For a number of years I have collected to odd fantasy figure with the intention of playing a fantasy game.
Recently I have been taking a hard look at the Hirst Arts bits and pieces with the intention of creating a set of tiles for dungeon exploration games.
As such, I figured I needed to design a dungeon so I would know how many pieces of pre-made Hirst Arts pieces I would need. The good thing about the Hirst Arts web site is they provide many great instructions and ideas for making the type of dungeon that I want to make: Hirst Arts Dungeon
Being a little bit lazy I thought I would see what I could find on line to help me with my dungeon designs.
Fortunately for me it appears that role players are just as lazy and there were a few free online dungeon generators on line for me to choose from. Out of all the online dungeon generators I looked at, these three fit the bill best for my wants / needs:
The first one I looked at seemed to be the best. If allows you to construct different sized dungeons, add stairs, secret doors and you can remove any dead ends it may generate which prevents silly and pointless parts to a dungeon.
The generator even numbers and fills the rooms with beasties for you, but I assume that is for a particular set of rules and I will just ignore the text part of the dungeon. The program allows you to save the dungeon as a PDF, and save an image for a player map with out the secret bits: Random dungeon generator 1
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| Player's Map for random dungeon |
The next one is fairly good and is useful for generating a lot of rooms. Unlike the first one the layout is not always logical: dungeon generator 2
This one is very much like the first one, although I can't see a function that lets you print it out. Having said that, it does give you a link so you can create it again if need be: Dungeon generator 3
One function I like is that you can determine the biggest room size, which I thought was a great function. It doesn't add stairs though.
Having created a dungeon, I will print it out and start planning the game tiles I need for my game.
For rules I might use the "Song of Blade and Heroes" or even keep it very simple and use the old "Fighting Fantasy" choose your own adventure system, or a little RPG game I have called "Dragon Warriors" that has since been reprinted by Mongoose Publishing and this year to be brought out by a company called "Serpent King Games". I have the original rules books, so I will use those.
There is a great possibility that I will run games of this as a "Play By Blog" for followers of my blog very much like the zombie game being played on my zombie blog.
3 comments:
Hi Shelldrake, I've been planning something similar (yet again!) using Ainsty's resin dungeon tiles. I've got a shedload of them from my RPG days ... I found a freebie set of rules called 'DungeonCrawl' on the net. They read quite well IIRC, but I've not played them as yet :(
Anyway, you can get them courtesy of the wayback machine from here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070413153917/http://home.epix.net/~caver/dungeoncrawl.pdf
if you are interested. I'm also thinking of trying 2HW's Warrior Heroes. Either way I'll do a batrep from the game (eventually!)
Thanks for the link - I downloaded the rules and will take a look at them.
I envy you your collection of Ainsty's dungeon tiles - I never had things like that when I was playing RPGs many many years ago, and I regret getting rid of all of my figures too!
that would be cool, mantic do a dungeon game that has floor tiles, it called halls of the dwarf kings i think, you can allso download and print dungeon tiles
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