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D&D spell illustration challenge, day 36 (5 days late): Comprehend Language


GMs who want language to matter in their game will find a way to screw you anyway.



Prompt: Two mages stand facing each other in a candlelit ritual chamber, one holding a pinch of soot and tge other a pinch of salt on their open palms. Above their heads hover thought bubbles, each revealing what "football" means to them. The mage on the left, robed in deep blue, imagines a towering American football player, mid-tackle. The mage on the right, draped in emerald green, sees a lithe soccer player in mid-air kicking a ball. The mage on the right has a speech-bubble with football mentionned among arcane language. Their expressions are equally focused but utterly mismatched—eyes narrowed in perfect seriousness, oblivious to the disconnect. Arcane symbols swirl between them, glowing faintly as their shared incantation hangs in the air.

D&D spell illlustration challenge, day 37 (4 days late): Cone of Cold.


Cone of Cold, exists only because everyone and their dog is resistant to fire.

Prompt: A wide cone of blue light emerge from a stone mouth engraved on a door, engulfing three adventurers mid-action. The heroes are flash-frozen: one rogue frozen mid-dash with a shocked face, a wizard trapped mid-spell with a raised wand covered in snow, and a burly fighter frozen stiff, sword still raised. All three are rimmed in thick icicles, with frosty breath clouds lingering. Snowflakes and sparkles swirl in the aftermath. Some of their limbs are encased in ice.

D&D spell illustration challenge, day 38 (3 days late): Confusion


At level 4, confusion has a 50% chance of depriving a creature of movement. Interestingly, most dragons lack the hover trait.

Prompt: A colossal, serpentine dragon with long whiskers and copper gilded scales lies confused at the center of a vast, smoking crater. Its elegant, flowing body coils limply among shattered earth and jagged stone, surrounded by swirls of fading magical energy. Above, a European-style sorceress on a flying broom hovers in place, gazing down solemnly at the fallen creature. She wears a long, dark cloak and a pointed hat slightly askew; her pale face is framed by chestnut curls, and she has emerald eyes. The sky behind her is bruised purple with streaks of dying light. Her posture is upright but tense, one hand gripping her broom, glowing with arcane residue.

Commentary: 20d6 falling damage won't one-shot your average ancient dragon, but on the next turn he might take to the sky again to rush at you... only to forget to fly the next round, leading to a cartoony death. Also, the emerald eyes moved to the dragon somehow.

I'm still trying to work on my dinosaurs in the real world concept. It's getting better especially since I had the idea to ask the AI (ChatGPT in this case) how to work for what I want.

Obi Wan Coyote...



And this one looks more like a fox:

My last post was goofing around with ChatGPT/DALL*E which I haven't been using (I ended my paid account over 6 months ago). Here is an image I did using Firefly (Adobe's AI)...

You can now also animate a static image...


Animation:

This is a combo of Firefly and Adobe Photoshop:

Original image created in Firefly Image 4 Ultra:


After removing the original background and then adding in a textured background with some minimal light effects:

Moldering throne:

Generated with Firefly Image 4.

D&D spell illustration challenge, day 39 (12 days late): Contact Other Plane


Contacting a long-dead sage for information is a smart thing to do. Except when asking about current events.

Prompt: Inside a dimly lit wooden hut, a Scandinavian-style sorceress stands beside a wide iron cauldron bubbling over a crackling fire, looking at the smoke. She has long braided hair, wrapped in a dark woolen shawl, and wears layered robes embroidered with runes. Dried herbs, feathers, and bundles of bones hang from the beams above. Thick white smoke billows from the cauldron, curling upward. The smoke is forming the ghostly face of a bearded, ancient man — his expression wise, distant, and slightly troubled. The face is looking at the sorceress. She raises one hand, fingers splayed in concentration, the other gripping a carved wooden staff. The hut feels cramped and rustic, but charged with a mystical tension, as if the air itself listens. A black raven perches silently in the rafters.

Commentary: thanks to the previous discussion in this thread, I manually add to the prompt the information on who is looking at what. It's a little awkward, but it gives good results, while I had other great image where both the sorcerers and the smoke sage where looking at the viewer, which was odd.