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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 9645516" data-attributes="member: 326">Understandable Obly amigo. I know some people are against it as was I initially. My situation was one of over ambition getting the better of me.I commissioned and licensed over 100 illustrations from real artists for this project at a cost of basically my life savings and potentially more than I might even make on this book but I am willing to take that risk just to make this passion project.But the project kept growing, 400 pages, 500, 600, I split the book into two,  Rules and Bestiary. Still it grew. Now it's multiple 400+ page books.I cannot afford to commission more art.The artists all got paid, some many thousands of dollars.My only option was to finish the book with AI generated art (which always gets painted over to some degree by me - with up to 33 hours work in some cases). Otherwise I may as well give up my dream of RPG writing altogether because I have too much invested in this project.So that is my situation. I know some are dead against AI and they won't support it's use regardless of 'excuse'. In this case that excuse being no artists lost money in this situation, quite the contrary. Artists were well paid til the money ran out. The only person losing out is me.If people choose not to support this book I will fully respect their decision. I would just like to hope they won't judge me too harshly for its use.</blockquote>