Generic Dungeon Generator has been specially designed to create your own random Tunnels & Trolls dungeon, but it could be used for any Fantasy RPG. All you have to do is just follow the instructions at the end of each section to determine which table to consult next. After a few minutes, it should all become self-explanatory. As you design your dungeon, map it out. If you roll up something that doesn't fit the existing dungeon structure, you will have two options. You can either ignore the new result, or re-roll. Some items within require judgment calls; just come up with whatever strikes your fancy at the time. The creature encounters are based around an assumption that FOUR 1st-level characters will be delving into the dungeon on the 1st level. If you have more or fewer characters, you will want to adjust the creature encounters appropriately. Also added to this book are two articles on writing and creating your own solos and a bonus short story about a Troll.
This supplement features an immense Gygaxian OSR random dungeon generator system, crammed into 83 pages. It's focused on empowering you to create the sprawling level 1 of any mega-dungeon, or any smaller dungeon set to challenge adventurers of experience levels 1 to 3. The challenge levels of the monsters, traps, tricks, and treasures all reflect that difficulty level. You can use this book to design any number of dungeons, and if your group is patient you can even use it during play. You will also find some experimental solitaire rules here, if you like to practice the dungeon crawling yourself! This book's systems interlock with the Classic Dungeon Design Guide series (CDDG1-3) as well as the Book of Dungeon Traps (BDT1) if you want to add more detail to any aspect of the design. The system is comprised of many branching D100 and D1000 tables. Sub-systems are provided to generate: [1] starting areas, [2] random doorways, [3] corridors, [4] dead ends, [5] level connectors (stairs etc.), [6] unusual level connectors (teleporters, slides, etc.), [7] monster lairs, [8] monster-guarded treasures, [9] room size and dimensions, [10] room exits, [11] unusual doors, [12] room contents (lair, trap, trick, etc.), [13] side passages, [14] traps, [15] tricks (a full 17-page system with millions of potential results), and [16] unguarded treasure hoards. At the end you'll find an Appendix with troubleshooting and solitaire advice, and a quick reference hyperlink section which will allow you to flip through the tables quickly. From Kent David Kelly and Wonderland Imprints, Only the Finest Works of Fantasy.
You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time, less energy, and have a better game as a result?It's time to unleash the Lazy Dungeon Master.Written in the style of Sly Flourish's Dungeon Master Tips and Running Epic Tier D&D Games, The Lazy Dungeon Master shows a new approach to game preparation, one that takes less time and gives your game the freedom to grow at the table. This book will help dungeon master prepare awesome games for any version of D&D.Based on the real-world experiences of hundreds of dungeon masters and dozens of professional game designers, the Lazy Dungeon Master includes interviews with veteran D&D DMs and a complete toolkit to help you improvise an entire game.Whether you play 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Pathfinder, or the D&D Next playtest; The Lazy Dungeon Master has tips, techniques, and advice to make preparation easier and help you run a flexible and entertaining game.
This book presents the most up-to-date coverage of procedural content generation (PCG) for games, specifically the procedural generation of levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests, or other types of content. Each chapter explains an algorithm type or domain, including fractal methods, grammar-based methods, search-based and evolutionary methods, constraint-based methods, and narrative, terrain, and dungeon generation. The authors are active academic researchers and game developers, and the book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students of courses on games and creativity; game developers who want to learn new methods for content generation; and researchers in related areas of artificial intelligence and computational intelligence.
New items found within Dungeonier Digest are; From the Editor's Desk, T&T Monster Creations, The Depths of Kerak-Ban (a 7th Edition T&T GM adventure), Black Dwarf-Artist Profile, Deathtrap Equalizer Dungeon (a classic review), New Khazan: Sci-Fan T&T Setting, Milosh-Turns 4, 5 and 6 (a T&T play-by-turn game), Tunnels & Trolls (a classic review), Mistywood Forest (a short story), The Way of the Dwarf, Generic Dungeon Generator, Warstorm: Rules, Mutants & Robots, and the fan favorite Campaign Rumors & News. This is one action-packed issue.
