Update to Hommlet / 3d Printing post…
Michael / Chgowiz I finished printing out and assembling the first two rooms of the Moat-house dungeon, on Sunday night. This was just to get a feel of how things work and see…
Dungeon23 (Wk 14) – Different sorts of monsters
Another addition to my personal, locally-hosted Dungeon23 generator, I added the Random Esoteric Creature Generator tables to it. I think it’s time to give my players something else to think…
Hommlet and GaryCon 2024 – start of a new project – 3d dungeon!
I’m back into 3d-printing again. I’d tried it out in 2019, with an Ender 3. After a period of failure and frustration, I sold the printer. Inspired by a recent…
Dungeon23 (Wk 13) – Door mini-game
A very quick Dungeon23 update, as this has been a “roll and draw, roll and draw” sort of week. The only thing of note is thinking about a little mini-game…
Dungeon 23 (Wk 12) – A Wandering Encounter and First PC Death
On Thursday (3 Mar), I was setting down to draw the next day of rooms in my Dungeon, and realized that I’d not keyed a wandering monster chart for level…
Running an AD&D Imprisonment/Escape game
Classic scenario – PCs enter into a portal | board some sort of vehicle or mode of transportation | walk into a dark room and BAM – next thing they…
Dungeon 23 (Wk 11) – The Week Of Coding And Hacking Tools For Dungeon Stocking
This week, I finished mapping of Level 4 and began keying it. 64 rooms of descriptions and creation. For determining room types/contents/info, I’d been using yet-another-spreadsheet where I’d implemented some…
Domesday / Medieval Demographics for your Hex Map Descriptions
… or, how I became a mad scientist of spreadsheets and abulafia-style random generators! I’ve mentioned elsewhere about my project to convert my old hex/encounter generation system (using a spreadsheet)…
Dungeon 23 (Wk 10) – What is a diagonal 10′ section?
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but it is hard to draw on the diagonal! Using the 1st edition DMG Appendix A: Random Dungeon Generation, there are a number of…
Dungeon Master’s Handbook – Episode 49 – Decoding AD&D and Encoding GM preparation
I recently took up a project to convert my GM preparation tools to a web-based table generator system called Hex-Describe. What started as just taking spreadsheet tables to text tables…