{"id":55239,"date":"2023-03-05T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55239"},"modified":"2023-03-18T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:07:48","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-ix-too-warm-a-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55239","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings IX: Too Warm a Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you want an image to use for your character portrait, you have two choices:<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Spend years mastering the art of sci-fi \/ fantasy illustration. Perhaps attend art school. Hone your craft until you can fully realize your character on paper just as you imagine them.<\/li>\n
  2. Use Google Image Search and swipe something that looks roughly like how you want your character to look.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For whatever reason, most players take the lazy way and opt for #2, despite the fact that there is a 90% chance they are going to look like a brooding androgynous goth \/ punk elf holding the wrong weapon.<\/p>\n

    Go figure.<\/p>\n

    –\u00a0 Shamus, Monday Sep 25, 2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    That’s funny, I was just thinking the other day how all those AI art programs have taken over D&D character portrait making. I haven’t personally partaken since I have opted for option #1 and spent the last decade and a half I think I just took 4 psychic damage. The idea that I’m old enough to have been doing anything of substance for a decade and a half<\/em>. That can’t be right.<\/span> honing a little-used art ability. However, many of the D&D groups I’m in have been overrun by very customized character portraits which suffer from new problems; having the wrong number of fingers and all looking too human. I’m not really here to argue the many ins-and-outs of morality and computer generated art, but I will say the tech is cool, and of all its uses, portraits for D&D tables is likely pretty harmless.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Edit: The words I uttered mere moments ago to my partner: Man, I gotta go check comments. It makes me nervous when I have a post go up AFTER I’ve gone to sleep.<\/p>\n

    Yup, nailed it. I set up the whole post and managed to forget to actually upload the comic itself. My bad guys, it should be fixed now.<\/p>\n

    This weeks <\/span>French comic can be read\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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