It doesn't have any. The emperor only has one child, a son, and the empire does not recognize any of its neighbours as a proper "kingdom" and its leaders as kings or queens. It views them all as barbarian tribal coallitions and their leaders as heathenous chieftans that lack the divine right to rule as ordained by the gods.
presumably they exist? they're probably quite unimpressive
They frick minotaurs, werewolves, ugly orcs and never me.
One of my PCs is the princess of the local kingdom, returned after about a decade of running away to go on adventures on a pirate crew to avoid an arranged marriage. She just learned that her disappearance was framed as a murder by a group of "bandits" her father and his spy master caught and executed.
Her confirmed reappearance will be an abject sociopolitical shitshow for the region and I am psyched to get to it.
The one princess that came up in my games was technically just a noble born young women who was kidnapped by a local gang of criminals to extort a ransom from the count. The party rescued her to gain a favour from said count.
Princesses are sent to the sorceresses scool when they are young to be trained in magic. They are kept isolated from the world until the Empress decides to step down. If there are too many princesses then the extras are sent to be raised by the council of priestesses instead.
Current campaign takes place within the borders of the Empire, a powerful elven kingdom that conquered most of the continent a little over 100 years ago. The party is level 3, it's still early in the campaign but I wanted to foreshadow some things and introduced (one of) the daughter(s) of the emperor.
Aeria Silva Faerin was supposed to be this bratty, snobbish, selfish, gorgeous elf girl of chaotic neutral alignment. The party was supposed to meet her in the context of this huge festival that is taking place on the outskirts of the empire, see how terrible of a character she is and later be told that princess Silva is one of the nicer members of the royal family.
Unfortunately for me and for her the dice Gods and the party had other plans. Over the course of 2 sessions our autistic wizard with 9 CHA (-1 mod) managed to:
-convince her not to call the guards on them when she caught the party in her room (NAT 20),
-convince her they are the good guys and the local ruler appointed by the Empire is corrupt (17 with advantage)
-convince her not to kill them when shithead sorcerer tried to bed her like she was a prostitute(18 with disadvantage)
-convince her through Message to ditch the guards and spend the festival with the party (NAT 20)
-convince her to come and see how people in the lower part of the city and outside the wall live (17)
-convince her that while the Empire did a lot of great things and a lot of good for many people it still has ways to go and must do better to help those in the lower classes (NAT 20 with advantage)
-convince her to help them take down the local ruler and his close circle (18 with advantage)
So now princess Aeria Silva Faerin is this bratty, gorgeous elf girl of chaotic good alignment who uses her political power to try and better the lives of those of the lower class and is also infatuated with a homeless looking wizard with 0 rizz for some reason or another.
None of that was part of the plan, the entire thing of removing the local ruler and his buddies was not part of the plan.
The "rebellion" if you can call them that, a group of disgruntled lower and middle class people, hired the party to gather information and evidence. Simple sneak in, find some documents, sneak out.
It turned into the party investigating the rebellion to make sure they are who they say they are, investigating the local ruler, the chief of guards, the head doctor at the local infirmary and the high priest.
They took a little side-quest I have planned for a session that would help them understand the political structure, class based system and reinforce that the empire while great as a whole it has problems at all levels and they made it into an entire arc spanning 5 sessions and counting.
Part of me is happy that they are taking the setting seriously and are treating NPCs as people with good and bad sides and they aren't just going around murdering everyone that they deem is the bad guy but part of me just wants to scream at the stupidity of their hijinks and the amount of stuff I have to improvise on the fly.
None of that was part of the plan, the entire thing of removing the local ruler and his buddies was not part of the plan.
The "rebellion" if you can call them that, a group of disgruntled lower and middle class people, hired the party to gather information and evidence. Simple sneak in, find some documents, sneak out.
It turned into the party investigating the rebellion to make sure they are who they say they are, investigating the local ruler, the chief of guards, the head doctor at the local infirmary and the high priest.
They took a little side-quest I have planned for a session that would help them understand the political structure, class based system and reinforce that the empire while great as a whole it has problems at all levels and they made it into an entire arc spanning 5 sessions and counting.
