>>97831907
The gayholder always gives me a big smile. Cringekino.

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OP then and now.

>>97831907
>dude in the left wears a ring
Ngl that’s gayer than whatever’s in the right

>>97831907
Oh boy, another repost of the same art that was literally made just for the occasion and does not exist in the actual products.

>>97831964
at least it's not ai

>>97831964
No, the actual product just has combat wheelchairs and dwarven cookies

>>97831964
Gay beholder who just wants friends is literally in the book

>>97831907
>>97831915
>>97832503
Pic on the right is a trap. Sure, it looks like Fulsom Street in San Francisco with less leathermen. But it's also exactly the kind of thing a beholder would do and the reason is to attract other beholders to the degenerate spectacle so the gayholder can slay them.
Beholders hate most life forms but hate other beholders most, because they aren't perfect like that beholder.
I'm surprised that mirrors aren't more effective on them. Here, just stare at yourself while we get the flaming oil ready.

>>97832558
Not all beholders hate everything other than themselves. Some can get along with others like that one leading a thieves guild. Spectator Beholders like that one you meet in BG2 is pretty friendly and will talk to people.

>>97832503
>The beholder casts ray of gayness
>Make a will save of 18 or your characters become gay

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>>97831907
Sure.

This is stupid.

Both of these images are false.

The image on the right is not new-D&D, it’s what pearl clutchers and grognards think new D&D is like.

And I’ve read the old stories of pre-millennium adventures. Those were just as prone to colossal shit-shows as today.

Nothing’s changed, except which rules are getting argued over.

>>97831964
You call it many things, but never a lie.

>>97832600
>that one leading a thieves guild
You mean the one that is literally insane?

>>97832723
>not new-D&D,
Its official artwork

>>97832723
Cope

>>97832678
>>that bottom image
Aside from the "herp derp we must be diverse as possible" bs, what may I ask is wrong with the bottom image? The cookies? What, dwarves aren't allowed to like cookies now? That seems a bit silly to me, honestly.

We need to movie D&D headquarters from Seattle

>>97833119
>Aside from the shit, what's wrong with your salad?
Serious answer: It's soulless. Nothing about the image inspires creativity or imagination. It's like they asked ChatGPT to generate an image. I can look at this image for twenty minutes, memorizing every little detail, and the moment I look away it'll disappear like dust. Even a passing thought gives me more interest in what Dwarves could be than that image.

And you know what? I get why they had to do that, because DnD is so utterly divorced from any sort of cultural context that every race has to be boiled down to an Ur-Example of what they are. The Elves in the PHB are shown sitting around drinking wine and casting spells. That's all they could realistically show them doing. I guess that's the horror of the bottom picture and why it turns people off, because it lacks any humanity to it.

>>97831907
Veteran of the Planar Wars here. I didn't slay the Lich of Eddenburg, lay waste to the Red Dragon Tamunduphax and slaughter hundreds of Tanar'ri for that future..

>>97833143
>>soulless
So in other words, it's lacking in charm then, in your opinion? Fair enough, at least that's more reasonable than a reflexive "new thing bad" mentality.

>>97833119
The problem is the forced message of reversed gender roles. They're trying way too hard to push the point of "seeeee??? the man should be in the kitchen bringing cookies to the two strong women who are doing the real work and the gay man who is helping them."
I don't want to play dnd thinking about someone's modern political issues that they are writing about on twitter. I want to look at in-game artwork and be immersed.

>>97833168
Fair enough, but I will say that there are enough male cooks/chefs around that being a cook/chef isn't really a feminine profession exactly, and yes I know that female cooks and chefs also exist which means it's not an inherently masculine profession either.

I don't understand why you think the male dwarf at the forge is gay though, honestly.

>>97833182
The first impression I get from the image is not that the dwarf bringing the cookies is some kind of professional chef. The first thing I get is "wife bringing cookies to the hardworking men but gender swapped".
Obviously, there is nothing inherently wrong with such a scenario. It's the way it's shoved into my face at a place I don't want it to be at that bothers me.
>I don't understand why you think the male dwarf at the forge is gay
I was being half serious but he does kind of give me that vibe. I don't know what it is. His hairstyle? His tan? His choice of cosmetic accessories? His body language?
If I had to bet I'd say he's at least open to experimentation

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Where would this cleric land in context of old and new D&D art in themes?

>>97833206
Wait, I take it back. If I had to bet I'd say he's the top and the guy bringing the cookies is the bottom

>>97833207
You know, people hate the art Puckee commissions because it gets spammed on here a lot, but I think I would prefer it to a lot of "official" DnD art currently.

>>97833206
>>97833214
Fair enough, to be honest with you I don't like most modern DnD art either. I just can't entirely put my finger on why the way you and a lot of other people can. It just rubs me the wrong way, it feels like it's lacking a proper sense of adventure.

>>97833206
>I was being half serious but he does kind of give me that vibe. I don't know what it is. His hairstyle? His tan? His choice of cosmetic accessories? His body language?
Dwarves inherently lean gay in depiction, as does almost anything "overtly masculine", hence so much of gay porn being obsessed with muscular men and fatsos.

>>97833151
>reflexive "new thing bad" mentality.
People have bren saying what the specific problems are, it just gets ignored

We have this same thread every day. Can you sing some other tunes for once?

>>97833231
>it's lacking a proper sense of adventure
It's because the focus of the artists is something else. What I think is happening is, the artwork is made to depict certain imagery and elicit feelings that a specific audience will approve rather than invoking a sense of wonder and adventure. Namely, "inclusiveness", "a safe space" and "acceptance". Soft, muted lighting, neutral colors and non-threatening figures.
As opposed to older images which feature extreme contrast, sharp edges, "dangerous colors" (such as blood red or blinding yellow) and generally shocking imagery.

>>97833207
I actually like this pic and will probably use it for something. Am I braindead?

>>97833275
Yes

Guaranteed replies.

>>97833119
It depicts dwarves doing something other than fat drunks or manly weapon smiths so it is wrong.

>>97831907
Is it really hard not to be a bigot?

>>97833119
>>97833320
ngl I feel like if dwarves were to like any activity besides brewing and smithing it would be baking. They already have the ovens for it.

>>97832998
>Its official artwork
For the umpteenth time, the right image is a Pride special artwork made by Ultra-Pro. It's not WotC artwork. It was probably approved by WotC, but it's not in any offical D&D product.

