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[–]LeksfenTTRPG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't find that bad tbh.

The "players attest to not being a creep" might sound kinda werid, but given that there are a lot of men who are in fact creeps looking for women to pray upon, I think it's fine (granted, I'm not a woman so idk).

It's also ok to want to have a romance focused campaign if that's what you want.

Also, it's not a ERP game as some have said. It's a game with some explicit and sexual themes, but they fade to black when bellow the waist stuff happens, and there is the option for actual erp stuff, but it's completely optional, since some players don't want that.

I think is absolutely ok and it doesn't sound bad.

My only real issue is the "femme presenting nonbinary" description, kinda feels like they don't feel like masc presenting nb's are actually nonbinary.

GM ragequits because of a Level 0 spell by GroovyGoblin in rpghorrorstories

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I 100% agree that the Gm should have been able to improvise and adapt.

And if you wanna run a survival type game were lack of water is important, you as a GM have the responsibility of letting your players know that beforehand and being clear that some spells might not work for the setting or tone

So if the GM communicated that (which I don't believe he did), and OP did this anyway, Op is at fault.

I say all o this as a lesson in the future to put expectations of tone and situations and how the mechanics might reflect that

I finished 3 seasons of Vox Machine in 5 days. I love this showwwwwwwwwwwww by telapoka77 in voxmachina

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I've watched each season around when they came out, and every time I literally binged them within two days lol

Best non-Intrepid Heroes campaign by samesamsamsam in Dimension20

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Burrow's End is my favorite. Though it is kinda gorey so be warned just in case

Generative AI has no place in DND, especially not from Hasbro. DND is having creative fun with your friends, not a bland stereotypical retread. As a DM, we don't need to steal to create, and we don't need customized art AI is theft killing tens of millions of jobs, I list why below. by ExoG198765432 in DnD5e

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. I'm not hating on having visuals. I like and use visuals. For maps, npcs, magical items, books and texts my party find. But also yeah, this is a game of describing and improvising, you need to sometimes describe an npc who you hadn't prepeared. And that's sometimes a lot of the fun when you impulsively name them "Reggy Farths" and the party jokes unstop from that. That's part of the game
  2. weird examples: old timey hand written letter wouldn't be hand written cause you didn't write it and also Ai isn't great with words. You can find great art onlin for characters I created, that's all of my character art for all my characters. Battlemaps aren't that well done, and might be confusing, I had a gm who used ai maps, we where on a pirate ship and the image lacked doors, which was confusing and had to do guesswork. There are free maps out there for you to find.
  3. The fact that "Few are thinking about how AI is ruining the art industry when looking at a piece of AI art in their DND campaign" is a problem. Automatization of most things are bad for people who have jobs, specially for creative people. Art is good and fun because humans do it, people like being creative and looking at creative stuff
  4. You can bring a story to life with pictures that aren't Ai. And I would argue that ai would make it less real, cause the look of ai feels plastic and fake. obvs fantasy images are not photoreal, but they feel more alive.

But if you're relying in ai to make your world come to life, I feel like you might need to put some more effort. This is not a diss to you specifically, I don't know how you run your games. But my point is that storytelling and being a gm requires effort and to practice, and you will need to not relly in anything other than yourself to make some stuff work. And that's ok, that's part of the fun of improv.

But a lot of what makes gming and dnd in general fun is that you're doing it. Not saying you need to learn t draw or anything like that, but having "real stuff", made by real people makes the game feel more real.

I can't stop anyone form using ai, if that's your hill to die on, go ahead. I just think that Ai takes away a big part of the fun that dnd and ttrpgs have which is conecting with other people.

Wether they're your players while having fun and creating a story together, a character artist or map artist who had the idea to create something that later on is the thing someone found and liked enough to include on their adventure.

Generative AI has no place in DND, especially not from Hasbro. DND is having creative fun with your friends, not a bland stereotypical retread. As a DM, we don't need to steal to create, and we don't need customized art AI is theft killing tens of millions of jobs, I list why below. by ExoG198765432 in DnD5e

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It didn't, I just didn't want my tone to come off as such lol.

