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    Incline Classic D&D/AD&D/OSR Art

    I, Tyrant has many good drawings, and also one of my D&D personal favorites:
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    Why don't indie devs use AI-generated images as art?

    After spending a few hours at lexica, I think people are misusing this technology by trying to get perfect-looking portraits of waifus. That's boring and completely uninteresting (and you get awful-looking hands anyway.) The cool shit is asking it to make weird stuff, like a roman mosaic of a...
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    Why don't indie devs use AI-generated images as art?

    Ai art winning a digital art competition for a piece of concept art is very apt since they are more or less the same. AI is just a really fast photobasher.
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    Decline 90s and early 00s games had so much style, wtf happened

    Well, you see, pick up two games from that list and compare how they came up with ideas: Quake: The nerds who made Doom want a Dark Fantasy game. They spend their freetime playing D&D, when they brainstorm all sorts of crazy ideas. They hire an Industrial rock band for the music and sound...
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    Why don't indie devs use AI-generated images as art?

    Some probably are using it already, but hiding the source or editing the images to make them look more natural. Still, I guess it's mostly because it's a new thing, but also because unless you are making a game set inside the Warp or some weird reality, the AI-look will make it look, at best...
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    Incline Warhammer 40,000 Lore Thread

    Rick Priestly, who can be said to be the creator of W40K, studied archeology & history, and he is obviously a history nerd since he has written other ancient history wargames and is now co-owner of Warlord Games (which mostly makes historical wargames.) It's funny, though, that while there is a...
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    Decline Why do so many modern (indie) games use a shitty art style?

    It's easier now to do art for videogames, or digital art in general, as there are almost no barriers to entry and there are a lot of resources out there that make your life much simpler, from just buying your assets to copying other people's art or the thousand of tutorials out there...
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    What game are you wasting time on?

    Baldur's Gate, but in French. I don't speak French. Still, I have already learned that save against ¿wand? is save against baguettes, and a halfling is a petite-personne. This is not a serious language.
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    Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    I don't know how to say this but... that window has legs? There are many reasons modern animation/art can look off-putting or ugly, but one, which I can confirm because I have been drawing a lot recently, is the cleanliness and artificiality of the digital line. I have been doing a lot of...
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    Are drow inherently evil? And other D&D racial restrictions that have been loosened over the years

    I believe (and I read a very old piece by Gygax where he said something quite similar) that LG is the natural (or, perhaps, I should say, ideal) alignment of humanity, followed perhaps by NG & LN. At the very least, the Lawfuls should be the most common, with LG, NG, and LN being the alignment...
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    Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

    What triggers me the most about that picture is that, somehow, you can almost feel her race isn't *black* but actually *American*.
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    Getting squeamish about realistic butchery in videogames

    I believe it might be the opposite. Look at the examples posted or mentioned, almost all of them are moments where the player is definitely not in control, when you are not actually playing but are forced to watch something gruesome, as in a movie, even if it's just for a few seconds (Lara...
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    Getting squeamish about realistic butchery in videogames

    I suspect your issue is with animations outside your control, things you are forced to watch (and probably up-close,) not so much play. I mean, gory kills, death animations, QTE, etc. And, naturally, cutscenes.
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    Why is magic so strong in most RPGs?

    They are stronger because they should, but stronger in computer RPGs has come to mean a different thing than it used to. Originally, in ancient D&D, the magic-user function was not to inflict more damage (although they could) but to find creative new solutions to overcome obstacles (not only...
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    Why Does The Codex Download Shit Onto My PC?

    Yes, on Firefox, it downloads some gibberish Firefox .htm file (0 bytes) from time to time. I think I don't need to log in, just go to rpgcodex.net* and they download. I wouldn't even notice it if it weren't for Firefox' download pop-up. The first one in the image is the one it just downloaded a...

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