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The AV Club has a great little article about visceral experiences at the movie theater. What are your most memorable movie theater experiences? The ones when the movie hits just right, your emotional state is just right, and you are totally carried away? For me, the movie theater experiences...

I'm a big fan of short stories as a medium, both in reading and writing them. I buy The Best American Short Stories and the O'Henry Prize collection every year. There's an annual Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology too, though I haven't checked it out. Most of my favorite short...

If the well-documented rampant anti-Semitism doesn't scare you off, then the lack of business acumen should hopefully do so. It's bonkers to me that people still support companies that promote hate and fail to actually produce products with money given to them.

I think you may be mixing pro-copyright with pro-big-business and it's not the same thing at all. If Sly Flourish's work was used without compensation to create a tool that now a company is now making money off of, Sly Flourish should be informed and paid. That's not pro-big-business, it's...

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Let's follow this through. If you want to train yourself on an artist's work, how do you do this? You might go to a museum and study the work. You might take a class. You might get art books from a store or the library. You might go online to sites that host an artist's work. If you aren't...

Thank you for linking to the actual proposed law! So basically it's saying that if you train an AI on copyrighted materials, you have to list the copyrighted materials you used. That seems like a reasonable thing to do.

This is a really cool idea for boss battles! I'm glad it worked out, and it's definitely something I'd try in my campaigns.

Here's an amazing collection of public domain landscapes that can be used in both personal and commercial work! Artvee Landscapes Honestly I want to start designing settings and adventures just based on these images.

I was linked to this article, which I found really fascinating: Using Public Domain Art in Tabletop Game Design I think it's an interesting read and resource, especially with the current discourse around AI art. There are a lot of images that would look great in an RPG book, or that could be...

This would be a great way to launch a campaign! Play a few weeks building up the tavern, the nearby dungeon and town, doing some world building. Then roll up some new adventuring characters who meet up in the tavern for their first quest!

This tip isn't necessarily for making combat any more dangerous, but I find it increases the narrative tension: Don't have an enemy attack unless they have advantage. Make them jump up onto higher ground, or flank (if you use the rule), or knock a character down. If they can't get advantage...

I'm in a Science Fiction and Fantasy book club. The last few books we read happened to be pretty depressing, and so I'm looking for a way to switch things up. I have always been curious about Solarpunk and other adjacent, more hopeful sci fi, but I know little about the actual books in the...

This is why we need to start training brittlecone pines for space exploration!