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"You're doin great sweetie"

gonna need the dms shirt ASAP

As GM The rule is: just pick i do not care Players go before tied monsters thats all i really care about

Love ur shirt

At my table we love getting this because then we do dual initiative so both players can do their moves with eachother and we get these crazy combos (especially with some of our homebrew stuff)

Typical

What a quick gentleman

good episode!, except the sound feedback(?) great rp all around!

Fun fact: barter economies never existed. Barter existed, but not in such a way we'd label an entire "economy" after it. What did exist was gift economies.

the audio is really crisp, good job!

what a great story, amazing rp!

Loving this arc ❤

The Schapelle(Lapel) mics are probably the best option considering the use of physical terrain and moving around. Also throw away the pen, too much temptation to click it!

Make sure to iron your sheets before filming ☺

40:42 I actually hated seeing half anything for a few reasons. First off when it comes to orcs, according to their lore they're like viltrumites. Their DNA overrides whatever they mate with. As for half being negative, Half Japanese and half Polish people can tell you straight up how demoralizing and separatist it is

It seems like there is quite a lot of misunderstandings about the new rules. I would highly suggest actually reading how the smites work for example. It is even debatable if Sorcs got nerfed due to the change to twin spell.

Dnd live plays, talk shows and 5e expansion content are very oversaturated markets. You face steep competition against other creators and it may be a good idea to focus on a specific niche or take one or two things you do really well and focus on only that. You really have to stand out, one way is being unique and another way is doing what others do but better. I think these dnd chats would be a good thing to focus on, you can tighten up the format to around 45 mins and record news as current as possible to pickup on any hot topics (It sounds like you have a lot of stuff banked up), which unfortunately may lose relevance after a few weeks. I think other systems is a great way to find new audience but again you have to offer something that not many else are offering, I think the kids on brooms thing you would have to get involved with that community or at least have a good system mastery to really show it off. If you're primarily a dnd show that plays the occasional oneshot of another system it will be hard to break through there because people know you're probably not going to play it again. I think if you double down on the short format dnd oneshots that could be a better niche for you, you could even demonstrate your class ideas/monster ideas. At the moment your dnd content ranges from 2 hour to 4 hour marathons, which is a huge ask for completely new fans to the channel. I think if you tighten things up to around and hour and bring those mics in close and squeeze into a 1 or 2 trestle table panel you could use the multiple cameras to better effect. Anyways sorry for the ted talk lol, keep it up! I enjoyed this discussion. (btw the 5min dm thing needs to be 60 second dm and have a little pie clock counting down, people have short attention spans these days and it would be fun to watch people sweat to come up with things) :)

1:17:50 👀

Very handy Georgia, with a long break a recap was worth it.

“It’s not a vibe” *instantly breaks and drops onto the table*

For those who are curious: 0:05 Episode 1- Pitfall 0:58 Episode 2- Lost & Found 1:16 Episode 3- Whispers 1:43 Episode 4- Cold Words 2:05 Episode 5- Welcome Home 2:33 Episode 6- Faith is Fact 3:16 Episode 7- True Resignation 3:31 Episode 8- Setting Stone 3:55 Episode 9- Cleaning House 4:16 Episode 10- Rift in the Reflection 4:40 Episode 11- Purple Pain 5:06 Episode 12- The Path 5:39 Episode 13- Buried Regret 6:23 Episode 14- The Broken Few 6:56 Episode 15- Panic! At the Ballroom 7:29 (BONUS) The Undying League

Sooo close! 😂

Oh I remember reading about one of those and planning something equally evil! hahaha well done, and welcome back guys!

We are falling somewhere in the middle right now. Full colour printed maps, paper minis and monsters, spell cards and templates. No scenery.... Yet 😅 My first home game were all war gamers so we spent a lot of time in combat each session. They did break out some great RP at times, which was always refreshing (and surprising 😅)

Well that was cool and a good ending. A fun side quest... Now, some Broken Few awaits!

