Dungeons and Dragons creatures, generated by neural network

The game Dungeons and Dragons has all sorts of lists of spells and abilities you can use for gameplay. I trained an algorithm called a recurrent neural network to generate more spells - like Barking Sphere, Hold Mouse, and Gland Growth. Then, with a larger set of spells in my training dataset, I trained a better neural net that generated even more - like Song of the Dave, Summon Ass, and Shield of Farts.

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.

Owlborn

Cat, Stone

Vampire Bear

Kick Spirit

Hatfright

Purple Bird

Slug, Spectral

Wolf, Chromatic

Golem, Rain

Human, Crystal

Hound, Plant

Fish, Astro-

Wolfworm

Ogre, Space

Dog, Goblin

Serpent Shark

Mommy, Greater

Giant, Dunebat

Cloud of Chaos

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!

Also, I thought it would be fun to generate D&D character names for a future project. If you go to this form (no email required), you can enter your character’s name, race, and class. Once I have enough of these, I’ll give them to the neural network and see what happens. Edit: wow, over 10,000 responses so far! (Check them out at this link) Keep them coming!

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: