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A few years ago I looked at this, have found it again, so here’s a start.
Not, many mess categories as you know, but here’s a plot from 2 that will fit on a screen.
Vermin and plants, some animals and common humanoids and your garden variety monstrous humanoids when you lump it at this very joined together level.
Kmodes method, just have to find where I put that part.
https://catshavenolord.itch.io/the-frog-supertable
I think I might borrow flying vampire frogs.
Now kangaroos can be twilight creatures, coming out when it is cooler, but when you get close enough to see the red eyes – it is too late!
Basically, a vampire that can jump as fast as your standard fanger can fly.
One of the strange monsters haunting the Mokuy skies. Likes the high places, but anywhere with bones to snack on.
Something like skeleton stats and eagle flight. Turn as skeletons.
AC,7,MV,12, Fl 30,HD,1-1,Thac0,20,3,NA,DM,1d4/1d4/1d4,SA,Special,SD,Special,SZ,M (4-6'),ML,,XP,100
1/2 damage from piercing weapons, etc.
I have started looking at adapting this for HexDescribe type reasons.
For example: – https://github.com/bluetyson/Map-Generation/blob/main/src/map.py
https://chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/ is working on a epic random generator for a campaign you can read about at his blog – using HexDescribe https://campaignwiki.org/hex-describe
You can see some examples here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8AZf2tBOtGYr5AEKis7_AZYpJ1_T18LFYp_mi_rikY/edit#gid=1019219400 and https://pastebin.com/raw/W9zgH3pN
Borrowing his business classifications for an example for the Map-Generation software:
The output for this program is GeoJSON, so thanks to QGIS – which is great open source software.
Randomly perturbed Voronoi generation seems to work well for the random wanderiness of towns or cities that spring up.
The original code has churches, monasteries and Cathedrals. Pretty sure our D&D type games don’t need that sort of building type overload.
As well as GeoJSON – it has a viewer script that is basically QTing a PNG, so your usual plt.savefig() before that will get you that version of the output, saved, too. Need to make one that is labelled – maybe a geopandas .
Converting this to perl directly would take a bit of work – no higher level geospatial apis like shapely around there, so would have to redo in gdal directly :- https://metacpan.org/pod/Geo::GDAL. Probably easier to wrap, for fun.
The wrinkle here is that my HexKit version was pointy topped hexes, not flat topped like TextMapper – but as a rough look to try and do more detailed things, ok. Will have to do another version later.
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Thanks to a post by Jens D https://the-disoriented-ranger.blogspot.com/2023/01/lots-of-ducks-no-row-and-gallery-of.html I noticed mention of a game being designed called the above, which sounds like fun.
Last month Marcia at Traverse Fantasy did some cluster analysis of OSR type rulesets.
People asked about where others fit in.
Idle thought is that with CC and other open licensed games – those that are adjacent you could slice up into the relevant sections – and randomly roll for each.
A function could even feed the classification into Marcia’s breakdown of rulesets as above to get ‘synthetic’ data for said clusters.
https://traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2022/12/osr-rules-families-faq-methodology.html
This is a LOT of quirks of bladed things!
Thanks to the AD&D Random Dungeon Generator I wrote https://github.com/bluetyson/ADnD1e-Random-Dungeon-Generator, I can parallelise, so doing this only takes less than a minute.
The basic random walk theory these talk is ‘Ahead’ is the y positive direction and always follow exits – e.g. stairs down (and can go up sometimes too).
The first 1000 dungeons I have done with 10 Periodic Checks as the DMG table calls them. e.g. a roll on the main table.
Here’s a summary :-
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kpZhtAO4cLtyLnh6bCCRVdigOL8jbjAFJ6CFyEZ2cX8/edit?usp=sharing
Here you can have the situation if you find an empy room it can have secret doors – beyond which are more rooms, which can have secret doors if empty – I have it so it follows that stack down, then goes back – e.g. Rooms are the interesting thing.
So with 10 checks, a couple of rooms is likely.
In fact, here are the medians for this batch of 1000:
monster_xp 0.0
wm_xp 0.0
monster_total 0.0
wm_total 0.0
traps 1.0
rooms 2.0
total_treasure_copper 0.0
total_treasure_silver 0.0
total_treasure_electrum 0.0
total_treasure_gold 0.0
total_treasure_platinum 0.0
total_treasure_gems 0.0
total_treasure_jewellery 0.0
total_treasure_magic 0.0
total_treasure_monster_copper 0.0
total_treasure_monster_silver 0.0
total_treasure_monster_electrum 0.0
total_treasure_monster_gold 0.0
total_treasure_monster_platinum 0.0
total_treasure_monster_gems 0.0
total_treasure_monster_jewellery 0.0
total_treasure_monster_magic 0.0
wm_total_treasure_copper 0.0
wm_total_treasure_silver 0.0
wm_total_treasure_electrum 0.0
wm_total_treasure_gold 0.0
wm_total_treasure_platinum 0.0
wm_total_treasure_gems 0.0
wm_total_treasure_jewellery 0.0
wm_total_treasure_magic 0.0
Coins 11.0
Gems 0.0
Jewellery 0.0
Magic 0.0
Total Gold Equivalent 21.5
x 13.0
y 16.0
z 1.0Median room size is 13 by 16 – y dimensions are likely to be bigger.
So if we call a median room an exemplar, let’s have a look:
Selecting all the 13 by 16 the medians:
monster_xp 0.0
wm_xp 19.0
monster_total 0.0
wm_total 0.5
traps 0.0
rooms 3.5
total_treasure_copper 0.0
total_treasure_silver 0.0
total_treasure_electrum 0.0
total_treasure_gold 0.0
total_treasure_platinum 0.0
total_treasure_gems 0.0
total_treasure_jewellery 0.0
total_treasure_magic 0.0
total_treasure_monster_copper 0.0
total_treasure_monster_silver 0.0
total_treasure_monster_electrum 0.0
total_treasure_monster_gold 0.0
total_treasure_monster_platinum 0.0
total_treasure_monster_gems 0.0
total_treasure_monster_jewellery 0.0
total_treasure_monster_magic 0.0
wm_total_treasure_copper 0.0
wm_total_treasure_silver 0.0
wm_total_treasure_electrum 0.0
wm_total_treasure_gold 0.0
wm_total_treasure_platinum 0.0
wm_total_treasure_gems 0.0
wm_total_treasure_jewellery 0.0
wm_total_treasure_magic 0.0
Coins 60.0
Gems 0.0
Jewellery 0.0
Magic 0.0
Total Gold Equivalent 60.0
x 13.0
y 16.0
z 2.0
Periodic Checks 10.0So these are therefore likely to have an exit to level 2 – [z = 2]
The distribution of area of the Dungeons:
Here are the individual stats for the Dungeons:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rbTE5-d4ju9nuQC57Dt8rCNPvuNbW3VR-JA7iAMqyvc/edit?usp=sharing
This is in Lua, project looks like it is for making add-ons for Fantasy Grounds?
https://github.com/CelestianGC/AD-D-Core-1e/blob/master/scripts/data_common_adnd1e.lua