Combining Dungeons and Dragons with AI
Board Games Club
Board Games Club at St Albans School happens every Wednesday after school, where we play various board games and discover which we find fun. Over the past term and a half, a group of us started a game of Dungeons and Dragons (DnD), where I am the dungeon master who oversees designing the world I create and presenting it to the players. Many outcomes are determined by rolls of various dice, making parts of the game random and more engaging.
The goal of Dungeons and Dragons is to complete the story or campaign that I the dungeon master, set out to the players.
Parts of the game nowadays are set online, on the DnD website, where I can write to players about the story as well as notes to myself. This is a chance to find new ideas to incorporate into the campaign. Once the players are added to the virtual campaign, they create their characters online with their backstory, items and skills and have a profile image to go with it. We could not find suitable profile pictures for our specific characters and Dr Scott showed us a text to image AI generator we could use to help make them. We entered prompts about our characters into the AI generator, and it came out with images of our characters.
Some of the images did not look how we envisioned them, and so we refined them by using the remix and added features to change the appearance or certain details of the pictures. An example included one member who uses spells to create and control water, which wasn’t in the image to begin with and needed further tweaking to the wording and trying different art styles. Through trial and error we made an image that felt right with spheres of water floating in his hands. To help show the scene that I envision, I am experimenting with a tool called Skybox AI to help create 3D pictures. Once created you can scroll and look around the interactive image.
To conclude, I really enjoy the club and so does everyone else who attends. I like coming up with stories and areas for others to explore as planning out new trials and puzzles for players to figure out is very fun as is trying out new features and monsters. The power of AI to help me do this is immense as well, giving me the opportunities to display to the players what I see and possibly use it to help with my story writing and how I show off my world effectively and engagingly.
Daniel, Third Form