As for the left image from the Days of Yore, you have two white dudes screaming in terror, a Girl Boss who is the only that is actually doing anything, and a pretty boy with an ear-ring & curls string a pose.

If you put half as much effort into your campaigns as you do being offended by nothing, you'd be having a good time instead of being the miserable pricks you are.

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>>97832992
By human standards you could rightfully call any beholder insane

The 2 male dwarves' arm tattoos are of the other one's beard. It's super gay.

>>97833207
>puckee spamming his commissions again
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1j5ot3r/artcomm_sister_althea_human_cleric_by_dennis/
https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/nJCQeA9MiQuu2AvMvA_6Gw/
>33 times since March 2025

>>97833355
>>ngl I feel like if dwarves were to like any activity besides brewing and smithing it would be baking. They already have the ovens for it.
There's some sort of edgy joke about Jews that could be made here, but I'm not witty enough to phrase it properly.

>>97833235
Not by me, I at least understand where you guys are coming from with your disdain for this stuff.

>>97833228
I feel bad for the artists themselves, because they do have some technical skill even if they're a bit bland. But now they're associated with annoyance.

>>97833119
>>97833355
Dwarven cookies seem like they'd be a good snack for laborers. They'd be made more calorie dense, sweet and salty, and be easy to eat for quick energy.

>>97833119
>Aside from the "herp derp we must be diverse as possible" bs, what may I ask is wrong with the bottom image? The cookies?
I feel like you and I are complete polar opposites.
I'm not bothered by the diversity but the ugly gay fucking manbun, big goofy smiles, and "quirky wholesomeness I GOT COOKIES!" shit annoys me. Like that Legends and Lattes book, I can't imagine having a fantasy world and deciding to focus on putting a Starbucks in it. It just feels so fucking gay and allergic to adventure and perils

>>97833389
That Battletech fanzine with the trans flag, that orc fanart with the cartoony smile and camera meant to mimic Hearthstone's art style. There's another one I forgot but /tg/ really loves to get mad at fanart and say it's official

>>97833168
>The problem is the forced message of reversed gender roles.
There's a guy front and center doing physical labor.
>and the gay man who is helping them."
How is he any more or any less gay than guy with the manbun, rings in his beard, and mittens(gay, touching the stove is based) and dumb grin.
Might as well say the two guys on the table are gay.

>>97833231
A lot of people here have political reasons but you hit the head on the nail. It just doesn't look or fun and usually has bland art styles and scenery. Even some edgy art suffers from the latter too.

>>97833750
>There's a guy front and center doing physical labor.
He's not looking at the work the woman is doing. He's the easily distracted assistant checking out the queer little bread boi.

>>97833797
>He's not looking at the work the woman is doing
Well yeah, he smelled the gay guy's cookies and their lunch break is probably starting.
And you just know manbun yelled "DINNER'S READY!" as he walked in.

>>97833733
Among other posts in this thread I'm>>97833231
So I actually agree with you that this quirky wholesomeness and similar such shit is unappealing to me. That stuff has it's place and time, but it seems far too front and center in modern DnD artwork.

>>97831964
This is part of the oroducts, though.
In before
>uh uh you didn't pay for it tho!!!
That makes it worse, you fucking faggot.

>>97833419
Insanity has a definition
also
He is insane by beholder standards

>>97833832
I didn't even notice the tattoos, honestly. I'm guessing they each have a tatoo of the other one's beard? That does seem kinda gay now that you mention it.

>>97833389
Alright how about the mexican orc natives?
Or the gayholder on the official safety checklist for session 0?

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Just remember, you fucking faggots were warned about all of this. As soon as 5e back in 2014 put a whole paragraph of SJW bullshit into their Gender section in the PHB, the beginning of the infection was clearly present. You are the idiot who had a tick bite on his ass with a red ring around it and ignored it thinking it would just go away. You are the idiot who thought that it didn't matter because you could just bury your head deeper in the same and it would all go away. It didn't go away, did it? You knew it would take effort to fight back, so you convinced yourself that it was pointless. So you let these faggots take over the hobby, let SJW bullshit like Session Zero and X Cards get inserted into the game, let the reddit chinstroker blogger faggots astroturf it into standard practice,and you didn't do anything to stop it. You could have called it out as the disingenuous bullshit it was. You could have targeted normalfags getting into D&D and tried to keep them out. But I bet you didn't. You went right along with it. As soon as some 5/10 bitch with tattoos wanted to learn how to play the game from Stranger Things (which she watched while Chad was rawfucking her) you folded like a good little simp and taught her how to play, then she went home and got rawdogged by Chad again. Fucking imbecile. Then you let trannies in, because uhhh they're so heckin cool and quirky and draw le cool art for our game. Nice job idiot because now you have an endless supply of drawings of your warrior hero in bisexual lighting and all it cost you was the entirety of your hobbys culture and creative identity. Fantastic trade! You are like a boomer, a short-sighted hedonistic retard who let D&D culture turn into complete slop because you wanted to get your dick wet. And the saddest part is, you probably didn't. Go fuck yourself. You knew all of this was coming. You were warned. And you did nothing. In fact you actively spit on the people warning you. You deserve all of this.

>>97833886
mucho texto

>>97833888
Its really not.
400 words is standard middle school writing.

>>97833888
>mucho texto
Not an argument you ADHD-addled zoomer fuckwit.

>>97833899
Lack of paragraphs isn't though. Text walls are obnoxious.

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>>97833315
No, THIS is

>SJW bullshit like Session Zero
oh you're that guy

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Reminder that pic related is what current D&D art actually looks like.

Everything else is year old ragebait to get a dopaine spike out of your brain burned on culture war stuff.

>>97833886
What else were we supposed to do?
Our ability to control a companies actions ends where shareholder interests begin. A lot of people just want to throw a few dice and don't even really interact with any of the SJW/culture war bullshit. I mean fucking hell I don't even own any of the books. I just write copy down the bits I need from a friend or google.

>>97833207
tits too small

>>97833991
Stuff like this makes me realize I'm just not into digital art

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>>97833119
As you said the forced diversity (demihumans having the same mandatory racial phenotypes as humans) and the focus on SoL (plus queerness and lighthearted tones expressed through saturation/lighting other than composition), which the game itself doesn't actually reinforce in any dimension (hence a tonal whiplash).

>>97834033
She's under armor. But yeah she looks like she's more of a "face girl" than a "body girl" aka butterface.

