Jeff Dee

@jeffdee.bsky.social

Artist & immersive simulation TTRPG designer. Artist in early D&D books. Co-creator of Villains & Vigilantes [1st complete superhero TTRPG] & Cavemaster [Stonepunk TTRPG]. Rational skeptic. He/him. Freelance. Art rates: https://tinyurl.com/2p828w9a #ttisg

Copyright is the right to copy & use a work of media. Owners of the work have that right. A corporation training AI doesn’t unless the owner says so. So say the courts as of 9/30 (& a US Copyright Office statement last year). The argument is over. www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

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Jack Herman & I have several convention appearances scheduled. Meet us in person, get your Villains & Vigilantes books signed, and ask us anything! Bookmark The Monkey House Games events page so you'll never miss your chance: xhttps://www.facebook.com/monkeyhousegames/events

The #ttrpg catchphrase “rulings over rules” bugs me. It’s not wrong, it’s beside the point. GMs make rulings when rules are absent or poor because we’re at a tabletop not a computer. Designers must still ask 1) what rules are needed and 2) how to make ‘em good enough not to need over-ruling. #ttisg

Thanks to the new custom multi-player ship construction, I'm playing No Man's Sky again. Not only that, but you can walk up the ship's entry ramp, walk around inside, fly to other planets, get up & walk around while it's flying, land & walk back down the ramp onto the surface. Cool. #NoMansSky

There is an important difference. If you say "Under Republican control, Congress has been ineffectual..." it provides a basis for voting Republicans out. If you merely say "Congress has been ineffectual..." it implies "they're all crooks!" and encourages people to opt out of voting.

Manda @talzhemir.bsky.social is playtesting Lost Age, her sequel to our Paleolithic #ttrpg Cavemaster. Here are two ‘character tablets’ from tonight’s game. We’re using a diced variant of the Cavemaster “Habilis system”. I’ve tried to draw pictures in the style of Copper Age sites like Gobekli Tepe.

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