I think that’s totally possible, but I also think it’s equally likely that people become better and better at recognizing it. I remember when I was a kid what now looks like terrible CGI in movies was quite believable. People are really good at recognizing patterns, and especially for any kids growing up with AI they’re going to get a lot of exposure to it and likely become very good at spotting it. For all anyone knows it may just become inbred too if they can’t find a way to weed out AI from the training.

I’m not saying the hype the ai industry is pushing about only improving from here couldn’t happen, but it’s hardly a foregone conclusion from what I’ve seen so far.

Maybe someday 🧐

Do you just know that from seeing it on the midjourney feed, or are you able to judge the model just from looking at it? 😮

Looks like an AI gen at a quick inspection. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

This is a great idea

I did a salt marsh campaign that I themed like Louisiana bayou country. I had a whole society of reclusive swamp gnomes with Cajun French accents. I still miss those guys. They were cool and spooky.

We found it! The type of player I would never want to play a ttrpg with. 😐

I’ve started running call of cthulhu and I really love it so far

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I enjoyed reading through that, thanks!

I think I more or less agree with where you’re coming from. Part of the fun of roleplaying is getting to explore darkness in a safe way. Not everyone is looking for that and that’s fine, but I definitely find it weird to have the core setting lean into a more “disney-fied” setting. Seems like it should offer options.

It’s probably a symptom of DND becoming so much more mainstream. You can’t please everyone, so the best they can do is minimally bother everyone which can end up pretty… OK. Not great, not terrible, and mostly uninspiring.

Those are my thoughts based just on what you said. I haven’t heard about any of this before now so those are just off the cuff.

Alright I’ll bite. What did they do to it?

I really like Inkarnate. Very reasonable yearly subscription and a great tool. Obvious caveat that if you want something completely custom built, rather than using their textures and artwork, something else will probably work better. For my needs it works though.

This sounds cute, but I’ll admit I was disappointed to find out it’s not actually about a great goblin bakeoff.

Thanks for the info. You’ve given me some things I need to consider.

I see, thanks for the info

Can you clarify what you mean by a nonprofit domain? The places I would need to forward right now are a few gmail addresses, a domain I own, and a couple zoho addresses (though those also use a custom domain, not sure if that changes things).

That’s a great callout and a very important feature to me. Do you use anything other than gmail? To be honest the encryption isn’t the main selling point for me, I would just like to de-google where I can these days.

No actually, thanks for passing that along!

Interesting. I’ve never been exposed to any other settings so that’s all new to me.

That makes a lot of sense. I’ve just always been a little thrown off by people who seem like lore nerds for it. I don’t mean to insult anyone, just curious to hear about it from someone who’s into it.