Part of me is happy that they are taking the setting seriously and are treating NPCs as people with good and bad sides and they aren't just going around murdering everyone that they deem is the bad guy but part of me just wants to scream at the stupidity of their hijinks and the amount of stuff I have to improvise on the fly.
Nice one, but you should let the party know in-game that their actions actually had an impact on the world and that the princess wasn't always the nice elf lady that helps the poor but had a change of heart.
I've hinted at her nastiness before they met her and the played her as the rich spoiled brat that she is but you have a point. I'll think of some news to spread around the Empire about her helping the lower classes and standing up to inequality or something.
One of my PCs is the princess of the local kingdom, returned after about a decade of running away to go on adventures on a pirate crew to avoid an arranged marriage. She just learned that her disappearance was framed as a murder by a group of "bandits" her father and his spy master caught and executed.
Her confirmed reappearance will be an abject sociopolitical shitshow for the region and I am psyched to get to it.
That sounds interesting, mind if you give more details? One of my PCs is a half-elf on a quest to find who her father is. She didn't have anything specific in her mind when she wrote it so she left it up to me. Originally we discussed if he was some high nobility residing in the capital of the Empire but was thinking about making her a bastard daughter of the Emperor.
>That sounds interesting, mind if you give more details?
I assume you want to know more about the "abject sociopolitical shitshow" I mentioned?
To start, her arranged marriage was part of a planned alliance that would've ended up being crucial later on, as the pact between her kingdom and a federated group of clans to the northwest would've been a key part of keeping the exiled or ish hordes to the north in check. The princess running away in the way she did actually bungled this even more severely in that a member of the royal purposefully rebuffing a marriage like this risked war with the clans: as such, the king authorized a conspiracy to fake his daughter's death and executed her "killers" publicly, declaring a year of mourning after.
Presently, the kingdom is embroiled in a distant war as a result of another treaty secured with the prince's marriage, spreading the king's armies too thin to effectively guard the homeland. The orcs are beginning to push south, and more and more people are being conscripted in desperation. Her confirmed return is going to make a LOT of people angry.
So basically she put her entire kingdom at risk and got hundreds or thousands of her people killed because she didn't want to make the "sacrifice" of marrying a rich nobleman from another land? What a c**t.
I know. It's the most realistic depiction of a teenaged noble girl I've ever had in a D&D game.
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Virtually all teenaged noble girls had at least a modicum of understanding of how good their life was and would happily do their duty in order to remain a rich, well taken care of noble, the "runs away from marriage to live a hard, brutal life as a mercenary/adventurer" is completely ridiculous and only occurs in fantasy. Not to mention even the ones stupid enough to do it would return to the castle within a week after experiencing the day to day hardship of her new existence compared with the ease of the old. It's a fantasy game, so it's fine for a fantasy character to behave that way, but to call it "realistic" is outright laughable.
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>It's a fantasy game, so it's fine for a fantasy character to behave that way, but to call it "realistic" is outright laughable.
Considering I wrote that it in jest, I'm glad you found it outright laughable
There are many cases of standard historical reference. But one elven society is led by princesses in a manner based mostly on courtly romance or, less poetically, simping.
Their society is nearly stateless due to a generally kind and aloof disposition, so there is no consistent government. Still, male elves like to sport and practice martial arts and various kinds of tournanent combat and are effective at defending their society when necissary, but are more regularly concerned with impressing as many or, even better, as desirable elf women as possible. Desirability is generally assessed by their general social standing among women, and their ability at various arts (beauty is nominally of tremendous importance, but all elves are beautiful so really its just a matter of perception cultivated through other arts), and if a woman can call herself a princess and not get derided for it she becomes a princess. At this point, men elves will do almost anything for her favor, seeing it as the pinnacle accomplishment of elfdom, and women will flock to associate more strongly with her so their favor can carry a little of her glamour, and you have something of an effective polity until people get bored.
