Dungeon 23 (Wk 12) Recap -

How I'm approaching wandering monsters/encounters; The Dungeon23 campaign loses its first PC!

https://chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/2023/03/dungeon-23-wk-12-wandering-encounter.html

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me (architect voice): IT IS DONE.

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My Etinerra generator... 766k size. 21,446 lines - probably 5% are blank/comments, so roughly 20k lines of content.

I'm at the end-end, starting to hate/love it. The end of the TODO list is in sight, maybe 3 hours more work?

I can generate for any hex, AD&D/1e based, campaign-canon, including if the hex has road, river, lake or is a coastal hex. I went deep.

It's been quite a journey. Now to play enough so that hexes need to be generated, huh? :D

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Week 11 - Dungeon 23 - The Week Of Coding And Tool Creating For Dungeon Stocking

https://chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/2023/02/dungeon-23-wk-11-week-of-coding-and.html

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So... then I got the bright idea of having my version of the Swords & Wizardry treasure generator call my hosted version of hex-describe to get what the treasure is contained in and guarded/hidden by.

Umm... yea.

* CORS.
* async javascript fetches.
* setting values to Dom objects then parsing them.

OK, it's kinda cool that this works but... sheesh.

#ttrpg #HexDescribe #JavaScript #CORS #IHatesIt

I have a hammer and everything's looking like a nail...

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Add some ye-olde businesses to your towns and villages - via S John Ross's Medieval Demographics and a public-domain random table generator!

#ttrpg #dnd #adnd #odnd #DmTools #HexDescribe #Medieval #Demographics #HexMaps

https://chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/2023/02/domesday-medieval-demographics-for-your.html

Well, not quite till the end of the day 😁

It's done. For now, I'll have this available at the table and we'll see what else I might want to use.

Starting to run out of things that I need to/want to tweak on my hex-describe project...

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Learning Reactive/Bootstrap by hacking this together. Looks great on a tablet, which is how I'll probably primarily use this... I should finish by end of day.

Not bad for not knowing perl/Reactive or Mojolicious...

Always making my tools/writings useful at the table!

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Hacking away at hex-describe - I've now got a pattern for making my at-the-table ref tools page if I need a random NPC or monster or some such...

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So...
✅ Converted my campaign hex-generation spreadsheet to table-driven format

✅ Created new encounter tables for terrains that current games are running in

✅ Set up local server to run the hex-describe server/software

✅ Converted my table dev environment to use my local setup

🏃‍♂️Working on my "TODO" items

... and still doing Dungeon23 as well! 4th level is almost fully drawn.

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#HexDescribe is basically #Inform7

It's been two weeks and almost 17k of lines added to a text file, but I finally am at a point where my Etinerra campaign specific hex-describe file is functional enough to be useful.

Lots of little bits on my TODO list, but I can use this as it is now and be way quicker about game-prep for newly-trodden lands.

Between a diversion into Medieval Demographics tables, and flattening the AD&D treasure/npc party/monster content...

So worth it

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This morning's project - redoing my encounter tables and putting them into hex-describe.

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Palaces are done! These are rare, but huge ruin complexes with a lot of areas for monsters to be and players to go play in. It would be a major event to go raid these.

Now for a few "smaller" major ruin areas to write up and then I'll have only 1 encounter type left to put in place.

(I'm not thinking about the variations in monster encounter types and encounter %s due to diff terrain types, tyvm! Small moves, Ellie! Small moves!)

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Getting to the finish line of this table generator. The ruins get a lot of detail since they're a likely destination for players!

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Next major encounter type of "religious site" is done for my hex-describe tables. Two left to go - ruins/dungeons and "natural effects"...

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I'm at that point in this little project where the foundations are starting to come together and I'm rolling out stuff into my generator tables faster.

I finished small towns pretty fast - decoding the AD&D sages rules and info into tables is what took me a little bit.

Now on to regular sized towns, revisit some fixes to the villages and hamlets and I'm done with settlements for the time being!

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Small town generation is complete! Even got thieves guilds up and running!

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I'm sharing my "Medieval Demographics for hex-describe" tool here if you want to look at it.

This is WIP. You'll see me futzing with it, probably.

Make a copy.

I've put instructions and a beginning FAQ in it.

I can't say this enough - this is tuned for my campaign. You should tweak this for your own campaign.

I should make this into a blog post.

#ttrpg #dmtip #tools #dnd #hexdescribe #hex23 #hexmap #hexmaps #randomgeneration

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8AZf2tBOtGYr5AEKis7_AZYpJ1_T18LFYp_mi_rikY/edit?usp=sharing