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One Page Dungeon

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> A villager. Wants to pay you to get rid of a mysterious, sticky to touch book.

Behold! The legendary Book of Shame!

Clearly it contains alchemists' lost secrets to creating slimes. But is cursed to gradually turn anyone who reads it into a slime. Which at least one player will obviously try to do. There's some good motivation to complete the quest and/or make one or more players play as an intelligent slime for a while.

[EDIT] Gelatinous cubes, rather. Now I must read the Book of Shame.

>Legendary Book of Shame +1 acquired

SOmething like this really needs a history generator.

Almost like you need dwarf fortress running at full speed to simulated the history and then take that as the basis of the dungeon.

Ten little snippets seems pretty superficial, the basic plot already seems to be repetitive.

The Moria/roguelikes would also be great for generation, backstory, etc

Ugh, I love his stuff. I wish there was the source to this like his town generator. Makes me miss my old gaming group.

He read your mind: https://watabou.itch.io/village-generator

I think you misread the post. They were lamenting the lack of source code for the dungeon generator.

Interesting to imagine feeding some of these room descriptions into DALL·E 2 and getting little room illustrations to go a long with it.

Not to be confused with the yearly One Page Dungeon Contest: https://www.dungeoncontest.com/

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30338074 - City Generator

Made by the same person.

Nice to see the person behind Pixel Dungeon still doing great stuff!

Anybody else read this in a Danzig voice?

"I don't wanna be... In your one page dungeon..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Dungeon_(song)

Now that you mention it ... I don't wanna be here, in your British Hell.

Watabou is my go-to for low-prep toolbox apps in gaming. Between that one, and donjon (https://donjon.bin.sh/), and a name generator like https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ , it's basically everything you need for a quick jaunt into the dark with your buddies.

When you click into the map and press ctrl+r it just creates a new map and doesn't refresh the page. Thought that was pretty nice but others might not like hijacking ctrl+r

Odd; when I do that it just rotates the same map (back and forth, between a horizontal alignment and about 30 degrees).

I do agree that hijacking ctrl-r is not ideal.

I’m really here to just boost this because it’s awesome and I’ve known about it for years. Years right? Covid time is weird

I wish shattered pixel dungeon (or any mobile RPG) would integrate this! It's so rich, I love it.

This is made by the creator of Pixel Dungeon.

"The sanctum is a place of growth of a valuable specie of flowers."

And there are a ton of options.

How do I use this?

You reload until you get one that looks cool, then you screen grab it, and hook up with some friends and your favorite RPG system rules. D&D, Hackmaster, GURPS, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Pathfinder, Encounter Critical, whatever.

If you are lacking in rulebooks and/or friends this is pretty much useless.

Right click the generated map, turns out there's a menu.

Oh wow, there is! Long press on a tablet. You can finesse parts of the randomly generated stuff and change the look.

How long until someone makes another Haxe/OpenFL website that actually plays these maps? (Random party generator, AI DM...)

> AI DM

Only post singularity. Much of the appeal of roleplaying games is being able to do stuff that you can't do in video games. But a sibling comment did link to a tool that would let you play these maps with your friends by importing them into a virtual tabletop.

There's a decent export menu for both image and JSON, and some inventive soul already made an importer for the Foundry Virtual Tabletop.

I've actually used this in the past for a randum dungeon in my lockdown RPG campaign. It's pretty awesome.

https://foundryvtt.com/packages/one-page-parser

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