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[TSR-era D&D] Random Generators

Started by winkingbishop, September 09, 2010, 10:27:42 PM

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winkingbishop

This is a request made in good faith, I hope.  I realize there are specialized sites and fora for this sort of thing; Honestly, I feel it would be a disservice to that community to create an account and make a single post there in place of me asking the folks here.

I have a nice library of 3.x generators for any given situation.  But I'm brainstorming a D&D campaign in the Basic/BECMI family and may build up from Labyrinth Lord with some custom combat maneuvers, magic system, and critical tables.

What I am looking for are digital assistants for TSR-era D&D games.  Things in the Basic/BECMI tree would be preferred but I adjustments could always be made.  Some specific tools I am looking for:

  • Treasure generators
  • Wandering monster generators
  • Wilderness encounter generators
  • Trap generators
  • NPC generators

I have a short list of dungeon generators, but if you have a resource that includes the above, feel free to let me know.

Thanks.
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GameDaddy

Hrrrmmmm??? Ah yes... You can have my Caves and Caverns Generator PDF. It's a handy little set of tables for generating a spelunking or cavern exploration adventure... It's hosted over on Dragonsfoot!

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/files/pdf/Caverns.pdf

3300 Downloads+        

Woot!
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winkingbishop

Quote from: GameDaddy;403898Hrrrmmmm??? Ah yes... You can have my Caves and Caverns Generator PDF. It's a handy little set of tables for generating a spelunking or cavern exploration adventure... It's hosted over on Dragonsfoot!

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/files/pdf/Caverns.pdf

3300 Downloads+        

Woot!

I can say with 100% certainty that I do not have one of these.  Thanks GameDaddy.  Consider it saved.  :)
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Narf the Mouse

Quote from: GameDaddy;403898Hrrrmmmm??? Ah yes... You can have my Caves and Caverns Generator PDF. It's a handy little set of tables for generating a spelunking or cavern exploration adventure... It's hosted over on Dragonsfoot!

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/files/pdf/Caverns.pdf

3300 Downloads+        

Woot!
3301 Downloads+ :) Awesome.
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winkingbishop

I should also note: If the tool rolls several of my wishes into one thing, that's cool too.  I'm not a robot.  I can adapt.  

Example: Dizzydragon's Adventure Generator! certainly fits the bill here.  And then some.  It pulls dungeon dressing from AD&D DMG but you can choose encounters from d20, D&D Basic and you get a dungeon generator to boot.

Mind, I don't need anything this fancy.  I'm looking for any digital tools for D&D in the TSR era.  Highest priority goes to the Basic family of games, but I sure wouldn't shrug away anything for AD&D.
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Cole

Quote from: winkingbishop;404025I should also note: If the tool rolls several of my wishes into one thing, that's cool too.  I'm not a robot.  I can adapt.  

Example: Dizzydragon's Adventure Generator! certainly fits the bill here.  And then some.  It pulls dungeon dressing from AD&D DMG but you can choose encounters from d20, D&D Basic and you get a dungeon generator to boot.

Mind, I don't need anything this fancy.  I'm looking for any digital tools for D&D in the TSR era.  Highest priority goes to the Basic family of games, but I sure wouldn't shrug away anything for AD&D.

That's a great site - I am a big fan of geomorphs so I like the map generator it uses.

Age of Fable, the poster here, has this :

http://www.apolitical.info/webgame/dungeon/

Which I like a lot. I hope there ends up being an expanded version that incorporated more stuff from the Tables for Fables

(http://www.apolitical.info/webgame/tables)
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winkingbishop

Quote from: Cole;404027...

Age of Fable, the poster here, has this :

http://www.apolitical.info/webgame/dungeon/

Which I like a lot. I hope there ends up being an expanded version that incorporated more stuff from the Tables for Fables

(http://www.apolitical.info/webgame/tables)

Yeah.  Wow, that's pretty fly.  Pretty much on the order of the sort of thing I'm looking for.  1000 pieces of gold to you and Age of Fable for the link.  I won't consider the thread "closed" because I would like to build a library of similar resources, but this is great.  Thanks.

Quick question from the lazy/hastened reader: Do you or the website have some suggestions for printing the generated dungeon layouts or overland maps (yeah, I looked at the campaign world generator too :) )?  I don't have a lot of time just now, but my initial test with saving a snap from the dungeon and campaign layout went... well, poorly.
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Cole

Quote from: winkingbishop;404031Yeah.  Wow, that's pretty fly.  Pretty much on the order of the sort of thing I'm looking for.  1000 pieces of gold to you and Age of Fable for the link.  I won't consider the thread "closed" because I would like to build a library of similar resources, but this is great.  Thanks.

Quick question from the lazy/hastened reader: Do you or the website have some suggestions for printing the generated dungeon layouts or overland maps (yeah, I looked at the campaign world generator too :) )?  I don't have a lot of time just now, but my initial test with saving a snap from the dungeon and campaign layout went... well, poorly.

Do you attend a university, or live near one?
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mhensley

Here's my OD&D random dungeon generator-

http://www.hackslash.net/?page_id=437

It rolls from the tables given in SR #1.


winkingbishop

Quote from: Cole;404034Do you attend a university, or live near one?

Yes.
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winkingbishop

Quote from: mhensley;404036Here's my OD&D random dungeon generator-

http://www.hackslash.net/?page_id=437

It rolls from the tables given in SR #1.

Quote from: isomage;404273Wilderness hex maps

Cave maps

Random dungeon dressings (from the AD&D DMG)

Random harlots (similarly)

Thanks guys!
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thedungeondelver

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Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Cole

Quote from: winkingbishop;404289Yes.

Have you asked the librarians there, or the staff in any of the fine arts programs? They might have a larger scale plotter to use at some kind of discounted rate that you could print maps and such with....
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winkingbishop

Quote from: thedungeondelver;404297The Dungeon Masters Assistant Vol. 1 Encounters can handle the monsters; Vol. II, Characters & Treasures can do...well...the treasures!

Hah! You would bring these up.  The sad thing is, I think I have one or both of these in the abyss of my parents' basement somewhere.  I'm tempted to go play archeologist but I don't even know if I could get them to run.  Do you still use them and, if so, were you able to run them in comparability mode or did you have to start running an emulator?
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