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  1. Byron.the.Bard

    On the birth of RPGs

    I really appreciate your answer and its level of detail - together with your previous post which was also very informative. In there, I also liked the observation: I agree with the statement, and think that it may be true for many people beyond Wells. It is the idea that many others may have...
  2. Byron.the.Bard

    On the birth of RPGs

    I am interested in this question. I also see the wargaming community bringing a crucial contribution; the extent to which a quantitative framework can be applied to storytelling and gaming (and the idea that it would not hinder but promote fun) seems to me a big factor the development of at...
  3. Byron.the.Bard

    On the birth of RPGs

    Yeah! Both Peterson and Appelcline are great! :)
  4. Byron.the.Bard

    On the birth of RPGs

    Byron the Bard has been thinking about the origin of RPGs, and been musing on some questions like: were they born by chance? Or were they the natural outgrowth of predetermined factors? What was the likelihood of them ever being developed? The bard thinks that there are some essential aspects of...
  5. Byron.the.Bard

    The Economist and the Bard

    We sent in a letter to The Economist to argue against their improper use of 'roleplaying game' in one of their articles (Letters to the editor), and they published our short message on this week's issue! :) Interestingly, we also learnt something from the editor - Byron never claimed to be...
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  7. Byron.the.Bard

    D&D General D&D and AI Text-to-Image Generation

    Ahaha! That's a cool way to put it! :D But a Wish that gets processed by a modron :) But, yes, the model distributes its attention over all the words in input so building a good string is necessary to direct its output. It is also quite interesting actually how the similar models parse the...
  8. Byron.the.Bard

    D&D General D&D and AI Text-to-Image Generation

    I think you can always try to instruct the model in that direction inputting something like 'beholder in black-and-white', 'beholder in black and white line art', or 'etching of a d&d beholder'. The model is not specialized for BW images, but it should be able to produce something reasonable...
  9. Byron.the.Bard

    D&D General D&D and AI Text-to-Image Generation

    Yeah, I think that is very right and some of the failures in the post illustrate that the model is only parsing syntactic tokens. In a way, one of the challenges in using such models is a crafting a good (syntactic) string with enough tokens and hacks that the model spits out something relevant...
  10. Byron.the.Bard

    D&D General D&D and AI Text-to-Image Generation

    Byron the Bard has had fun with D&D inspired text-to-image generation! Here's a little bit of context: Take a look for instance at the beholders generated by an AI: To read more and see more images, check it at: D&D and Text-to-Image Generation
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