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To be fair, I've never heard of any of the terms I listed either.

Here are a few more: Bottlepop RPG - I guess it makes sense that there's a genre of light and poppy RPGs, but I see too many being described like this. Dungeon Theater - a term used too often to dismiss all the descriptive elements in a dungeon or adventure that aren't necessary for game play...

I really wish people would stop using the following terms when discussing roleplaying games: Barconian - not every system is truly Barconian and it waters down the term to overuse it. Dice Queen - having lots of dice shouldn't make anyone a target of derision. Fungeon - if I read one more...

It sounds like they don't want to be a commission artist! On the other hand just today I had a talk with my friend who is really excited to get to work on a bunch of commissions. I think the truth is that when anyone is asked to do a task they do not want to do, they feel somewhat like a robot...

Can you imagine taking the time to carve an entire sculpture out of stone and then being told by the client, "Eh, it's not quite what we are looking for."

I love going in with a blank slate! It gets my creative fires burning. When I start a new campaign with a new group, I go through a questionnaire with them (inspired by Ironsworn) in which we decide the feel, environments, deadliness, and common opponents of a setting. I even have them help...

At some point in the next few months I'm going to be starting a new campaign. When I start a new campaign, I like to create the setting collaboratively with the players, and even come up with campaign and adventure arcs together. (I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but collaboration like...

Quoting myself here to clarify: What I mean by this is that an artist could, for example, have an AI develop a thousand pictures based on a prompt of beauty and then create a collage in order to expose the AI's inherent bias. Or an artist could use prompts to try to closely recreate classic...

In this scenario, you have conceptualized and revised a product. But was there an actual artistic process?

Wow, and I absolutely disagree. I feel like you are communicating a really reductive view of art and artists as just creators of products and ignoring the fact that art is expression, movement, social response, and an almost uniquely human endeavor. Typing a prompt into AI is nowhere near what...

The original question was "is human art more of greater value than AI art?" Humans can, in fact, use AI, just like any tool, to make art. But I would argue that putting a prompt into an LLM to create a "watercolor painting of a lake" does not have the same value as actually producing a...

If this were true then all art would be representative and styles like cubism, impressionism, and abstract art wouldn't exist.

Yes. Because it's made by humans. Art is not just a product, it's also a process within a historical context. We appreciate the Impressionists not just because of their pretty paintings but because they were rejecting the art movements that came before and experimenting with new styles. You can...

The legal case is also a recent case, and is literally a case. It's silly to point to two recent situations, one in which a judge was tricked and one in which a famously petty man messed with his own LLM, and then say "nobody takes LLMs seriously!"

I'm confused. Isn't this thread about a judge making a legal decision based on the work of a lawyer who used LLMs? So not everyone is pointing and laughing.

Keep in mind this is just an idea for a possible future campaign, so obviously it would be meant for players who want to play in this kind of campaign. In my design process I'm going to assume a table of active, imaginative players.

This is just a loose idea, but here's my thought: Initial Adventure (and securing of treasure): Levels 1 - 3 First Character Arc: Levels 4 - 6 Second Character Arc: Levels 6 - 8 Third Character Arc: Levels 8 - 10 Fourth Character Arc: Levels 10 - 12 In this campaign structure I think it would...

I think this is why you would have to start the campaign with each character having a clear goal of what they would want to do with the money. "Retiring" could be an option, but then that character would, you know, retire, and they'd have to create another character. If they have a simple goal...

I'm between campaigns right now, so I like to play a little game where I ask myself, "If I were running a new campaign tomorrow, what would I do?" I came up with a campaign structure idea in which the characters strike it rich in the first adventure, and then the rest of the campaign is all...

Problem: The players in my groups almost never use their potions. They stockpile healing potions, potions of flight, poisons, etc. No matter the stakes of a combat, potions are rarely, if ever, brought out and used. Even changing consuming potions to a bonus action has not increased their use...