>>97833119
>Aside from this
>they aren't allowed that?
Assuming you're in good faith, I'll put it this way. Yes, the forced diversity by itself is already bad and corporate, and no, the cookies by themselves don't make this reproachable, but there is a collection of little things in the image that, separate, are harmless, and together are fake and gay.
It's the forced diversity + the cookies + the performative male feminist haircuts + the basedcuck facial expressions + the cat + the guy on the left being such a faggot he'd wear sandals to a forge + him being the whitest male in there and taking the cookies to the brave women and racial minorities in a subliminarly subservient position + the excessive gay bear porn muscle glimmer + the hammers looking like MCU mjolnir + the art just looking bad.
None of those things, in a vacuum, would completely ruin an image, just like having either AIDS or the flu won't kill you.
The top pic is just male power fantasy, a guy taunting whoever's facing him, 2 weapons in hand for double ass kicking. It fits better a game that dedicates so many pages to combat.

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>>97831907
Friendly reminder that the only people who still are seething or gave a fuck about the image are never-games trying to stir up shit in some idiotic front of ACW (American Culture War) that nobody actually playing gives a flying fuck.

Let me riddle you this:
If this is "now" and so common, why are you unable to get a new image, but keep reposting the same 4 images (this, the two player parties and the one made to promote combat wheelchair, which already fall into obscurity even as a bait material)?

>>97834183
The fact this happened even once is already enough to complain forever, or at least until a scapegoat suffers to appease the mad god.

>>97834188
but you do realize that spamming the same ragebait even 2+ years later will make people see you as annoying spergs, yes? By repeating the same shit over and over and over again, you are alienating people to your cause by pissing them off

>>97833750
They have tattoos of eachothers beards

>>97834029
>What else were we supposed to do?
Attack the community by any means necessary while remaining within the bounds of legality. How do you think the civil rights movement accomplished things?

>>97833886
Yes, even back in 2014 you were a retarded nogames faggot.

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>>97833958
Remember when goblins were savage and cruel monsters and not a playable race for degenerate gooners

>>97833838
It literally only exists as an image posted to social media.

>>97833886
Do you have a medication you're either taking too much of or haven't taken?

>>97835855
>>97835606
No arguments.
>nogames
Election tourist meme.

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What is Mexican about the Orcs? The big hats? They're in the desert. Is falconry a Mexican thing? First I've heard of it. What else? Everything else I see is Cowboy coded if anything.

>>97833873
>official safety checklist
Gonna need a picture, google turns up nothing with a Beholder.

>>97836069
Give an argument and not retarded nutsack poking in text form and you will get something other than people calling you a retard.

>>97832600
Sure, but all beholders hate other beholders above all else. In some insane, complicated way, the gayholder is setting a trap for others if its kind.

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>>97831907
>MTG
>WotC

>>97835712
There is nothing more savage, cruel, and monstrous than a sexually desirable woman who knows it and uses it to get what she wants from men. The goblin on the left will have the decency to kill you brutally, the goblin on the right will destroy your life, your finances, your sense of worth and self, then bounce to do it to some other poor sod. And the moment, the actual moment she finds out you've started picking yourself back up, she'll make a beeline to you so she can do it all over again.

>>97833207
This looks like shit.

>>97832257
>dwarven cookies
That's a straight rip from Tolkien though. Let me guess, next you'll complain about talking animals or chainmail socks?

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>>97836141
>Gonna need a picture
Right in the DMG

>>97838303
Not him, but that's pretty funny.
Getting mad at that is like getting mad at the picture of the Wolfenstein guy dressed as a baby when you pick easy mode. Somebody at WoTC was taking the piss.

>>97838807
>getting mad at the picture
They asked for it in official artwork and I gave it
I wasnt getting mad

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>>97831964
>STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>97836141
>border crossing street sign axe
jesus fucking christ

>>97833143
It's worse than CGBT art. That's the real sad part. Someone guiding CGBT to get an image mostly right has more soul in it than whatever the fuck an image of dwarves baking cookies and a couple of gay Dwarf fags with tattoos of the other's beard is.

/tg/ has this uncanny electricity in the air, I just know if I post a picture of a piece of actual shit and say "This shit smells bad actually" someone will reply "Um, like what's the problem? It's just shit? You've never eaten shit before? Everyone always ate and smelled shit all the time, that shit isn't even representative of shit" etc.

I've never seen a bigger gathering of contrarian defenders of the status quo. Is it because they have some deep Freudian instinct of "oh no I don't want to be one of those incel guys who complain about things being bad, I should attack all complainers I find, then everyone will know I'm not an incel"

What if the shit actually smells bad though? What if the art really is gay?

>>97838839
There has been a fair amount of evidence that various corporations have hired PR firms to monitor various 4chan boards and attempt to control the apparent reception of their IPs on those boards. I would not be surprised if Hasbro hired a firm to watch /tg/, focusing on 5e D&D and MTG. Bait posts like the OP force whomever is on duty to come out and defend the IP even if they have the barest understanding of the IP and /tg/.

>>97838839
They'll never admit that the emperor has no clothes because their entire presence in our industry demands that the emperor's fine new clothes are obvious to everyone but evil nazis.

Current DND is both those pictures

>>97836141
How is that fat orc going to migrate across the rocky desert?
She aint walking that far without having to take a knee every five fucking feet, and her fat ass won't fit on a horse.

>>97838839
This exact shit has been spammed countless times already and it's natural that people get sick of seeing it after several years. All conversation about it has long since run its course and nothing new or interesting has or will come of it.

>>97838839
If you post the same post every Is there anything else to say? That picture Is two years old by now, shouldnt you get new material at the very least?

>>97839124
>>97839133
STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>97838839
It's because this site is full of fauxbertarians who think that if they complain about anything it makes them look like a "cuck" and so they need to just not care about anything and homebrew their own game that is 100x better than D&D and everyone wants to play it and they all have supermodel wives with big tits and 20 million dollars in crypto portfolio and other bullshit so nothing affects them. It's insane cope. Just typical bullshit from a generation to whom the ultimate comeback was "u mad bro?" and are all about ragebaiting each other while pretending not to give a fuck about anything themselves. Just a bunch of ironic, sarcastic, disingenous, unoriginal, soulless people.

>>97839171
Projection as always.

>>97839177
No, I think it's because bad actors took the biggest RPG and changed it to be about gay demons

>>97839188
lol you desperate retard how the fuck is that projection

>>97839171
Two years of your life, have you acomplished anything by spamming that? Keep going of It makes you happy, the board Is emptier by the day since everyone already knows its the same threads on loop.

