my best TTRGP night, i had a murder mystery. turns out, Garfield the Cat was a ghost and the ghost did it. it was an I'mSorryJon night, and one of our players hates cats.
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It's not plagiarism if you're not publishing. And I bet the DM knows exactly what their references are if players ask.
It's all plagiarism, baby.
The key is to plagiarize your obscure favorites. They don't know about the material, and you get to make them experience it!
My Adventure Time campaign was so dope. I played Snake Pool - Figure In The Background to cut each session at the end just like the show always cuts to Island Song. Idk how much was plagiarized besides the future Ooo setting but it was a fucken blast. I improved nearly everything.
Pfft, everything after Homer is a copy paste.
look i know the simpsons did it first but if i thought of it independently then i get at least half a writing credut
Homer was just retelling stories that had already been passed down orally for centuries if not millennia...
I have the luxury of being quite a bit older than many of the people I play with. I plagiarize like a mofo from stuff they don't even know ever existed. They think I'm a god. :)
The people I stole it from stole it first. Fiction is like Mexican street food: it's mostly the same ingredients, the artistry is in the preparation and proportions.
bad artists imitate, good artists steal.
or something
if you are not inspired by art, how can you make art?
...and some players somehow feel ai generated tokens are worse than that actual piracy of searching art sites for token images
Copying from art sites doesn't destroy the environment and doesn't flood the internet with slop and isn't used to justify firing maaaive numbers of people.
So when googling icons and using them, do you take note of the source? I've come across many where the artist specifically says not to use the image in tabletops or rpgs or icons or profile pics. You're directly disrespecting the author if you straight up use their image(s) in the tabletop against their wishes.
As for environmentally-destroying image generators, I only use local models I can run on my own pc. A microwave is 5x more environmentally impactful, and if I want generic_npc_worker_328, I take it as an artistic direction to ai generate a token of said generic_npc_worker_328...
That's some loaded language, but they're right. AI tokens are bad and they should feel bad.
my players love to generate their portraits with AI bc they feel they have agency on how to present their character on the board
i'm torn. if you want to have a portrait, generate it however you feel. i personally dislike AI art because i am a musician and [long rant excised] but y'know. it turned out one of our players really liked drawing and drew portraits of our characters that were better than what each of us did, which was really neat and special. but that didn't happen until each of us tried on our own first, right?