D&D General DALL·E 3 does amazing D&D art

1980's aged "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" rulebook cover. a red-skinned humanoid monster barbarian warrior with horns quizically holds up a D&D miniature game piece carved like a barbarian warrior woman, game set of D&D characters in the foreground, city of brass in the background

And OK, just going for it:

1980's aged "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" rulebook cover. a gigantic red-skinned humanoid monster barbarian warrior with horns holds up a barbarian warrior woman, wizard facing rhe monster begins casting a spell while a brave knight lepas into action in the foreground, city of brass in the background

1980's aged "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" rulebook cover. large diverse group of D&D characters pose for a team photo, crowded D&D tavern

1920's aged "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" rulebook cover. large diverse group of D&D characters pose for a team photo, crowded D&D tavern



1950's aged "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" rulebook cover. large diverse group of D&D characters pose for a team photo, crowded D&D tavern

So here is some ephemera I have from todays explorations. The following Vampires are created with GPt-4 and then Bing. I wanted to see if there were differences in the quality.

GPT-4 Natural Language PROMPT: Vampire's masquerade in a dilapidated castle courtyard using a gold, red, and black color pallet.
This generated the following info:
Medium: Oil painting
Subject: A male vampire with pale skin, dressed in a gold and black ornate robe, his eyes glowing a fierce red, holding an intricate red mask.
Colors: Predominant gold and black with touches of red.
Pose: He's standing in a relaxed yet regal manner.
Viewing Angle: Straight-on, waist up.
Background: A dilapidated castle courtyard with creeping vines, broken stone statues, and a moonlit sky.
Environment: Outdoor
Colors: Shades of gray and silver, contrasting with the gold and red of the vampire.
Lighting: Soft moonlight casting long shadows, with a hint of mist.
Style Traits:

Influences: Gothic art movement​

Technique: Thick and bold brushstrokes with heavy impasto.​

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GENERATED DALL*E 3 PROMPT: Oil painting of a male vampire with pale skin, dressed in a gold and black ornate robe, his eyes glowing a fierce red, holding an intricate red mask. He's standing in a relaxed yet regal manner in a dilapidated castle courtyard with creeping vines, broken stone statues, and a moonlit sky. The environment is outdoor with shades of gray and silver, contrasting with the gold and red of the vampire. Soft moonlight casts long shadows with a hint of mist. The style is influenced by the Gothic art movement with thick and bold brushstrokes with heavy impasto.
Total Characters: 461
Total Characters and Spaces: 557

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An oil painting depicting a regal male vampire in a dilapidated castle courtyard.


I wanted to make one in Bing, but I changed the gender to female. Unfortunately the GPT-4 prompt was too long, so I had to shorten it.

BING DALL*E 3 PROMPT: Oil painting of a female vampire with pale skin, dressed in a gold and black ornate robe, his eyes glowing a fierce red, holding an intricate red mask. She's standing in a relaxed yet regal manner in a dilapidated castle courtyard with creeping vines, broken stone statues, and a moonlit sky. The environment is outdoor with shades of gray and silver, contrasting with the gold and red of the vampire. Soft moonlight casts long shadows with a hint of mist.
Total Characters: 377
Total Characters and Spaces: 456

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By having to cut out the last bit of prompt, The style is influenced by the Gothic art movement with thick and bold brushstrokes with heavy impasto, you can see the Oil Painting strokes are a bit more rough and less sharp as the one done in GPT-4. Here is the original prompt with the swapped gender done in GPT-4 for comparison...



I don't have a max character count for either versions of DALL-E, that is something I will try and get to the bottom of.

EDIT: DALL-E on Bing has a max character count of 380, that would imply that it does not count spaces from the character count of the BING PROMPT. Weird.

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One last point, even with the expanded word count in the GPT version, the conciseness of the prompt is still important. You want to have the minimum words needed to get the image you want, anything extra is just a chance for DALL-E to get confused.

An Efreeti from D&D meets a real world Ifrit.

Parmandur said:

A different take:

1980's aged "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" rulebook cover. a Garden Fnome Illusionist laughs and winks at the camera, waving hia hands casting a spell, showing a three dimensional magical map of a fantasy world filled with representations of D&D characters coming to life in front of the camera

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Is it just me or does 1 and particularly 3 have a hint of Sam Riegel?

A clash of cultures... A series

East meets West.


The Kitsune and the Werewolf...


Valkyrja and a Siren


One walks like an Egyptian while the other dances like a Bull in a china shop.

regency period romance. large diverse group of intergalactic space bounty hunters pose for a team picture, bustling retro futuristic spaceport



1950's technicolor hollywood epic



1970's sword and sorcery film



1980's space opera



Mexican Soap Opera



Pre-Raphaelite Painting



Rembrandt Painting

I fiddled around with the prompts a bit. Style on the Asian vampiress was "gritty modern comic". I could not get her to bite a victim though. Dall-e didn't complain when I wrote that she turned another woman into a vampire.

She used to be a superheroine in Mutants & Masterminds 2e. A speedster with very high regen, who fought with two escrima sticks. Very goody two shoes, but got turned into a much more powerful evil vampiress. Sadly the campaign ended shortly after.