No one else was able to find the source of this power, and Muad’Dib was the only one who knew the secrets of the universe.
—’Muad’Dib: The God King of Arrakis’ by the Princess Irulan
AI: The Lost Irulan
He is not a philosopher nor a scholar, nor a poet. He is not a warrior nor a lover, nor a man of science. He is a poet of the earth, of the stars, of the cosmos, of the universe, the lord of all the world. He is justness without and justice within.
—’Muad’Dib: The God King of Arrakis’ by the Princess Irulan
Wilderness Simulator Stats – Python
I took the java version from https://cosmicheroes.space/blog/index.php/2021/12/27/wilderness-simulator-stats/
and converted to python – there’s a jupyter notebook here:-
WildernessEncounterSim – Jupyter Notebook
AI: The Lost Irulan
He is a ruler who governs himself, never needing to ask anyone’s permission.
—from ‘Arrakis Awakening’ by the Princess Irulan
Hexagonal Grids
When looking at Arena and Wilderness Encounters and for h in hexes, you start wondering about things like this:-
https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
So thanks very much to redblobgames!
Wilderness Simulator Stats
https://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2021/12/wilderness-simulator-stats.html
https://github.com/danielrcollins1/WildernessEncounterSim
“One more reflection on the Original D&D wilderness encounter charts. Last week we were using some tabulated charts to decide between two possible rules interpretations, and one was clearly much nicer. But that was based on just looking at the average EHD (Equivalent Hit Dice) for each encounter type, which is maybe a little sketchy. Since I’m obsessive about these things, I wrote a simulator program that actually rolls up the individual encounters (varying the number appearing by psuedo-random dice), and I had it spit out a thousand random encounters for each terrain type.”
This all looks like pretty reasonable results to me!
Arena
https://github.com/danielrcollins1/Arena
Looking forward to giving this a shot [with hopefully minimal swearing at java]
ARENA – Java Package for Simulating Original D&D Combat
This code package provides routines for simulating combat in a tabletop Fantasy Role-Playing Game (FRPG) similar to Original D&D or closely-related games. Combat is done as per “theater of the mind” without tracking exact spatial locations; targets of attacks are chosen by random method (as per 1E AD&D DMG). In most cases, the intent here is to output aggregate statistics based on many trials of the game between men and monsters. This package provides only command-line, text output; there are no graphics or visualizations, and generally few options for output regarding individual combats.
For a precompiled JAR executable made from this package, and full JavaDoc pages, visit:
Hex Mapping
A very cool collection of resources to make maps and add randomly generated content to them :- https://github.com/kensanata/hex-mapping
Also for Traveller.
Possibly holidays could disappear here:…
This and Alex’s other game stuff can be found here:
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/RPG
Which can lead you down this enjoyable rabbit hole:
https://cosmicheroes.space/blog/index.php/2019/01/30/old-school-rpg-planet/
AI: The Lost Irulan
It was by such a fate as this that Muad’Dib met his own destiny. There was no opportunity to prevent this, no chance to save himself. The fall of a statue is an apt metaphor for the fall of a human spirit in his case. When we look at it, do we see a great mountain? Or perhaps a vast and chaotic chasm? Or a small, but solid, mass of stone?
—from ‘Songs of Muad’Dib’ by the Princess Irulan
AI: The Lost Irulan
He is an emperor like none who ever held power, a wise man to whom others are but a servant, a king of truth and a leader of power. He is not a warrior, but a wizard.
—’Muad’Dib: The God King of Arrakis’ by the Princess Irulan