Gold! 😂

Congrats on the 200 subs🥳

More excuses for shirtless Seb please

Me and my friend watching (Me the rouge and my friend who's a barb). My friend immediately said after the introduction: "Use Seduction"

Loving the chapter endings!

OK part 2 :P This time from a perspective of a hobby that has been largely monetised through markets both traditional and online, and also a skilled profession in furniture making that has gone rapid digitisation over the past decade. Woodworking, and making in general. Like art production, the practice of a skilled craft that has been adopted into a leisure time activity or a combination of both, there have been arguments for many years now of the dumbing down and threat of the rise of the machines. Now this is not a perfect analogy to AI producing art, but there are many similarities. Mass produced furniture and homewares, like mass produced art, is nothing new. What we call "The Ikea Effect" in the hobby boils down to fact that you can now buy a desk or chopping board of functional quality ridiculously cheaply. More than that, you can buy some _quality_ wooden things small and large at remarkable prices. We just bought a new Queen sized bed, well made, solid beech, nice design, for less than what I as a woodworker could even source the timber for... mass production makes it almost impossible to compete on price. So when someone comes to ask me to build a small bookshelf, and I say sure, that'll be $500 they are dumbfounded. They don't understand why it costs so much when they can get one from Ikea that looks nice for half or less even from the same materials, let alone the chipboard and cardboard filled options they have. You can _easily_ pay $10k for a dining table made by a professional furniture maker... and people do. Buying from a maker, the customer wants quality, hand made, personal and custom. That is what they pay for. The Ikea desk customer is not the same as the handmade customer (they just sometimes dont realise this) until educated. I feel the same is true with artists. Think of the person who puts "that" picture of the New York skyline from Ikea up in the living room vs someone who buys a photo of their home city from a skilled local photographer, of an original / print from an actual artist. I have a lot more to say on 'fast furniture/fashion and other physical products but that's a different tangent. My point is, there is a set market and the customer, not the producer, decides where they sit in it. If an Ikea customer cant get what they want, they are unlikely to spend more to take it to the next level. Luckily the reverse is also true. Someone after custom and handmade, is unlikely to settle for mass produced. Like my previous comment as Zalgariath, declaration is key. If I was to buy an ikea desk, whack my logo on it and sell it as 'handmade' without telling the customer, I've crossed a line. If I bought an Ikea desk, swapped the handles, painted, strengthened and sold it as a "flip" (very common) and told the customer, and they love it (and the price, being cheaper as Ikea did the base work)... I've saved time, made a happy customer, used the mass production machine as a base to make a better product at a fraction of the price of making it from scratch and been honest with the client. Also, the above takes less training, practice, tools and skills that a scratch build, which brings me too... Are AI and Robots 'cheating' or ''theft'? Sticking with the maker analogy, traditional woodwork is hard. It requires a lot of tools, materials, skill, practice and patience. The outcome is heavily dependant on the ability of the woodworker and their available tools. 40 or so years ago, powertools, once restricted to the industrial workshop started to make their way into the keen DIY'r and hobbyist homes. Saw and chisel men complained "that's not real woodwork, anyone can cut straight with a power saw, I practiced years to do that with a handsaw." and "Screws?! Cut a REAL dovetail joint by hand (a skill that takes years to perfect, patience, and honestly is completely un-needed in most cases where a pocket-hole jig can be used by a 5 year old (no exaggeration) for the same *functional* result. Do the dovetails look better? Sure! Is one skilled and one east, definitely! Does the consumer care? ...sometimes. Will the same person wanting a hand cut dovetail cabinet want the glue and screw cabinet? Probably not. Jump to the 2010s and the *rise of the machines* . Powertools are now the norm, people who make with hand planes and saws are super keen hobbyists and rare, and the *real* woodworkers have shed full of electric, home sized versions of machines once restricted to industry at a reasonable price. DIY is open to all via cheap tools like Ryobi... and then, someone on TH-cam get a CNC, a laser cutter, and _A 3D printer_ (eeeeewwww!). Worse, they have the hide to call this _Woodworking_ . They are not even touching the tools! They download models, plug a few prompts into a computer, tweek the design to suit their needs and hit "enter". The machine takes over and cuts, engraves, finishes the piece for them to a level of accuracy a master craftsman can only dream of... and they did it after watching a few YT videos. They buy a Domino joiner and cut mortise and tenon joints in seconds a few mintues after opening the box. (a complex, skilled and time consuming affair traditionally). These digital machines allow them to almost mass produce furniture and an accuracy and speed _traditional_ power tool woodworkers could only dream of... but is it still 'handmade'? That is the question. I'll leave that one there to think about. Wow... hit the comment limit! Hang on :P