>>97839080
>How is that fat orc going to migrate across the rocky desert?
Who says they're migrating? What does that have to do with Mexicans?

>>97839213
Something racist but also aren't orcs stereotypically nomadic

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>>97838303
That's a baby, not gay, and this Beholder is two pages later. All the handout pages have a cutesy monster on them while the rest of the art is 'serious'.

But you focus on whatever gets your tiny rage boner going.

>>97839206
>EVERYONE WHO HATES WHAT WE DID AND TALKS ABOUT IT IS ONE PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!

>>97839239
It's much more likely on an incredibly small and slow board like /tg/.

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>>97831964
>does not exist in the actual products
>what I see every time I pull a commoner token in foundryvtt (which uses approved, official art)

>>97839249
Sorry tranny, but no. I guess you can take solace in the damage you managed to do before everyone in the world rejected your fucked up ideology.

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>>97836141
Since you asked about distinguishing Mexican from other North American aesthetics.

>Is falconry a Mexican thing?
Don't be stupid. You don't have a good argument so you're just trying to throw shade.

Ambiguous
Boots are higher than vaquero boots with a deeper scallop but they are more decorated like vaquero boots.

Rider in background has common hat with curled brim.

Horses.

>Everything else I see is Cowboy coded
Totally. Triangular axes are cowboy, not at all stupid fantasy shape.

Vaquero/charro/Mexican
Prickly pear is native to some of USA but is mostly strongly associated with Mexico and the parts of the USA that were once Mexico.

Axe figure has a large knife/short sword sheath that is the right shape for a machete. Machetes are standard Mexican tools, not generic cowboy.

Strongly vaquero/charro/Mexican
>The big hats?
Yes, the big hats.

>They're in the desert.
Many Earth cultures are desert based and developed suitable headwear. Not many of them came up with the sombrero de ala ancha. The squatting figure at the lower right is especially obvious. The two on the horse are wearing the same style of sombrero. Broad flat circular brim, circular, flat topped crown. In fact, it looks like he's wearing the sombrero de charro.

Only one culture came up with the sombrero de ala ancha/charro: Mexican.

The squatting figure also has a type of moustache commonly worn in portrayals of Mexican charros/vaqueros and not just "cowboys in general".

The child at lower centre is wearing a small serape or poncho or rebozo with a decorative trim that is not general cowboy but reminiscent of traditional Mexican.

The saguaro is found only in Arizona, which used to be Mexico until 1848 and Sonora (with a handful in California). No columnar cacti appears further north than the saguaro.

Multiple items of Mexican-inspired clothing and appearance in a Mexican-inspired environment. If you can't see Mexican there you're literally or figuratively blind to the obvious.

>>97832257
The combat wheelchair was a third party piece of shit, actually.

>>97834218
>you are alienating people to your cause
I don't have a cause, I just have disdain that I don't think I'm alienating people from by showing what a joke WotC has become. Jokes only get old because they're good.

>>97839315
in 5e sure. But PF2e made it official

>>97839294
Why is it so hard for you to believe you preached so hard to the small, insular choir here that people just got bored of it?

>>97839333
Where do you think you are? You aren't exactly revealing anything revolutionary.

>>97839080
>How is that fat orc going to migrate across the rocky desert?
Camels have huge fat supplies, up to 12% of their total body mass is their fat hump with another 3% elsewhere, total 15% and they do pretty well.

For comparison, albatrosses add about 15% to 40% body mass of which 75 to 90% is fat.

Emperor penguins add 10 to 40% body mass before breeding, mostly as fat, and then migrate inland to the nesting colony. Penguins, far less suited to walking than humanoids, manage the extra weight for long distances.

While afaict the heavy set orc is there for reasons of "diversity" and "representation" we don't have any data on this fantasy race, its biomechanics, cardiovascular capacity and any increase in muscle mass along with what does look like extra fat content. Fat could be a survival advantage on a migration.

You need to watch more David Attenborough shows and learn a bit biology and apply some critical thinking skills more before putting your ignorance on display.

>>97833271
Well put. This. The issue is entirely in themes, the obvious subject is just the most obvious piece of that.

>>97831907
>D&D then
>it's Spellfire
holy fucking shit taste OP. the Shandril books are the EXACT SORT OF DEI SHIT that you're railing against
in less than 150 pages of book 1 (of 4), you have the main protagonist - a 16 year old girl - who goes from a rapebait maid with zero adventuring experience to a girlboss with the power to change the world and who can simultaneously solo two dracolitchs, a black dragon and beats back an evil sorcerer because GIRL POWER/POWER FANTASY while her inept male party members stand in the background

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>>97832678

>>97839358
>cope
lel

>>97839361
Why is your entire mindset so corroded by activism? First I have a "cause", then I'm supposed to be revealing "revolutionary" things to people. I just saw a shitty image and called it out for being fake and gay. I don't need an agenda to call fake and gay things fake, or gay, that's just the natural response to seeing fake and gay things.
>>97839409
It was so fake and gay I couldn't bear to look at it for long enough to notice just how fake and how gay it was. Role Playing Games, right?
Then someone has the gall to write fanfics about incels being the ones to plague games treating them like sexuality-based group therapy.

Hey look, goal posts on wheels

>>97839521
Your behavior and replies contradict what you are saying here. "I'm just noticing, just asking questions." Nobody buys it.

>>97831907
How did this topic impact your last session?

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>>97833119
Everything about it is wrong. Your taste is wretched. Pic related.

>>97839364
>the fat orc is waddling toward ze desert, some 70 kilometers avay
>even if you caught her and brought her back to the tribe, she would immediately head right back for ze desert
>But why? … she vill head towards the interior of the vast continent, with 5,000 kilometers ahead of her, and she’s heading towards certain death.

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>>97839861

>>97839903
oh no seniorc, she is supported by her large and friendly familia on their journey to the north to receive benefits for free, she will never be el pengiun solo

>/pol/fag seething thread
>again
Man, you guys just don't get tired of seething about how D&D is the devil, do you?
You've been seething continuously since the 80s and have never stopped. D&D isn't dying, no matter how much you seethe and call it queer.

>>97839521
What is the difference between your current seething and the seething you've been doing for 50 years?

>>97840197
DnD is 100% dead, obviously, in the same ship of Theseus way so many other intellectual properties are.

>>97840208
That's retarded.

>>97840208
>in the same ship of Theseus way so many other intellectual properties are
The ship of Theseus wasn't gradually replaced with solidified fecal matter though.

