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If you're stuck on how to design a map, give Bing image creator a try. I was pleasantly surprised with some results I got (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by glimse@lemmy.world to c/battlemaps@lemmy.world
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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

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[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Ball pit. Difficult terrain. Advantage to stealth checks.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Do not touch the balls. The balls are sentient.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Do not taunt happy fun ball.

[-] crawley@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 points 1 year ago

And most importantly, passable as inspiration for your own map!

[-] YungOnions@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Mind sharing the prompts for those, please?

[-] crawley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

a top-down ttrpg battlemap set in a glen with a small stream with recently melted snow

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

When you need to cross off "dungeon overrun with monster eggs" from your D&D bingo card?

[-] Jaderick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Balls.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Look at the size of those balls in the upper right!

[-] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Can I do this without a Microsoft account?

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think so, it's free but it makes you login

[-] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Bummer

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You could maybe use Stable Diffusion? You can run that locally

[-] YungOnions@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

Goodness gracious.... Are you playing Jerry Lee Lewis?

[-] maunamaps@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is neat! I've been using Midjourney, but it's looks like I need to diversify 🤯

[-] Neato@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

top down dungeons and dragons map of a battlefield littered with dinosaur skeletons

[-] Neato@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

that worked! thanks. i must have been wording it weirdly because I'm getting no more weird angles.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've had mixed success but adding "top down" seems to help a lot

Post the pics!

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