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What this case does NOT cover is the USE of the database/LLM. This ruling is about a case where the AI company bought a huge number of books and then scanned them in a destructive manner. The books weren't resold so the company keeps their right to a copy of each book. Those books could be...

I leveraged the other oWoD materials. Some, like the Revenant/Crow, work really well. The black spiral dancer werewolves who can vanish into the spirit world are good long-term foes. Pentax, as either a cultist-run company or a mad Technomancer faction trying to force-evolve humanity...

I think Bond deal I dunno. Bond in a vaguely middle eastern region that controls some key resource as drone swarms flying around blowing things up and militia on horseback fire surface-to-surface missiles at cargo ships at the behest of oligarchs, billionairs, fascist despots and religious...

I listened to a BBC podcast on Ian Fleming. He was personally more M than Bond, never going on any field missions, but by the same token his team "30 Assult Unit" were much more Dirty Dozen than Bond. I think he called them the "Filthy Assault Unit" or something similar (along with several...

I ran MtA 1e back in the 90s. The 1e rules were a fascinating idea with a few dumb decisions. I'm pretty sure 2e and later fixed the "useless" sphere ranks. Plus, I really dislike the WW mechanics and prefer the Shadowrun mechanics it was based on. At a meta-plot level you had to take out...

For pure game world versimiltude, Expeditious Retreat Press's Mgical Medieval Society Western Europe. Part major factions, part village-level politics, mix in a stronghold builder system and some core economic concepts that help a GM have a more complete world. The Dragonlance Atlas was an...

Fun 5e fact: mitrhal and adamantine armors are not merely treasure or unusual materials, they are classified as "magic items" that are rarity "uncommon". By being a "magic item" they lose their properties while inside an Antimagic Field, meaning adamantine doesn't block criticals and mithral...

I'm not surprised. Disney has been behind copyright extensions in the US forever. Just as a vweu superficial copyright overview /"what-if" exemplars including rpg impact ( disclaimer: IANAL, YMMV, etc) 1790 copyright -14yrs that can be extended one time The public domain had most things...

My approach is that most jewelery is fundamentally valued based on material content plus a relatively small amount for labor (10% or less). Some of this is from my assumption of "spec" artisans for expensive things, where the buyer provides the funds for the materials as part of the contract...

Here I was thinking it was Simon Green's Deathstalker series, which is it's own kind of sword & sorcery & super-science.

Escaped dungeon! 20 months IRL! (Princes of the Apocalypse)

I use Babylon 5 as my role model. I love the are multiple layers of story lines. There is the big-picture metaplot, long term factions each with their own internal & external conflict arcs, the various entities and factions that feel they are immune to current events or are just ignorant, and...

Yes but in accordance to the table's encumbrance rules. I don't usually mix and match encumbrances based on travel mode. So If the winged Solar has full ground movement rate while carrying (strengthx14)lbs, they have the same weight allowance for flight. If they lose 20ft of ground movement...

5e requires a tuning fork "attuned to a plane of existence". That could be from the plane or just skillfully crafted.

To piggy back on what the previous poster said, the Ethereal borders the Material planes....all of them. So in theory they can wind up adjacent to other realms. Navigating to the Hells may require charting a course using other planes as reference points in regard to some other aspect of the...

Yeah, I misread the spell levels in OP. Contagion is good at that level, given you can then weaken any one save type, meaning your non-necro spells also get a boost. And if you have big bad with a habit of teleporting away you can nerf them for up to a week. Bestow curse is good, especially...

Eyebite. Lasts a minute, has a couple of options to take even big baddies out of the fight by making them flee or sleep (fun fact, dragons aren't immune to sleep spells) Sickened is normally a weak choice b/c saves make you immune to this casting, but disadvantage on saves makes it quite...

What RAW? Their movement rate by RAW is immense. Since range is 120ft, that's up to 240ft of movement. Hmm. Seems like by RAW they can move about in any fashion. Now, can the illusion be made to react to others? Carrying on a conversation is a back and forth exchange sustained over time...

Ah, but if the caster uses their action to Animate the illusion (which is able to sustain a conversation per Major Image) the illusions can dodge said arrows. Which gets us to the nuhuh-uhuh-nuhuh loop of the archer and caster arguing if the illusion can dodge arrows. Rule hole! (I propose...

I beg to differ, they are awesome in this setting. Silent image is a 1st level spell that lasts 10 minutes, can be up to 15ft across (Large) and can be animated. An illusory shadow or ghost can occupy a number of foes in that time. A weirdly shaped translucent floating blob with a variety of...