Item: summonable vampire cave goat skeleton. So long as it is on the field, opponents must roll Will save against being Frightened, because I mean geez.
Item: an Ivory momento mory. Allows the user to summon a spectre of a fallen party member or pet once a day for 6 hours. Can be worn as a necklace, but can be attached as a pommel to some weapons. If this happens, the effect is changed, then you can summon a ghost of any creature killed within the last 24 hours. Still only usable once a day, ghost lasts for 6 hours and responds to your commands.
There’s a kind of neural network that learns to imitate whatever text you give it, whether that’s recipes, song lyrics, or even the names of guinea pigs.
Their imitations are often imperfect (they only know what’s in their dataset and therefore end up accidentally coming up with things that they don’t know are bad ideas). But one area where they tend to do well is inventing new species of things. The neural net’s birds were entirely believable, and its fish were generally no stranger than the species that already exist. So for my next project, I decided to generate some snakes.
I collected English common names for about 1,000 snakes and started training.
The first thing I noticed is that its snake names were a lot more noticeably fake than its birds or fish – the snake dataset is way smaller, so it had much fewer examples to learn from.
Tostlesnake Sine cobra Snoked snake Cancan rattlesnake Chippen’s putter python Southern coat snake Pinkwarm’s Copperanada Smart sea snake Western Nack Blonded snake Ham’s Pattlescops Green tree nosh Snake Hecker’s sea snake Ned-scaled tree viper Barned dater Snake Smalle’s mock ractlesnake Bland brown snake Corned python Common bust viper Smorthead Garter Snake
Some snakes did approach the level of believability. You might be able to bluff some herpetologists into thinking these are real.
Texan farter snake Shite snake Spitty rattlesnake Thing snake Brown brown Black Snake Tamestail farter Snake Black-neded tampon Madeshine spite- racer Bognia scat snake
I also decided to see what would happen if I trained a neural net both on snakes AND on Halloween costumes. Pleasingly, here are some of the snakes it came up with:
Wonder snake Fairy rattlesnake The Spacer Snake Robo snake Sexy cobra Bob dog tree Snake
I had way too much fun generating those, and ended up generating more than would fit here. If you’d like to read the rest of them (and optionally get bonus material every time I post), enter your email here.
Item: Transistor Radio of Dinomac Summoning; once per day, allows the user to summon a stampede of dinosaurs covered in processed cheese, trampling friend and foe alike and leaving rivulets of cheese all over the place. May also be used as a normal AM/FM radio, if you’re on a plane with radio towers.
Item: Idol of the Blessed Fiddle Cat; on supplication, an ethereal fiddle-playing cat appears and dances a soft jig, its gentle song somehow drowning out any other sound for the next five minutes.
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