Oh this was great! Let's start by airing the olliphant in the room. *I am that guy who uses generative AI to make money* but I don't see myself competing with traditional artists, or stealing from them. I should have been taking notes as I'll likely miss some important things but here we go. Such a good discussion and so many interesting points I'll need to comment from two accounts to cover everything, as some points relating to tooling I want to tackle from a woodworker and makers point of view as we as a community have been going through a digital revolution for the past 10 years or so provoking similar arguments of removal of the skills traditionally required to create things. This is my gaming profile and becomes relevant as I use it to create D&D tools that I sell on Etsy. But I also don't think I, or the way I use AI, is a threat to Bailey or other traditional artists out there. Let me explain: I am a designer, not an artist. I am not formally trained, but I spent 11 years in the education industry and learnt Photoshop and design as part of my job creating displays for communicating complex science information simply to students. I've now started applying those skills to my hobbies such as CAD in woodwork, creating my own photoshop based VTT and most recently designing these DM tools which I sell. There is a huge amount of work and reasonable skill that goes into what I create, and I can't see another realistic way of doing it at a price point that represents value for the buyer. Looking through products of people who sell similar things to me (paper minis, spell cards, player handouts etc) it can be very hard to tell if it is 'hand' done, AI assisted, or AI generated. Only a tiny fraction of sellers seem to declare one way or the other. (Side Note: A small correction to one of Seb's statements, Etsy _DOES_ allow AI content to be listed and have recently updated their official guidelines to reflect this. It falls under the "Designed by Me" category. Etsy and it's relationship with its sellers and IP concerns is a WHOLE other topic we wont get into here, but in short, yes, you can sell AI art (and commissions) on the platform). Back to how I use GenAI. My most popular products are paper mini sets and player handout sets for the 5e Starter Kits like Lost Mine of Phandelver. In that kit are 50 different creatures, many of which have multiple art variations, I think 80 odd pieces of art there. There are 10 different background options, 63 items/npc/lore cards with 40 odd pieces of art, then the PC minis with many race/gender options and 24 pieces or art... I think we are well over 200 pieces there... and that is _just the art_ . Then there are textures, borders, arrows and markers... literally hundreds of different graphical elements, thousands of layers when you count duplicates. It might sound funny, but the art, while cool, is secondary to the function of these tokens, minis, and cards. It exists to make the tools attractive and identifiable as what they represent... not to be appreciated as a skilful creation of artist merit like say, a personalised character portrait. The layout, design, formatting and compiling is where the real work is. Further, even though the base of the art is AIgen it is _not just_ AI generated, most pieces have been photoshop edited, mashed, tweeked, colour corrected, 6th finger chopped etc etc from what the generator spat out). I estimate over 100 hours of work and 6 to 8 weeks of production went into that initial product, which I can then sell for AUD$24, a price which makes it accessible to first time DMs just learning the game (who my products are pretty much custom suited for). Over time, it will have been worth my