When I launched my free web-based city map generator, one of the big caveats (and planned updates) was that a less ordered road network was needed.  I’ve fast-tracked that as best I could, and so now two of the main …

100s of 1000s of City Maps Read more »

Another project I’ve been working on is a superhero generator using the Icons rules.  (Of course my other bigger projects are linked in the sidebar including a random inn generator (which does floorplans, menus, rumors, and staff & patrons); a …

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My Random Inn Generator already did a hopefully decent job of generating floorplans and menus.  But in the past couple of days, I’ve made some major upgrades to the Random Inn/Tavern Generator. I’ve added a random rumor generator and a …

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Despite going off on tangents like the Random Dungeon Generator project or writing here, progress on Dungeonographer (dungeon mapping software) continues.  A video clip demo has been posted to the Dungeonographer site.  Keep in mind the software is still pre-alpha, …

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If you’ve determined that a given hex has some “Ruins” the following chart will give you some ideas of what those ruins may have in store. You may want to roll/pick multiple options from the last column: Roll The Ruins …

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Despite going off on tangents like the Random Dungeon Generator project or writing here, progress on Dungeonographer (dungeon mapping software) continues.  A video clip demo has been posted to the Dungeonographer site.  Keep in mind the software is still pre-alpha, …

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About a week ago I unveiled my own tile-based random dungeon generator.  Now one of the promised improvements is ready: cavern tiles.  They are still a little simplistic (I’ll be adding more variety) but one of the nice things about …

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It has been a pretty big week here.  There was an update about Dungeonographer (dungeon mapping software) on Tuesday.  Yesterday a whole new wilderness icon set done by Kevin Chenevert/RedKobold was posted. Now there is a new tile-based random dungeon …

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Alpha testing of Dungeonographer is a little less than month away (I hope, life schedule and other projects permitting) but I want to share a couple of the special features of Dungeonographer via samples. One-Page-Dungeon Wizard The first sample is …

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Lately I’ve been thinking about dungeon geomorphs.  Hack/ has a great tile geomorph based dungeon generator.  A few other writers have been posting new geomorph tiles in other styles and have been posting interesting ways to use them. I’ve long …

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