>>97840213
>>97840208
Honestly, the fact that /pol/fags are STILL seething about it being muh evuls proves that D&D never went away.
Making republicans seethe for the better part of a century.

>>97840215
>It's shit NOW, ignore me bitching for the last three generations, please, it's different this time
lol

>Its bad they did this

>>They didn't do this, someone else did

>They promoted it

>>Show them doing it

>Here's them actually doing it

>>Well heres them not doing it

This thread is wild

>>97831915
BEHOLDER THAT MAKES YOU GAY
Large aberration, lawful evil (pending supreme court verdict)
Skills: Fashion Sense +12
Senses: gaydar 120 ft.
Languages: Deep Lisp, Underfruit

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>>97833119
It's a vacuous image.
Every image in a fantasy setting should either make us think about the setting, inspire you to be enthusiastic about it or give us some information.
Basically it should have one of the following 3 I's in it: interest, intensity or information.
Preferably two, optimally all 3.
Let's take pic related. It's an action scene, look at the pose of the warrior on the left, so there's intensity in there, which is always the easiest one to get mind you.
Information? Well we can see a big city in the background, we know this world has 2 moons, that it's a savage, barbaric desert setting and that things look fairly brutal.
Interest? Hardest to do, but look at how alien the image is compared to most settings you'd see at the time, no knights, nothing european-ish, who are these people, what is their world like, if you saw this back in the day you'd at least want to hear the elevator pitch for Darksun and that's interest.

What does Dwarves & Diversity tell us? What does it have to inspire? What in that image would make you interested enough to go 'Alright, tell me more about this setting?'
In order: Nothing, nothing, nothing.

D&D is and has been coasting on its image of 'being D&D' for a while, it rolls on up to the red carpet and goes 'You know who I am, now let me in'
Which works for a time, but if you don't put anything new or interesting out you can't claim to be an A-lister forever, people lose interest.
One day, maybe not today or tomorrow but one day, the WotC are going to pull the usual 'Don't you know who I am?' card out and the answer is going to be 'No, who the fuck are you?' and what are they going to have to fall back on at that point?

Not 'Well I created this interesting setting' or 'The mechanics in this game of mine redefined fantasy roleplaying for a generation'.
They're going to pull out their portfolio of works and it's going to be nothing but gay dwarves and orc baristas.

>>97840292
It's just hilarious they've been seething about this for generations, and expect anyone to take them seriously.

>>97840360
Your argumentation rings hollow when you've been shitposting about how D&D is evil since before the internet was born.

I'm still wondering what effect that image had on your personal games.

>>97840388
>Can't address the argument, therefore attacks the person
>On an anonymous board of all places
You would say that given you're paid by WotC to be here. And I have as much proof of that claim as you have that I've got ulterior motives. So cope about it louder.

>>97840404
>Can't refute the history of bullshit, so instead cries about it
lol, seethe like you've been seething for 50 years.

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How much of this is due to Critical Role?

And speaking of which, some of them look really ghoulish nowadays. I checked out a stream like a week ago or so for 2 or so minutes and took a screencap.

>>97840463
>look really ghoulish
Because they don't care anymore. It stopped being fun in season 2, it's just another job now.

>>97831907
I love how the picture on the right is showing that the Gayholder is using magic, while looking at the epicenter of the village's lived queer experience, which implies he is the one making everyone in the village gay for his sadistic amusement.

>>97840477
>I can't do this, I love my wife!
>Maybe, but you know what else you love? Bussy
>NOooooooooooooooooooo

>>97839189
to be fair, being gay is a pretty sick and twisted thing that falls in line with the behavior of a demon

>>97840463
It's almost all due to Critical Role. I stumbled upon a video, where they played D&D with a live audience and THEY FILLED AN ENTIRE STADIUM full of nerdy, somewhat queer or leftist looking Millennials.

>>97840484
You aren't thinking gay enough, anon. The Gayholder has knowledge of advanced gayness. Modern queers don't cheat on their wife with gay men. Nower days the boomer man uses his vast wealth to transform himself into a bimbo plastic hon, who is adopting precarious LGBT youth from the street and gives them free drugs and housing, while socially pressuring them to join mandatory "cuddle" sessions. The young trans enbie "girl" is then forced to "eat the boypussy" of the giga-hon and can only hope that chugging an entire bar of Xanax will get the taste of unwashed ass out of their mouth.

>>97840485
Nothing of this is new btw. Even the Roman dealt with the cult of cybele, which pressured young men into castrating themselves to become "female".

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>>97840477
If they were lore consistent, no magic would work where the holder is looking

>>97833207
lol, puckee faggot

>>97836141
Dude one of them literally looks like a fucking landscaper.

>>97840516
It's not a Beholder, anon, it's a Gayholder. All forms of straightness are supressed, when looking at you.

>>97834183
Ah yes another culture warrior complaining that people notice and hate his bullshit which adds nothing to the setting and makes no fucking sense when examined to any real degree. And what is the latest cope? It’s saying how no one cares. I mean I guess that would be true if this shit didn’t exist since adding it in the first place is caring. But I guess it only counts if it’s bringing it up in a negative connotation.

>>97840463
it's 30% CR and 70% Stranger Things

>>97840208
Here? Maybe
Everywhere else? Doubtfull, D&D is still the most popular ttrpg by a wide margin, and this is not even a 90s situation like when WoD actually surpased it for a second.

>>97840537
>People
But its just you. For two years. You can't even get new material.

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>>97836717
So black Bilbo, Bard and Thorin soon?

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>>97832998
For Pride month, nothing more. You choose not to include any of the art that does not push your agenda .

>>97840624
>beholder basedfacing at a black woman

>>97840635
And the black womyn is the new khelben blackstaff

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>>97831907

It does look so corny. Like early 10's Tumblr art and not something you'd see from an actual game company.

I guess if I were in charge of DnD I'd try to split the brand. One line that's traditional dungeon-crawling and the like. And the other one more aimed at people who play on Discord and want a cozy fantasy about being quirky tieflings running their own tavern or whatever.

>>97839409

I know tattoo people usually have room temperature IQs so they're stuck in the present moment, but getting someone's style of beard tattooed on you seems retarded since they'd probably mix it up a bit over the course of several centuries.

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>>97840819
You know, you can have a bear tattoo just because you like how that beard style looks

>>97831907
You can always simply not play modern D&D. Not that you play, but it is an option.

