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

[zakael19]

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.

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!).

 

[BigMac75]

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.

 

[Richards]

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

Johnathan

 

[zakael19]

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!

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

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).

 

[Lanefan]

I'm trying to figure out how a creature with five wings (or any odd number of wings) could possibly fly in a straight line. It's starting to hurt my brain.

Johnathan

Maybe the fifth "wing" somehow acts as a rudder, or stabilizer?

 

[Ulfgeir]

I'm trying to figure out how a creature with five wings (or any odd number of wings) could possibly fly in a straight line. It's starting to hurt my brain.

Johnathan

Helicopter-style?

 

[EzekielRaiden]

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.