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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    That's not even remotely similar. Identity theft entails both fraud and depriving someone of money and assets that they already had, whereas IP violation entails neither. The only way that it might almost be equivalent would be if someone opened a credit card in another person's name, but never...
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    Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

    The Sewer Heist There's an old Italian saying, "Money is the devil's s**t". What if that were literally true? In this adventure the characters will do a heist/raid of a combination sewage-treatment-plant/smelting-facility/coin-mint in Hell, where the poop of devils is refined into gold coins...
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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    There is NO moral entitlement to be able to monetize things. Never! At the absolute most there is a moral entitlement to not be forcibly prevented from monetizing. EDIT: If I stand outside the venue where a rock concert is being held and listen to the music, do you think that that is immoral...
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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    No. They still have the original art and the product of their labor. They've lost nothing. Everything they had before remains untouched and unaltered. They still have everything that they had and everything that they're entitled to. Even in the case of a person stiffing someone that they've...
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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    Well it's capable of doing most of the corporate "mindless drudge, draw what I tell you to draw" type artist jobs, as well as cheaply creating any obvious hackneyed low hanging fruit type works. You can argue about whether it's not a true "artist", but it can do the work of a hack as well as...
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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    Hence the statement that you either need a lot of money or a lot of time. I don't have time to learn to draw artist quality! I work two jobs and have a bunch of other hobbies!
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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    What is villainous about this? Because it threatens some movie studio's profits? Because it puts art into the hands of common people who don't have an excess of time or an excess of money? EDIT: Because it makes it harder for the people who do have the time to learn art to sell out?
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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    The trailer is perfect. I love it.
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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    That's because he has a vested monetary interest in the creative process not being cheaply automated. His opinion is inherently biased and should be ignored. Part of it may also come from superstition; there was a longstanding superstition, rooted in a combination of vanity and the...
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    Psionics--the Poll!

    Some of the systems are neat and it's a neat aesthetic until you look closely at it and realize that lore-wise and philosophically it's completely nonsense word salad even when compared to other fantastical elememts like magic
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    Rules for Romance in TTRPGs

    Exalted has social combat rules
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    You're approached by a Hollywood exec...

    I don't see that as being the question for this thread. As far as I can understand this thread is asking what you want to see made.
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    D&D General What is your personal Appendix N?

    Well in terms of formative experiences with fantasy, but not necessarily influencing D&D: *The "Gold Box" D&D computer games *Discworld *The Cthulhu Mythos *Harry Potter *The Evil Dead *Monty Python and the Holy Grail *Diablo *Spellsinger *Sabrina the Teenage Witch *Dave the Barbarian...
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    Write them now and sit on them until the copyright ends that way you can have them already ready and be first to market
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    Trash TV Secret Shame

    regarding the youtube algorithm, I've long since started ignoring recommendations andninteracting with youtube exclusively through searches and my subscriptions
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    Creating better factions

    Ok I actually already have an idea for this one in my idea notebook. Factions within the governing spirits of the forest - Chaotic fey with a incautious and whimsical approach to nature (to the point of introducing new species to see what will happen) vs some kind of forest-tending inevitables...
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    Creating better factions

    Not literal dinosaurs at any rate. Maybe metaphorical dinosaurs though, in the sense of someone or something that is very old-fashioned and not appropriate or pertinent to the modern world. There are a lot of factions like that.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    Does anyone know why that stuff is so late entering the public domain? Didn't Robert Howard write during the same era as Lovecraft?
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    Triple Feature (+)

    now posting this in the correct thread, having previously accidentally posted it in the sandwich thread Unnecessary Sequels Starring Keanu Reeves *Bill & Ted 3 *Matrix 4 *Spongebob 3
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