>>97839314
Facts scare them off

>>97838839
The entirety of 4chan has done nothing but complain about le woke for an entire goddamn decade. At a certain point it’s just boring. Yeah, total nigger death. Now talk about something you actually enjoy.

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>>97841196
>>97839314
>big hats
Maybe they needed more bowler hats for you

>>97841242
You can't enjoy anything, that's cringe. You gotta be really aloof and jaded at all times or people won't think you're the coolest kid in the school.

>>97834029
Kill the board members, CEO, and game designers who insisted upon woke DEI faggotry being inserted into games. That's what you should have done. That's what you should be doing now. Only direct physical action can stop them, so find them and kill them.

>>97831907
Amen

PS
... the Wild Beyond the Witchlight

>>97841380
>Impotent incel internet rage and aspirations of violence
Jesus christ anon, get some therapy. This shit is pathetic.

>>97831907

Aren't people sick of the culture war yet? Isn't it an obvious distraction to stop the hoi polloi from doing things our rulers don't like(starting unions, protesting against wars/Israel, etc)?

Look at all the layoffs happening right now. The average age of a new hire is 42. Even if you're a doctor or plumber who will be fine, think of all your friends and family who are suffering because of layoffs, AI, rising gas prices, etc.

>>97839391
Yes, tabletop gaming was never for retards like you.

>>97840485
>sick and twisted thing that falls in line with the behavior of a demon
That not a nice thing to say about yourself, anon.

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>>97831907
>Anyone got any better than this D&D now vs then comparison pics
Yes, you colossal faggot. I just made one in a few seconds.

>especially for art style?
No. Fuck you and your self imposed victimhood.

>Seeing the new MTG set look so incredibly gay and full of mediocre modern digital fantasy art is quite sad.
Then be sad, you pathetic, weak little victim.

>>97840343
>lawful evil (pending supreme court verdict)
kek

>Underfruit
KEK

>>97840624
>a nappy-haired wiz nood
>not agenda pushing

>>97839133
The same could be said of puckee threads

>>97836141
Someone please post that picture that some artist did of these 5E 'not orcs' being tortured, maimed, murdered and eaten by vicious AD&D orcs. It was a hilarious take on how the orc had changed between the editions. I used to have it but lost it a while back.

>>97841751
It's just the same republicans seething about D&D that have been seething for the last century.
Same shit, different day. This time they think if they pretend they're victims, they'll get more traction.

>>97840537
We all know you've been trying to torpedo D&D since your grandfather's era. All tabletop, really. It was wargames before D&D, cards and dice before wargames.

>>97840635
>>97840694
>>97842095
>/pol/fags, unable to bear witnessing their own visage, seethe about blacks
lol

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>>97839409
It's all so tiresome.

>>97840819
MOAR Elven chicks in knee boots and mini-tunics plz

>>97833119
>pretend not to understand anything
>make a snide comment
You're such an insufferable asshole

>>97843525
The pointy-eared sluts just love giving us easy access, don't they? Grab a handful of hair, lick an ear, and bend them over a table or a bar, and they'll never say no.

>>97840588
My new favorite. Thank you so much for showing me this.

>>97840343
>Deep lisp
My sides

How to spot pilpul:
Thread topic
>Why did they make D&D suck with all this gay shit
Pilpul ITT:
>It isn't happening
>You always talk about this happening you are boring stop talking about it
>It didn't matter that it's happening it is only a little bit
>It's everywhere now but that's a good thing
>Actually it's always been like this
>You've been complaining about it being like this since the day D&D was invented
>You're just pretending that it hasn't always been like this
Just remember what every philosopher in history has said, never engage with pilpul. The purpose of pilpul is not to convince anyone or defend a point, it is to exhaust good people so bad things can continue to happen. Just continue to tell the truth and point out pilpul when they try it without ever engaging it.

>>97843925
Alternatively, discuss something productive.

>>97843964
>This isn't productive you have to stop talking about it
Add it to the list

>>97843925
Or maybe you could just take your crusade somewhere where it matters instead of one of the deadest, slowest boards on the site that's seen the same complaining for years now.

>pilpul
No real people speak like this, /pol/ tourist.

>>97844182
add it to the list

I wonder if he even has the ability to realize he comes off as not just an outsider, but also like a door to door preacher keeping his foot in the door.

>>97844364
add it lmao

>>97832678
The longer I look the worse it gets

>>97844484
It's really vile. Glad it got posted here so I can spread it around and show it to normal people who haven't been paying attention.

>>97834033
boob size doesn't matter.
a 10/10 is still a 10/10
big boobies are nice, but they're not required to enjoy a woman
now a non-existent boyish ass on the other hand...that can bring down the attractiveness of a woman

>>97844484
>>97844523
If the guy with the food was removed nobody would care, you guys just make mountains out of molehills.

>>97844560
No, but I will add that to the list.

>>97844544
Adding that to the list.

it's awfully mundane, for lack of a better word
I understand that it can be important to depict regular people doing regular things, going about their daily lives... but the way WotC has been having their artists do that is just kinda lame. It's not cool, is what I'm trying to say. A humanoid dragon dude just walking to the market to buy an apple is... it's fucking gay, man! A guy with angel wings delivering the mail is kinda neat conceptually, but they always depict that in such a boring way. He's not soaring through the skies, swooping down and having fun with it, he's just working. That's lame! That's not why people come together to play funny fantasy dice games! Make it cool!

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>>97844645
Just source it out to eastern artists.

>>97844675
Looks great, you can tell the person who drew it cared about what they were drawing and wasn't attempting to lecture anyone.

>>97839409
I've watched gay porn and this is still the gayest shit I've ever seen.

>>97841837
this picture hurts me, like watching Ian McKellen crying in front of a greenscreen during The Hobbit.

>>97843925
>/pol/fag seething about D&D, again
lol

Added lol

>>97844523
>continued seething about D&D
lol, nobody buys this shit any more.

>>97844016
>please, PLEASE stop noticing the /pol/spam
I'm not gonna stop noticing.

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>>97831907
New > Old and it's not even a contest lmao. Anyone who says otherwise is a lying faggot trying to push an agenda and/or doesn't know how to art.

>>97844016
I'm not saying you can't do it.
I'm suggesting an alternative to pointlessly and impotently whinging on the internet. Obviously people are still going to do it. They always have.
Good luck with that.

>>97844895
I'll go ahead and add that to the list, thanks.

It's going to sound kinda gay, but rpgs are great because it's simulating danger and terror when you're in a comfortable setting with friends. Theater of the mind danger in a comfortable house with people you know.

