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#hexdescribe

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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

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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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

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.

Screenshot from a fantasy RPG treasure generator, showing some functionality I added to call a different generator to get additional information.
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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

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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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

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

A screenshot of a webpage for running Hex Describe. The page shows a setup for using the Etinerra campaign random tables that the author of the picture has created. The text on the page says: Hex Describe This tool generates mini-setting books: a hundred pages or more of descriptions for a map based on random tables. The following links automatically load a map and pick a matching table: Smale mini-setting; Alpine mini-setting; Apocalypse mini-setting; Traveller subsector. You can write the hex map descriptions yourself, but it's often quicker to generate one using Text Mapper and modify it until you're happy, then copy and paste the map into the text area below, pick an appropriate random table and submit it. For a quick demonstration, the following links will Ioad map data from Text Mapper into the text area below: random Smale data; random Alpine data; random Apocalypse data; random Traveller daa. Finally, you can also explore the rules of the various tables interactively, and use the tables with no map. The data used to generate the hex descriptions says: 0101 forest-hex 0201 plains-hex 0301 plains-hex road 0401 hills-hex 0501 wildmountains-hex
The image is a screenshot of text generated by the hex-describe tool using the Etinerra campaign tables. There is far too much text to detect using a tool, unfortunately. It's unable to read accurately from the image. The text describes two hexes. One has a major encounter of a strange woods that has a unique divine energy. It also has a minor encounter of a false treasure rumor. The second hex has a major encounter of a treasury ruins with a valuable treasure hidden within, inhabited by a mage named Arie.. A large spider lurks outside and there's a dungeon with 3 levels. The hex also has a minor encounter of a valuable commodity.
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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

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!)

A screenshot of randomly table generated text for a palace ruin. It reads; 0101: Ruins of a palace: The ruin was most likely caused by the inhabitants abandoning it for some unknown reason. The ruin's current condition is: moldy, crumbling unsafe walls and disease-ridden, due to the ‘water. Area contents This is the ruins of an imperial palace stands tall and imposing against the horizon. It is fortified with a wall around it and the impressive gatehouse’s wood gates are still securely locked. There are 3 floors in each wing of the palace. There are 10 buildings to the right side of the palace, spread across 1 areas. Surrounding palace areas (1): 1- Palace (3 floors, 3 wings): 1. Giant Snake (Poison) Num: 1 (HD:4+2 AC:5 Mv:15 Sp MMS88) 2600gp, 1 Jewelry - 5000gp each (contained in: stone containers) 2. Bugbears Num: 6 (HD:3+1 AC:5 Mv:9 Sp MM12) 3. Wolf Num: 2 (HD:2+2 AC:7 Mv:18 MM101) 4.- 5. Large Spider Num: 6 (HD:1+1 AC:8 Mv:6/15* Sp MM90) 2500z, 6000sp (contained in: stone containers) 6.- 7.- 8. Bandits Num: 10 (HD:1d6 AC:4-8 Mv:12-18 MM66) 1400gp. 7000sp (contained in: stone containers) 9.- Main inhabitants 1. Goblin Lair: num: 162 foot (HD:1-1 AC:6 Mv:6); 18 mounted (HD:1-1 AC:6 Mv:6) on worgs, plus 40 riderless worgs (HD:4+4 AC:6 Mv:18 MM101); 4 Idrs, 16 assts. (HD:1 hp:7 AC:6 Mv:9); goblin chief and 4 guards (HD:2 hp:11 AC:4 dmg:2d4); 108 females and 180 young; 2 gems (10gp ea.). (contained in:stone containers, guarded/hidden by:contact poison on treastre)
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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

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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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

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.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

Google DocsGenerate Domesday lookup table text for Hex-DescribeREAD--ME--FIRST What is this: A spreadsheet that takes the numbers provided by S. John Ross in his "Medieval Demographics Made Easy" and provides formatted text. This text is then put into a text file for use in Alex Schroeder's Hex-Describe tool - a random generator that uses tables to gener...
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