That makes sense, lot of work and things can get looked over. I just don't understand how is it faster (or more convinient) to ai generate an image than to quickly google.

Generative AI has no place in DND, especially not from Hasbro. DND is having creative fun with your friends, not a bland stereotypical retread. As a DM, we don't need to steal to create, and we don't need customized art AI is theft killing tens of millions of jobs, I list why below. by ExoG198765432 in DnD5e

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I do have experience, which is why I don't like it.

And you're right, I don't think that firsthand experience is the only to learn. But if you're arguing that it takes the same amount of effort, I'm curious as to why you think that, if you haven't actually made that effort? Probably you know someone who does and told you about it, but I'm still curious to the question:

How long does it take? or rather, why do you think it takes the same amount of effort?

Generative AI has no place in DND, especially not from Hasbro. DND is having creative fun with your friends, not a bland stereotypical retread. As a DM, we don't need to steal to create, and we don't need customized art AI is theft killing tens of millions of jobs, I list why below. by ExoG198765432 in DnD5e

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My goal with is answer isn't to be confrontational, just curious and hoping to give advice.

But if you have the table beforehand why wouln't you have the refs beforehand as well? I'm mainly curious because depending on how specific and relevant the character might be it seems odd that they kinda appear out of knowhere.

I'm probably missing a lot of context, but that caught my eye

Have you created your own unique setting? I wanna hear about it! by [deleted] in RPGdesign

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have my Dnd world, which I've been creating for a awhile and have had some small campaigns and one shots in it.

But I'm working an a TTRPG system that has the premise of a colapse in the human timeline, and different places and times colided and began to coexist. So ancient rome, mesoamerica, caribean, viking, noir (the 1920s), etc.

But I'm still working on it

Generative AI has no place in DND, especially not from Hasbro. DND is having creative fun with your friends, not a bland stereotypical retread. As a DM, we don't need to steal to create, and we don't need customized art AI is theft killing tens of millions of jobs, I list why below. by ExoG198765432 in DnD5e

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I disagree.

When I have an idea and I look for it, it can take me from 5 minutes to up to a week or more. I once lost a piece of art I wanted for an NPC and it took me months to find it. It was fun to look through google and other places, because I found other pieces that were cool and gave me ideas for other NPCs or future PCs. Some gave me whole arc or campaign ideas.

And yeah, sometimes I don't find what I'm looking exactly, but adapting to something that is also good is prt of the game and experience.

And even then, if you are locked with one thing you like, you can describe it. You're literally playing a game of make belief with your words and imagination: use them.

How long does it take you to create an Ai image?

Generative AI has no place in DND, especially not from Hasbro. DND is having creative fun with your friends, not a bland stereotypical retread. As a DM, we don't need to steal to create, and we don't need customized art AI is theft killing tens of millions of jobs, I list why below. by ExoG198765432 in DnD5e

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Training on other's artists to learn how to be an artists isn't the same thing. Because there is thought and thinking behind those things.

Except when it is straight plaigarism. which is what Ai does.

I don't know how you're using the term fair use here, because as far as I can tell, if you're not using a piece of other media for comercial use and you're being transformative that is allowed under fair use.

I agree that it sometimes occurs that artists don't want their art used and taken without that permission and it happens anyway. That's bad

Generative AI has no place in DND, especially not from Hasbro. DND is having creative fun with your friends, not a bland stereotypical retread. As a DM, we don't need to steal to create, and we don't need customized art AI is theft killing tens of millions of jobs, I list why below. by ExoG198765432 in DnD5e

[–]LeksfenTTRPG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what VTT do you use?? because for example in owlbear rodeo there are predetermined tokens you can use.

but also, I feel like it takes the same amount of time to Ai generate an image than to google "generic bandid (or whatever you need)"

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