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RPG Character Sketches: Baldur’s Gate SoD Revisited

Now that Keira and Kord are making their way through Siege of Dragonspear, I figured I would re-imagine the new SoD companions as well.


Captain Schael Corwin 

LG Human Ranger/Archer

Corwin strikes me as the no-nonsense soldier type. She’s been through a lot. She’s seen a lot. And she’s not terribly impressed by words and appearances.

I had to work hard here to get portraits that resembled the original well to me. Besides the scars she has a rather unique face that doesn’t match many of the AI defaults. So her description below is much longer than many of my previous one.

“strong german archer woman,age 40,veteran,healed scars on right cheek,oval shaped face,scar on left eyebrow,short thick neck,small dark lips,haggard,weathered,determined expression,thin smile,strong jawline,high cheekbones,straight nose,short dark brown straight hair combed to the sides,dark brown eyes,simple necklace with green stone,chainmail armor;in the forest;rpg portrait,fantasy,d&d,oil paint,drawing


Glint Gardnersonson

NG Gnome Cleric/Thief

Glint comes across as to me a younger Jan Jansen. A bit less pulling folks chains with meandering stories. A bit more ambition. But a similar outlook and attitude.

Glint also has a very interesting hair/beard style which proved very difficult to replicate. I started out with an Amish look, which gave me the bead with no moustache but was otherwise quite unsuitable. After much experimenting I ended up with an 18th century priest/doctor look, and toyed with Welsh, Scottish, and Irish before settling on one.

“18th century,halfling welsh male,long thick sideburns,thief,wide heart-shaped face,short neck,long nose,short ears,stout,dark blue slicked back hair,amused expression,simple black cloak,simple purple leather armor,age 25,thick eyebrows,green eyes;in the forest;rpg portrait,fantasy,d&d,oil paint,drawing”


Voghiln the Mighty

NG Human Bard/Skald

Voghiln comes across to me as a hard drinking, hard fighting, hard partying nordic adventurer, and his appearance leans hard into this characterization.

burly icelandic man,helmet with long nose guard,age 32,long straight red hair and beard,grim smile,armor,brown eyes;in the forest;rpg portrait,fantasy,d&d,oil paint,drawing


M’Khiin Grubdoubler

TN Goblin Shaman

M’Khiin gives me the impression of the noble savage. She trusts her own instincts over other folks ways, and is far more perceptive than “civilized” folk realize.

M’Khiin also has a bit of a different look for a goblin from the AI defaults, and so it took some tweaking to get a good result.

“stout goblin shaman woman,middle-aged,small ears,sharp upturned nose,bone necklace,short unkempt maroon hair,dark brown eyes,wearing brown rag tunic,wooden staff;in the forest;rpg portrait,fantasy,d&d,oil paint,drawing”


5 responses to “RPG Character Sketches: Baldur’s Gate SoD Revisited”

  1. Some real standouts here! I like Shael, the view of her aiming away from the viewer is one of the best AI images with a bow I’ve ever seen. I’d use it for her in a game, except we don;t get any of her face!

    And Voghiln, I love the views of him bellowing. What a hoot!

    1. Yeah. I had a lot of rejects while going for those bow shots. Including one where somehow the bowstring merged with her necklace… I was trying to get a Robin Hood style shot of her shooting an arrow directly into the camera, but it just did *not* want to do that.

      If you want to try for something similar, the prompts I was using were:

      side shot:

      strong german archer woman shooting arrows directly into the camera,in motion,age 40,veteran,healed scars on right cheek,oval shaped face,scar on left eyebrow,short thick neck,small dark lips,haggard,weathered,determined expression,strong jawline,high cheekbones,straight nose,short dark brown straight hair combed to the sides,dark brown eyes,simple necklace with green stone,chainmail armor;in the hills;fantasy,d&d,oil paint,drawing

      back shot:

      view from behind as strong german archer woman fires arrows at charging bandits,in motion;age 40,heavily scarred face,wide strong face,short thick neck,strong jaw,short dark neat flat-cut hair,simple necklace with green stone,chainmail armor;in the hills;oil paint,drawing,fantasy,d&d

      1. That’s all very useful, thank you!

    2. I also did something new this time, because I was having trouble getting Shael’s look quite right. I fed her in-game image to an AI Facial Feature Analyzer, and then used its description to help with the terms I fed to the Copilot Designer prompt. That’s why that one has so much more facial description than usual. That was very interesting. I might try that more often.

      https://chatgpt.com/g/g-WsluRNpJZ-facial-feature-analyzer

      1. A facial feature analyzer! Funny what an odd thing can be useful.

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