Since 2017, I’ve been running a Basic Fantasy campaign that was intended as a way to get my two sons hooked on RPGs. It was a fathers-and-kids deal that picked up a few extra adults along the way, eventually morphing into all adults when my sons got old enough. Along the way, I built a little WordPress plugin to mechanize rolling on various random tables. At first, it was stuff out of the rule book, then a few tables adapted from blogs or other games. Today, I tend to build deep, complex generators from scratch.

In a future post, I’ll talk about my process. Right now, I want to introduce the site. It collects the 60+ generators I built for emptyz.com, the site that keeps the house rules and session reports for the Tienarth’s Raiders campaign. In the future, I’m going to refactor my most ancient random generators from my personal site, leonatkinson.com. Being from 1997, it took a bit of wrench-twisting to them to run in PHP 8.

Before I do that, I will be working on a generator for my latest BFRPG “module”, Estates of the Eliari.

The entire module is a collection of lookup tables that fills out location details based on a fixed map. I’m going to make it a one-click effort to get a unique adventure.

I also plan to write about some of the existing generators and also create new ones, of course. It looks like I’m getting involved in a Traveller campaign, so I may be building generators for that game as well.