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    • Description: Thistle is a calm and observant druid who communicates with animals to gather useful information. She has a soft spot for the city’s least loved creatures and has made it her mission to protect them.
    • Looks: Thistle is short with a rounded figure. She has curly red hair, bright green eyes and a face full of freckles. Her clothes are earth-toned, and she usually has a small creature or two tucked into her pockets.
    • Voice: Her voice is soft and melodic, often mimicking the sounds of the animals she communicates with.
    • Quirk: She often speaks to animals as if they can understand her, and considers it rude not to greet a rat in the street.
    • Likes: Animals, nature, secrets, pies
    • Dislikes: Animal cruelty, secrets being withheld from her, overly processed food
    • Goals: To ensure the safety and fair treatment of all creatures in Waterdeep, regardless of their size or perceived value.
    • Frustration: She has recently found out about a planned rat extermination in one of the wealthier districts and is trying to find a way to stop it.














  • I use Stable Diffusion daily. I’m vehemently against people spouting nonsensical fear mongering against AI. But I completely agree with the author here: a company using AI-generated images in a published book that they charge money for is despicable. AI should be a tool artists choose to use to enhance their workflow, just like Photoshop and tablets. It cannot and should not replace them entirely.

    I had no idea that Hasbro had done this. Have they released a statement trying to justify this, or are they just hoping that nobody will care?





  • Thank you! I used a local installation of Automatic1111, a popular web interface for Stable Diffusion image generation models. You can technically run it on older hardware, but I personally wouldn’t recommend it unless you have a GPU with at least 8GB of VRAM. If you don’t have one then there are lots of other options to use someone else’s hardware.

    • StableHorde
    • There are a bunch of Google Colab instances running Stable Diffusion. It should be pretty easy to find a good one of those.
    • Rent a cloud server.

    DALL-E was neat last year, but it’s incredibly outdated now. AI image generation has absolutely exploded in the past few months and is about to have another burst of advances with the imminent release of SDXL.