Mey Hem RPG: Sword & Sorcery After the End of the World!

[Destron D-69]

oddly going light side to dark side is more forgiving than the other way around in most rp settings.

who ever is on the darkside that wants to give you powers never seems to care how good you use to be... but it always seems to be a struggle to come back to good once you've done a bit of bad.

Red Mage it is then I guess- jack of all trades and a master of none

 

[Zamuel]

It depends. Dark side is often framed as wanting to corrupt and wanting as much power as possible. Often that being raw numbers. Light is often framed as wanting the best. There's also the trust issue of not knowing if the formerly dark person can be trusted.

Patch's case is different since the connection could have been reestablished. Originally, this what I expected and what I had plans for before the old site went down. It's just that in requesting YPNR's most important tome, she chose a fourth option. Using a sort of YPNR magic has fascinating implications for her epilogue.

The third option would have been Cinniúint.

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

Ah. Patch connected to a Goddess of luck and Chance would have been interesting. But yeah, a magic focused through math and numbers. There’s some intriguing ways to take that.

Plus, the idea of a Math God sounds funny.

 

[Patch]

My view of "mathemagic" is that it's more of an elemental magic than anything, a way of harnessing the laws of the universe in a direct way. It was an idea I had of how to restore Patch's abilities after becoming human again that seemed to fit the situation, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that someone we first met as a neat freak librarian would be attracted to numbers and logic. And it helped to show her character growth - she found something to like about the place she had loathed and feared for so long.

 

[Destron D-69]

I do enjoy a bit of character growth, and yeah that was special

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

Yes, this AI assisted art. But I gave my friend that artwork of Omega Knight Doc and Zam did for me and asked him to try and do a cg style take on it. His results a pretty darn good. And gave me two versions that almost feel like Kages improving armour design.

What do you think?

 

[MEDdMI]

I'm going to.be honest. As an actual artist I loathe AI and its art stealing, resource hogging stuff it hallucinates and pukes out. There is no love or real effort in typing words into a generator. The end results may look "good" to the average eyes, but it's riddled with flaws and inconsistencies.

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

Understandable. AI will never be (or beat) true art. But it gives me at least an approximation of what the design could be.

 

[Destron D-69]

As a former artist, I don't have the instant hate Ai causes in actual artists, since if used as a tool it can be a quick way to visualize a concept... when it becomes the final product... instead of a piece of the process... that can be either hit or miss for me. I like these as a way to show the character... I've used free Ai to make art of a character for a game that didn't end up happening... and i think its fine in a setting like the play by post games we've done here and in allsparkle... I mean for the longest time maple was just a Pic made in a free mlp generator or a hueswap pinky I made in gimp. So like not real art either. The first pic of Destron from this game was a screen grab from Skyrim lol... so not really art either.

 

[MEDdMI]

Yes, it's a tool, but it's a tool that's fed art that was taken without permission. It uses large amounts of water to generate images. Like I said in another thread, I'd rather deal with the most basic of sketches that an actual person took time/effort to make.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

That pic with the coffee cup wearing glasses is art though, and no one can convince me otherwise.