efforts... I hope. I still need to sell around 200 copies to have made a reasonable after tax income. That may take years. Now, if I were to commission a skilled artist to replace the AI for a similar quality of work, you are talking hundreds and hundreds of more hours work (and months) of production time to reach the same point. The end result... likely an unaffordable product that will help no one get into our great hobby and from a commercial standpoint not generate any worthwhile income for me, or the artist I roped into assisting me. So... should this product not exist because it relies on using GenAI? Or, if an extremely dedicated artist _did_ pour the hundreds and hundreds of hours into it by hand, should they be rewarded with such a small fee for their time? Or, should players accept they need to pay hundreds of dollars to fairly compensate my and the artist? (at which point you could have bought 3D printed minis instead of 2D paper ones) Or, should the paper-mini fans accept less complex art that doesn't "look like D&D" that allows an artist to pump out hand drawn pieces faster at a better price? There's probably a different answer for each reader depending on their values and where they sit from consumer to creator. For me, offering attractive, high quality products at a reasonable price is a win-win scenario. I can use an emerging teachnology to (hopefully) make enough to money make it worth my time and the application of my skills as a designer, and beginner players and DMs can bring to life and hopefully spark a TTRPG passion without breaking the bank, while the products I create sit in the realm of "too hard basket" for a traditional artist to replicate... that's my goal anyway, others may disagree freely :) Where I draw the line, and what I wont produce, is art that takes away from the commission artist. Sure, I could take a character concept from someone and pump it into the algorithm and tweek it (and there are HEAPS of folks who do just that on Etsy... often without declaring it), but to me that is directly pooping on the vision of real artists. To counter my own argument there, would the people using these $20 services still be happy to pay $50-$100 to a proper artist? I don't know. I do know that when I wanted character art for my players... I commissioned a real artist who did an amazing job, and got paid a fair cash amount for her time. Wow, that's the longest comment Ive ever written, and we still havent covered why AI is not (always) really theft or machine learning... I might hold that for my Fixit Fingers comment :P At the end of the video I felt a few things. The concern of how this emerging tool will affect the art community, and admiration you guys want to do everything old school and have the talent in-house to do so, but also reflective on my own business practices. While I have no intent of stopping using AIGen art to design future products, I have after watching this discussion now more clearly flagged the fact Generative AI features heavily in my workflow on all my products. I feel that is important information for the consumers to know and make an informed judgement when buying art-based products. I don't think it will negatively impact sales, and it clears my mind that people know exactly what they are paying for so if they are 'anti-AI-anything', they can click away. I think all AIGen art should be flagged as such, because where I will lose out is someone doing similar things to me, but NOT declaring their products use AI and that customer I lost on good faith, gets pulled into an AI-based product anyway. That's my rant for now, thanks for a great discussion point! I am no artist... but I make good tools :) Cheers T&T Team.

