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The reason the temple of Tymora in Waterdeep is so wealthy is that they uh...

While they don't openly promote a prosperity gospel, they don't prevent the nobles of the city from subscribing to it.

I think I probably forgot to specify during the date, but the promotion there leapfrogged over regular Priestess. She went from Junior priestess to Senior Priestess.

Difficult to get all the little details from campaign events into speech bubble format while also trying to tell a story haha.

Konsi's the most powerful priestess in the temple (she's actually more powerful than the High Priestess)

If you post your stuff to Lemmy... people will meme about it???!?

Konsi wouldn't shame you for that, but she might quietly take you aside and privately ask you to not do that. :)

I think she has a lot of fans here :)

Well, we are already using cloudflare, that's one of the other reasons why the site is so slow... I don't think the other two suggestions prevent a scraper from requesting the information from the server... I think they'd just make it more arduous for real people to access the content.

I believe that there are multiple very high profile billion-dollar lawsuits being run against AI companies right now. I don't really have the budget to sue these companies.

That's pretty clever.

I think that these AI scrapers might be smart enough that this doesn't really work though - at least if I were designing them I'd have them all come from dynamic IPs and not have any of them bother hitting the same target more than once. These things are very dedicated to acquiring content without consent, and if they're capable of causing problems for (say) Reddit, I'm not sure my little website is going to have much luck deterring them.

Honestly a better strategy might be to just glaze everything I draw.

I think I'll answer this in two separate answers, so as not to conflate in-game issues with real-world issues.

Let's talk a little about how real-world conspiracy theories work, and the dangers therein. I don't want to get too into this, because I don't think this is the right forum for such things, but there's some important things to consider.

1. Nobody is a fully rational actor all the time. Regardless of how "easy" something is to debunk there's always going to be a few people here and there who hear it from a source they trust and believe it. It's incredibly wearing to have to independently check every single thing you hear to see if it's true.

2. It's a widely known problem that when presented with a narrative about something they have no experience of, most humans will subscribe to the first viewpoint they're exposed to, and it's significantly harder to convince a person that they're wrong once they've formed an opinion - reason and logic be damned. Plenty of otherwise-rational people might subscribe to something that makes no sense if they've heard it a few times without any pushback.

3. The idea that if it's "only a small number of people" it's not dangerous is a little flawed. Some conspiracies are silly and mostly harmless, and don't put other people in danger. However, conspiracies about a specific person or place can lead its subscribers to "take matters into their own hands", endangering those people or places. We've had plenty of examples of this that have cost lives.

4. A lot of the time, it's less important how many people are subscribed to an irrational or easily debunked crackpot theory, but who those people are. We've seen examples in most developed nations of legislators up to the highest levels promoting baseless and dangerous rhetoric that influences a large number of people to action. Certain celebrities on social media are known for directly making baseless conspiratorial attacks on people, that drive their fans and supporters to take up those attacks as a cause.

I'm refraining from specific examples, because I don't want this to degenerate into an argument about specific examples, however I hope that this makes sense without the need for such.

I'm making comics as often as I can - this plotline has a fair few left to run.