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I think that it should be noted that AI-generated images currently have no copyright protection (at least in the USA), which makes them a potential legal liability for businesses. If somebody does a sketch, but then "finishes" it through an AI generated image, the end product may potentially...

Somebody made an AI NPC mod for Skyrim. It's quite terrifying for someone's hobby side project. AI players for DnD might only be years away, not decades.

DJs research the music they use, set queues, adjust mixes, travel, and operate machines for the service they provide. They provide a form of manual labor, they don't flood the music market with copies of unlicensed, illegal mixes (though some probably have tried and gotten in trouble for it)...

There's a difference between being impossible to stop disruption and reducing the impact of disruption. It's not a situation of yes or no, but how far on a scale of 1-10. That's why there is pushback now, before it's too late to make even a small difference.

Digital photography and associated editing suites still require actual work from a human being, often taking a long time to truly master. AI-generated images are created by a non-human set of algorithms with low effort text prompts, and can be mass-produced at a huge rate. The actual human...

If a person enters a restaurant and starts being loud and obnoxious, the restaurant owner is expected to kick them out. If a person sets up a stall at an outdoor market, and starts hanging tapes and rope that obstructs customers' ability to enter areas of other shops and stalls, the other...

There's nothing wrong about somebody generating AI images for personal use, but when AI images presented as commercial products hit the market sites like DMsGuild and DriveThruRPG, issues rise up. In the practical example of what happened on GameDev Market, legitimate artists had their business...

One of the observed problems in practice, in the example of what happened on Game Dev Market, is that AI-generated images can be mass-produced at a rate and scale that can flood a site so badly, that people have a hard time finding non-AI stuff unless they bookmarked art from before AI...

When AI-image sellers popped up on GameDevMarket, they started spamming the site with "new products", which made legitimate artist works much harder to search for. It got so bad that the site had to lock down against any new AI-image products on the site, which even then feels like a half...

I think for the sake of calculation, it's worth reminding that as a rough rule of thumb for determining how much a movie studio earns from a movie, final box office is halved, since the theaters are not owned by the same companies as the movie studios. As such, if Honor Among Thieves production...

A common habit of DMs that I've observed is to make all enemies fight to the death every battle no matter what the circumstances are, while in many cases it's actually more natural to have enemies retreat when they realize their chances of victory are not enough for them to justify staying to...

Chapter 8 of the DMG has a small section on Improvised Damage, not to be confused with Improvised Weapons (PHB). It's easily overlooked that environments and structures can be destructible or dangerous, such as a red dragon diving into a pool of magma then coming up fast to splash burning death...

Aside from the usual forums like this one, there are Facebook groups and discords if one is looking for an alternative to Reddit. Meetup.com also may have a local community in your area for things like asking around about places to host DnD sessions.

When Thanos confronts the Avengers in Infinity War, it's to get the Mind stone, and since using the Reality stone is likely taxing on the mind, and he just came from fighting a long battle, he probably has to pace himself to avoid possibly breaking himself mentally while trying to incorporate...

"DnD is a gateway game" "I guess it makes you want to crack open a book" "Ugh, dad...."

Movies have to make back what they cost to make and more. As such, the less they make in week 1, the smaller the percentage the studios will want the drop off to be in week 2, because movies have limited runs in theaters. As such, the movie studios want reduced drop off percentages to help...

I can tell you (not really) from real life experience that magical energy is needed to exceed human limits of martial prowess. The last time space aliens invaded my home town, I had to use a lot of it to deal with their giant monsters.

That's not the point I was pursuing. My point was that the values (perhaps I should have said perceived values) of drop offs are not the same at the same percentages, in response to the potential implication that HAT had a good drop off.

A possibly unpopular opinion: Martials SHOULD be magical at the highest levels. They should be able to cut through steel. They should be able to move at blazing speeds. They should be able to leap great distances. They should be able to stand their ground against punches from giants and tail...

I'm not a mind reader nor one of the studio executives so I wouldn't have intimate knowledge of whether they want a movie to succeed or fail. Even if a drop off is assumed in an expected range, percentage-wise, that doesn't make it automatically good for what it cost to make. The movie needed a...