D&D 5E Players Handbook Expanded Cover Art

[ezo]

But I know what you mean. I actually got the idea after watching that Brazilian car commercial that featured the D&D cartoon heroes.

Yeah, that is an awesome commerical! I thought it was so cool when I first saw it.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

and?
Talented people can still make works that some people really do not like.

Ridley Scott is a great movie director, but that fact will never make Alien: Covenant a good movie. It's horrible.

Then just say you don’t like it. Don’t say anyone with AI can do better. Be respectful of people’s hard work and talent.

 

[Horwath]

Then just say you don’t like it. Don’t say anyone with AI can do better. Be respectful of people’s hard work and talent.

but it can be done better.
sure, there are still glitches and you can get an extra elbow joint or few fingers more or less, but it's getting better by the year or month.
So why is it disrespectful to compare it to?

it's like someone says to me that potato harvester on a 3 hectare field is better and more efficient than me farming potatoes on my 2 by 2 meter garden by hand.
well, duh, of course it is better and faster and cheaper in the end.

but the garden is better in the fact that it is cheaper than paying for a shrink.


do potato harvesters disrespect people that have farmed potatoes for centuries by manual labor?
No. We just found the way to do it faster and cheaper. and in the end better. As AI is getting better with every update.

 

[Hatmatter]

So why is it disrespectful to compare it to?

Well, I would have to agree with Uni-the-Unicorn, Horwath. You may have intended it as some kind of assertion about the universal superiority of machines (given your potato harvester analogy), but -- to a reader like me -- it does not come off that way. Is there anyone who can out harvest a potato harvester? Probably not. Yet, most people would probably think that the best artists can out perform AI-generated art. Therefore, to write "3 rounds with AI generation would make better cover" does sound like an insult. No one cares if machine learning could achieve this feat; it ends up coming off as a contemptuous belittling of Jacobson's effort. Uni is pointing that out to you. No hard feelings...it is simply how it reads.

 

[Horwath]

Yet, most people would probably think that the best artists can out perform AI-generated art. Therefore, to write "3 rounds with AI generation would make better cover" does sound like an insult. No one cares if machine learning could achieve this feat; it ends up coming off as a contemptuous belittling of Jacobson's effort. Uni is pointing that out to you. No hard feelings...it is simply how it reads.

Can artists make better work of art than machines?
Yes, absolutely. For now at least.

One problem where we come here in argument is that taste in art is very subjective, so maybe I should have said: to me AI generated art looks better than 2024 PHB cover, because to me, it's bad and I really do not like it.

I would take cover art of Tasha's 7 days a week and then an extra monday over 2024 PHB.

there is a thread here on AI art for D&D style, and there are some really beautiful "works" there. if we can call AI generation work? but there is also whole lot more AI images that are really bad. And for human artists, most of us will agree that 2014 PHB halfling arts are simply terrible.

 

[mamba]

for human artists, most of us will agree that 2014 PHB halfling arts are simply terrible.

maybe AI can do better than that, but that is not the art you were criticizing

 

[Nixlord]

I've already released the Shaman at the DM's Guild, the first class I announced. Here's the second one, which arrives June 18.

It comes with 8 subclasses, also known as Orders. They are:

• Order of Illumination
• Order of the Black Flame
• Order of the Black Hand
• Order of the Fangshield
• Order of the Forestarms
• Order of the Gauntlet
• Order of the Golden Cup
• Order of the Weave

For those very familiar with the Forgotten Realms, especially with the 2nd/3rd editions, these Orders should be familiar to you.

 

[Weiley31]

Order of the Black Flame

Cant wait to roll up dat Halfling Hin Black Flame Zealot Inquisitor.

 

[mamba]

I've already released the Shaman at the DM's Guild, the first class I announced. Here's the second one

will these be in your PHB Expanded as well?

 

[Nixlord]

will these be in your PHB Expanded as well?

Yes. These are 2 of the 3 classes that will be part of PHBE.