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I went on a long bike ride today and came up with some ideas... Baron Von Holst was legendary for his academic prowess and endless greed. He wanted everything, including knowledge of the universe and its workings, and the countless treasures of history. When he mysteriously vanished a...

There's a book my son loved called 'The Skull' by Jon Klassen. It's a folk tale in which a girl runs away from home to a castle where she befriends a talking skull. The only problem is that every night a headless skeleton comes to the castle, trying to capture the skull. I thought this would...

I think this is a really fun idea. If you replace fairies or demons with aliens, it creates a fun twist on King Arthur and other medieval tales. Merlin is a half-alien, the "lady in the lake" is a holographic projection from a crashed alien ship, Excalibur is a weapon built with alien tech...

Did you know that you can drive 4,000 miles from San Francisco and still be in California? You just keep driving back and forth from San Francisco to LA over and over and over again.

Have I told you how big the US is??? (Kidding, I know that's something that folks are always doing.)

I can only speak to my own experience that I find it more distracting to have the digital facsimile of an actor rather than a new actor. Carrie Fischer lives on Earth. Princess Leia is the one who lives in space. I don't need to see Carrie Fischer to know it's Princess Leia.

I fully agree with this. To me there is no reason why another actor can't play Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, etc. What really takes me out of it is when they digitally de-age an actor to show them as the younger version of the character. For so long in movies audiences have accepted that...

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To be fair, I've never heard of any of the terms I listed either.

Here are a few more: Bottlepop RPG - I guess it makes sense that there's a genre of light and poppy RPGs, but I see too many being described like this. Dungeon Theater - a term used too often to dismiss all the descriptive elements in a dungeon or adventure that aren't necessary for game play...

I really wish people would stop using the following terms when discussing roleplaying games: Barconian - not every system is truly Barconian and it waters down the term to overuse it. Dice Queen - having lots of dice shouldn't make anyone a target of derision. Fungeon - if I read one more...

It sounds like they don't want to be a commission artist! On the other hand just today I had a talk with my friend who is really excited to get to work on a bunch of commissions. I think the truth is that when anyone is asked to do a task they do not want to do, they feel somewhat like a robot...

Can you imagine taking the time to carve an entire sculpture out of stone and then being told by the client, "Eh, it's not quite what we are looking for."

I love going in with a blank slate! It gets my creative fires burning. When I start a new campaign with a new group, I go through a questionnaire with them (inspired by Ironsworn) in which we decide the feel, environments, deadliness, and common opponents of a setting. I even have them help...

At some point in the next few months I'm going to be starting a new campaign. When I start a new campaign, I like to create the setting collaboratively with the players, and even come up with campaign and adventure arcs together. (I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but collaboration like...

Quoting myself here to clarify: What I mean by this is that an artist could, for example, have an AI develop a thousand pictures based on a prompt of beauty and then create a collage in order to expose the AI's inherent bias. Or an artist could use prompts to try to closely recreate classic...

In this scenario, you have conceptualized and revised a product. But was there an actual artistic process?

Wow, and I absolutely disagree. I feel like you are communicating a really reductive view of art and artists as just creators of products and ignoring the fact that art is expression, movement, social response, and an almost uniquely human endeavor. Typing a prompt into AI is nowhere near what...

The original question was "is human art more of greater value than AI art?" Humans can, in fact, use AI, just like any tool, to make art. But I would argue that putting a prompt into an LLM to create a "watercolor painting of a lake" does not have the same value as actually producing a...