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This thread will be use for trying to make D&D monsters, NPC, and/or PC tokens using the Dall e and/or other AI art generators. I hope to make a go to place that helps with using tags and phrases for ease of use. as with some of the races are not that know (bugbears, genasi, aarakocra, ect) are not so easy to make with simple prompts like others (Elf, human, Dwarf,) So with your help I want to make a list of some tags.
for some help check out DALL·E 2 prompt book for some tags to use
Format of posts
Posting should formatted as follows in this example and if you can show examples. Please only have 3 examples for 1 post. you can have 1 text prompt and 3 pics or 3 separate prompts and pics. Type what you are making (race and/or class) followed by the prompt you used to to achieved the pic. Dimensions should be 300 x 300 or lower and be put in spoilers.
Giff as ship caption- realistic humanoid hippo wearing a ship navy caption attire holding a shotgun that is resting on his shoulder digital art (dall e 2)
Drow Druid - a dark obsidian skinned elf with grey hair with her hair side braided over her shoulder and wearing a druidic outfit holding a gnarled oaken staff (dall e 2)
End of format
for users trying to find a certain types of tag use the search and choose "search this thread" and after you type what you are looking for click the post filter
types of Ai art generator list with a example
This list will be my thought and exmples on it giving a try. For each AIG I will copy and paste the portraits discerptions of Marambra Nyghtsteel that is in DUNGEON OF THE MAD MAGE and show one pic of the results.
Dall e 2 - easy to use somewhat cheap. you sign up for a waitlist now but its kind of quick( took me a few days to get in not sure about others) you get credit system for making art. Each prompt you use make 4 pieces a credit. Any changes to a prompt and/or piece you choose cost a credit. You get 50 credits free when you get in and 15 free at the start of each month. if you run out of credits you can buy a pack of 115 for $15 usd. you can edit a pics and have it change a bit of that pic.
Wambo- a free to use it seems. you can put in a 200 character phrase and choose one the 30 pre style choices to get one image like card. you can re roll what you get if you want and it seems to be a bit less powerful the others I have tried. If you want, you can post a pre made pic as a base of what you want to make. For the example I chose realistic as the style.
NightCafe - A some what easy to use. You have to create an account and use credits to make one piece. You can get 5 free and it seems 5 every day to you have to claim. You have a some different choices on this AIG. You first choose what algorithm you want and then a style. For the example I chose the stable algorithm and fantasy style. EDIT-they have changed how much there creidts can make. 1 pic on there AIG is 1/2, 4 for 1 credit. The also have Dalli e 2 as a option, 1pic for 1 credit, 4 pic for 3 credits.
Midjourney- easy enough to use still in beta and start use in discord. Free trial for a few a set amount of images to play with. 3 plans, basic for $10/ month to make 200 peices with the option to buy more credits to make art. Standered for 30 and have unlimited use. Both have a commercial terms for use if use to make money off of and is link and used in discord. If you want better chances to make money there is a $600 plan for that type of use and you get a private site to make art.
Dreamstudio- easy to use and offers some of the better images to make. Get free 200 credits when you first sign up and you buy 1000 for $10usd. However it is not just a 1 for 1 art piece, you can edit some of the settings like some are free but the others will take a bit of your credits, not all of them so you will end up with with something like #.5 or so. But be know it does not save any images you make, it saves it till you close and clear out the cache so save any thing you want least it gone.
NovelAI- this one make some good crisp art but it is one of the few behind a paywall. You need to get a monthly sub(lowest is $10USD) to get the option to buy credits but you can use the AI story function to create a base story for a game. You get a free 1000 credits for each month you are subbed but the extra credit to buy are the following, $3.79USD for 2k, $6.49USD for 5k, and $10.99USD for 10k. Base creation of new art you make cost 5 credits but you can get 3 variations for using 18 credits. Be sure to save what you like because this program wont save after you coliseum it out. You can change some of the creation like how many pieces a tag and/or the pic size (small - 3 credits, Normal - 5 credits, and large - 6, excpt large square is 14) CAUTION this AI can create some NFSW images so use cation with tags
Lexica- A free to use site that has loads of pics to view so you can see the prompts used. The generator is a bit low quality so you have to tweak your art alot to get what you need. But you can look at what others make and search for by tag or prompt so this can be useful if you see a prompts that you want to try on others AIGs. CAUTION this AI can create some NFSW images so use cation with tags and there may be some NFSW images so view with cation
EDIT(4/22) it seems this site now has a free 100 images a month on a free plan. I think that when you use and get 4 images that uses 4 of the free credits
Mage.Space- a free to use AIG that you can get a profile to save what you generate. has some good work with it but you do need to add some ending style deception to get what you may be looking for.
EDIT(4/22) still free but now has a monthly pay model that allow usage of different AI engines
Deviantart Dreamup- a bit of a let down you need to add style tags even then the image is lower then any of the others I have posted, you get 5 free on the free version and you can get more depending on the tier of the core plan you but, depending on the tier you will get more free credits a month and it will be cheaper to but more credits the higher you get. this one has more then 1 to show what happen when no style tag is added
using AI art generator
not much to say about how to use but showing a process on how little changes can change the art will be shown here. I will show how I tried to make a dragonborn wizard using the prompt "wingless humanoid dragon man with red scales wearing wizard robe reading a floating book while holding a wand" using Dall-E 2
1st try
as you can see not so much a dragonborn but can be used as a Kobold
2nd try
by changing the prompt to the following "realistic wingless humanoid dragon man that is 5ft tall with red scales wearing wizard robe reading a floating book while holding a wand" I got this
somewhat cursed but heading in the right direction with some.
