D&D and tabletop character art
Describe your character's ancestry, class, gear, and mood. DreamLayer creates a portrait. Use that portrait as a reference for later images, from a tavern scene to tabletop token artwork.
Start your character
Describe a portrait, a full-body adventurer, or a moment from your campaign. Start with a suggestion or add a reference of your character.
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One character, three uses
These three images were made in order. The second and third images use the first portrait as the reference. The prompts below are shown as used, shortened only where they repeat.
Describe the character once. Include the ancestry, class, skin, horns, hair, clothing, and one item that makes the character easy to recognize.
Fantasy tabletop character portrait for a D&D campaign: a tiefling warlock, deep crimson skin, curved black horns, glowing violet eyes, short dark hair, a worn leather coat over a purple tunic, a silver chain pendant shaped like an eye. Waist-up, three-quarter view, painterly illustration, plain dark teal background.
Attach the approved portrait as the reference, then describe the new moment. In this example, the face, horns, pendant, coat, and overall style carry forward. Review each new image for details that drift.
Keep this exact same tiefling warlock character. Show them full body, standing in a dim candlelit tavern beside a wooden table, a faint violet spell glow in one hand. Same painterly style, same palette.
Ask for a centered head-and-shoulders portrait on a flat background. Add the ring later in the token tool or VTT you already use.
Keep this exact same character. Square head-and-shoulders portrait centered in the frame, suitable for a virtual tabletop token, plain flat solid dark teal background, no border, no text.
Portraits by class and ancestry
Keep the framing and style prompting the same, then change the ancestry, class, and signature items. That gives the party a shared visual style while keeping each character distinct.
Braided beard with bronze rings, sun-embossed breastplate, warhammer over the shoulder.
Fantasy tabletop character portrait for a D&D campaign: a dwarf cleric, broad face, braided grey-red beard with bronze rings, a steel breastplate embossed with a sun symbol, a heavy fur-lined cloak, holding a warhammer over one shoulder. Waist-up, three-quarter view, painterly illustration, plain dark teal background.
Silver hair tied back, moss-green hooded cloak, longbow across the back.
Fantasy tabletop character portrait for a D&D campaign: a wood elf ranger, dark brown skin, long silver hair tied back, green eyes, leaf-shaped ear cuffs, a hooded moss-green cloak over leather armor, a longbow slung across the back. Waist-up, three-quarter view, painterly illustration, plain dark teal background.
Brass-gold scales, ornate plate armor with a white tabard, greatsword hilt at the shoulder.
Fantasy tabletop character portrait for a D&D campaign: a dragonborn paladin, brass-gold scales, small horns swept back, amber eyes, ornate plate armor with a white tabard and a silver holy symbol of a shield and star, a greatsword hilt visible at the shoulder. Waist-up, three-quarter view, painterly illustration, plain dark teal background.
Auburn curls, hooded half-cloak, a vest with small pouches, and two daggers at the belt.
Fantasy tabletop character portrait for a D&D campaign: a halfling rogue, freckled face, tousled auburn curls, sharp grin, a dark hooded half-cloak over a fitted leather vest with many small pouches, two daggers at the belt, a lockpick behind one ear. Waist-up, three-quarter view, painterly illustration, plain dark teal background.
Monsters from a stat block
This owlbear started from a stat-block description. The first image looked like a bear. One follow-up prompt, with that image attached, replaced the head. The review step is part of the workflow.
Tokens
DreamLayer creates the character image. Your VTT token maker can crop it into a circle, add the border, and export the token in the format you use. A short script can do the same, which is how the round token below was made.
FAQ
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Yes. Request each view separately with your approved character image attached as the reference. Review the proportions, outfit, and accessories across the set, then arrange the images in your own layout tool if you need a reference sheet. See the character turnaround example.
A portrait or scene generated from your description of the character: ancestry, class, gear, expression, and art style. The result can then be attached as the reference for more images of the same character, which is what the three-step example on this page shows.
It carries the identity forward when you attach the approved portrait as the reference and describe the new scene. In the examples above the face, horns, hair, coat, and pendant held across the portrait, the tavern scene, and the token square. Small details such as buttons or the exact cut of a collar can still drift, so review each result and regenerate the ones that miss.
DreamLayer creates the portrait artwork. Use a separate token-making tool to crop the image and add a ring, then import it into your virtual tabletop. DreamLayer does not currently provide circle cropping, rings, or a VTT-specific export. The round example below was made with a separate script.
Yes. Under the Terms of Use, DreamLayer assigns the generated Outputs to you. You are responsible for making sure your use is lawful, for example when a character is based on someone else's protected design.
App credit packs start at $8.40 a month for 30 credits, or $10.50 as a one-off pack that never expires. How much of a credit a request uses in the App depends on the work you ask for. Through the Agent API, CLI, and MCP server it is one credit per finished image at US$0.25, with a minimum purchase of 59 credits. Every pack size is on the pricing page.
Yes. Attach a PNG, JPEG, or WebP as the reference and describe what should change and what should stay. The same flow covers a new outfit, a new scene, or a cleaner background.
No. DreamLayer makes images. Character sheets, stat blocks, and printable 3D miniatures are handled by tools built for them. This page is about the art.
Name the style in the prompt. The examples here use a painterly illustration style with a plain dark background; ink and watercolor, comic, and pixel art also work. Keep the style prompting identical between images of the same character so the set matches.
Start with the portrait
App credit packs start at $8.40 a month or $10.50 one-off. Once you approve the portrait, attach it as the reference for later scenes and token artwork. Review each result for details that drift.