Not sure why I thought this was a 3 part series... More to come! 😊

Over complicating... Track down the Aussie Bogan student who imported the bloody thing 😂

I wanted to thank you for bringing up the "All artists copy" (are influenced by others) argument. I feel like that's glossed over a bit by the "starving artist" group. I heartily disagree with your point on the "eating it's own tail" thing though. As you said, there are no new ideas, just the tweaking of old ideas into new forms. There's no reason to think AI can't learn from it's own creations and create yet more unique things. I suppose there's a risk that future AI will ALWAYS draw human hands with 6 fingers if the bulk of it's training images are AI generated, but the idea that AI will somehow just be stunted and unable to grow past a certain point seems short-sighted to me.

"our mind works like a giant AI" my god Idiocracy is real!

I don't know what miracle algorithm got me here but it was a pretty good video. I've been biting my tongue for months on the starving artists vs AI thing but I figure I'll hop in on this since you invited it. First, I'm a programmer and I honestly believe "Code is art". I've spaghetti-coded a terrible solution to an issue, only to then turn to Stack Overflow or similar code-sharing site only to be shown a whole new world of possibilities that just has to be called beautiful art. And then in turn shared my own solutions to help someone else through their own struggles. I've been freely sharing and "stealing" code for 30 years in this way. For all I know, there's code I've written that was taken, tweaked and included in software that for all I know are currently installed on millions of cell phones around the world. That's great! If AI can learn from my code and help someone solve a problem, that's also great! I realize it's not exactly the same thing, but for all the "Free" code available out there, and with AI now able to generate really solid code itself, I can't imagine there's never going to be a lack in the need for programmers. Ok, so all that being said, I don't have an artistic bone in my body. The "Well just learn to draw and you won't need AI art." argument really pisses me off. The process does not interest me in the slightest, but that doesn't mean I don't have great ideas, just that I have no interest in learning how to draw them. I also love music but I have no musical ability and no interest in learning to play an instrument. Some people just don't have that thing. For the record, I also get pissed off when someone tells a recently laid off factory worker to "Just go learn to code" because again, some people are just not able to do that. So my specific use case for AI is homebrew content for TTRPG Boardgames. I've spent well over a hundred hours sifting through THOUSANDS of AI requests, pulling the ones that sort of work into Adobe Fireworks (they I purchased a million years ago) and editing the crap out of them to produce tiny images that demonstrate what a playing card is for. For example, asking it to product a dungeon room, then asking it to produce a sack of coins, which I then put into the room, then asking for different types of banners to add, and so on. Anyway, the design of the card, the font, the colors, the verbiage is 100% unique to me. I don't draw, I don't have any artist friends, I can't afford someone to draw literally 200 small images for playing cards for what is essentially a hobby. So my question is this. If I put my homebrew for sale, why is it less valid than NOT using AI art? I mean, don't I deserve something for my over hundred hours of design and vision? Not to mention the years I've spent honing and crafting custom rulesets? Because I use AI art for an arguably insignificant part of my project the whole thing is invalid? My point being that were I to produce the same exact product with no images on the cards, just text, it would work exactly the same, it's literally just eye candy. Sorry, not trying to sound heated, but I'm curious what you think of someone that uses AI for an arguably small subset of work being completed. I think we can all agree assholes using AI Art to just put on mugs are a totally different story, but what about me!!! :)

Hey folks! Just throwing in my two cents as an artist in the D&D / TTRPG sphere! (Also hello fellow Aussies!) Appreciate your input. Personally and respectfully, I disagree with the use of AIgen at all, even during the "concept" design stage (IE generating 'concepts' to tweak or send to an artist). Because I believe there are better options ethically and environmentally. For example, if you're needing NPC art for a D&D session there are great character customisation options across video games. Or for example online there are sites called 'Picrew' that are artist led and run that are also great for character customisation. Finally I know of several artists online who offer NPC art libraries / packages; sets of bulk character art that can be purchased relatively cheaply. I know ErinAngiolini (official artist for Critical Role) produces character art packages like this, it's super awesome. I can see from this video that ya'll have a care and respect for artists (shout-out to fellow artist Bailey) and that ya'll prioritise consent with an artist when tweaking their work with AI -- which is great -- however that raises the question what about the artists the generator steals from? There is no way to get the consent of thousands of artists on the other side of the generator. Also, simply, I have to stand on the fact that I personally disagree with the use of AI for 'drafting' and concept generating as mentioned in the video. Even for reference, even with transparency. Artists work is still being ripped from in the process. My "line in the sand" is real strict on art and all that I do admit, since it is quite close to home to me as a character and concept artist myself. I can't stand for it. My worry is the more that we indulge AI, the more we allow it, the better it gets at doing what it does: fucking over creatives. Additionally and this is another personal + completely bias take, if I see content that's transparently being flagged as having used AI at all? I'm immediately moving away from that content. And then there is the fact of the environmental impact of AI generators. It's catastrophic and only getting worse. I can't say I'm an expert on envrionemntal matters but it is definitely worth looking into. All this said I don't expect people to feel they have to turn around and fork out cash to artists if they can't afford to, I just strongly believe there are better more ethical options out there that don't depend on ruining the creative industry as a whole. Thanks for your time gang, cheers.