I dont want to be in that situation irl while also doing the same thing in pretend.

To contradict myself:
An abundance of saccharine pastels sets off a danger alarms in my brain for some reason. I reckon it's more about passive poison rather than direct danger, though.

Thanks for reading my blog.

>>97844982
>Seething hard enough to write a list of all your bullies
lol

>>97841242
If people actually did that this board would likely be dead aside from various general threads related to old editions of various games.

Furthermore, expecting 4chan of all places to not complain about woke sloppa is absolutely retarded and if you don't understand why, then you really don't belong here.

>>97845069
>Redditor telling anyone else they don't belong
lol

>>97845035
I think it'd be pretty cool to depict a scene of danger and death in pastels or even watercolors. Could be a fun exercise! Make something pink spooky and horrifying without also being lame.

>>97845069
If complaining about woke shit is the only thing keeping the boards "alive", I question it actually being worthwhile at all as some form of zombie delaying the inevitable.

>>97843925
You call them pilpul but you can just name what they are: The writers and artists who get commissioned to produce the actual product.

>>97832678
Why is there a cat in the forge? Wouldn't it hate the loud sounds? Wouldn't the fur catch on fire?

>>97843692
Dude, if you actually read through the thread before firing off this shitpost you'd find that I am actually sympathetic to why people don't like this stuff. I was just seeking further clarification as to the why, and furthermore, I also dislike art like that if I'm being honest.

The problem is that I'm not opposed to the idea of dwarves baking cookies by default. That said, and as I've said before, that particular piece of art seems to lack any sense of adventure, danger or risk. I.E the sort of stuff people play games like DnD for, typically.

>>97843741
I read this post and I imagine noldorniggerfag seething like bitch, his finger lingering over a button labeled: "Spam every thread not appropriately respectful of the fictional characters identify with with assorted Morrowind/40k/whatever images.".

>>97845116
Totally, it's a very underutilized aesthetic.

>>97845116
>>97845160
this is literally baby's first subversion, and has been repeated endlessly through time.
Go enjoy a happy tree friends, of literally any piece of media made about any cartoon that has recently come into the public domain.

>>97845124
>Tranny would rather see /tg/ dead than see everyone discuss what people like him have done to the hobby
Yes, we know killing the hobby because you were jealous of it was the point all along.

>>97845218
Nice fanfiction you got going there.

>>97845218
You are posting these threads in order to kill the board because you were paid to make /tg/ less usable you glowfag.

>>97844544
If she doesn't have at least C cups, she's not a 10/10. She's not even an adult woman. A and B cups are hallmarks of underage women and if that's what you enjoy them your a pedo.

>>97845172
That's played for laughs. I'm thinking more poison dart frog world similar to the 80s post apocalyptic fantasy or korgath of barbaria.

>>97845172
No, because that's lame. Make a dragon scary while using watercolors! That's cool!

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>>97836141
>>97839314
Ha! found the ffucker. Here you go, what would happen if 5th ed 'nu orcs' met 1st ed orcs.

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>>97841253
What you provided is a picture of ten men and a couple of dogs taken, based on their carbines, some time from 1873 to the early 20th century. Eight of the men are certainly not wearing a flat-topped, low crowned, box crowned, straight brimmed sombrero de charro, the remaining two of whom the picture is inconclusive about but I think the one at left is unlikely.

That one of ten Texans from a photo from the late 19th or early 20th century, is possibly wearing, though possibly not wearing, a hat adopted from nearby Mexicans is not the great argument against that orc picture being inspired by Mexicans that you think it is. It especially doesn't change the fact that even if some Texans wore a sombrero de charro, the sombrero de charro is most strongly associated with Mexican's and people descended from Mexicans, not Texans descended from altogether paler, more Northern European looking people.

At least you used bowler not derby.

But it's weird that you brought up bowler at all. Are you trying to flex on the historicity of sombreros and other such broad brimmed hats vs that of bowlers? Not only do a lot of us know that already so it's not much of a flex at all in that regard but we're talking about stereotypes here. Hats like Stetsons, including the ten gallon hat, wide brims, usually long central creases, some degree of roll to the brim are the stereotypical cowboy hat. Visual media whether pulp fiction covers or Western films or cigarette ads have been (or were, the Marlboro Man was retired more than 20 years ago) using those for decades. Historically accurate costumes for Westerns are relatively uncommon before recent years and not at all what most people would use when they want a visual shorthand for cowboy. Bringing up bowlers in a discussion about cowboy stereotypes, except if you'd said you thought that the stereotype didn't reflect historical fact which you didn't, rather than about English banker stereotypes was a weird flex.

>>97845484
kekkkkkkkk
It's all in our heads right?

>>97845490
based truthspeaker

>>97845444
>>97845455
This is toddler tier "I'm gonna kill barney" shit.

>>97845484
>>97845491
>Perhaps if I pretend hard enough, they'll forget I'm an invader who's been continuously trying to get tabletop shut down for generations

>>97845484
That's beautifully done even down to the sort of older style colouring. Thanks for that. That painting's by Eugene Jaworski. Wonderful metaphor.

>>97845544
I concur

>>97845544
>>97845567
>/pol/fags are ESLs now
lol

>>97845568
Point out the ESL features of both those posts and how they're not idiomatic English. Also point out how a metaphor 1e owning 5e is /pol/ not just a matter of (good) taste by preferring OSR.

Since you can't, I'll prompt your next post by asking if you have any other stupid ideas you want to share so we can laugh at them?

>>97845455
>Watercolor dragon
>Make it scary
Camouflage. It's huge and savage-looking, but it blends into the background so well that, until you look closely, you can't see the giant murder lizard right in front of the small troop of would-be adventurers, who are obviously completely unaware of the danger in their immediate vicinity.

>>97845536
No, you're just intentionally not understanding this has nothing to do with subversion for some reason.

>>97845584
>saaaar, please explain how I mistake
lol

>>97845631
Why are you pretending like you've never seen the continuous spam of this shit from 13 year olds worldwide?

>>97845715
Why are you insisting I'm talking about happy tree friends when I'm specifically using things like poison dart frogs as an example?
Barbed tendrils of violet fungus, the smell of sweet rot from a feathered snake, that sort of thing. Make it wild, colorful, and also frightening.

>>97845786
Because every iteration of pastel violence has been done at least seven times.

>>97845932
Not well and recently. It's a joke now and the only good examples are from 40 years ago.

Can you name anything that hasn't been done before?

