Recent content by NaturalZero

The AI generated image isn't a copy any more that anyone's fan art is a copy. It's original. I hope you realize that anytime anyone posts an image online, every computer that every sees that copies it, right? You get that every original work ever put out digitally is copied a bajillion times...

Is AI taking things behind paywalls? Because if you post an image here in public and then I make a different image inspired by it, that's clearly not piracy. If it's not a person, it can't steal.

Nothing is being stolen. Nothing is being removed. AI doesn't "consume" art and make it disappear anymore than a person looking at it. Is that you think it works? You thought AI was literally removing art that other people made? You put a picture online and someone looked at, got inspiration...

Which irrelevant to the fact that a human using Photoshop and PC using Midjourney are both just looking at a bunch of artists' work and making something new. They're both "stealing" to the exact same degree. In renaissance academies, students trained by copying the masters to develop their...

And this is why the argument that it's "immoral" or "stealing" to learn from someone's art style and make something original based on that learning is bunk. It's how art has always worked but now we're incensed because someone found a more efficient way to do it. Somehow, when it takes more time...

I was in college around 2000 and took a lot of art classes. Photoshop was evocative to me and I was using it draw things by hand while even my professors were only teaching photo editing. At the schools I went to, digital illustration wasn't a thing and I was often told by lay people that...

Wasn't the OG Fallout a GURPS hack? Never actually opened a GURPS book myself.

I haven't had a chance to playtest it yet but I have plenty of gaming buddies who aren't hardcore optimizers but do enjoy choosing whatever tactic seems strong in an RPG. There's a lot of argument about the likelihood and narrative value of having combat-optimized and completely non-combat...

One of the cool "exploits" in 3.5 involved being a warforged with the adamantine or mithril body 1st level feat and becoming a dragonborn, since the transformation was a ceremony in 3.5. You lost your racial features but kept feats, so you wound up with an adamantine body or mithril body dragonborn.

For me, the issue becomes the imbalance of the offerings though. If I want to survive combats and be competent, proficiency wildly over shadows +1 to two experiences, or +1 to ability scores I don't use, and it feels like a baseline requirement instead of an option. I'd rather feel like I'm...

One thing that I'm dubious about is choosing what you get when you level up and eschewing other benefits. There are some caps on how much you can improve certain things at certain tiers but I see some things (proficiency!) being "must haves" while other options feel like bad choices by comparison.

The game isn't rules-light, it's options-light. EDIT: got ninja'ed right when i posted this lol

Technically, any ancestry can be a fungirl.

Having options to flesh-out a DM's unique vision is better than not having them. IMO it's weird that a single author's worldbuilding is expected to dictate the worldbuilding of anything that's considered fantasy. The setting I'm working on for 5e has more variety in character gen than base 5e...

I do think this would be a great opportunity to break the shackles of DnD tradition and reorganize the spell caster line-up. Necro has enough concept to be a whole class, as does Summoner. Sorc only exists in DnD because the developers wanted a different vancian casting mechanic in 3e but didn't...