Even with such weak organization, elven princesses are rather powerful in the world because elves are powerful and getting a group of them to cooperate towards anything more complex than self-defense is fearsome. They concern themselves almost enirely with increasing or maintaining their glamour, and may travel around with their entourage gracing various peoples with their appearance and aid, or staying in their grand garden palaces ordering their knights off on impressive quests in their name while tending to the grandeur of their small realm.
As far as the Empire is concerned, the various Gentry of their vassel states handle their own hiearchy as they see fit and more often than not will consist of at least partially the original leadership/nobility that was in charge beforehand.
For the purposes of the Empire, their status enables them to have a chance at marrying into the Imperial family and thus have a chance at seating the throne but that depends on a number of factors most importantly how much of the vassel country has integrated itself into Imperial society
TL:WR - The only royalty that counts is the Imperial family so everyone else is a dime a dozen
One of my PCs is the princess of the local kingdom, returned after about a decade of running away to go on adventures on a pirate crew to avoid an arranged marriage. She just learned that her disappearance was framed as a murder by a group of "bandits" her father and his spy master caught and executed.
Her confirmed reappearance will be an abject sociopolitical shitshow for the region and I am psyched to get to it.
She hates it. She just wanted to be a normal girl in a normal world. Just getting by and doing good in high school. Instead all her friends (who being her friends are by default the most popular kids in school) feel fake. While all but one teacher treats her with kid gloves for fear of what may happen if they were to fail her. And that’s not mentioning the endless paparazzi all over everywhere; she definitely despises them deeply. Now on the other hand, her older half-sister…well she’s all in on the perks and lifestyle of royalty. And of course has the b***hy stuck up attitude you’ve come to expect.
Like in feudal europe, used as bargaining chips to secure alliances between faction-families.
The main princess in the story I'm writing in my setting is in a peculiar position. She is one of her father, the Emperor's, two children, which is scandalous in a society where men of station are expected to have several children between multiple wives. Even more scandalous is that in his doting affection for her, the Emperor allowed her to figure out courting in her own time and focus on her academic passions.
Unfortunately, the Emperor was killed by a metaphysical parasite from the shadow realm and her brother, the prince, finds his faction-family in such a precarious position from his father's mismanagement and a recent questioning of their divine right that he is forced to debut her for courting to secure some alliances.
Frustrated by this course of events, our heroine drags her personal bodyguard on an adventure to the holy city to prove her worth outside the conventions of her factional institutions and confront the religious authorities on their fatwa against her faction's claim to divine right. Forgive the ai slop, I'm grinding to afford commissions.
It really doesn't. It's useful to sell the basic concept of your character or scene but it's inability to grasp fine detail or basic anatomy makes it worthless when trying to pass it off as good art.
Pic related is a drow princess, but since the royal family is so big and they're all immortal elves, she has 86 people ahead of her in line for inheritance. So she's gone to the overworld to improve her life expectancy and experience the strange human realms and exotic landscapes that simply aren't to be found in the Underdark.
The players have interacted with her once, while resupplying in an oasis town before heading into the desert to pillage an ancient ruined temple. They were predictably horny but all 6 of them bombed their seduction attempts (DC 25, you little shits! I knew what you were gonna try!)
As usual, the fingers and toes are all fricked up as are the birds. Like I said, fine details and basic anatomy. Useful for images meant to be seen at a glance to give someone the general gist of the concept, but when trying to grade it as actual art, it's quality is relative to it being "good enough for what it is" rather than an actually decent piece of art.
I don't disagree that there's certainly a lot of room for improvement, but it's advanced enough that with the right prompt it's near indistinguishable from a commissioned artist's work.
Let's say a princess of mine wants to have a self-portrait taken of her, and her knightly protector has the skills to accomplish this. If I were to provide pic related as the reflection of that scene, the only way you could realistically tell that it's an AI is cause there's no particular theme to the gold embellishments on the knight's armor, which is a negligible enough detail that an actual artist could well have done the same.
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The mouth vents are also asymmetrical. And frankly I can always tell even when there aren't any obvious imperfections. Probably an uncanny valley effect.
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The lady doesn't look like a painting, she has too much depth and looks like she's standing at an angle to the canvas.
