How to use AI to Visualize Dungeons and Dragons Games

 It's no secret that I am a huge fan of Dungeons and Dragons and to keep things straight when designing a new character or campaign I will often use chatGPT as an editor and brainstorming partner. I have used it fairly regularly for the better part of a year now for DnD so the AI knows my character quite well. Recently ChatGPT got a pretty massive upgrade to its image generating capabilities as well as giving all students in the US 2 months free use. While I fully understand and acknowledge the ethical void makes up the data sets these algorithms are trained on I couldn't help but get curious if it would be able to replicate me as my DnD character and brand persona Gonger. So I started out by uploading a single picture of myself and got this 

Pretty impressive honestly but the beard isn't quite right. Lets try it again with a few more pictures from a few different angles. For reference here is one of the photos I uploaded 

and here's what I got back

Very Impressive. It even remembered the detail that my character is a Necromancer who (in one story) has a Spelljammer, a special flying boat powered by magic, and incorporated it into the robes! I was pretty shocked it was able to remember all that so I wanted to see if it remembered the wizard tower Gonger has made out of rose quartz.

Here's what I got back. Impressive again but not what I had pictured in my mind the tower spiraled up like a Selenite Crystal 

Damn very nice. I continued to generate images until I was able to actually put together a story and start showing scenes from our games. The first time the party arrived to Gonger's Tower there was a great festival of reanimated skeletons. Drinking and dancing going about the motions of a party but without any spirit. I wanted to generate some pictures of what it would've been like to walk towards the tower the first time. 

All in all it was a really fun creative exercise and with the pictures that it generated my storytelling is greatly enhanced. I am now able to show what I had in my mind to other people with a lot more detail than I once was.

I would encourage you to try to tell a story with the images you generate it is a really fun exercise.