So, after my pics of Gurthak the Ravager, now retired, Varag the Dragon, and Shefa, paladin of Chauntea the Harvest-Mother, I should post all of the D&D portraits I made using ChatGPT.
Here’s Zethan of the Hidden City, my current character:
Prompt
Male elf, with a military haircut. He’s wearing mithral chain armor, a backpack, and a bandolier with several potions and vials. He looks grim and dour. In one hand, he’s holding a wand, shooting an orange ray at the ground. Where the ray hits the ground, a bonfire is springing up. In his other hand, he’s holding a coil of rope with a grappling hook. The rope and hook are glowing faintly, and look slightly unreal.
Great job on the facial expression, but the entire coil of rope is supposed to look unreal, that’s not exactly a bonfire he’s conjuring, and his shins appear to be sunken into the earth. On more minor notes, it gave him a bandolier but didn’t put the potions onto it, and that armor doesn’t look like mithral.
My first 5th edition character, an arcane trickster adventuring archaeologist:
Prompt
Third character: Human male, about age 20. He’s thin and wiry, and wearing studded leather armor. He’s bending forward slightly to examine eldritch, Lovecraftian writing carved on a wall. He’s holding an open book in one hand, and there’s a bow slung on his back. There is a bat perched on his shoulder, and a spectral, disembodied hand holding a skeleton key floats next to him.
The only problem with this one is that the hand should probably be facing the other way, and holding the key like it’s going to use it (he’s the one manifesting and controlling it), but I didn’t specify that in the prompt. I did say in the prompt that he was holding the book in one hand, so I guess it failed that, too, but that’s not too bad.
My jingoistic gnome ranger:
Prompt
Next character: A male gnome. He’s wearing studded leather armor and a pith helmet. He has enormous yellow sideburns. He’s wielding a compound bow, with the string running over pulleys, and lots of accessories. There’s a tactical-style knife hanging from his belt. Just behind him, a flag is flying, with three horizontal stripes of blue, green, and blue.
This one is, I think, one of the best: That’s exactly what he should look like. There’s just three technical issues: The bottom half of his bowstring is missing, the front half of his arrow is missing, and the knife that should be hanging from his belt is just sort of floating next to it.
A bard I played back in 3rd edition:
(I didn’t save the prompt)
I can’t see anything to criticize here; that’s exactly right. Of course, it was probably also the easiest, since I’m sure there are pictures in the training data of pretty women dancing and playing a fiddle, and there’s nothing overtly supernatural here.
Finally, a 3rd edition warlock:
Only one criticism, but it’s a big one: The prompt clearly said that he should be a young adult. But I guess the combination of “naive and innocent-looking”, “gnome”, and “rainbow unicorn tunic” biased it towards a child, anyway.