to me that rarity never quite worked in non-magic situations in D&D. It seems to me that there needs to be a step lower than 'common goods' and prices are set lower...

I have found that being able to argue based on your contract usually avoids court or arbitration.

AI is a threat to many creative endeavors. However in this case, she's left out the actual terms of the contract that should expressly govern how she's paid and if the client can arbitrarily reduce her pay.

The point of new editions is to sell new sets of books, both to existing customers and new customers. It also allows you to make price and licensing agreement changes (much like a new software release). 5e was doing pretty well until this year. The risk of One D&D was that, with a new set of...

I have run games in established canon worlds but, despite the canon, its still the shared fun of my group. For that reason, I let players change the results. For example, I ran a long campaign using MERP / Rolemaster in which Thorin met the PCs in Bree. He's agreed to Gandalf's plan but wants...

But not the boxed set / books, which is long delayed. Hull Breach came together, ran a Kickstarter, and delivered a very polished product while the Mothership Kickstarter is well over a year late.

There's also the classic way to handle it: beta testing. Collect enough interested users and pump them for feedback on the specifics that concern you. But I think if you wait long enough, AI may be able to provide a solution. While I haven't used them in a long time, Ragor graphs have been...

Seems to be popular as DrivethruRPG is struggling just to add it to the cart.

I guess that's what happens, they were just too silent ;-) Well, sorta. It exploded among the high school and younger crowd in the 1980s but, it was more of a college age thing during the 70s. A lot of my earliest experiences gaming was around 1976-77, but there were a few instances where I was...

Why? All of the writers at that time were Boomers.

That is an even deeper rabbit hole and one reason why I have been thinking a lot more about if worlds are full of zero level beings as a norm or, if most everyone has a level. A high magic society that has potion stores and resurrections on tap really call out for answers.

I usually don't, as either the game worlds I create don't work that way or, if I am running a campaign in a commercially available world (like Forgotten Realms), its just accepted as is. For my own game worlds, I typically give it a little thought. Some modern standards in present western...

I don't have any plans on retiring, but as long as my gaming friends are willing (we've already inducted our collective adult children), there's no reason not to game.

Right, but here's the problem. You cannot really judge if you do not collect the data. You have to look at the data through the lens of how you collected the data. Chances are really good that many early generation players 'moved on' in some way, such as stopped playing, found a different...