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These have both been extensively updated and are currently the most up to date published sources for these.

I don't have enough legal knowledge to jump into that debate, but I will say that when you see something that is clearly derived from a known image (Henry Cavill from the Witcher as Elric), you are seeing the results of a lack of training data and appropriately tagged training data. Essentially, if you showed someone a picture of an orange cat, called it a cat, and they didn't know other cats existed, they would think all cats are orange. I can also say that AI doesn't "cut it up" any more than a novice artist cuts up a piece of art, copies, and pastes it into their own art. If this was true, AI hands would have five fingers constantly, rather than legendarily being bad at drawing them. It clearly is doing something, but it doesn't have the knowledge that hands have five fingers in many models, so it makes something up. I do think the notion that AI cannot create transformative works because it is not covered by law a fascinating argument. It is somewhat similar in my mind to the river in New Zealand which was given legal rights and now has representatives, so it can go to court and sue polluters. If it was operating wholly independently, this would almost certainly be required. I think currently, though, AI is a tool driven by human textual input ("draw me Elric"), and perhaps then the person required bar would be met by the prompt engineer, essentially making the AI a very fancy paint brush.

Well, I might look at Mythras' After the Vampire Wars for some design cues. It's already an urban fantasy environment. Then I'd probably look at Legend's Arcania of Legend: Blood Magic and import some of that into sorcery. Then I'd walk down the clans as cults and build out their power sets. I might take some notes from psionics in several of the Mythras books and build powers that looked like that - single skill, mid level powerful. This would leave full sorcery to Mages

Indeed. Rtf is good, and I won't complain. However, with heading styles you can convert to markdown and put on a website. I did exactly this, including manually going through and doing the headings, for brpugesrd.xyz

street level is a defined level in destined. I've run one campaign and played in one at that level. my current campaign isn't explicitly street level, but it's very close. Absolutely it does this. From the book:

Started it this evening. Like it quite a bit, but I was always going to be a fan

Why not simply download Mythras imperative then print the single page of the sheet to pdf?

yep, found it while you were typing. working on it.

all markdown which is listed as MIT?

https://github.com/raleel/brpugesrd https://github.com/raleel/mythras-srd https://github.com/raleel/cfi-srd BRP UGE SRD, Mythras SRD, and classic fantasy SRD website repositories have been made publicly viewable. Pull requests accepted

Looking forward to the change log.

DM me an email address and I can put you in as a collaborator on the GitHub repo for the website

If you look at the template I used for brpugesrd.xyz, it’s pretty easy to set up. Or I can set it up and put in a website. I’m working on one for openquest as well

For those who want to collaborate on https://brpugesrd.xyz, give a holler. I can set you up.

https://srd.mythras.net and https://cfi-srd.mythras.net

while the formatting isn't done, thanks to Saki for breaking it up. http://brpugesrd.xyz/

Notepad would absolutely work, but I’d recommend downloading the free Notepad++ and getting one of the markdown viewer plugins. i don’t actually know how small. It might be chapters at first, which is just Heading 1 (one # in front) I believe. Essentially, comfortable to read and search. Web pages aren’t supposed to be 500 pages long like it is now. if you don’t know how to do GitHub, that’s ok. I can manage that part of I just get files.

If folks are interested in helping, breaking up the .md file into smaller logical files would help. There isn’t even any coding involved, you just have to split it at the logical locations. If I can get that, I can make a website with menus and such.

document has been updated to be legal markdown and successfully shows up on github

https://github.com/raleel/basic-roleplaying-UGE I've made a github repo with the markdown version of it. I've also included the required art in the directory. I'm open to pull requests. I did not spend oodles of time verifying all the formatting, but it, conveniently, copied off the website in a clean word doc which made the markdown conversion nearly automatic.

I pulled that website into a word doc, but I’ve not taken the time to edit yet.

This is a bunch of it. Older books were also notably smaller and could bear a larger font. Small serif fonts are definitely an issue, and I wear glasses. Colored background ones are much worse. i don’t think we have to worry about the hobby going the way of the rotary phone. There are a lot of new players with a different base form what we have. They just aren’t on the forums 🙂

one of the forums i'm on has something like 90% of the gamers over the age of 40 and 50% are over the age of 50. I think it is a reasonable thing to expect. nothing below 11 point

yea, there are some tricks with shadowrun you have to pay attention to, like there are some severe paradigm restrictions on magic that are not well spelled out until the magic books that remove a very solid portion of the spells (frankly, most of the "problematic" ones). the other one that is interesting is that the spirits in SR are, frankly, boring as hell. virtually all of the shamanistic ones are the same set of powers over different environments and can be emulated with Mythras with nature spirits. Their elementals are also a very straight port. It lacks a lot of nuance and variance. If you start with those and start pulling in some of the core Mythras ones that are not directly represented, you get a MUCH better shaman as a whole, to the point where you start really thinking about spellcasting and spirits as different and taking that top tier of being a full mage is very impactful. Not to mention you are now nurturing 4 skills. Frankly, I liked it a lot more than core SR magic. Mysticism is only an ok representation of what is in SR. The modified version of Mysticism in Thennla using Conditioning and Puissance is a much closer direct mapping. That having been said, it might be more interesting to use Mysticism relatively unaltered. Destined powers would probably work as well.