3rd try
now with the prompt got something going the way I want I try and changing it by adding styles. ill show one of each style
pixar
cartoon style
removed the realistic tag and added "in the style as a still from a vintage Disney movie" at the end
even a little change can give so many results
Styles
Ill make a list of styles here so try a few when making stuff (ill add stuff with the help of posters here)
some tips, adding the same style tag more than once can help the AIG focus on that, or make conflicting tags and see what happens
water color
Illustration by (insert name/company here)
disney
dishonored
wlop
artgerm
artstation
Fantasy
Pixar
cartoon
anime
in the style of (artist name here)
looks like (insert name here)
realistic
4k
2k
3D
Kenkus - adding "raven headed humanoid" to any prompt seems to work the best
realistic dark fantasy of raven headed humanoid rogue
digital art dark fantasy of raven headed humanoid wizard (this one out of the others came out real good)
Characters: If you add "looks like...," you can insert celebrity names. To get an original looking character, use at least two e.g "looks like...., looks like...". For places, look up prompts to add custom lighting effects. Items swords and weapons are harder to tweak and get right but just take some time.
have a look at my DALL-E generated DND Art here: https://www.artstation.com/rubikow
I also use www.mage.space to get images like these:
"A stern looking male blonde haired 20 years old fantasy artificer boy. He has short hair and seems angry. water color Illustration by disney dishonored wlop artgerm artstation."
A stern looking male brown haired 40 years old private investigator. He has long brown hair and a short beard and seems angry. water color Illustration by disney dishonored wlop artgerm artstation.
"A tiny but dangerously looking 30 years old gnome girl with short red hair, an artificers look, and fully dressed in leather. She wears welders goggles. Fantasy Illustration from wlop artgerm disney artstation."
Nathaniel 'Nate' Bishop - LVL 5 Illusionist Wizard - Homebrew Alicindra Campaign || Eli Watson - LVL 3 Artificer Alchemist - Rime of the Frost Maiden || Ameera - LVL 1 Cleric - Lost Mine of Phandelver || Cilla Morningsong - LVL 1 Bard - Forgotten Survivors || Eli 'Copperman' Watson - LVL 2 Artificer Armorer - Forgotten Vigilantes || Samuel 'Sam' Bishop - LVL 1 Conjuration Wizard - Descent into Avernus
I been making tokens out of all the books I got here are some of the ones that are missing pictures made into tokens that I made. anyone can use if you want.
Ox
Stench Kow
RELENTLESS SLASHER
incubus
succubus
Ogre Bolt Launcher
Autumn Eladrin
ORC EYE OF GRUUMSH
ZOMBIE PLAGUE SPREADER
SWARM OF ZOMBIE LIMBS
Deathlock Mastermind
Hi! I know this is an older thread, but here's what I was able to create with OpenArt / the Deliberate engine. - https://openart.ai/create?ai_model=XpucT/Deliberate (I can't figure out how to embed the photos, but links should work)
Dwarven Artificer - "Female dwarf steampunk inventor with red hair in braids."
https://openart.ai/community/nXf4pxD8v2kO75ghWKUc
Haregon Paladin - "Smol white rabbitfolk paladin in dark black armor. They have an axe stored on their back. The background is a winter arctic landscape with no trees."
https://openart.ai/community/9N0lsCxBgWvS4ipOOu5Y
Assamar Lore Bard - "aetherial 26 year old human woman in white robes with gold details, light leather armor over top. They have dark brown hair down with a braid, light blue eyes, and are holding a book."
https://openart.ai/community/m6GB1YAxXEU8w3k1RXGO
Just want to say LEXICA does make you pay now as I tested it and it just constantly wants you to pay if you want to make an image (yes I have tried in many different ways)
OpenArt is free, at least gives you 850 free credits. Using the engine I used above was free. You can use DALL E 2 but it is paid,
One of my favorite Dragonborn/Kobold style characters Midjourney has generated for me.
/imagine Medieval lizard cartoon style --ar 2:3 --niji 5
I wrote a python script that randomly generates NPC descriptions from text files, then uses lcm to generate them locally on your own computer rather than using some web service.
Here is an example prompt:
a watercolor image showing the entire body of of a fantasy character in medieval clothing in a medieval city who is described as: towering plain looking female dwarf bard with soulful hazel eyes, a seductive mouth, a regal nose, and curly platinum hair wearing a comfortable red wollen waistcoat, black lightweight leggings and black velvet slippers
I will probably release it at some point, but I just wrote it today, so I am still working on it.
I also wrote a script that disables the safety checking in LCM and some other ai software so I can have it not rfuse to generate stuff if it is too racy.
That is using Mythweaver AI.
SICK!!!!
"I will gladly unburden your head from your shoulders"
Thanks!
It's an amazing tool to use. You can make them look more realistic than that also, but i prefer this art style. 😀
Using CharGen
Benefits:
Examples:
NPC: Half-Orc, Innkeeper, Medieval Tavern
NPC: Gnome, Cook, Medieval Kitchen
NPC: Giff, Fisherman, Fisherman's Hut
Character: Uploaded D&D Beyond Character Sheet PDF of my Tiefling Druid. (DndBeyond -> Manage Character -> Export to PDF -> Upload to CharGen)