Dungeons and Dragons AI

Multi-user, situated, collaborative dialogue agents

D&D is a role-playing game consisting of multiple player characters and a Dungeon Master (DM) who collaborate to achieve a set of goals beneficial to the players. The DM, the narrator and host of the game, has an innate motivation to guide the players to perform a series of actions that roughly follow a predevised storyline culminating in a global goal, all grounded in a shared fantasy world. The players must somewhat: (1) keep their character’s personas consistent while acting; (2) keep track of relationships between characters that will affect their interactions; and (3) follow and logically advance the plot of the story.

References

2023

  1. I Cast Detect Thoughts: Learning to Converse and Guide with Intents and Theory-of-Mind in Dungeons and Dragons
    Pei Zhou, Andrew Zhu, Jennifer Hu, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren, Chris Callison-Burch, Yejin Choi, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
    In Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023

2021

  1. Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations
    Wai Man Si, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, and Mark O Riedl
    In SIGDIAL 2021, 2021