The paintbrush has the wrong color paint on it.
The fur is hanging on with hope and optimism.
The mail looks like steel wool.
You also can't handwave the nonsensical armor details by claiming a human artist might have made the same errors.
It passes a cursory glimpse (well, the knight does; the painting doesn't) but any amount of inspection ruins the illusion.
Also, the lady by the fire has three legs, and the drow has the shadows of three legs and a hole in the universe under her ear.
AI art is fantastic for conveying ideas quickly and cheaply but I would never in a million years hang it on my wall or try to pass it off as human art.
That said, by the next year AI might have advanced past these problems. Time will tell.
TFW this isnt a cute story of a pretty princess falling in love with her cute lady knight bodyguard and the two having to keep their relationship a secret from a society that would never accept them being together.
(No lesbian dikery, just cute, wholesome love between femanine girls)
Homophobic lesbosexuals are some of the weirdest people.
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>Homophobic lesbosexuals are some of the weirdest people.
Porn and anime brainrot manifest.
>They were predictably horny but all 6 of them bombed their seduction attempts (DC 25, you little shits! I knew what you were gonna try!)
based wienerblocking GM
TFW this isnt a cute story of a pretty princess falling in love with her cute lady knight bodyguard and the two having to keep their relationship a secret from a society that would never accept them being together.
(No lesbian dikery, just cute, wholesome love between femanine girls)
For their insolence (and general inability to stay in the kitchen), the religious establishment curses the princess AND her bodyguard with humongous mega-knockers.
How much political power do princesses have in your settings? Like, can one ascend to the throne as Queen, or do they need to be married first or what?
Officially the heirs to the throne have no political power but people still get shit done for them out of fear, to be in good standing with the royal family or in case that particular heir will take the throne.
The princesses can take the throne, no spouse required just like the princes, but they are usually last in line for this because muh soggy knee.
They have large breasts. And I don’t mean your garden variety big boobs. I mean they all have some seriously ginormous mongers. Some truly salacious sex melons. Some utterly thunderous chest pumpkins. Some truly brobdigagian milk bazookas. I’m talking some jiggly ass sweater puppies. And I mean some seriously ridiculous bra snappers. They’ve all got gigantic jackfruits. Melons like you would not believe. Tatas out to here. Boner pillows that stretch ALL the way across the alphabet. Twin weapons of mass distraction. Some really cartoonish mana tanks. Bouncy-ass bazongas like you would not believe. Genetically predisposed to humongous hooters. Major league yabbos truly out of this world. Gravity-welling mega bongos. Some really zesty-ass Z-cups. Colossal vanilla flavored melons. Lovely bunches of coconuts. I mean mountainous mammaries. Tiddies with their own zip code. Mongos that’d make mongoloids drool. I mean some heavy duty pairs of eighteen wheeler milk trucks. We ain’t talikin titty twisters. We’re talking titty Tornadoes. Omega milkers. Some serious crotch seeking missiles. Some real DD-class submarines. breasts so big you need the golden gate to keep them up. Some extra-mountainous molehills. Jupiters’ dairy moons. I’m talking those ain’t moons, those’re a pair of breasts. Some low hangin’ loco mochas. Some high-riding. Boobs so big the cleavage got an echo. Seismic face slappers. breasts so large you need a compass and map to find the nipples. I’m talking some grade A dairy balloons.
It’s a running “gag” in my group that there is always a princess-type character and she always gets raped at some point. Sometimes it’s so shoe horned in and unnecessarily abrupt and inappropriate that it’s funny but most of the time it’s aggravating and annoying
Their typically a political bargaining chip between rulers and other nobility or the occasional badass that slay dragons and demons so the local ruler wants them firmly on their side.
Occasionally you get a Machiavellian one that ends up ruling
None. The entire royal family of the main nation of the setting died simultaneously under different circumstances except for the young third born son who has not been seen in public for 4 years. The Royal advisors “relay his orders” as he is “under protection.” The next best thing to princesses are the daughters of the different dukes that manage territories within the kingdom
It doesn't have any. The emperor only has one child, a son, and the empire does not recognize any of its neighbours as a proper "kingdom" and its leaders as kings or queens. It views them all as barbarian tribal coallitions and their leaders as heathenous chieftans that lack the divine right to rule as ordained by the gods.
