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Lords of the Middle Sea announcement by Chaosium and also: Blue Planet Recontact from Biohazard Games

Of all those you mentioned, I've only read Mothership (and haven't played it yet) - I love it's aesthetics and I generally like %-systems, so it should be just right for me (and I played the MS-based RPG Cloud Empress, and the rules worked pretty well for me). Based on that, I can recommend...

1. Blue Planet Recontact - the pdfs have been out to backers for a while, but I think it's still not available to the public, so I'm guessing 2025. 2. Lords of the Middle Sea - Hoping for it this year ...

Well, in D&D, you come back at a higher level; in BRP, you come back with a better plan ... (sorry for the snark - it's totally okay to want to level, and your right in saying that Dragonbane doesn't really offer that).

Nice to hear from C&W! I never got into the OneDice system, but they did some pretty great BRP stuff (Clockwork & Chivalry, Renaissance, Dark Streets), and I look forward to them being back on the scene.

I suspect that Marvels & Prodigies is really, really good - but I still haven't played it. I know there's a gazillion "innovative new takes on the Cthulhu Mythos" out there, but I'd wager that this one is for real, mostly because it's not a "take" (Cthulhu and Mechs! Cthulhu and Sherlock Holmes...

I actually know where to get this kind of stuff pretty cheap!

I'll bet that guy who says: Well, only if by TTRPGs, you mean D&D and pretty closely adjacent games. Then the Cheesecake metaphor fits, because yes, 5e is probably a pretty good compromise between lots of different flavours of D&D. But you have to be okay with levels, classes, and the fact that...

I'm really curious about the two Traveller-adjacent RPGs ... I guess one of them will be a Fantasy RPG, given that they're stating later that they'll be doing a new fantasy RPG, but that it will not be based on Legend. These statements always give me the feeling that Mongoose is pretty much the...

No, you don't get it, you're getting an ACTUAL VIRTUAL sword! Which is so much better than just some made-up sword! I mean it must be, if it costs money, right? Right?

Which leads to another concern both ethical and practical: Do we really want to keep spending enormous amounts of energy on creating AI images?

Okay, while I don't really know anything about the actual process of how a LLM AI assembles a text, by my understanding of the term "statistical", I would suspect that it doesn't infer conclusions. It asks "what would probably come next in this text" without connecting it to any real-world...

And you know on what the value and the price and labor are based? On implicit and explicit social contracts; they are not some ideal result of a context-free negotiation between a buyer and a seller, but are based and power, hierarchies and laws - which means that they are always already...

"Not getting it" is very different from a hallucination. It happens to people all the time, due to oversimplification, misreadings, differing core assumptions ... but whoever wrong a human might get things, if, for example, you give them a list of Star Trek episodes and ask them to write an...

I'd honestly be interested to see some good AI RPG art - because for now, I'm mainly looking at stuff thinking, "well, that looks like another ugly AI pic", not even knowing whether it's true or not. For example, if you would present this cover to me...

You might be Dieselpunk AI.

Well, if you unpack it, they said: "We used copyrighted material, but we are convinced that that doesn't violate copyright." So whether they admitted that they're violating copyright law or not depends on whether you consider what they did a violation of copyright. Them claiming that whatever...

Even (and especially) if a lot of people don't care, that's a good reason to find ways to regulate potentially un-ethical production methods. The less people care whether clothes are produced in sweatshops, the more we need legislation to outlaw such extreme forms of exploitation. (I'm not...

The difference is that the artist is a human being - they can choose to refuse your request or fulfill it, they can and have to take responsibility for their actions and, as human beings, have moral and legal rights applicable to their work.

Yes, exactly. A human is a person, and as such, we usually consider them to be an end in themselves. They have a moral and legal right to self-expression. We consider their expression as something they originate, even if they wouldn't have been able to create without many kinds of input. They...