Yeah, at the start of a campaign sure. You hand draw something or find something existing. But at the end of a 20level campaign lasting 3-5 years, $60 doesn’t seem so bad to commemorate years of joy spent with friends. Hell, the pizza alone costs thousands over that same time span.
It’s akin to letting the shady mechanic under the shady tree to overhaul your engine. Cheaper and shittier.
Edit: in short OP want to pay slave wages for hours of expertise work. You and corpos deserve each other.
“Bu-bu-but chudgamer1488 on YouTube told me that artists are the real elite, not the billionaires who exploit them!”
The sad thing of genAI is the one that affected the most is the small artist that barely surviving.
Yes, but sometimes the garage mechanic is good enough and the only alternative is hugely overpriced “official maintenance”
I ain’t paying 60 bucks to get an image of a character for my dnd campaign.
Yeah, at the start of a campaign sure. You hand draw something or find something existing. But at the end of a 20level campaign lasting 3-5 years, $60 doesn’t seem so bad to commemorate years of joy spent with friends. Hell, the pizza alone costs thousands over that same time span.
No one saying you should…?