Who’s the son supposed to marry then, if there’s no princesses?
They are cute
Wow, you must have a very boring world to play in
presumably they exist? they're probably quite unimpressive
The one princess that came up in my games was technically just a noble born young women who was kidnapped by a local gang of criminals to extort a ransom from the count. The party rescued her to gain a favour from said count.
They like the dragon males for bo particular reason
They frick minotaurs, werewolves, ugly orcs and never me.
Princesses are sent to the sorceresses scool when they are young to be trained in magic. They are kept isolated from the world until the Empress decides to step down. If there are too many princesses then the extras are sent to be raised by the council of priestesses instead.
>empress
>princesses
>sorceress school
>council of priestesses
Are there any men in this setting?
Hopefully not
Current campaign takes place within the borders of the Empire, a powerful elven kingdom that conquered most of the continent a little over 100 years ago. The party is level 3, it's still early in the campaign but I wanted to foreshadow some things and introduced (one of) the daughter(s) of the emperor.
Aeria Silva Faerin was supposed to be this bratty, snobbish, selfish, gorgeous elf girl of chaotic neutral alignment. The party was supposed to meet her in the context of this huge festival that is taking place on the outskirts of the empire, see how terrible of a character she is and later be told that princess Silva is one of the nicer members of the royal family.
Unfortunately for me and for her the dice Gods and the party had other plans. Over the course of 2 sessions our autistic wizard with 9 CHA (-1 mod) managed to:
-convince her not to call the guards on them when she caught the party in her room (NAT 20),
-convince her they are the good guys and the local ruler appointed by the Empire is corrupt (17 with advantage)
-convince her not to kill them when shithead sorcerer tried to bed her like she was a prostitute(18 with disadvantage)
-convince her through Message to ditch the guards and spend the festival with the party (NAT 20)
-convince her to come and see how people in the lower part of the city and outside the wall live (17)
-convince her that while the Empire did a lot of great things and a lot of good for many people it still has ways to go and must do better to help those in the lower classes (NAT 20 with advantage)
-convince her to help them take down the local ruler and his close circle (18 with advantage)
So now princess Aeria Silva Faerin is this bratty, gorgeous elf girl of chaotic good alignment who uses her political power to try and better the lives of those of the lower class and is also infatuated with a homeless looking wizard with 0 rizz for some reason or another.
Forgot to mention: this is the same wizard that despite having 20 INT (rolled 18+1 from variant human +1 from feat) can barely hit anything.
Classic arc, I bet your players had a blast especially if they believed it wasn't all a part of the plan.
None of that was part of the plan, the entire thing of removing the local ruler and his buddies was not part of the plan.
The "rebellion" if you can call them that, a group of disgruntled lower and middle class people, hired the party to gather information and evidence. Simple sneak in, find some documents, sneak out.
It turned into the party investigating the rebellion to make sure they are who they say they are, investigating the local ruler, the chief of guards, the head doctor at the local infirmary and the high priest.
They took a little side-quest I have planned for a session that would help them understand the political structure, class based system and reinforce that the empire while great as a whole it has problems at all levels and they made it into an entire arc spanning 5 sessions and counting.
Part of me is happy that they are taking the setting seriously and are treating NPCs as people with good and bad sides and they aren't just going around murdering everyone that they deem is the bad guy but part of me just wants to scream at the stupidity of their hijinks and the amount of stuff I have to improvise on the fly.
Nice one, but you should let the party know in-game that their actions actually had an impact on the world and that the princess wasn't always the nice elf lady that helps the poor but had a change of heart.
I've hinted at her nastiness before they met her and the played her as the rich spoiled brat that she is but you have a point. I'll think of some news to spread around the Empire about her helping the lower classes and standing up to inequality or something.
That sounds interesting, mind if you give more details? One of my PCs is a half-elf on a quest to find who her father is. She didn't have anything specific in her mind when she wrote it so she left it up to me. Originally we discussed if he was some high nobility residing in the capital of the Empire but was thinking about making her a bastard daughter of the Emperor.