Regarding the devil's advocate segment, I'd like to make a point. Working with artists can sometimes be a challenge, and there is no guarantee that your vision will be accurately brought to life. There is nothing more frustrating than paying market value and not receiving something you can be satisfied with. As someone with a very creative mind from a literary standpoint but not necessarily a visually artistic standpoint, these AI tools have been a boon to me in terms of working through concepts. To dig in further, these tools have allowed me to imagine concepts that I would have never otherwise explored due to my visually artistic limitations (self-imposed or otherwise). In other words, AI as a tool has helped provide me with creative avenues to explore that paying artists never did. The playing field has shifted irrevocably, so the question that could be posed to artists is: "What will you do to adapt?" And I don't mean from a regulatory standpoint. What will artists do to adapt from an innovative standpoint?

Party magician 😂😂😂

Using the LAV mic's here would probably be more ideal for audio, or moving the XLR mics to about 3-4 inches from the cast, you could bring down the gain and reduce some of that reverb/echo.

Ok you guys got me hooked to this channel in one episode great job

I was a bit worried I wouldn't follow the system but it was a great gentle introduction to it. Having worked in a few dozen private English schools I can confirm they are all exactly like this... pot head semi-capable staff 🌿🌿😂😂

We would of prefered if they had expanded models and or lore for the full female factions instead of rettconning the stodes. Like weve been begging for more sisters of silence stuff but no they just had to give us a half baked story about a female custodes trying to bring a nuke into the palace and gw saying "this has always been canon" as if they didnt just make the change for amazon. Whoch i might add the show might not even be going forword anymore cause of this.

It's not this change, it's the slippery slope into "political correctness" that the fans are afraid of. The Imperium is undeniably fascist and necessarily so, bigotry and inequality are essential features of the setting. WH40k codified the term "grimdark" because it's a nightmare, it's supposed to be a nightmare, it's the setting for a tabletop war-game, a universe where war rages eternal. There is no room in that setting for any form of political correctness and absolutely none for identity politics. WH40k cannot be what WH40k is AND be politically correct, it just can't, you either ruin the appeal of WH40k as a horror setting or you make horror out of political correctness, either way it's a terrible awful no good very bad idea.

Like ive said, at least they didnt change the gender and/or sexuality of an established character. Like what if The Lion was really a woman and was gay? They didnt Disney it. They just added to it.

It's like yall miss the point on purpose....is it willful ignorance? Mental deficiency? What? Ok, I'll go slow. There was two points of contention (at least for me). Either through spite or greed (probably both) they made this change. Men cant have shit no more these days lol. No non-tourist wanted this. We got the Sisters of Battle, Sisters of Silence, Amberly Vail, Regina Kasteen....plenty of badass females so why do this. Second, despite evidence to the contrary, they treated fans like we were stupid by saying it was always that way. Yes the fuck it wasn't lol.

All the big corps just popping squats on lore and story telling in general atm. When you look at how good Riot gmes has done with Arcane and where they're going with LoL lore, this kind of hack job from GW is like going to a sandwich bar and watching them pick up your ingrediants off the floor, then watch them make your sandwich after having scratched their butt hole and sniffed their finger.

the ironic thing is by percentage there are more female players annoyed by the change than male players but people that have an ideology to push would never understand gender identity is not an issue and never has been there are no players out there that are upset by the sisters of silence or adepta sororitas or the howling banshees or the numerous named female charaters heck female squats were a thing since the original rogue trader nobody cared because it was all part of the story the only people complaining are people that would never take part in the hobby anyway

Its not genuine lore its pandering and its being introduced through gaslighting. Muscle mommys arent what anyone is mad about lol. Its gamesworkshop destroying its foundation with new lore for the tv show.