AI Creates New D&D Monsters

This has been doing the rounds recently - Janelle Shane, a scientist who works with artificial intelligence, programmed a neural network to produce new D&D monsters based on a list of over 2,000 creatures from an old Monster Manual. welcome to the Spectral Slug, Desert Beeple, Purple Fang Dragon, and many more!

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You can view the whole list here.

I'm a fan of the Fumble Unicorn, Burglestar, Spider Brain Horse, and the Chromatic Wolf.

Shane previously used the same AI to produce 265 spell names, which included such classics as barking sphere, hold mouse, and vicious markers and a second experiment which produced an even better set.

She is now crowdsourcing a data set to do the same for character names.

 

[Tonguez]

Wendless Woll

sounds very Discworld, like something the Witches would be dealing with

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It does yes...

The slugmen of the Yellow City are skilled in the art of golemology, and have made liguid and even light golems. A Rain golem is right up their alley

Or in their gutter.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Pat, Great, Space

Damn those Spelljammer gnomes!
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[NaturalZero]

Now you're messing with a... Sun of a Fish!

 

[Demetrios1453]

Damn those Spelljammer gnomes!
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Special power: Charms opponents into politely and obliquely trying to determine Pat's gender until such time they leave out of sheer frustration...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Special power: Charms opponents into politely and obliquely trying to determine Pat's gender until such time they leave out of sheer frustration...

You forgot the Disconcerting Laughter attack.

 

[GMMichael]

Hmm, what might a Marraganralleraith be?
. . .So we have a wraith-like disfigured creature that possess others and causes slowness.

I had this in mind:

Marraganralleraith 5

A horrid ghost, sometimes seen as darkness, sometimes as a dim glow in the dark, that is bound to the totem of the boar. This wraith is first seen as a decapitated boar's head, which springs to life and floats in the air where the wraith's head would be. The marraganralleraith (or "ghost boar," for non-ghost-hunters) prefers to haunt and fight in the dark, where it can use its owl's eye perk and sneak skill to the best effect. Goal: steal the lives of any creatures that do not honor the boar totem. Flaw: its physical abilities are limited to that of a floating head.

P 12, M 8, MP 15
Skills: magic (float 4) +1 (1), magic (fear 1) +8 (1), sneak +4 (3)
Perks: bonus action (magic), thought shield (natural), martial artist, sleepless, owl's eye
Gear: boar tusk d6, boar hide d4

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[Dannyalcatraz]

Flaw: its physical abilities are limited to that of a floating head.

(Edit)
martial artist

Worthy of Forest Oracle II!

 

[Mistwell]

I had this in mind:

Marraganralleraith 5

A horrid ghost, sometimes seen as darkness, sometimes as a dim glow in the dark, that is bound to the totem of the boar. This wraith is first seen as a decapitated boar's head, which springs to life and floats in the air where the wraith's head would be. The marraganralleraith (or "ghost boar," for non-ghost-hunters) prefers to haunt and fight in the dark, where it can use its owl's eye perk and sneak skill to the best effect. Goal: steal the lives of any creatures that do not honor the boar totem. Flaw: its physical abilities are limited to that of a floating head.

P 12, M 8, MP 15
Skills: magic (float 4) +1 (1), magic (fear 1) +8 (1), sneak +4 (3)
Perks: bonus action (magic), thought shield (natural), martial artist, sleepless, owl's eye
Gear: boar tusk d6, boar hide d4

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Excellent