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D&D spell illustration challenge, day 44 (30 day late): Dispel Magic

When you're bullied at wizard school by pupil True Polymorphed as a gold dragon, you only need to cast Dispel Magic (DC19).

Prompt: A dramatic, symbolic fantasy scene high above the clouds. One young apprentice floats on a small, glowing cloud—his robes billow from the magical recoil of a spell just cast. His hand is still raised, fingers outstretched, glowing with residual magic. Opposite him, a second apprentice is caught mid-fall, tumbling backward through the sky, arms flailing, eyes wide—not injured, but falling. Around the falling figure hover dozens of mirror shards, suspended mid-air. In each shard is a fragmented reflections of a golden dragon—an eye, a wing, a claw—glinting in the light. The lighting is surreal: golden sun above, stormlight below. The mood blends awe, revelation, and tragedy.

Commentary: Seriously, removing all spell effect for a 3rd level slot, provided you beat DC = 10+spell level? That's rolls between 14 and 19 at what would reasonably be d20+9 (at 5th level). Due to most interesting spells having Concentration, and many foes using spell-like abilities and not spells, though, it is possibly useless, depending on GM.

 

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D&D spell illustration challenge, day 45 (29 days late): Dragon Breath

Dragon Breath on your familiar: mysterious, bearded guys sometimes just want a beer and not hand out quests to pesky adventurers.

Prompt: A chaotic tavern scene in a high-fantasy world. In the center of the room, a tiny cat with leathery bat wings hovers in mid-air, its back arched and eyes wide with glee. From its mouth erupts a cone of sickly green fire, clearly magical, that splashes in front of a group of screaming patrons standing at the right of the image. At the left of the image, leaning against the bar—a relaxed wizard in worn robes calmly nurses a pint of beer, unfazed, maybe slightly amused. He doesn’t even turn around. The composition should be dramatic: mayhem everywhere, but with one figure absolutely chill in the eye of the storm.

Commentary: I thought they'd be screaming with fear, but failed to specify it in the prompt. Here they seem eager and enthusiastic at being dissolved by an acid-breathing, flying cat.

 

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A new local model dropped, Qwen-Image. It is great, even better than HiDream. But HiDream was a resource hog, and Qwen is on the same level. It barely runs on my Nvidia RTX 4090. Which is probably the second best card on the market for non-enterprise customers.

But the result are extremely good. I hope to be able to share more illustrations soon.


It is also getting some interesting tools. Like something that is close to regional prompting:

Basically a way to make sure composition is respected and the resulting image is conform to specifications.

 

[Scribe]

 

[Kannik]

Made this as a "book cover" for a recent game (guess the game/system! ) Shared it with the players at the end...

 

[Russiee]

Radiant Fey

Generated on the CharGen Fantasy Generator Website.

Prompt: realistic 3D anime style, beautiful female fey sorceress with long emerald hair, revealing vine-wrapped silk dress with glowing flowers, butterfly wings shimmering in sunlight, eyes like liquid gold, magical petals swirling around her, enchanted forest bokeh background, ultra-detailed fabrics and light bloom

Art Style: Anime (Realistic)

Model: Seedream 3.1

Generator & Image Link: Fantasy Character Art | Free AI Fantasy Generator | CharGen

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Image created from an idea by my five year old son. Presenting Bobasaur...

 

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D&D spell illustration challenge, day 45 (44 days late): Drawmij's Instant Summon

If you thought paying 3 dollars for a plastic toothbrush at the supermarket was a rip-off, don't shop at Drawmij's.


Prompt:

A miffed brown-eyed witch, with chestnut hair neatly pinned under a lace-trimmed cap, stands at the center of an opulent room lined with velvet curtains and alchemical diagrams. She wears an elaborate Elizabethan gown: high lace collar, puffed sleeves, and heavy fabric with silver thread embroidery and an arcane sigil. In her left hand, she clutches a small faceted sapphire glowing faintly with magical light. Her right hand grips a toothbrush. Her expression is one of deadpan seriousness. Lighting is warm but with a magical blue glow from the sapphire, casting glints on the witch's rings and brocade.



Commentary: a level 6 spell that lets you spend a 1,000 gp sapphire to get an object you enchanted before into your hand. Note thatt there are plenty of lower level spells that allow you to create any object. So it's only useful to bring you a very specific object.

 

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D&D spell illustration challenge, day 46 (44 days late): Dream

At level 9, wizards get the ability to kill anyone they know unerringly and without trace on the same plane by hauting their dreams.

Prompt:

In a rustic stone-walled inn room lit only by moonlight filtering through a window, a well-shaved knight in pajamas jolts upright in his straw-filled bed, eyes wide with alarm. His sword and boots leans forgotten against the wall. Standing at the foot of the bed is a translucent, spectral wizard — tall, robed, and faintly glowing red — staring silently at him with unreadable eyes. The wizard’s form shimmers slightly, as if summoned from another plane. Shadows stretch dramatically across the floor, and the knight’s expression is a mix of fear and confusion.

Commentary:

Seriously. Dream can be used as a plane-wide telepathy spell at night, which is a good step up from a Sending, but do not neglect the second paragraph. You can take a terrifying form (the victim's stepmother, for example) to deliver a 10 words message (which can be composed of 10 naughty words the filter wouldn't let me post here) and incurs, in case of a failed WIS save, 3d6 psychic damage when waking up and the loss of all benefit of the sleep. Nothing prevent stacking the spell the same night, to ensure a reasonable chance of having the victim fail the WIS save. While the 3d6 damages won't go far against the BBEG, he can easily die from exhaustion while you fight him in his sleep from the comfort of your own home.

 

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So, I've been playing with Qwen a few times and it is really an interesting model. The image above has some obvious problems. I wanted to correct them.

So, I prompted:

"Remove the foot sticking out of the bed".

Prompt:

Change the knight's armour to a green and white striped pajama.

Prompt:

Give the sword a magical blue glow

Prompt:

Change the wooden thing on the wall with a hook holding a travel cloak

Now the composition of the scene is much closer to what I have in mind.