Encounter: Four-Armed Horn-Nosed Troll with a baseball bat. The horn functions as a reverse-Unicorn horn, so instead of curing diseases and neutralizing poisons, the Horn-Nosed Troll’s horn acts as the Contagion spell, inflicting horrible disease. The standard spell has six possible illnesses, but personally I’d encourage you to turn Wikipedia’s “List of Fictional Diseases” into a nice d100 list so your players wind up with Boneitis, Cutie Pox, the T-Virus, or Hot Dog Fingers.
It turns out that in addition to spellbooks, Dungeons and Dragons also has monster manuals – books full of the names and descriptions of creatures that adventurers can encounter. Colin Fredricks, who created the RPG Sufficiently Advanced, was kind enough to send me the names of 2,205 creatures from the 2nd edition monster manual.
As I had hoped, the neural network generated creatures that would probably be pretty awesome.
It also generated some creatures that you should probably run from until you figure out what they are. (Though Dome Animal might simply be a cool turtle)
Brain, Fire Horse (Spider, Brain Undead Lake Man, Fire Walfablang Fraithwarp, Giant Fish, Sun of Lycanthrope, Wereladoo Pat, Great, Space Shadowstaffer Spectral Woof Greepy Jabberwont Animal, Dome Dwarf, Giant Burglestar Pigaloth Beeple, Desert Wendless Woll Memeball Marraganralleraith
There were 118 dragons in the original dataset, so of course the neural net liked generating new dragons. Some perhaps better-conceived than others.
Dragon, Death Seep Dragon, Purple Fang Dragon, Curple Lard Dragon, Dead Big Dragon Will O’Dragon
And it generated new unicorns!
Unicorn, Fumble Unicorn, Bat Unicorn, Black Willow Unicorn, Sith Sheet
These might be possible misses, though.
Man-Can Barber Beet Skull Feast, Stone Peg, Brown Kurt Durp Snake Golf Vampire, Putter
Enter your email here and I’ll send you a few more creatures that wouldn’t fit in the main post. Including the legendary Bung Dragon!
I’m crowdsourcing a couple more D&D-related datasets – see below!
I’m also collecting character backstories! Submit as many as you like. https://goo.gl/forms/ReInNw0Tz0mwzTLO2 I will post some generated character bios as soon as I can figure out a strategy that works better than this:
There was the prince of the sun. He was raised by the arcane arts and accepted him to become a fire work and the pig of the scorpions. He was in the blood of curious by the world to be a part of the church, really with the bartender.
Dwarf, Giant
Encounter: a Brown Peg, a Burglestar, a Walfablang, and a Spectral Woof Greepy
please tell me the network behind this is called InsaneWizard
Encounter: small, evil robots that have taken the form of the heads of famous movie monsters; their actual scheme is unknown, but they brutally decapitate people and take over their bodies
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