>That sounds interesting, mind if you give more details?
I assume you want to know more about the "abject sociopolitical shitshow" I mentioned?
To start, her arranged marriage was part of a planned alliance that would've ended up being crucial later on, as the pact between her kingdom and a federated group of clans to the northwest would've been a key part of keeping the exiled or ish hordes to the north in check. The princess running away in the way she did actually bungled this even more severely in that a member of the royal purposefully rebuffing a marriage like this risked war with the clans: as such, the king authorized a conspiracy to fake his daughter's death and executed her "killers" publicly, declaring a year of mourning after.
Presently, the kingdom is embroiled in a distant war as a result of another treaty secured with the prince's marriage, spreading the king's armies too thin to effectively guard the homeland. The orcs are beginning to push south, and more and more people are being conscripted in desperation. Her confirmed return is going to make a LOT of people angry.
So basically she put her entire kingdom at risk and got hundreds or thousands of her people killed because she didn't want to make the "sacrifice" of marrying a rich nobleman from another land? What a c**t.
I know. It's the most realistic depiction of a teenaged noble girl I've ever had in a D&D game.
Virtually all teenaged noble girls had at least a modicum of understanding of how good their life was and would happily do their duty in order to remain a rich, well taken care of noble, the "runs away from marriage to live a hard, brutal life as a mercenary/adventurer" is completely ridiculous and only occurs in fantasy. Not to mention even the ones stupid enough to do it would return to the castle within a week after experiencing the day to day hardship of her new existence compared with the ease of the old. It's a fantasy game, so it's fine for a fantasy character to behave that way, but to call it "realistic" is outright laughable.
>It's a fantasy game, so it's fine for a fantasy character to behave that way, but to call it "realistic" is outright laughable.
Considering I wrote that it in jest, I'm glad you found it outright laughable
Holy KINO
There are many cases of standard historical reference. But one elven society is led by princesses in a manner based mostly on courtly romance or, less poetically, simping.
Their society is nearly stateless due to a generally kind and aloof disposition, so there is no consistent government. Still, male elves like to sport and practice martial arts and various kinds of tournanent combat and are effective at defending their society when necissary, but are more regularly concerned with impressing as many or, even better, as desirable elf women as possible. Desirability is generally assessed by their general social standing among women, and their ability at various arts (beauty is nominally of tremendous importance, but all elves are beautiful so really its just a matter of perception cultivated through other arts), and if a woman can call herself a princess and not get derided for it she becomes a princess. At this point, men elves will do almost anything for her favor, seeing it as the pinnacle accomplishment of elfdom, and women will flock to associate more strongly with her so their favor can carry a little of her glamour, and you have something of an effective polity until people get bored.
Even with such weak organization, elven princesses are rather powerful in the world because elves are powerful and getting a group of them to cooperate towards anything more complex than self-defense is fearsome. They concern themselves almost enirely with increasing or maintaining their glamour, and may travel around with their entourage gracing various peoples with their appearance and aid, or staying in their grand garden palaces ordering their knights off on impressive quests in their name while tending to the grandeur of their small realm.
As far as the Empire is concerned, the various Gentry of their vassel states handle their own hiearchy as they see fit and more often than not will consist of at least partially the original leadership/nobility that was in charge beforehand.
For the purposes of the Empire, their status enables them to have a chance at marrying into the Imperial family and thus have a chance at seating the throne but that depends on a number of factors most importantly how much of the vassel country has integrated itself into Imperial society
TL:WR - The only royalty that counts is the Imperial family so everyone else is a dime a dozen
One of my PCs is the princess of the local kingdom, returned after about a decade of running away to go on adventures on a pirate crew to avoid an arranged marriage. She just learned that her disappearance was framed as a murder by a group of "bandits" her father and his spy master caught and executed.
Her confirmed reappearance will be an abject sociopolitical shitshow for the region and I am psyched to get to it.
