D&D (2024) Using AI for Your Home Game

[Xeviat]

Considering artists feel stolen from in general with AI, and I consider myself an artist (writer), I stay away from the LLMs and art generators. There's plenty of art that artists out up all over the Internet of I need images to show my players.

 

[Distracted DM]

My issues with AI are largely how they were immorally developed (the art and music ones are the biggest offenders afaik) but I have made use of AI tools... I don't know how to feel about it. It's incredibly helpful in some circumstances, like someone else mentioned writers block, but then I end up not feeling like I was responsible for the end product. That's probably a personal issue, I frequently deal with imposter syndrome.. I'm guessing other people would say it's just one more way to develop your own works via outside stimuli.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Every time I ask ChatGPT to run my game the scenario ends up becoming this:

I don't know if it's just a weird glitch or if I should be really worried.

 

[bloodtide]

AI is good enough...for it's limitations. It can make passable images like castles and such. As long as you want them generic. It can do back ground NPCS ok.

But it fails for more specific things.

And AI writing is just so...bland.

 

[Lanefan]

Last week a discussion came up around players coming up with images for their characters. Three days later images start rolling in, and they're great*!

Turns out one of my players has a sub to an AI art program and banged these images out, both for her own characters and by request for others, in an evening.

* - well, except for the nine-fingered hands, but that's fixable with Paint...

 

[NaturalZero]

Whoa! Now I know what it sounds like when an Icelandic Eurovision band gets put out of business.

Where was that generated, by the way?

When you click the link, the site where the song is hosted is where you can generate your own.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

When you click the link, the site where the song is hosted is where you can generate your own.

And Suno can indeed be great fun! My Drakkenheim party's mage gave it information about our campaign, and out came...

Mists of Drakkenheim by @explorercondensers672 | Suno

Epic melodic gothic metal song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

suno.com

It's a very basic and predictable song, as you'd expect from an AI, but that you could just have one about your group's campaign is kind of amazing.

 

[Charlaquin]

“I get the arguments against using AI to replace artists, but AI is great for making character art!”

Literally that’s replacing artists. Art has value, making it takes labor. Pay artists for their labor, learn to do it yourself, or get used to not having art. Otherwise, you are, in fact, taking work from artists.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Pay artists for their labor, learn to do it yourself, or get used to not having art. Otherwise, you are, in fact, taking work from artists.

Know to pick your fights. If people were not going to commission art for their campaign in any case, then no work opportunity has been lost, regardless of what they do.

...but one shouldn't AI if the player group does have an actual artist in it, as that'd just be... ugh.

 

[Charlaquin]

Know to pick your fights. If people were not going to commission art for their campaign in any case, then no work opportunity has been lost, regardless of what they do.

...but one shouldn't AI if the player group does have an actual artist in it, as that'd just be... ugh.

Sure. It’s just that when someone tries to claim they understand arguments against AI replacing artists in the same breath that they say they’re using AI for art for their home games… sorry, but no, it sounds like you don’t in fact understand those arguments.