2019-10-09 Ten random dungeons generated

With the random tables of J. Alan Henning and ktrey parker and Text Mapper with the *Gridmapper* algorithm (which knows how to create five room and seven room dungeons), and Face Generator, we have a funny little thing, now:

There are probably a gazillion things we could still add, but it’s already interesting. 🙂

#RPG #Old School #Text Mapper #Face Generator

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I like it! Looks very usable, especially with the yellow highlighting.

– Jensan 2019-10-09 12:09 UTC

Jensan

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Thanks! Now that I look at the maps a bit closer I see that many of them are repeats. I need to think about the random number seed a bit more. I fear it’s simply taking the current time and passing it off to the mapp generator, which thus gets the same seed for every map. That’s not cool.

– Alex Schroeder 2019-10-09 13:50 UTC

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This is killer Alex

– froth 2019-10-15 18:54 UTC

froth

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Heh, all thanks to ktrey parker and J. Alan Henning who pushed me towards it because I was quite skeptical, *and* they wrote the random tables for it. Beautiful!

– Alex Schroeder 2019-10-15 20:36 UTC

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This is another amazing resource for randomness – thank you. I use Hex Describe quite a bit to generate random entries for my D&D wilderness treks (using tables I have created from mash ups of existing material/adventures and my own mind) and am wondering how I would add in a chance of generating one of these dungeons? I’ve done a quick search of your wiki, the source file and can’t see anything specific – is it possible?

– VickyR 2020-01-07 20:27 UTC

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It depends on what you want. If you’re already writing your own random tables, then it’s easy to simply add `[dungeon]` and it’ll add one to your entry.

the dungeon table (the tables below that show how the images with the maps are included)
the forest-hill table (the last entry uses the `[dungeon]` table)

dungeon

forest-hill

– Alex Schroeder 2020-01-07 20:59 UTC

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Thanks for this. Looking through the tables it’s an amazing piece of work by you and ktrey parker and J. Alan Henning. Much more complex that I usually create, but full of interesting ways of using code you’ve written. Thanks again.

– VickyR 2020-01-09 06:44 UTC

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Thanks. 🙂

– Alex Schroeder 2020-01-09 06:48 UTC