Generally speaking, I think it’s the ideal use case for AI art. You wouldn’t likely otherwise be buying art assets, and most likely just be finding whatever comes up under a Google search anyway. Meanwhile you can dial in to a clearer representation of what you want to depict from the art without necessarily having to “make do” with “oh, it’s like this but imagine he’s an elf instead…”

We use the Bing Creator a lot to create art of creatures in the game. I also use it to generate art of weapons and other magic items. It made it a lot easier to “find” art for creatures that are not so popular or for custom creatures.

I used Dall-E to generate images of the characters my friends are playing in a campaign, used an online MtG card generator to make cards of them, and then got them printed as mouse pads to put in little wooden trays as dice trays. I like that the end product turned out so well without really much effort on my part.

I’ve created a showcase for my group using Midjourney so that they can see what it’s capable of. When we start our new campaign - in the next month or so - I’m going to spin up several variations of each character for our players to pick, based on the descriptions they provide (I’m going to try and post some examples of what I’ve achieved so far here, lets see what happens).

Frankly they’re over the moon about the idea :)

Human wizard Human druid Human barbarian Elf rogue Elf sorcerer Dwarf fighter

It’s one of the best uses for it.