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I’m trusting the text at dandwiki.com In the spell Description is ‘wide’ the width of the parting? Or the width of the body of water which is to be crossed? In the second case, part water coils not be cast on the open sea. I’d give ships caught in the area of effect a chance to be either...

Why not? It's your drawing -- you can do with it as you will. Actually, how was the AI trained? If the AI was trained on data which was appropriated, that is problematic. If the AI was self trained, then I don't see a problem. TomB

Additional text removed. I’m approaching this from the point of view of a software professional, to whom copyright is an important issue. The first quote is moving too quickly over a huge part of the problem: Not obtaining a clear right to use posted work. The basic rule here is if you can’t...

What I remember from my RM days is that such a scene would require a lot of GM rolls that were mostly hidden from the players to determine what the nomads saw and how they reacted. This would take a few non-interactive minutes of GM time. I suspect the lack of drama arose from the very...

Or, it could sloppy reuse of text from prior editions! That gets my vote. That text directly and unambiguously implies that teleportation is a form of interdimensional travel. However, that idea seems well scrubbed from the description of the teleport spell. TomB

This was to address an earlier discussion in the thread. There was an argument that teleport required movement of some sort between the points. That is, continuous motion along a path. For example, a dip into the ether, or into the astral or shadow planes. Various forms of teleport spells...

But but but, in the phrase "instantly transports you", does that mean "transports you continuously along a path"? Conversion into energy and cross to alternate dimensions seem precluded. But is "continuous motion" necessarily included? Is that meaning to be used for understanding...

I think there is a language / terminology issue here which is causing problems. On the one hand, travel that begins in a location and that reaches a different location generally is required to have transited along some continuous path between the two locations. That's how everyday motion...

Sure. Wanting to do something and having to do something are different matters. I think the problem is that earlier editions of D&D, there weren't many options intermediate to death, except for the GM to intervene. Realistically, how many monsters take prisoners? How do you work around death...

I think we are in agreement? In a game with light story investment, death or any of the other catastrophes can still mean an interruption of play. When an encounter can run for hours, an early death means being unengaged for hours. In a game with heavy story investment, the consequence is an...

Well, “stop playing”, as I’ve seen it, means being taken out of play for anywhere from an hour or for the rest of the evening. That depending on the players speed at creating a new character and the ability of the GM to put the new player into play. ”Stop playing” also has meant returning to...

Maybe. But, this seems a system problem. When a system permits random deaths, and if a random death can upset a night of activity, I place blame on the system. A system which contains the possibility of large mishaps should have mechanisms to keep players in the game. This is a problem of...

Ah, the deception (of Eddie) seems more a self-deception. Certainly, Vincent is presenting false information. But Vincent is the opponent. Eddie should not trust any information provided by Vincent. It's not Vincent's problem that Eddie is looking for a different sort of game. (Note: my...

I'm not sure use of the term "illusionism" helps the discussion. Why not describe what the GM is doing directly: Removing player agency. Also, the example of "The Color of Money" is not on point. While Eddie was deceived, that was more because he misunderstands the nature of the game...

I expect that simple transformations create works that are clearly derivative, and are, without controversy, not fair use of the original art. I thought that computer generated art went very far beyond simple transformative techniques. TomB

Yeah. That seems to be where the current debate is centered.

They were compensated for allowing specific use of their content. The question is not whether there was any compensation. The question is were they compensated for their content being used to train an AI. I imagine that common crawls doesn’t train AIs to create art. The commons crawls use...

For anyone in Berkeley on 26-April-2023: “Generative AI Meets Copyright” - Pamela Samuelson https://www.eventbrite.com/e/generative-ai-meets-copyright-pamela-samuelson-tickets-588117313717 Ms. Samuelson is an excellent resource for explaining legal issues relating to copyrights. In...

1) Operating and using Pinterest, as Pinterest defines itself as a service, seems in no way to involve AI generated art. 2) You can only grant usage rights to content that is yours, and you must put it on Pinterest to grant them rights. 3) My understand (from the lengthy OGL discussion...

Hmm, this is more an “are computers making actual” question than an “is training ai fair use” question. I think you are dodging the question by eliding from the second to the first. If and when a trained AI could produce art, would using art to train the AI be fair use? TomB