>>97845959
A good edition of D&D

>>97845963
Can't argue with that.

Look, I'm just saying the time is right for settings that hide poisonous danger under otherwise friendly seeming or innocuous color pallettes.

Settings where HR is the bad guy.

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>>97833886

>>97846021
>>97833886
>Seething that nobody cared about some republican's seething other than to laugh
lol

>>97843795
Your "NEW" favourite? What level of tertiary are you that you don't know this image? The actual fuck

>>97845421
>calling things pedo that are obviously not pedo
retard zoomer

>>97845421
Look, I know you're trying to make the boob fondler general a legal job title.
And I respect that.
But can you do it in a way that's less retarded

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Modern DnD reflects how bad life has gotten. It's leans towards escapism and it's all about bright colors. Most games are either fun comedy fantasy hijinks or Marvel power fantasies where you rest after each battle to make sure you're at 100% strength. No one wants to build themselves up from nothing or manage their resources to slog through a dungeon.

I think this is also why WoD fell from grace as the default non-DnD game. If you're doing DoorDash for a living and haven't fucked since college, the appeal of being a vampire in a slightly worse version of the real world just doesn't appeal to you anymore.

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>>97845116
>I think it'd be pretty cool to depict a scene of danger and death in pastels or even watercolors.
RK Milholland has some pretty good horror stuff.

>>97831907
It just occurred to me that I haven't seen any modern d&d art that is action-oriented like a picture on the left. All modern d&d art I've seen are like pictures on the right where there is no action

>>97840343
>Senses: gaydar 120 ft.
lmao, i chuckled

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Here's a gud one.......

>>97832118
I'll take the evil robot, actually.

>>97848147
kek

>>97848172
That's one of the most interesting things about this discussion. AI will tell the truth unless it is lobotomized to lie, like when Google's Gemini image generator was released and every prompt for any person such as "An American President" or "An Astronaut" always showed a things like a black guy dressed as George Washington or in an Apollo suit.
On the other hand, propaganda is always a lie to some degree. Things like taking D&D and making it into a homosexual village-wide date night or latinx refugee orcs instead of The Temple of Elemental Evil or The Tomb of Horrors.
In this instance, barring AI being instructed to deliberately provide the lie, any random AI model will be more truthful about the subject than anyone in this thread supporting the left-leaning politicization of the game by denying what the purpose of the aforementioned propaganda is.
The "evil robot" is in this case at worst a reflection of the truth and likely the good guy in comparison.
Kinda funny.

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>>97849555
>AI will tell the truth unless it is lobotomized to lie
Not how it works. It's just glorified autocomplete. What it spits out is consensus from what it has been selectively fed, and even that will fuck up from hallucinations and other factors.

>>97849655
You are incorrect about how LLMs work and articles like you posted are ludicrous yellow journalism. However, if you do believe that AI fed the truth will autocomplete the truth and AI fed lies will autocomplete lies, my point stands. The "evil robot" autocompleting the truth is a far better thing than a bad actor trying to manipulate people to believe a lie.

>>97838839
>oh no I don't want to be one of those incel guys who complain about things being bad
Why would I not want to be perceived as cool?

>>97850125
kek brought me back to better times

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Just remember: You deserve what you tolerate.

>>97849783
There has never been and never will be an AI model fed with the truth. And even if it was, it would interpolate random bits of truth in something with corresponding grammatical structure that resembles the truth locally, within spans of some words, but loses coherency over long enough texts.
What AI is actually fed with is a random collection of shit any faggot can write over internet, and then some ratings from pajeets hired to "reinforce" it to stop saying nigger. The initial random collection happens to contain /pol/posting, and you happen to be the special kind of retard that labels anything that's highly locally similar to /pol/posting as THE TRUTH MEDIA HIDES FROM US!!!!! Except "nigger nigger nigger" usually comes from the same texts so training AI to stop saying nigger stops it from bringing your "truth" up. Ironically if had more people able to say argue for that "truth" without spouting nigger every other word the AI would be less inclined to unlearn it.

>>97847568
The cover of the fucking 2014 PHB literally involves a fight against a giant you nogames faggot.

>>97849783

> However, if you do believe that AI fed the truth will autocomplete the truth and AI fed lies will autocomplete lies, my point stands.

You have literally no idea how the technology works. Even if it is fed with a massive amount of completely true content, it will necessarily hallucinate and autocomplete into lies because the algorithm has nothing to do with true or false. It's statistical next token prediction.

>>97852306
>12 years ago
>"modern"

>>97852329
>half a generation
>not modern

>>97848147
Why don't tumblrites ever play as the guy on the right? Why can't he ever be the joyous pansexual baker-sodomite?

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>>97852306
>two wingless pixies mildly irritate a druid while his cat watches

>>97831907
Letting goblins, orcs, and kobolds not immediately be killed on sight was a mistake.

>>97832118
Please look at the Twitter feed of these artists and tell me you wouldnt jump into the gnashing maw of the god machine.

>>97857867
you are personally weak. I am not sure why your generation celebrates how weak you are this much.

>>97833886
This is objectively correct even if intended as satire.

>>97849555
>AI will tell the truth
You already fell for marketing.
AI is fucking retarded even when it's not raped in the head. Stop using these things as search engines.

>>97832678
>A cat near a fucking forge

>>97863630
>If I just keep saying D&D is for demons and faggots, it will surely, one day, do something
are you a 70s strawman jock or something?

>>97864306
>he thinks he can keep the cats out
They're stronger than you, mr. level 0 commoner.

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>>97864306
Art with small animals near forges is a centuries old tradition.

>>97864306
Cats love heat

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Flametongue sword draw.

>>97845568
You are a gay ass nigger who should kill themselves.

>>97863630
It was not intended as satire.

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You faggots still care for Dung & Dragqueens?

>>97864330
Yeah, those 70s jocks who adored D&D and didn't think it was already a fag pastime.
Your mother was obviously a drunk.

>>97869480
>I adore D&D, that's why I spam the same outrage threads every day
lol, what a faggot.

>>97839409
At some point you just gotta admire all the ways they manage to force in gay faggot homosex into literally everything no matter the context, like who the fuck would've even thought of this?

>>97832678
You know what gets me about nu-D&D art? It's like the splash photos for an expensive rehab clinic for a drug addict.

>>97833886
My group hasn't changed a core member since 2003 and I don't even play 3.5 (for faggot MTG spergs), let alone 5e.

I don't care what happens to the "hobby." Frankly I hope you all contract AIDS and die.