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    PETA Releases Three New Dungeons & Dragons Subclasses

    The same people that wanted Games Workshop to ban all fur on their miniatures... https://www.enworld.org/threads/news-digest-starfinder-release-details-conan-and-middle-earth-releases-peta-vs-warhammer-the-los.664097/ My first reaction was: "What!?!? No fur cloaks in the PHB 2024?"... I...
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    How well can a dedicated RPG GenAI perform?

    But that's a purely personal opinion/choice. And either way, it's imho a perfectly fine opinion/choice. But just as with certain religious people, I'm fine if they believe that D&D is the 'devil's work', I'm not fine with it when they shout that (virtually) in my face, claim I don't have any...
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    How well can a dedicated RPG GenAI perform?

    @Gorgon Zee How happy are you with the results? I think it's interesting what you've done, but I think making/configuring this is way beyond the skill set of the average user and quite time intensive. Imagine doing this with the whole library of all Forgotten Realms source books and adventures...
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    How well can a dedicated RPG GenAI perform?

    How exactly? Copyright is about distribution as far as I understand it. Let's not start the discussion on whether or not a public trained LLM model is copyright theft or not, as that's not relevant here if the LMM model is not public. The assumption is that what's used in the model now...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Uh-Oh! naughty word! We're dead! (but survived barely)
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    Worlds of Design: Why Buy Adventures?

    These days I buy 0 physical adventures and easily 20+ via Humble Bundles, Bundle of Holdings, Kickstarter, and what I buy for Foundry VTT directly. But I generally don't run published adventures. Especially for Foundry VTT adventures, I buy them to see how they work, that can be technical 'under...
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    Classic Comic ElfQuest Returning to Tabletop RPGs

    I loved the ElfQuest comics, I even had the 2nd Edition ElfQuest RPG book (depicted above). But this feel and reads like a cashgrab that's using KS as a FOMO tool for a reprint of 35 year old material. In a boxed set, expect premium prices for a mediocre game. I even view it through nostalgia...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 PHB/DMG/MM art/layout: like or dislike?

    That kind of depends on which edition of Shadowrun, I love most of the 1st edition SR art, the most recent editions, not so much...
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    Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks Talks AI Usage in D&D [UPDATED!]

    But they generally don't do that... Ever. The amount of actual 'creative' people is extremely low, we might have higher percentage of that in pnp RPGs, but it's still a very small percentage to be significant. There's a reason for tropes... And even the folks actually writing the 'mainstream'...
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    Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks Talks AI Usage in D&D [UPDATED!]

    AI in D&D is such a generic statement that I'm pretty sure that the CEO doesn't know what he's actually talking about and is speaking marketing lingo... In the same way many others here have heard some things, seen some things and are ready to pickup the torches and pitchforks... Humans vs AI...
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    Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for September 8, 2024

    Even if it was available in your region, you would be stuck with Kobo DRM... (the non-fun kind)
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    Ember Kickstarter Launches for Foundry VTT

    Not entirely. It's a campaign setting, with a sandbox campaign, that has dozens of adventures (40 questlines). And it's especially made for use with Foundry VTT, leveraging the abilities of FVTT and adding some interesting new ones. Like a 25k hex map (1 mile hexes) that give you visibility...
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    WotC D&D Hiring New Game Designer Months After Firing Many

    That sounds very familiar. But that's because if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys, that's not only true locally, but also overseas. I've had a similar experience to yours, where I was spending more time fixing stuff we paid a company in India to do then doing it myself in the first place. The...
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    WotC Greg Tito On Leaving WotC: 'It feels good to do something that doesn't just line the pockets of *****'

    If he was talking about personal stuff on his personal account, then fine! But he isn't. He's talking about work stuff on his personal account, no longer making it personal stuff. I wouldn't hire someone like that, someone that will publicly smear the company he worked for. What has happened...
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    RPG Evolution: Inspiration from Kotor

    Sir! Is this the shooting location for the next Star Wars movie? (Really, using Kotor in this group of people, what did you expect? ;) )
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    D&D General DALL·E 3 does amazing D&D art

    With that would be a simple fix with a decent painting program... (just remove the top finger)
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    Cosmere Overtakes Avatar Legends To Become Biggest TTRPG Kickstarter Ever!

    Something weird going on with this KS. The time has run out, but you can still back this KS (and people are)...
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    Dungeon World Gets New Owners, Second Edition Planned

    10 years or 50 years, doesn't matter, it's the principle of the thing! ;)
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    Cosmere Overtakes Avatar Legends To Become Biggest TTRPG Kickstarter Ever!

    Also keep in mind that the 2016 $12.4M from the KDM 1.5 KS is worth more then the $13M now. Over those 8 years you buy about 25% less for each dollar spent (inflation)...
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    Cosmere Overtakes Avatar Legends To Become Biggest TTRPG Kickstarter Ever!

    It's now #4 and I think it likely to hit #3. $20M is just too far away for the #2 spot.
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