Wow, I just followed a link from another thread to Lilith's DM Tools website. http://www.dmtools.org/
Awesome. I love these sorts of generators.
I create these all the time, but as dice-roll charts and tables. Anything from trade resources to combat actions to things found in NPC's pockets.
I have MANY of these. However I only have them as dice charts. Lilith, maybe we can forge a partnership here where you convert some of my charts into generators for the net.
Couple of questions for you all:
1. How many have seen Lilith's site?
2. How many of you use it?
3. What do you use the most?
4. What do you like best?
5. What other generators would you like to see?
(I also have embarked upon large docs for creating NPCs for our campaign world and am currently working on a massive doc for creating a realm, be it a forest, city or empire)
Anyway I have some GM Tools at d20zines: http://www.d20zines.com/v7/taxonomy/term/7
Please check them out. Comments, ideas, suggestions, welcome.
Lilith, if you don't mind I wish to include a link to your tools site on our campaign website. Awesome. I LOVE how you use monsters etc from MANY places, including non OGC, just with a reference to where it is.
That is the best part for me. That is essentially why I do the charts - to gather all the items from various sources in one place and giving them a chance to appear.
That is exactly what I did with my last GM Perspective article regarding races. It includes massive charts for population a realm.
Lets make this a useful DM thread and gather some of the best charts, ideas under the one banner.
Cheers all, Connors
I use her site mostly as a research tool. If one wants to know which book something can be located in her site will almost certianly have that.
I use her site mostly as a research tool. If one wnats to know which book something can be located in her site will almost certianly have that.
Yeah, I really like that aspect of the site too. I often type out lists of where things are: PrCs, Diseases, etc.
I will certainly be making more use of this site from now on. :)
I have MANY of these. However I only have them as dice charts. Lilith, maybe we can forge a partnership here where you convert some of my charts into generators for the net.
Sounds like fun, what do you have in mind? :)
Lilith, if you don't mind I wish to include a link to your tools site on our campaign website.
Go right ahead - the more people find it and find it useful, the better the site will be (due to feedback, of course).
I am and have been for a long time a member of Lilith's site, am pretty sure I jumped on when she announced it opening; she is just totally awesome in all regards, but even though I have perused the generators for fun, I have not used them yet. Typically I custom generate most of my npc's; but since I am making up an entire area and need a great many npc's, i thought i would skip over and generate a few and see how it goes.
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Couple of questions for you all:
1. How many have seen Lilith's site?
2. How many of you use it?
3. What do you use the most?
4. What do you like best?
5. What other generators would you like to see?
1. Quite a few, but not nearly enough.
2. I use it all the time.
3. I love the stat blocks and have used them for campaign planning and for those times when the party goes left.
4. The stat blocks.
5. I don't mess much with the generators, but they are among the best I've seen.
On a side note, Moff has a couple wicked spreadsheets for all the critters and all the spells. They are certainly useful and definately worth checking out.
Sounds like fun, what do you have in mind? :)
Well I have created charts for GM's Perspective at d20zines.com inc:
A. Major and minor races (& Int beings) to populate regions of world.
B. Useless Miscellaneous Paraphernalia - items in pockets ;)
C. Ideas for slightly adjusting random encounters (inc what random encounters are doing at time they are met).
D. Random combat actions
E. Community traits (actually working on very large doc to create, populate and run a kingdom like a character at this very moment).
F. Resources & trade goods
G. Ideas for generating set encounters
These are on d20zines.com and I think they have rights for 1 year, but some would have been there for a year+. Will look into it.
I also have a huge doc for creating NPC's covering everything, but it seems you have that covered. Maybe some extra NPC traits might fit in from one of those charts ;) I also have tastes (likes/hates/fears etc) for those NPCs
On a side note: you can give greater chance to some results can't you? I mean when rolling a major race for a kingdom, humans have a much greater chance of appearing than say, whisper gnomes ;)
Other charts I have created inc:
A. Summoning monster charts (without stats)
B. Critical charts inc for spells (we have a spell roll on our world)
C. Have gathered many WotC + Malhavoc Press classes inc substitution levels, class optiona and variants all in one place.
D. Massive Spell lists, simply divided into divine and arcane (maybe not that useful for straight dnd - we use a style similar to Arcana Evolved with two lists seperated into Simple, Complex & Exotic.
With my large realm generation in the works I will no doubt modify some charts I have and create new ones. One in the works is random customs.
I just love randomness. Yeah you can sit down and create a realm, or NPC, but I LOVE the idea of throwing in some randomness. I even do this for realms or NPCs already created. (And yes, as others have stated, this is often to actually make them more appropriate to home CS, such as adding Regional feats).
I also like to be able to use ALL those wonderful ideas already out there without scanning through every book every time I want to generate something. Hence most of my charts are not details, merely referring one to the original source.
For eg on the Random Enc Idea chart you may roll that the random enc has a disease. This will be followed with references to all the sources I own that have diseases in them. (Much like I noticed with your encounter charts - not creature stats, but refs to where they are detailed :)).
I still need to have a good look around you site, but so far I am loving it. I actually think I had it bookmarked on my old PC (a link from Enworld maybe?, but never really looked at it). Well now I WILL be using it.