Thursday, March 7, 2024

Setting Seed Generator (Cairn 2e WIP)

Yochai Gal recently pointed me to a tool he has been working on for the warden's guide of Cairn 2e. It's a procedure for generating a setting using a combination of dice-drops and d20 tables. I noticed that I could repurpose a lot of his tables to brainstorm regions in the country-as-dungeon adventures I've been playing around with, so with his permission I made an automating tool to do a lot of the rolling for you. 

In fairness I should note that I used an early WIP of Gal's tables, so they might lack the glimmer of his later improvements. I tried to keep tweaks to a minimum, but I did go ham with some synonyms for different kinds of terrain, and I inserted a nonsense word generator for some of the names. As usual, I prioritized novelty in naming over elegance. Don't blame him if your region has a name like "Colorful Cuu" or "Ummo Rag."

Gal's original procedure asks you to make tweaks as you go, according to your taste. Please do not let the fact that my generator spits out a complete list discourage you from doing likewise.

Made with Spwack's wonderful list-to-html generator.




I trust you to decide how to connect the locations, by what paths, and including what sorts of water features and weather.

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