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Well, this is one for the people complaining about how WotC doesn't respect the old TSR-era lore, I suppose? It's a personal gripe, but WotC really seems to be developing a habit of jumping the entire wrong way for my taste when re-doing legacy settings. Leaning hard into the 'weekend in hell'...

It seems like almost every fantasy-art woman it generates trends towards elf, probably a reflection of the sheer volume of 'beautiful elf woman' art out there that this has been trained on. I can't even get it to generate an 'androgynous Asian wizard' without pointy ears, despite specifying...

I tried both 'beardless' and 'cleanshaven' in an attempt to generate a non-garden-gnome gnome, with no success. You might do ok with something like 'youthful', or 'androgynous' even - just be prepared for lots of clearly female figures from the latter. Another thing to try is to stack multiple...

The training set must be absolutely stuffed full of beautiful female elves. That’s testing the generator on its strong suit. Try to get it to do an ugly female elf. Or just a plain, average, slightly plump middle aged female elf.

The first wizard still has pointy ears though, and good luck getting the half-orc to be 'muscular' and still female! :LOL: Yeah, I suspect you'd get something pretty usable eventually if you kept on trying, but it's more out of random chance than anything. There's clearly just holes in the...

Played with it a bit, it seems to work well as long as you stick to the fantasy conventions. As soon as you ask for something even a little bit left-field, it gets confused. I've been trying to give it a Spelljammer prompt, for two of my to-be-played-someday characters, using sundry variations...

Evil Genius Sues Netflix Over Canceled Rebel Moon TTRPG Well, this looks like a mess. I don't think I've ever seen a Zach Snyder film that I've genuinely liked, but jeez it'd be rough to be Evil Genius in this scenario. RPG developers aren't exactly rolling in money, imagine having to throw...

I've found that Kobold Press's player-facing material certainly trends underpowered when compared to WotCs stuff. There's exceptions on both sides, of course, but I'm talking in general terms.

The Southlands Player's Guide book from a couple of years back added additional (and better) gnoll subraces into Midgard, though I'm a bit surprised they never got promoted to open game content. I'm not a massive fan of the KP gnoll game mechanics mind you. The Bully and Obsequious racial...

I've always had a soft spot for gnolls, though have never had the chance to play one. There was a brief phase in (I think) the 90s when, in the absence of half-orcs in the PHB, it looked like gnolls were being set up to be a new 'monster' PC race that didn't have all the baggage of orcs or...

There are only so many GM screens that anyone needs though. I'm only speaking personally, but for me, a screen bundled with any product i want to buy is an unwanted tax, and makes me less likely to purchase the product. I haven't even bought the WotC DM screen, but i still have at least four...

For starters, this is a bit of a false dichotomy. It is perfectly possible for a company of WotCs resources to put out a product that is both content-rich AND pretty. Second - well, WotC seem to believe this, given in the wake of Spelljammer several things happened - a) the page count of...

With a slight caveat about what they decided to PUT in those pages (if they decided to stuff them full of more stolen Dark Sun monsters, the top of my head might pop off), but on the whole, yeah. Fingers crossed they've learned their lessons. I was more interested in Spelljammer than...

I'd agree with that, and to be honest I think it was a decent idea, though i probably would have tried to lower the price point a bit by sticking the monsters and the adventure in one DM-facing book, and dropping the GM screen. The shrinkwrapping is a pretty logical thing too, since it stops...

Oooh, i wish i'd thought of that one!

No Al-Qadim either. I would be interested to know though - does anyone actually have favourite PC character races? They always ask, but the concept seems weird to me.

Well, in this particular case they've got some pretty decent samples of game mechanical material on the kickstarter page that you can look at (and which i should look at, at some point before the campaign closes and i decide whether to or not to put cash into this thing). So it's not an...

No. they want us to buy their new book, but they're not primarily marketing it to us. We're not their enemies, we're not being persecuted or hounded out of the hobby or anything. We're just a relatively small minority market segment, and we'll get the attention that our numbers warrant. On...