I definitely got so wrapped up in searching for images for my game that I didn’t think until afterwards about the fact that I was searching for “children prisoner sweatshop.”

I run it locally. I prefer having the most control I can over the install, what extensions I want to use, etc.

The most important thing to run it in my opinion is VRAM. The more the better, as much as you can get.

The whole Tome of Beasts series is pretty great, including the Creature Codex. Some of them are a bit too “out there” for me to use in my particular game, but I’d rather have that than another reskinned goblin.

I think you can be forgiven for forgetting about TMP.

I know I try to.

At the moment, I’m guessing gif support depends on the individual client app, probably? On Connect it shows up as a link, which opens the gif rather than it being embedded.

My players just had a meeting with a dragonborn crime lord. Before they met the boss, they were led in by an elf who was sort of the majordomo for the establishment.

Two “seasons” ago, the barbarian picked up a little figurine of an elvish soldier made out of pewter. It was absolutely just the product of a random trinkets roll table, and she’s been carrying it ever since.

She decided that she was convinced that it looked uncannily like the elf who brought them in, and at the end of this tense meeting with someone who, by all accounts, is a dangerous and powerful person in the city, she slides the figurine across the table to him. “I think we both know who this looks like. Give it to them, won’t you?”

She’s a pretty new player, and I love the kind of non sequitur stuff that she comes up with in RP situations.

It’s fun. Don’t expect anything extraordinary and you won’t be disappointed.

Some of the plans they hatch really feel like the wacky stuff players come up with.

I’m keeping my account live so that I can still interact and ask questions in threads when I get taken there by search results. Reddit ultimately shows up a lot when looking for solutions to technical problems.

As far as browsing and contributing, I think I’m sticking with Lemmy. Things are just starting to get good.

Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.

Never anticipated I’d see an SCP reference on my D&D art!

I love it.

I was excited about Stable Diffusion in the first place, but it’s really added something to our game, at least for me. My group are generally very visual people, so I employ a lot of splash screens and art inserts in our VTT. In the past I would just find something online with image search that was close enough to what I had in mind and modify it as best I could. I’m a decent compositor and editor, but I can’t draw or paint from scratch worth shit.

Now I can generate and build a piece of art that depicts exactly what I imagine. The only people who are going to see it are my players, and anyone who looks at my post if I decide to post it on Reddit (or well, Lemmy now).

I know there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the tech right now, but having used it quite a bit I really do believe that human artists are not going to become obsolete. When things settle out I think this tech is going to be a powerful tool for artists to use.

I’ve set my current campaign in the Nentir Vale, because the Acquisitions Incorporated podcast when it started back in…2010? was my first introduction to D&D and I have fond feelings towards it.