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I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. I am using US terms here as that is where I am based; other legal systems likely have analogous but not identical terms (in the UK, I believe they use the term "Fair Dealing" where the U.S. uses "Fair Use"). The issue is that while you cannot...

(Emphasis Mine) This. You did the match ahead of time to generate your "to-hit" chart; of course, once you started swapping among magical weapons with different +X values, you were probably "adding the plus to the roll" dynamically rather than "shifting X columns over on the to-hit table" in...

There are four cases into which I find boxed text falls when I'm running adventures: 1. "The Hook" - Especially for one-shots, this serves to ground the players in the world. It's also something I usually give the players to read in a handout in advance and I'll read a couple very short...

True. It won't surprise many that know me that BG3 wasn't really my cup of tea (I don't usually care to run adult content in my games - probably because I'm still running games that often have teenagers whom I am not the parent of and I don't want to have conversations about that kind of stuff...

I am not going to apologize for the fact that my tastes in D&D art run about the same as my taste in music... as in, "I prefer the stuff that was in vogue when I was in my teenage years" - because most of us psychologically are in the same boat... for most of our lives, our preferred "stuff"...

There are kind of two different intertwined threads going on in this video: 1. Trying out RPGs that are not D&D. 2. Playgroups where the players expect the DM to do the prep work but they do not want to do any work other than show up. (This is the "Forever DM" or "my players would never run")...

If my players are curious, when I run pre-published adventure, I am willing to tell them what it was I ran them through AFTER they are done with it.

Again, an LLM itself does not contain copyrighted material. It is basically a collection of facts ABOUT the copyrighted material (mostly 'what word probably follows this other word' but still is not the copyrighted material itself). Placing the LLM into the public domain would not give access to...

I am reminded of Weird Al's (rather tongue-in-cheek) reputed take on Napster - source: Items in your collection - World of Weird Al Yankovic when it was popular. He got "both sides" immediately. The problem, as with all things, is that when bad things happen to us, it's a tragedy, but when the...

In my defense, I did read the OP. I didn't initially read the article the OP linked to. ;) Hopefully my more recent posts show I have since read the actual article.

After reading the article linked in the OP, the below seems especially relevant" So yes, Meta's downloads definitely seem illegal to me (again IANAL, TINLA) and I would think that any LLM derived from it is not a "neutral" proposition but is also infringing ("fruit of the poisonous tree") but...

Ah, I didn't see that's where you were going with this. That makes it a fairer question. I did find an interesting article on the subject here: On Copyright, “Facts,” & Generative AI. I'll highlight a couple of excerpts here: I'm not familiar with the specifics of the Google Books case above...

C'mon Morrus, you know that's a "do you still beat your wife?" sort of question. Perhaps I should clarify when I made the statement above, every one of them was referencing physical books (I grew up before e-books existed - I know, I'm old!). I had a deep and abiding love affair with my local...

Misconception: LLM's store a copy of all data they were trained on, and therefore are prima facie breaking copyright if they do so without explicit permisssion. The Reality: LLM's do pattern analysis on the training data they are given. What winds up getting stored in the LLM database is a list...

Interesting set of House rules. I think a lot of people have latched on to "Free Object Interactions" as "You Get One of These per turn" when the RAW say that you get one FOI during a Move or Action and to make second interaction, you have to use your Action. I note your rules allow you to...

I rarely see this issue raised with dual wielders or two-handed weapon wielders, almost always, it's "sword and board" (usually making the argument that a shield stays strapped to your arm even if you open your hand to use it while spellcasting). I would simply apply a dose of common sense to...

N4 - Treasure Hunt - I've run it as a 1e module, converted it to BECMI, converted it to 3rd edition, and converted it to 5th edition; each time, it was done for a group of new players (though in a couple of cases this was done in a "guest DM/teach a group to play" role where I did not continue...

I stumbled across this and found it interesting as it feels like perhaps the "AI argument" is 100 years old. "Machinery is performing great service for mankind. But a Machine is not an artist. The high purpose of Machinery is to save Men and Women from ignoble and soulless labor, not to perform...

Was going to point this out as well. I found this link - Rotary Hand Bell - Bell sounds 60db alarm up to 35 meters - [HS-RHB] - which suggests a fire bell sounds at 60 dB at a distance of 35m (114.8 feet - for ease of use, I will call that 120 feet). At 60 feet, then, that bell would be 66 dB...

The problem with web 2.0 as I see it is that it is afflicted with a heavy dose of Dunning-Kruger. Almost never do I see someone say, “you know, I am not sufficiently educated on this topic to have an informed opinion.” Instead there is the attitude of, “well, I have a twitter (now X) account and...