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

  • crawley@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 年前

    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.

  • vlad
    3·
    3 年前

    Can I do this without a Microsoft account?

    • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      3 年前

      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:

        • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          3 年前

          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·
    3 年前

    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.

  • Neato@kbin.social
    2·
    3 年前

    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.worldOP
      6·
      3 年前

      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·
        3 年前

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

    • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
      142·
      3 年前

      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.