metadata

configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data.parquet
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - conversational
pretty_name: Deep Dungeons and Dragons

Deep Dungeons and Dragons

A dataset of long-form multi-turn and multi-character collaborative RPG stories, complete with associated character cards.

This dataset comprises of 56,000 turns in 1544 stories following 9771 characters: a total of 50M Llama tokens.
Each turn comprises a multi-paragraph continuation of a story from the perspective of a defined character including both dialogue and prose.

This dataset is a cleaned and reformatted version of Deep Dungeons and Dragons, originally released in 2018 by Annie Louis and Charles Sutton and comprising of transcripts collected from public games at roleplayerguild.com. We've removed images and links (as well as their references) from posts to make this a text-only dataset, as well as anonymising usernames - although this is still available in the original dataset.

Citation for source dataset:

@inproceedings{ddd2018,
    author={Louis, Annie, and Sutton, Charles},
    title={{Deep Dungeons and Dragons: Learning Character-Action Interactions from Role-Playing Game Transcripts}},
    booktitle={The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},	
    year={2018},
    pages={--},
    organization={ACL}
}

Schema

thread_id: The numeric ID of a specific RPG game.
message_id: The turn within a thread.
author_id: ID corresponding to the message author.
author_num_posts: The total number of posts by that author - may be usable as a quality signal.
message: The post containing a continuation of the RPG story roleplaying as a specific character. Most of the time, this is a multi-paragraph description containing both prose and dialogue.
character: The character card that this post is role-playing as. This is 1-to-1 mapped to (thread_id, author_id).

Example post

Trevor's abrupt announcement did, in fact, startle Mildred. The normal type jumped in just the wrong direction, toppling her mug and sending a spreading puddle of Pechai tea all over her desk. Mildred stared in shock for just a moment. Then she let out a yelp and shoved her papers to the side with speed to rival a Jolteon, saving all but a few corners from certain doom. The secretary then soaked up some of the mess with the first semi-absorbent material she could find...her own tail.
Crisis averted, Mildred suddenly remembered its cause and blushed red. She peeked up at the potential recruits, one a Noibat and the other... a Togepi? Yes, it fit the description she read, though she had never seen one in the flesh before. And now they had both seen her freak out like an idiot. Mildred took a calming breath. Time to be professional. And, in the flustered pokemon's attempt at logic, that meant acting like nothing happened. Mildred cleared her throat and plastered on a polite smile.
"Welcome to the Medburn Exploration Guild." Mildred began her standard spiel while slowly sliding her tea-stained tail behind her back. "Thank you for your interest in helping us protect the people, places, and culture of our region. My name is Mildred, and I will register you and begin your orientation today. But before we can begin, there are just a few forms I'll need you to read fully and fill out."
With that, Mildred quickly leafed through the slightly disheveled stack of colored papers. As she did so, she quickly summarized each form by memory.
"...percent of your earnings will go to the guild..."
"...will be lodged in separate..."
"...may only sing in the shower on Fridays..."
"...will not be held responsible for any injury or death caused by..."
Finally, Mildred picked up a stack of forms that looked like it belonged to a bureaucracy run by unicorns and handed it to the Togepi, since she figured the Noibat might need his arms free to fly.
"Again, I ask you to please read these thoroughly before signing anything," the Smeargle concluded, pushing her glasses up the bridge of her nose. "And feel free to ask me any questions you may have." She really hoped they wouldn't have any questions, though. She had already had enough embarrassing social situations for one day.

Example character card

Name: Edward "Edge" Van Helsing
Appearance:

Gender: Male
Age: 15
Type: Descendant
School: Monster Hunter
Magic/Weapon(s): Mercy and Paragon

Bio: The Helsing line is one of misfortune and trouble. Edward's mother died giving birth to him, his father was a seasoned hunter. They lived in London until Edward turned nine, when disaster struck his family again. A cult of vampires gathered and assaulted the Helsing manor, a young Edward awoke to his the manor servants screaming as they vampire feasted upon them. Edge's father was surrounded gunning down each as they approached. Edge himself had collected one of the silver swords from the manors great hall. Then made his way to the window looking for his father, as the house caught fire.
Edge arrived in time to see his father drained of life, and discarded. Edge had never had drive to be violent, not until that day. In truth no Helsing is born a Hunter, nearly all of them suffer and that vengeance that burns in their hearts, that is what makes a Helsing fight. When this near year old child, with only a sword in hand saw the death of not only of his father but also of his friends and caretakers he broke. He jumped out the window crashing down upon the vampire he struck it blow after blow after blow. When his arms gave out he dropped the sword.
Luckily for Edge some of the staff had survived, now the heir of his branch of the Helsing family Edge spent days training. He also took up music, the violin specifically. It had been his mothers, now with both his parents gone he did his best to remember and learn things about them. Finally after training for years he was accepted into the Academy, choosing to train in Monster Hunting due to the fact he felt Vampire hunting would present little challenge. While tough and cocky at times, Edge backs this up with lethal aim and fast paced movement, his sword and knives skills are impressive however he knows little of magic or demons.