One of this site's stated pillars is transparency in craft. Until now that pillar had no article behind it. This is that article: what is AI in these books, what is me, and how you can check.

If you found Fantasy Vixens through a skeptical lens, I know what you saw. A catalogue that grew fast. Frameworks with capitalized names — HEARTS, Four Doors, Les Cinq Aveux — which is exactly what generated content sounds like when it wants to sound designed. A disclosure line in the fine print. A pen name and no faces.

That reading is rational. AI-generated supplements are flooding the storefronts, the tells are real, and nobody owes an unknown publisher the benefit of the doubt. So instead of asking for it, here is the actual process, in enough detail to be falsifiable.

Where the books come from

Fantasy Vixens is one person writing under a pen name, and a regular table of five players. That table is where the material starts.

The systems in these books were not designed for publication and then justified with play. It went the other way. Heat exists because city attention kept becoming the real stakes of our sessions and I needed a way to track it that players could see. The Four Doors exist because I kept noticing that charged scenes invited the same four kinds of approach, and naming them made my rulings consistent. Les Cinq Aveux exists because intimate scenes at our table either did narrative work or died of awkwardness, and the five beats are the shape of the ones that worked.

Some of what's published is the polished version of something we played. The rest grew out of problems play handed us. Either way, the mechanics you can buy are the ones that survived contact with five actual people — including the failures: rules that sounded good in a draft and collapsed at the table did not ship.

The group has asked not to be named for now, which I respect. If that changes, they go on the credits page first.

What I write

All of it. The prose, the mechanics, the NPCs, the city. Every scene block, every stat, every read-aloud paragraph is written by me, by hand, and revised across multiple passes.

I understand this is the claim every publisher makes and the one you can't verify from a product page. So I've stopped asking you to take it from the product page:

  • The complete rules architecture of Forbidden Love — all three tracks, both threshold switches, the Four Doors, HEARTS, Les Cinq Aveux — is published in full, free, exactly as it appears in the book. Judge the design directly. If it reads like a language model's idea of game design, don't buy it.
  • The product pages show unretouched interior pages, including the design notes in the margins.
  • When I got something wrong in public — an early article described the door options from the module's opening scene as if they were the general framework — the correction is dated and visible, not silently patched.

Where AI is used

Three places, exactly.

Corrections. I run editing passes with AI assistance the way you'd use a spell-checker with opinions: it flags, I decide. Every suggestion is reviewed before it lands. Nothing goes from a model into a book unread.

Translation. French editions are translated with AI assistance, then reviewed and reworked by hand. I'm a native French speaker; the tool does the first draft of the crossing, I do the French.

Images. Cover art and character illustration are AI-generated with Midjourney, through iterative prompt work and curation. This is the visible part, and it's the honest economics of one-person 18+ publishing: commissioned art at the volume a character-driven line needs would price these books out of existence. If that trade-off is disqualifying for you, I'd rather you know now than feel misled later.

Where AI is not used: game design, mechanics, encounters, NPCs, structure, prose. Those come from the table and from me.

Why every product page says so

Until recently, disclosure on this site was inconsistent — present on two product pages, absent on the rest, italicized at the bottom like something I hoped you'd skim past. That was the worst version: it read as reluctant compliance, and it left you to fill the silence with the least charitable answer.

Now every product page carries the same line, in the footer, linking to the credits page: written, designed and playtested by a human; AI assists with editing, translation and cover art. Quiet, because it's a fact and not a banner. Uniform, because disclosure that only appears where it's legally required isn't disclosure, it's damage control.

If the way I work ever changes, the credits page changes first, then this article.

The standing offer

You shouldn't have to trust any of this. So the offer is: check.

Read the rules and decide whether a model designed them. Read the free preview — a full scene with its consent architecture visible. Look at the interior pages. And if you run any of this at your table and it breaks, write to me at contact@fantasyvixens.com and say so; playtest reports from strangers are worth more than praise.

The books are 18+, the city is gothic, and the desire is the point. But the design is human, and now you don't have to take my word for it.