I'm not a DM and I've never played DND so maybe this sucks but I thought I'd pass it on because I like browsing this community.
I was messing around with Bing Image Creator and thought I'd see what kind of map I could make. I think my immature prompt here was "The Ball Zone: Dungeons and Dragons battle map of a ball factory. Balls are used as obstacles throughout the map"
I'm not sure if I'd use anything Bing makes as-is but it might be cool for inspiration at least
30 Comments
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Ball pit. Difficult terrain. Advantage to stealth checks.
glimse@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Do not touch the balls. The balls are sentient.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Do not taunt happy fun ball.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Moopsy!
crawley@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Can confirm it works, some results are better than others though. Here's two exterior maps that it came up with:
Definitely not as good as real maps, but passable for a quick game.
glimse@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
And most importantly, passable as inspiration for your own map!
YungOnions@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Mind sharing the prompts for those, please?
crawley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Xariphon@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
When you need to cross off "dungeon overrun with monster eggs" from your D&D bingo card?
Jaderick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Balls.
glimse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Look at the size of those balls in the upper right!
vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
Can I do this without a Microsoft account?
glimse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I don't think so, it's free but it makes you login
vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y
Bummer
glimse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
You could maybe use Stable Diffusion? You can run that locally
YungOnions@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
This is a really smart idea. I've struggled to find much in the way of scifi battlemaps, so maybe this might help with that.
glimse@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I don't know what makes a DND map good or bad but I got some pretty cool-looking ones. Sometimes it would interpret my prompt weird and give me something cool I didn't expect at all, like this:
YungOnions@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
So I've been playing around with this some more, and this might genuinely be one of the best usage of AI image generation for ttrpg games I've come across. Previously I was using it to generate character portraits and splash screen backgrounds, but this looks like it's going to be a big practical help when it comes to planning fights etc. I'd never even considered using if for this so thanks, seriously. I can already see the possibilities for making my life easier, lol.
glimse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I have a LOT of reservations about using these generative models but if you're using it as a source of inspiration, to me it's the same as looking at thousands of maps....just wayyy faster.
DarkenLM@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
If those balls are flammable, I know a certain character (totally not me) that would take the smallest opportunity they could to try to set the entire place ablaze.
Jagger2097@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Goodness gracious.... Are you playing Jerry Lee Lewis?
Neato@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
I'd like to see some other people's prompt. I can't get it to generate actual top-down battle maps. They keep coming up with isometric views. I tried the exact prompt above, minus the title because it choked on it, and got nothing close.
glimse@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
3 of the 4 it gave me were heavily canted with that prompt so I'm not surprised
Did you try adding "top down" or anything like that? I just tried that and all the maps it gave are correct.
Top down dungeons and dragons map of a battlefield littered with dinosaur skeletons
Neato@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
that worked! thanks. i must have been wording it weirdly because I'm getting no more weird angles.
glimse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I've had mixed success but adding "top down" seems to help a lot
Post the pics!
maunamaps@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
This is neat! I've been using Midjourney, but it's looks like I need to diversify 🤯
Khalic@kbin.social · -9 pts · 2y
Oh come on people, use your brains…
glimse@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
My brain doesn't visualize like that. I posted this as a way to get inspiration when you're designing a map, not to present some final product.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 2y
you can also you know look up what real buildings might look like
glimse@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Thanks I didn't know that was an option