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As an aside, I don't understand how opt-out features are even remotely ethical. Silence isn't the same as consent.

Presumably, there has to be a human writing prompts somewhere. It can't be AI turtles all the way down.

Back in the day, when I looked at the maps from the first the Dark Sun boxed set and the "Valley of Dust and Fire" adventure, it occurred to me that the entire Dark Sun setting described up to that point would fit almost perfectly inside the Anauroch Desert in the Forgotten Realms setting. I...

That should be this app's official slogan: DALL-E 3. You might need to refine with "smaller ears." (TM)

Just curious. Has anyone with an account asked for an image of an ugly elven woman?

Now I want to play a necromancer carrying a staff with an incorporated rat.

Agreed. I would love it if there was an AI this powerful which used an ethical (public domain/copyleft/opt-in only) training set. Heck, I'd probably even support something like that on a crowdfunding site if it looked achievable.

Does anyone know if there's an app that can tell when an image is generated by an AI? I'm planning on publishing a large RPG sourcebook on a shoestring budget, and I would love to use some (ethical, non-AI) stock art. Unfortunately, based on what I'm seeing in this thread, I can only assume...

Is it the sorcerer? It's the sorcerer, isn't it? [/me being facetious]

Well, there are also Druids currently living in the real world, so...

The logical part of my brain is reserving judgment on this whole situation. The creative part of my brain is imagining the following conversation taking place in a Netflix boardroom: Netflix Suit #1: "Bad news guys. The screenwriters' strike is over and we have to pay them for their work, now."...

You are correct. It was 4e where gnolls were playable. (And here I was, thinking I didn't remember anything from 4e.)

I can't speak to 4e, but gnolls were Humanoids in MM 2014. They were even playable Humanoids in Volo's Guide to Monsters. But when the Volo's stat blocks were reprinted in MotM, gnolls became Monstrosities. EDIT: Apparently, I can speak to 4e. When I was thinking of gnolls being playable, it...

Regarding species being assigned alignments: I noticed in Monsters of the Multiverse that WotC now states in every Humanoid stat block that members of the species in question can belong to any alignment. Except gnolls, who are apparently so Chaotic Evil, the book retcons them to be Chaotic Evil...

I'm enjoying reading everyone's posts. Thanks for all the insightful responses.

That's a fair point. I've seen posters dissecting the "Tieflings of Many Worlds" section, which strongly implies that tieflings are descendants of heroes who fought against Fiends. But as you correctly observe, many of the Fiendish Legacy options come with some dark and edgy lore. If the 2024...

Even if we assume the game was describing Humans as they exist in real-life, a racist trope is a racist trope. If the rule for game authors is, "Don't rely upon racist tropes when describing people," authors shouldn't get a free pass to rely upon racist tropes when describing people in their own...

Wait, what? Per your prior posts in this thread, you believe the mere existence of three lineages within the elf species is inherently racist, but you have no problem calling out one and only one playable species as "the most violent and dangerous of all natural creatures" in your proposed...

Regarding the two “half-species” under discussion in this thread, I’ve been wondering something. I’ve seen some reasonable arguments for the inclusion of half-elves (possibly renamed) as a core option in PHB 2024. I’m not seeing as much advocacy for half-orcs. Is this partly because the...