I've been researching #UKGE RPG safety procedures for an upcoming video.
If you've GMed or played an event in the last two years I'd really like to ask you a couple of questions re. your experience.
Feel free to DM or email anonymously :)
(Sharing massively appreciated!)
Without even getting into the ethics of AI art in general, I can tell you that it's a bad idea to put placeholder AI art in your board game prototype you're pitching to publishers. You're trying to sell them a playable game framework, not art direct their final product for them.
Does anyone working in the indie ttrpg space have a working theory for why the standard of writing is... pretty high? I've always been struck by how often the imagination, stylistic chops & effort are, on average, solid or better. That's not been my experience in, say, indie fiction or poetry.
Great article from @spookysyntax.bsky.social. Seeing these anti-AI signs around UKGE was heartening, but it shouldn't even be a question. AI slop took up valuable space at the con, and punter's money that could have gone to real creators went to this crap instead.
With UK Games Expo behind us, may I please put out a call for questions about tabletop conventions? I do a podcast with @ava.foxfort.net & @giantbrain.co.uk called But Why Vikings? where we answer listener questions about all things tabletop as agony aunts/pundits. We'd love yours for a con special!