D&D General AI Art for D&D: Experiments

Just as a comparison between Nano Banana and NBP, exact same prompt:

(generate a hobgoblin warrior, wearing ragged chainmail and carrying a shield with whitewash and a red mailed hand decal, fingers spread. The warrior should have sword held menacingly, no helmet and a snarling face, and a simple rolling green hills background)

NB first. Has that kinda default "plasticy" look a lot of AI stuff does. Not terrible, but I definitely wouldn't pay money for this.
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NBP next, face is WAY better, it got the shield right, and yeah it's a little more "human" looking than most traditional hobgoblin stuff but it's really not bad. If you gave it some existing art to directly plagiarize, it would probably get you what you wanted (although it did chop off the character!).


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Yup. Disturbing.
One of my players actually asked about doing this to sell and have such poison always used by the party ... shot that down due to the immediate abusability of it (easy reasoning just saying this specific milked poison wouldn't retain potency). I've always been cool with them trying to get poison etc. from monsters they killed, since that's a limited quantity.
I can appreciate that. Could also say that the poison becomes inert if the familiar goes into the pocket dimension or is resummoned. That might create some violent unhappy customers that bought the poison only to find it did not work a week later or something. Might be another way to nerf it.
 


That second hobgoblin above looks like he's got Iron Man's right gauntlet on his shield.

Johnathan

It's reasonable enough riveted plate gauntlets, which wasn't quite what I asked for but pretty on par with what I hoped for.

I burned my last free Pro credit giving it an anchoring image and it still wants to do this more human/orc-y face though!
 

TBH, while I can see that the second hand is better, and the shield overall is better, I still prefer the first option, including the face. But thank you for pointing out the difference between the pro and regular version. I am mostly using locally-run AI and they are still lagging NB(P).
 



It's reasonable enough riveted plate gauntlets, which wasn't quite what I asked for but pretty on par with what I hoped for.

I burned my last free Pro credit giving it an anchoring image and it still wants to do this more human/orc-y face though!
Oh yeah, tell me about it--getting consistent faces for dragonborn is like pulling friggin' teeth, I swear to God. They always want to either make it anime with YUGE eyes and a narrow wolf-like snout, or they want to make it something truly monstrous and disturbing.
 

A prompt I use for checking prompt adherence with newer models, with results from Qwen 2 and NBP.

A hyper-detailed, cinematic close-up selfie shot in a cyberpunk megacity environment, framed as if taken with a futuristic augmented-reality smartphone. The composition is tight on three young adults—two women and one man—posing together at arm’s length, their faces illuminated by the neon chaos of the city. The photo should feel gritty, futuristic, and authentic, with ultra-sharp focus on the faces, intricate skin textures, reflections of neon lights, cybernetic implants, and the faint atmospheric haze of rain-damp air. The background should be blurred with bokeh from glowing neon billboards, holograms, and flickering advertisements in colors like electric blue, magenta, and acid green.

The first girl, on the left, has warm bronze skin with micro-circuit tattoos faintly glowing along her jawline and temples, like embedded circuitry under the skin. Her eyes are hazel, enhanced with subtle digital overlays, tiny lines of data shimmering across her irises when the light catches them. Her hair is thick, black, and streaked with neon blue highlights, shaved at one side to reveal a chrome-plated neural jack. Her lips curve into a wide smile, showing a small gold tooth cap that reflects the neon light. The faint glint of augmented reality lenses sits over her pupils, giving her gaze a futuristic intensity.

The second girl, on the right, has pale porcelain skin with freckles, though some are replaced with delicate clusters of glowing nano-LEDs arranged like constellations across her cheeks. Her face is angular, with sharp cheekbones accentuated by the high-contrast neon lighting. She has emerald-green cybernetic eyes, with a faint circular HUD visible inside, and a subtle lens flare effect in the pupils. Her lips are painted matte black, and a silver septum ring gleams under violet neon light. Her hair is platinum blonde with iridescent streaks, straight and flowing, with strands reflecting holographic advertisements around them. She tilts her head toward the lens with a half-smile that looks playful yet dangerous, her gaze almost predatory.

The man, in the center and slightly behind them, has tan skin with a faint metallic sheen at the edges of his jaw where cybernetic plating meets flesh. His steel-gray eyes glow faintly with artificial enhancement, thin veins of light radiating outward like cracks of electricity. A faint scar cuts across his left eyebrow, but it is partially reinforced with a chrome implant. His lips form a confident smirk, a thin trail of smoke curling upward from the glowing tip of a cyber-cig between his fingers. His hair is short, spiked with streaks of neon purple, slightly wet from the drizzle. He wears a black jacket lined with faintly glowing circuitry that pulses like veins of light across his collar.

The lighting is moody and saturated with neon: electric pinks, blues, and greens paint their faces in dynamic contrasts. Droplets of rain cling to their skin and hair, catching the neon glow like tiny prisms. Reflections of holographic ads shimmer in their eyes. Subtle lens distortion from the selfie framing makes the faces slightly exaggerated at the edges, adding realism.

The mood is rebellious, electric, and hyper-modern, blending candid warmth with the raw edge of a cyberpunk dystopia. Despite the advanced tech, the moment feels intimate: three friends, united in a neon-drenched world of chaos, capturing a fleeting instant of humanity amidst the synthetic glow.

Nano Banana Pro:

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Qwen 2:

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Oh yeah, tell me about it--getting consistent faces for dragonborn is like pulling friggin' teeth, I swear to God. They always want to either make it anime with YUGE eyes and a narrow wolf-like snout, or they want to make it something truly monstrous and disturbing.
The problem is ofc that the scraped training data consists of all sorts of variations. You could probably train a local model on, say, the 4e art variants only and get something more consistent; or feed NBP/Gemini a bunch of images on a Pro account and get something more alike.

But not sure how many people that don’t want to spend $50 on art are getting pro accounts, or taking the time to do in depth local training on the art style they want to plagiarize.
 

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