u/LawfulnessUnhappy167

So I'm making a TTRPG based around finding lost artefact and treasures. With it I want to make a sort of "evidence board" mechanic. So there's a mystery to be solved, e.g the location of a certain artefact, and the player will compile clues about it for the evidence board, connecting clues with each other. At the end the player will roll to determine if the mystery is solved or not.

I'm looking for reference, are there any games that handle mystery this way? I need ideas on how to implement this mechanic.

Hey so I consider myself an artist, I express myself in various art form but mainly theatrics - especially magic. I know magic is rarely seen as art, but I honestly do see it as art. There's a lot going into creating magic trick, executing it, sequencing it etc. Other than that, I also do a lot of tabletop game design. Dabble in writing and drawing (not good, mind you). All of this I consider to be art, although what I create can sometimes be seen as ugly and bad (my writing and drawing) or irrelevant and not art at all (game design and magic).

I consider them to be art because of the realization of something. I agree with R.G. Collingwood's definition of art, in that it's a process in which an artist bring an unclear feeling or idea, then process it through their art form and by the end the artist have a clearer understanding of what it is they're feeling. This is the mindset that I always bring with me when I'm creating, it's less of the result than it is the process. I struggle with expressing an idea in my mind and I struggle with it before finally reaching that satisfaction where it clicks and I can express it in a way that's best suited. Like if I saw a bird flying and I get inspired by it, I wanna know what it is exactly that intrigue me. At the end I may create a magic trick where it's so far removed from the bird but it made me realize something about me or something me or something else. Like the experience itself is the art, like Brandon Sanderson said, the book, painting, etc. is the receipt, the proof that you have grown, and in that sense we are the art.

I bring this up because it's my main issue with ai art. Whenever I see an image or read a story or hear a song, and turns out it's AI. I still can appreciate them for the beautiful image, story, or song they are. But my appreciation stops there, I can't consider it art because I can't see the artist's journey express through what they create. An art doesn't have to be good or beautiful to be considered proper art. It needs the journey. I can't see an AI art and appreciate the journey that the artist went through.

I'm writing this to invite people to educate me what is it that I don't get about AI art. I know about your basic process, prompting, revising, etc. I know it's not just typing a prompt then done. But I still can't see it as art. Because what come out isn't an artist self expression but merely the average of the accumulated data, filtered through a person.

Please educate me, I want to learn and have respectful discussion