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Yeah, there are ton of them! I haven't looked at nearly all of them, but a few I've enjoyed are Secrets of Cats (FAE, you play cats), Weird World News (Core, think "Scooby Doo"), and Uranium Chef (FAE, like gladiator games + Iron Chef, but in space), among others. Really just pick a genre and...

If you'd like to check out some Fate examples, Evil Hat produced a two-volume set called "Fate Worlds" (vol1, vol2) each containing a half-dozen or so short settings in a variety of genres on a particular theme (eg, Worlds on Fire includes settings about modern day firefighters, WWI-era mechas...

"Let's take Shadowdark classes!" Best. school. ever! ... Just don't let your torch go out before recess is done.

Yeah, time will tell. (That's why I'm careful to say "current" gen AI.) But to be fair, I didn't bring up scale; you did. I said current gen AI and humans are fundamentally different in ways that are not attributable to scale. E.g., throwing more images at a human doesn't make that person a...

Really? Body horror has been a thing onscreen for decades, and far more imaginative that any of those pics. And people have been imaging weird hybrids since they started inventing mythology, albeit not crossing puppies and blueberry muffins (though I wouldn't be surprised if there's an anime out...

No. If mere scale was the issue, then a gen AI should be millions of times "better" than a master artist because it swallowed millions of times as much data as that artist. Likewise, by your reasoning, a blind human artist should not exist, because a gen AI that can't train on image data can't...

Is there a single human being who has ever ingested petabytes of art data, processed it at a 10-100MW, then generated perfect imagery within seconds of a request? No; that's not how we do it. Yes, I am 100% certain of that. Might some future form of AIs mimic human ability? Perhaps. But what...

Yes. And just to emphasize: even for those (like me) who live in a place where their congresspeeps actually support the mess, it's still important to let them know that there are people in their districts who are unhappy. With enough pressure, they might change their minds.

No human being ingests petabytes of info, shoves it through a 10 to 100+ megawatt datacenter full of thousands of ultra-fast processors, to reduce it all down into some multi-billion-dimensional arrays of probability vectors.... and then automagically pop out perfect imagery on command. In...

To be sure, being forced to sacrifice vs being forced to accept isn't actually a choice. Suggesting that is just a variation on the "You critique society, yet you live in it" fallacy.

I did not know that! Perhaps there is hope for the future, after all.

If ever there was a time for "We think, therefore Buffy is," that time is now.

I'm pretty sure most are well aware of the trajectory. Approving of it, however, and being forced to accept it are entirely different things.

No, certainly not for writing and/or art. Fwiw, there are other places to insert AI into the workflow, such as editorial (proofreading, rewriting, etc), layout, and so forth; as well as (I suppose) non-creative/administrative stuff not directly related to product. These are harder for a reader...

Good stuff! Some time ago I started something kinda along similar lines, set in a parallel of the 1970s, with all its hippies, rednecks, punks, etc. Might have to break that stuff out again for fun....

Fleance is a perfect name for that. Though now I'm envisioning a rickety signboard that advertises, "Fleance's Seances 'n' Such".

For home games, I've only ever really noticed rules changes (in any system, D&D or otherwise) with new players who might be expecting one thing when I'm playing to another. It's not really any different than house rules, ime; it just requires communication. Might be different for "official"...

Just to be clear, you're talking about the remasters from 2005-ish? Or is there a newer update nowadays?