Dungeon 23 (Wk 12) – A Wandering Encounter and First PC Death
Michael / Chgowiz 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…
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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…
Dungeon23 (Wk 8 and 9) – Still here, still creating a megadungeon!
I’m changing the format of my weekly catchups. I don’t think the day-by-day will always work, especially if I’m doing basic things or or just plugging away. I want build…
Player contributed lore to an AD&D campaign
One of the neat/cool things about Ben Robbin’s West Marches game was that players would share info w/each other. To me, that was a really cool thing that I wanted…
An example of using ChatGPT to create hex map descriptions
(Skip down to the jump break if you want to get to the actual ChatGPT chat/response bit.) Update below as well (11am CST 2/8/23) AIs (or, more correctly I think,…
Dungeon 23 – Players Journals from Session 2 – Burning Beds and Getting into Trouble!
Entry #2 Here I am again. Ur, standing in the doorway of the pool room, contemplating a swim. But before I could do anything, Loverboy and Bora and the Richman’s…