This is a time-lapse of me very quickly demonstrating the entire, end-to-end process, by putting together an 18-card expansion deck in just under 3 hours.

2024 EDIT: I built this game in 2022, before cheap, low-effort, and morally questionable AI art generation tools became broadly available to all of humanity. I did it using python scripts and legitimate, public data-sets of verifiable provenance, and put a lot of additional effort into the output and layout of the cards - and I’ve made the output available for free. Please do not come at me with “AI is prima facie immoral” unless you’re willing to engage with this project on these terms.

2023 EDIT: GOOD THING THAT THE WHOLE AI ART INDUSTRY DIDN’T CHANGE OVERNIGHT AND BECOME DRAMATICALLY EASIER FOR NON-TECHNICAL USERS TO INTERFACE WITH EXACTLY FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER I FINISHED THIS PROJECT, OR I’D HAVE FELT LIKE A REAL SCHMUCK

So, this released a few years back:

so, Tiff has decided she’s doing an art challenge for october

and she made this yesterday

“it reminds me of those old 60s sci fi novel covers” she says

anyways when she woke up, someone had snuck this into her office

My wife and I are both digital artists - although she is a professional, whereas I’m more of an amateur, so on the top is her version of her D&D character (Mr. Buns) and on the bottom is my version.

(please do not choose a favorite, it’s bound to lead to one of us feeling bad, and by one of us I mean definitely me)

She’s a background painter, so her work tends more towards definition and detail, whereas I’m more of a cartoonist, so mine tends towards dynamic pose and relative simplicity

I joked that hers is the theatrical release and mine is the direct-to-DVD remake

tiff: so, it’s a little girl with a giant warforged bunny barbarian guardian

curtis: … so you want to play as The Maxx?

tiff: >_>

tiff: <_<

someone wants to join my D&D game as a “deckromancer”, which is to say, a druid who specializes in carpentry

2025 Editor’s Note: he was a perfect simulation of a contractor, which is to say, he didn’t show up even one time

“Why do you love TV-headed avatars so much?”

well, one of them taught me how to program in 1994

HI, I'M YOUR COLOR COMPUTER