PhilHibbs

I thought it was worth it just for the final sentence! On bagpipes: Often confused with (or possibly the root cause of) the chaotic feature "Agonizing screams when moving".

I think the only one of those that I have is Convulsion '92. I thought I had "Report on" but I can't see it on my shef, it might still be in a box somewhere from my last house move. I will of course get the new one! Nineteen preview pages? Sign me up! I can understand the art and map. Is there a reason why the Hall & Jacklin piece is not in it? I have it anyway so I'm not fussed, but is it online anywhere for those that don't?

There's no VAT on books, either in the UK or in the EU. And the delay would be trivial compared to the current situation of shipping books half way around the world.

v1.11.2 Alpha 3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DHJszUEuFiWnEwBSjCwdLlNj9bGwbkvtJsIpdEOIQks Added Nochet Adventurer's Guide content (NAG prefix). A couple of Hero Wars in the East Isles occupations had a couple of weapon skills that were incorrectly coded. Most cults didn't get Spirit Block in their common spells list.

There might be a delay, but nothing compared to re-routing a container ship around the other side of Africa. Importing books into the UK from the EU is no more complex than importing them into the UK from China.

Whilst I love a good Brexit bash as much as anyone else, that shouldn't be relevant They are close enough to be printed in the same place, this issue is about international shipping delays.

This is the compelling one for me. You can argue that compiling a searchable database from a large number of copyright works is substantially transformative and does not threaten the works' value. But building an image or text generation engine, yeah that threatens the value. On the other hand, I do have some sympathy for the "but that's just what people do when they learn" argument, although point 1 (commercial nature vs educational) undermines it. I don't think that AI is there yet in that respect anyway, it isn't learning in a comparable way to the way that people do. It's very much faking it.

Yeah, there are some opinions that, if they were true, rightly should drive those aware of them to extreme lengths to reinforce. If there is a God in Heaven, and a Hell that my soul will burn in for not acknowledging Him, then my missionary auntie is absolutely right to try and convince me to turn to God. I've seldom come across an atheist that argues that fervently against religion though, unless they are talking about people who take their religion to extreme degrees. Hitch in particular was very outspoken against the evil things that religious people have done and are doing today in the name of their faiths.

Thanks! I know Wayland's of course, I've been buying gaming material from that establishment's owner for over 35 years.

That's a damn good point! However, I've played around with AI art, but I've never used the output as generated. Anything that I've gone on to use (personal use only, like an illustration for a character sheet) has gone through extensive modification and mashing up with other material. For example my new avatar has AI generated components, but all heavily edited, and the final result would, according to my understanding, be my copyright. I would not expect most commercial products using AI to contain virgin AI output. For a start, it just isn't good enough yet. The output is generic and soulless. Anyone familiar with the technology can easily identify AI output, at least when it comes to compositions. Individual elements like faces can be convincing, but not scenes. This may just be a matter of time, but if AI is allowed to dominate the art market and starts consuming its own output, then we will see rapid degradation unless something new comes along that is closer to actual intelligence.

"AI’s use of copywritten material..." "Copyrighted" or just "copyright", not "copywritten". The law is about the right to copy, and covers images as well as writing. Nobody claiming to know about copyright should make this mistake. Oops, sorry-not-sorry!

The way I understand it as an outsider is, they care about games shops even though it may be costing them to do so*. I've known them as friends for decades. I assure you that you could not be more wrong. They may be making mistakes but it is not out of malice. * I don't know the economics of how much physical games shops contribute to the overall health of the RPG hobby market to say this with great confidence. But they could take the short term option of releasing PDF first and locking their customers in to then buying the physical book from them.

Anyone know any good games shops, clubs, or gamers near Bloxwich, west mids, UK? Got some friends who have just moved there.

Because I don't want to go all the way. I want drama and options and danger.

The Lunar Way is a brand new book. They want a coordinated media campaign to coincide with a worldwide release, so they are waiting until it's in all the warehouses. The general rule is, they don't release a product until it's in all the warehouses. Sometimes there are exceptions to this - I guess as the new Sourcebook is not a brand new release in that it's an update of an existing product, there's less to gain by having a big media blitz to coincide with a worldwide release of a brand new exciting book.