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Title: Random Nation Generator
Post by: RPGPundit on October 11, 2009, 03:24:15 PM
Anyone seen this (http://arcana.wikidot.com/random-nations)? Any good?

RPGPundit
Title: Random Nation Generator
Post by: J Arcane on October 11, 2009, 03:46:43 PM
Interesting.  I had not seen this before.  Seems rather limited in options though, since everything's just generated by picking a random wiki page that they've linked to it.  An interesting brainstorming tool I suppose though.

It did put me in mind of Dave Allen's old Nation Builder program, which was a clever little tool that would take maps generated by it's sister program, and then actually generate a whole history of the world with various nations rising and falling.

It was a pretty clever little gizmo, which you can still find in the files section here:  http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/rpg-tools/files/GMTools/

EDIT:  Unfortunately, it seems to be missing key resource files, so it doesn't actually seem to work.
Title: Random Nation Generator
Post by: Caesar Slaad on October 11, 2009, 06:33:28 PM
Never seen it before, but it did inspire me right off the bat. The idea of the Aswang, a bloated ghoul like creature that might resemble a pregnant woman, might be featuring in an upcoming game of mine..
Title: Random Nation Generator
Post by: Greentongue on October 11, 2009, 08:30:23 PM
Quote from: J Arcane;337424EDIT:  Unfortunately, it seems to be missing key resource files, so it doesn't actually seem to work.
While I don't have access to that site, if you are talking about what I think you are, you need build11win.exe (http://home.earthlink.net/~djackson24/build11win.exe) for it to work.
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Title: Random Nation Generator
Post by: jeff37923 on October 11, 2009, 11:11:29 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;337423Anyone seen this (http://arcana.wikidot.com/random-nations)? Any good?

RPGPundit

That was fucking useless. If you set a search engine to seek out random sites under a specified header that you came up with, you would get better results.
Title: Random Nation Generator
Post by: RPGPundit on October 12, 2009, 12:18:46 PM
Meh, I thought it was kind of ok.

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Title: Random Nation Generator
Post by: GnomeWorks on October 13, 2009, 02:15:09 PM
Quote from: Caesar Slaad;337438The idea of the Aswang, a bloated ghoul like creature that might resemble a pregnant woman, might be featuring in an upcoming game of mine..

That's some serious nightmare fuel.