She hates it. She just wanted to be a normal girl in a normal world. Just getting by and doing good in high school. Instead all her friends (who being her friends are by default the most popular kids in school) feel fake. While all but one teacher treats her with kid gloves for fear of what may happen if they were to fail her. And that’s not mentioning the endless paparazzi all over everywhere; she definitely despises them deeply. Now on the other hand, her older half-sister…well she’s all in on the perks and lifestyle of royalty. And of course has the b***hy stuck up attitude you’ve come to expect.
Like in feudal europe, used as bargaining chips to secure alliances between faction-families.
The main princess in the story I'm writing in my setting is in a peculiar position. She is one of her father, the Emperor's, two children, which is scandalous in a society where men of station are expected to have several children between multiple wives. Even more scandalous is that in his doting affection for her, the Emperor allowed her to figure out courting in her own time and focus on her academic passions.
Unfortunately, the Emperor was killed by a metaphysical parasite from the shadow realm and her brother, the prince, finds his faction-family in such a precarious position from his father's mismanagement and a recent questioning of their divine right that he is forced to debut her for courting to secure some alliances.
Frustrated by this course of events, our heroine drags her personal bodyguard on an adventure to the holy city to prove her worth outside the conventions of her factional institutions and confront the religious authorities on their fatwa against her faction's claim to divine right.
Forgive the ai slop, I'm grinding to afford commissions.
>paying for humanslop when aislop does just fine
shiggy diggy
It really doesn't. It's useful to sell the basic concept of your character or scene but it's inability to grasp fine detail or basic anatomy makes it worthless when trying to pass it off as good art.
I dunno, I've been managing pretty well.
Pic related is a drow princess, but since the royal family is so big and they're all immortal elves, she has 86 people ahead of her in line for inheritance. So she's gone to the overworld to improve her life expectancy and experience the strange human realms and exotic landscapes that simply aren't to be found in the Underdark.
The players have interacted with her once, while resupplying in an oasis town before heading into the desert to pillage an ancient ruined temple. They were predictably horny but all 6 of them bombed their seduction attempts (DC 25, you little shits! I knew what you were gonna try!)
As usual, the fingers and toes are all fricked up as are the birds. Like I said, fine details and basic anatomy. Useful for images meant to be seen at a glance to give someone the general gist of the concept, but when trying to grade it as actual art, it's quality is relative to it being "good enough for what it is" rather than an actually decent piece of art.
I don't disagree that there's certainly a lot of room for improvement, but it's advanced enough that with the right prompt it's near indistinguishable from a commissioned artist's work.
Let's say a princess of mine wants to have a self-portrait taken of her, and her knightly protector has the skills to accomplish this. If I were to provide pic related as the reflection of that scene, the only way you could realistically tell that it's an AI is cause there's no particular theme to the gold embellishments on the knight's armor, which is a negligible enough detail that an actual artist could well have done the same.
The mouth vents are also asymmetrical. And frankly I can always tell even when there aren't any obvious imperfections. Probably an uncanny valley effect.
The lady doesn't look like a painting, she has too much depth and looks like she's standing at an angle to the canvas.
The paintbrush has the wrong color paint on it.
The fur is hanging on with hope and optimism.
The mail looks like steel wool.
You also can't handwave the nonsensical armor details by claiming a human artist might have made the same errors.
It passes a cursory glimpse (well, the knight does; the painting doesn't) but any amount of inspection ruins the illusion.
Also, the lady by the fire has three legs, and the drow has the shadows of three legs and a hole in the universe under her ear.
AI art is fantastic for conveying ideas quickly and cheaply but I would never in a million years hang it on my wall or try to pass it off as human art.
That said, by the next year AI might have advanced past these problems. Time will tell.
Homophobic lesbosexuals are some of the weirdest people.
>Homophobic lesbosexuals are some of the weirdest people.
Porn and anime brainrot manifest.
>They were predictably horny but all 6 of them bombed their seduction attempts (DC 25, you little shits! I knew what you were gonna try!)
based wienerblocking GM
>nat 20 your way
thx for the sexslave DM
TFW this isnt a cute story of a pretty princess falling in love with her cute lady knight bodyguard and the two having to keep their relationship a secret from a society that would never accept them being together.
