bad artists imitate, good artists steal.
or something
if you are not inspired by art, how can you make art?
The people I stole it from stole it first. Fiction is like Mexican street food: it's mostly the same ingredients, the artistry is in the preparation and proportions.
It's not plagiarism if you're not publishing. And I bet the DM knows exactly what their references are if players ask.
Shouldn't the first image be "Successfully scheduling?"
Now that's just unrealistic expectations.
I shuddered reading your comment. Scheduling is the worst.
...and some players somehow feel ai generated tokens are worse than that actual piracy of searching art sites for token images
That's some loaded language, but they're right. AI tokens are bad and they should feel bad.
my players love to generate their portraits with AI bc they feel they have agency on how to present their character on the board
i'm torn. if you want to have a portrait, generate it however you feel. i personally dislike AI art because i am a musician and [long rant excised] but y'know. it turned out one of our players really liked drawing and drew portraits of our characters that were better than what each of us did, which was really neat and special. but that didn't happen until each of us tried on our own first, right?
yeah but is it really worth it to learn how to draw and color etc only for the purposes of a D&D portrait? maybe for some, and obv my players get the choice to do whatever, but with day jobs and lives, getting together to play itself is a commitment so I don't see the issue in creating a one-time portrait just for the purposes of quick execution
I'm also a musician and artist and I rant about AI art and its effects all the time so yeah I get it
that's the thing, if you do it yourself in crayon it's better than whatever the AI does. again, i don't really care at my table what the other players do, but human > AI all day every day. Honestly, i see the LLM bullshit as a crutch that gets folk who can't or don't have the time to be able to approximate what those of us who have invested the time and blood and sweat into getting the skills. i don't really mind crutches as long as you have a person thinking things through in there, but if you're using crutches exclusively, right?
Not to mention, there's charm and motivation and growth in doing your best.
Silly crayon scribble? Cool, you did your best and it's YOURS. And this might motivate someone to express themselves further in pursuit of getting it "just right." It's fun. Like the game is fun.
But then yeah, we have "GeNeRaTe MuH pErFeCt OC pLz" Cool, your fantasy slop can go on the pile with the rest of the slop. Bleh. Nobody cares nor should they. It's nothing special.
I think a driving factor of Ai usage is people being intimidated and fearful to pick up a pencil because they think they'll get shamed to oblivion for not being born already a famous tiktokstagram artist with 10bil followers.
Plagiarism is just the way human culture is supposed to work.
my best TTRGP night, i had a murder mystery. turns out, Garfield the Cat was a ghost and the ghost did it. it was an I'mSorryJon night, and one of our players hates cats.
It's all plagiarism, baby.
My Adventure Time campaign was so dope. I played Snake Pool - Figure In The Background to cut each session at the end just like the show always cuts to Island Song. Idk how much was plagiarized besides the future Ooo setting but it was a fucken blast. I improved nearly everything.
Pfft, everything after Homer is a copy paste.
look i know the simpsons did it first but if i thought of it independently then i get at least half a writing credut
Homer was just retelling stories that had already been passed down orally for centuries if not millennia...
"Curse of Straud" is fantastic, and blatantly uses Bram Stoker's work. If Bram were Disney, we wouldn't have "Curse of Straud".
Today, im my dnd session, my players befriended a dirty, covered in mud druid. Turning his life around, and convincing him to rejoin society, and not fight the party.
Immediately after they killed a pimp.
Oh so they're environment and sex worker hating villains
Maybe haha
But remember to call it always, please, "research".
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