APNext Plots

PlotsPromptNode (APNext Plots) appends a narrative scenario to your prompt, sorted by genre. It's an offline builder - no API, no key - from this pack's Auto Prompter family, and the idea is to inject a situation rather than just objects and adjectives: "a group of rebels attempts to overthrow a totalitarian government," "escaping from a haunted house," "dealing with the pressure of being in a popular band." Set it to Random and every queue rolls a new plot, which is a fast way to break out of generating the same three compositions over and over.

How it works

The node stores plot-scenario lists by genre and stitches your pick onto the base prompt with the separator (default ,). Every genre dropdown offers None, Random, Multiple Random, or a specific choice:

• scifi (~170 scenarios), fantasy, horror, cyberpunk, action, war, romance, musical, arthouse, and a catch-all general bank.

seed makes the rolls reproducible; attributes pulls in extra descriptors. Two outputs - prompt (base plus the chosen plot) and random (a randomized selection) - into your text encode.

The realistic take

This node is a concepting tool more than a precision one. A plot scenario is a long, abstract sentence ("dealing with the consequences of using dark magic"), and image models don't render abstract plot - they render what's visible. So a scenario like "battling a supernatural entity" helps because it implies a scene the model can draw (a figure, a threat, dramatic lighting); one like "coming to terms with a betrayal" gives the model almost nothing concrete to work with.

On modern LLM-encoded models this actually works better than it used to, because they parse the sentence as an instruction and infer a visual from it. But it's still a brainstorming aid: use it to find a direction, then look at what it generated and tighten the prompt by hand. Don't expect a one-line plot to nail a specific composition.

Installing it

ComfyUI Manager: search comfyui_dagthomas, install, restart. Or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/dagthomas/comfyui_dagthomas
cd comfyui_dagthomas
pip install -r requirements.txt

This node uses none of the pack's LLM dependencies - pure string assembly - so it runs even if the API nodes can't reach a provider.

Common issues

The plot didn't show up in the image. Abstract scenarios ("confronting personal demons") have no visual anchor. Pick scenarios that imply something concrete and visible, or combine the plot with a subject/setting description that grounds it.

Multiple Random gave a mess. Rolling several genres at once can staple a war scenario onto a romance onto a musical. Pick one genre bank at a time for a coherent scene.

Nothing was added. All dropdowns at None append nothing - set at least one to a value or to Random.