Wolf-haunted wastelands of frigid tundra, Veiling lost cities sunken and frozen into the ice ... Mist-wreathed mountains teeming with orcs, Goblins, demons and dwarven underworlds ... Burning battlefields, reigned over By imperious and ancient dragons ... Steaming jungles, filled with headhunters And savage apes, guardians to ancient temples Filled with accursed gold ... These are the realms of old school fantasy role-playing, the world of your imagination. This world is a dark and wondrous place, an endless milieu teeming with danger, intrigue, exotic wonders, epic quests, and the bold heroes and villains who dare to conquer all. And you, as the Game Master, are tasked with creating those kingdoms from scratch. It is your mission to forge an entire alternate universe filled with infinite possibilities, a world which your friends and fellow role-players can explore for years to come. But how do you create a world? How do you even begin? The CASTLE OLDSKULL GAME WORLD GENERATOR is the only guide specifically and solely designed to assist you in creating an entire old school fantasy world. This is no "It is time for you to take the world into your own hands, and no one but you can decide what to include" copout dodge which demands everything of you and gives you nothing. This is a 430+ page step-by-step guide, from blank hex paper to the fully-realized game world, which explains the entire process to you in granular detail. Even better, this book is filled with dozens of helpful graphics which illustrate the entire mapping process. If you love lost worlds like Dave Arneson's Blackmoor, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom and Pellucidar, Gary Gygax's Flanaess, Robert E. Howard's Cimmeria and Hyboria, Fritz Leiber's Nehwon, H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands, Michael Moorcock's Melnibone and J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, then this is the book for you! Highlights include: world conception, mapping, scale, landforms, terrain, kingdoms and fiefs, wilderness design, feudal realms and foreign equivalents, city and wilderness names, treasures and resources, hierarchies of nobility, ruler classes and levels, realm alignment, campaign-tailored population formulae, demi-human enclaves, humanoid tribes, starting area development, dragon lair placement, dungeon placement and much more. Everything you need to turn your ideas into a solid, coherent and adventure-filled world is right here at your fingertips. The GAME WORLD GENERATOR is brought to you by Kent David Kelly of Wonderland Imprints, a role-player and Game Master with over 30 years of play experience. Best of all, if there are any other materials you would like to see relating to world or dungeon design, feel free to contact the author. I create the supplements that Game Masters want. Many more CASTLE OLDSKULL supplements are being prepared specifically to support the players, initiates and Game Masters of the Old School Revival (OSR). This book is your gateway to the realms of sword and sorcery. Join us for the adventure! (A complete reference work designed to supplement existing pen-and-paper Fantasy Role-Playing Games. 3 parts, over 100 section topics, 42,000 words, over 430 pages; organized via a fully hyperlinked table of contents. Just one of the proud creations available now from Wonderland Imprints - Only the Finest Works of Fantasy.)
"Dungeon Dealer's decks [are] a quintessential supplement to tabletop roleplaying." Easy Roller Dice. Adapted from the Dungeon Dealer card decks for 5e and other systems. Create unlimited random dungeons with this easy to use book. Each page has a unique 5x5" dungeon tile that you can draw as well as D20 hallway sections to join tiles when you need to. Using the key, you choose the shape of the rooms (square, circle, pentagon, rectangle, or oval) or randomize it using 1D4. D20 larger chambers mix up the room size and open the map up for boss encounters. This open system allows you to add or subtract elements you might not need. This is a system-neutral map generator that will never make the same map twice. It uses the classic playing card deck "52 factorial" which is really a super sized "140 factorial" when you add all the variables inside the book + the variable orientation of the map sections + variable shape rooms. Didn't prep the night before? This is great for live map makingIf you're running a campaign and need a map on the fly, you can create rooms, hallways, and chambers as your party explores. If a PC enters a chamber and an enemy marker is facing them in the doorway, they have been surprised by that enemy. Pits can send PCs or NPCs down a level into a new randomly generated floor of the dungeon. As the Game Master, you will constantly be surprised by the outcomes.
Dungeonier Digest has grown into a very large issue. New items found within it are From the Editor's Desk, T&T Monster Creations, The Depths of Kerak-Ban (a 7th Edition T&T GM adventure), Black Dwarf-Artist Profile, Deathtrap Equalizer Dungeon (a classic review), New Khazan: Sci-Fan T&T Setting, Milosh-Turns 4, 5 and 6 (a T&T play-by-turn game), T&T (a classic review), Mistywood Forest (a short story), The Way of the Dwarf, Generic Dungeon Generator, Warstorm: Rules, Mutants & Robots, and the fan favorite Campaign Rumors & News. This is one action-packed issue that you must own. Why not buy it right now? This zine is based on 6th edition T&T which I hold the Library of Congress copyright on [Registration Number / Date: TX0007608148 / 2012-10-12].
Harness the power of procedural content generation to design unique games with Unity About This Book Learn the basics of PCG development Develop a 2D game from start to finish Explore all the different ways PCG can be applied in games Who This Book Is For This book is for Unity game developers, especially those who work on indie games. You should be familiar with Unity and C# scripting but you'll be able to jump in and start learning PCG straightaway. What You Will Learn Understand the theory of Procedural Content Generation Learn the uses of Pseudo Random Numbers Create reusable algorithm designs for PCG Evaluate the data structures for PCG Develop smaller games with larger amounts of content Generate content instead of spending time designing every minute detail Learn when and how to add PCG to your game Learn the fundamental techniques of PCG In Detail Procedural Content Generation is a process by which game content is developed using computer algorithms, rather than through the manual efforts of game developers. This book teaches readers how to develop algorithms for procedural generation that they can use in their own games. These concepts are put into practice using C# and Unity is used as the game development engine. This book provides the fundamentals of learning and continued learning using PCG. You'll discover the theory of PCG and the mighty Pseudo Random Number Generator. Random numbers such as die rolls and card drafting provide the chance factor that makes games fun and supplies spontaneity. This book also takes you through the full development of a 2D game. Starting with level generation, you'll learn how PCG can make the game environment for you. You'll move into item generation and learn the different techniques to procedurally create game items. Thereafter, you'll be guided through the more abstract PCG areas such as scaling difficulty to the player and even generating music! The book helps you set up systems within your games where algorithms create computationally generated levels, art assets, quests, stories, characters, and weapons; these can substantially reduce the burden of manually creating every aspect of the game. Finally, you'll get to try out your new PCG skills on 3D terrain generation. Style and approach An easy-to-follow, project-based guide that will let you build a complete game by the end of the book using PCG.