(No lesbian dikery, just cute, wholesome love between femanine girls)
Sorry my dear yuri fetishist, it is not that story. It is a critique of the power balance that trope entails.
Cry harder, yuricuck
>*sounds of necromancy in the distance intensifies*
>sounds of necromancy
So rattling bones?
For their insolence (and general inability to stay in the kitchen), the religious establishment curses the princess AND her bodyguard with humongous mega-knockers.
My setting is an enlightened democracy, such fascist relics as "entitled bloodlines" don't exist
>enlightened democracy
So instead of all knowing Gods deciding who rules over which kingdom you let drunken uneducated serfs vote?
Tell me about Bane. Why does he wear the mask?
How much political power do princesses have in your settings? Like, can one ascend to the throne as Queen, or do they need to be married first or what?
Officially the heirs to the throne have no political power but people still get shit done for them out of fear, to be in good standing with the royal family or in case that particular heir will take the throne.
The princesses can take the throne, no spouse required just like the princes, but they are usually last in line for this because muh soggy knee.
PRETTY PRINCESSES ARE FOR:
They kidnap dragons to breed more princesses off of, and are often slain by noble knights who marry the dragons as a reward for their heroic deed
I am the princess...you got something to say about it?
maximum rapeability.
They have large breasts. And I don’t mean your garden variety big boobs. I mean they all have some seriously ginormous mongers. Some truly salacious sex melons. Some utterly thunderous chest pumpkins. Some truly brobdigagian milk bazookas. I’m talking some jiggly ass sweater puppies. And I mean some seriously ridiculous bra snappers. They’ve all got gigantic jackfruits. Melons like you would not believe. Tatas out to here. Boner pillows that stretch ALL the way across the alphabet. Twin weapons of mass distraction. Some really cartoonish mana tanks. Bouncy-ass bazongas like you would not believe. Genetically predisposed to humongous hooters. Major league yabbos truly out of this world. Gravity-welling mega bongos. Some really zesty-ass Z-cups. Colossal vanilla flavored melons. Lovely bunches of coconuts. I mean mountainous mammaries. Tiddies with their own zip code. Mongos that’d make mongoloids drool. I mean some heavy duty pairs of eighteen wheeler milk trucks. We ain’t talikin titty twisters. We’re talking titty Tornadoes. Omega milkers. Some serious crotch seeking missiles. Some real DD-class submarines. breasts so big you need the golden gate to keep them up. Some extra-mountainous molehills. Jupiters’ dairy moons. I’m talking those ain’t moons, those’re a pair of breasts. Some low hangin’ loco mochas. Some high-riding. Boobs so big the cleavage got an echo. Seismic face slappers. breasts so large you need a compass and map to find the nipples. I’m talking some grade A dairy balloons.
Then one day a transfer student shows up with EVEN BIGGER bonkhonagahoogs. HUMONGOUS hungolomghnonoloughhongous.
Matsu-sensei, no!
Gigantomambonormous mahumtaboingobous!
It’s a running “gag” in my group that there is always a princess-type character and she always gets raped at some point. Sometimes it’s so shoe horned in and unnecessarily abrupt and inappropriate that it’s funny but most of the time it’s aggravating and annoying
Somebody at the table is getting off on it. Cringe.
Find a better, more mature GM/ players.
Why can't slopgays stay in their general?
They posted stuff with their princesses and included AI slop images on the posts, so it's topical. Better than the booba coomers anyway.
You're literally one in the same, slopgay
Their typically a political bargaining chip between rulers and other nobility or the occasional badass that slay dragons and demons so the local ruler wants them firmly on their side.
Occasionally you get a Machiavellian one that ends up ruling
None. The entire royal family of the main nation of the setting died simultaneously under different circumstances except for the young third born son who has not been seen in public for 4 years. The Royal advisors “relay his orders” as he is “under protection.” The next best thing to princesses are the daughters of the different dukes that manage territories within the kingdom
The royal advisor is pounding his bussy, isn't he?