2023-04-29 Write your own table-driven generator

The sun is about to set and I should make some apple pie. We bought apples from the farmer, which is weird since the apple trees are in bloom right now so these apples must be from storage.

A while ago I wrote about the generator I had created for Halberts, and how one could use it to write a different generator.

=> Halberts

You can look at it, download it, use it offline, and replace the tables with your own tables. – 2023-01-13 A stand-alone web page as a Generator

=> 2023-01-13 A stand-alone web page as a Generator

I’m still trying to enable people to write their own generators. Myrkheim is another one of these small, special purpose generators written in a single file containing all the HTML, CSS, Javascript and random table data that it needs. You can edit it with a text editor and open the file with a browser. You don’t have to host it anywhere. You can send it to your friends by email and it’ll work.

=> Myrkheim

In order to facilitate this, Myrkheim now has better help with interactive examples. Visit the page and click the “Help” button at the top.

=> https://campaignwiki.org/myrkheim

If you replace all the tables with the tables you really need, you can use the “List tables” button to list them all, and click them while running a game, I guess? Perhaps I should write an example of turning it all into a huge board with dozens of buttons, each one generating text like it generates the examples on the Help page. Might provider better usability at the gaming table?

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As for CSS: If you save the Myrheim file after generating a setting, you can get a PDF using weasyprint, for example:

weasyprint myrkheim-saved.html myrkheim-saved.pdf

– Alex 2023-04-29 18:57 UTC

If you’re not interested in Fantasy Traveller, you can replace the stats. Find the rules with stats (search for “Hits-”) and replace them with random stats for your preferred game system.

;nightling
1,HD [1|1+1|1-1] AC [2d2+3] [1d6|1d8] F1 MV [6|9|9|12] ML [6|7|8] XP 100

;dwarves
1,
[[dwarf name]@name][@name] and their followers ([5d8]) HD 1 AC 4 1d6 D1 MV 6 ML 8 XP 100
1,
[[dwarf name]@name][@name] and their followers ([5d8]) HD 1 AC 4 1d6 D1 MV 6 ML 8 XP 100; with a war bear (1) HD 4 AC 4 1d4/1d4/1d6 + hug F2 MV 12 ML 5 XP 400
4,
[[dwarf name]@name][@name] and their followers ([5d8]) HD 1 AC 4 1d6 D1 MV 6 ML 8 XP 100; with war bears ([1d4+1]) HD 4 AC 4 1d4/1d4/1d6 + hug F2 MV 12 ML 5 XP 400

;salamanders
1,
[salamander name] and their followers ([5d6]) HD [1|1+1|1-1] AC [2d2+3] [1d6|1d8] F1 MV [6|9|9|12] ML [6|7|8] XP 100

And so on…

– Alex 2023-04-29 21:02 UTC