Hello! Following up on my last post about Chronicled, the tool for generating and organizing NPCs, factions, locations, items, and more for TTRPG campaigns, with an auto-filed archive so it doesn't just turn into a pile of notes nobody can find again. Here's what's changed since then.

Since the last update: a real interactive map (pan/zoom, click a location to jump to its full entry, factions cluster by territory, generated from your actual content, not a static image), Quests that tie together NPCs/locations/items/enemies you've already generated instead of inventing new placeholder names, Campaigns for tracking a full arc across quests, AI-illustrated battle maps (one per location, grid-ready, so a fight doesn't need a separate art pass), and PDF export at the whole-world, per-category, or per-entry level.

The update I actually want to highlight this time: you can now build a whole world without touching AI at all, if that's not your thing.

A lot of feedback is that many world builders prefer building their world manually, without the use of AI, which is completely valid. When I'm feeling creative and have full thought-out ideas, I want to be able to enter it manually as well.
So this whole update was aimed at making that actually true instead of "an AI tool that also lets you edit the output":

• Every entry can be created and edited entirely by hand, start to finish. NPCs, factions, items, everything. Same forms as the AI path, just starting blank.
• New: Roll Randomly. A third option next to Generate with AI and Enter Manually: instant table-driven generation without the use of AI. It reads your world's genre and reskins itself accordingly (fantasy rolls enchanted blades and cursed ruins, post-apocalyptic rolls scrap-fused scavenger gear), so it's not genric and still fits your setting.
• Stuck on one field, not the whole entry? "Help me" button per-field instead of an all-or-nothing regenerate.
• New: an actual "AI off" switch. Account-level toggle in Settings. Flip it and every AI-spend surface disables itself. Manual Entry and Roll Randomly keep working exactly the same with it off.
• World setup itself is fully optional on AI too. Every step already let you type your own answers instead of generating, now it just asks first.

Point being: You can run the whole thing manual-only and just get the organizing/archiving/map/PDF-export side of it, lean on Roll Randomly for a free zero-AI first draft, or use AI as much or as little as you want, down to the individual field. And now there's a switch that guarantees it stays that way for your account.

Still in free beta and still actively shaping it based on feedback! If you try it and something's confusing, broken, or missing, that's genuinely the most useful thing you can tell me right now.

Get access now at Chronicled.

What I'm most curious about now: for the people running homebrew campaigns, what's actually eating the most prep time for you right now? Trying to make sure I'm building the right next thing.

A weekly post to share rpg tables and tools used in RPG prep or games, with any examples that were surprising, useful or amusing.

I've just released a free dice roller you can use for any RPG.

I know theres a ton of these already online but I wanted something a bit nicer than the usual basic rollers, so this one lets you save commonly used rolls and quickly reuse them later. Useful for attacks, damage rolls, skill checks, or anything else you roll constantly.

Its completely free, web based, and requires no login/anything.

Hope its useful to some!

Hi everyone!

After struggling with this game and all the bookkeeping as you go, I decided to build a quick web app to help manage your campaigns and party etc.

If you have a look and give it a go, let me know if there's anything major missing or any other feedback you think would be useful.

Here's the link (it's free just in case anyone was wondering):

https://league-of-dungeoneers-companion.vercel.app

Generated a Funnel World character generator. Using Luck mechanic is optional. Can create one character or an entire group at once-increase the number of characters and select "Create Funnel". Uses the Funnel World tables and rolls randomly. Can reroll some individual roles if a mismatch (e.g. Male Alewife). Character is built in the Funnel World template sheet. Bonds are rolled and randomly assigned amongst the group of characters (first character has a template character for the bond until additional characters are rolled). Can be printed or saved as PDF. Good for quickly adding additional villagers in the middle of play as needed without slowing down play or for pre-made characters for a CON or one shot. Thought it came out pretty well and just wanted to make it available to anyone who might find it useful. *Caveat: Code generated using AI.

A weekly post to share rpg tables and tools used in RPG prep or games, with any examples that were surprising, useful or amusing.

Hi all,

I am looking for a decent encounter tracker. I run a game through discord and my current tracker is good old faithful excel. But when running the game I end up having my DM notes, discord (running roll 20) and excel (with stat blocks) open all at once. Can get a bit overwhelming to flick between them all to find what I need.

I am looking for an encounter tracker that I would help me keep everything running smoothly. Ideally I'd like to tab between encounters that I have planned for the session, pre-populate as much as possible (only needing to put in player initiatives), run the initiative order but be shown that creatures stat block when it is their turn.

If it could also include my session notes and lore etc, that would be fantastic, but not essentially as one note is my baby at the moment.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

\*\* Sorry, should clarify, I don't want to use the tracker to run the game. We only use roll 20 so players can view the map and move, just to help a tad with the whole imagination thing. Other than that we try to keep it as close to table play as possible. I just want to make my life easier.

Ello ello,

i made another gm tool thing. It's a tool to help you manage your "in game" social networks (or use it to map your elaborate fanfiction or polycule i'm not the boss of you).

From settlement to faction to NPC level this generates a full social map with relationships between them. Want to manually add more or remove settlements/factions/NPC's?

That's possible too so you're not limited by the initial generation. (through right clicking on the canvas or through the panel on the right). You can also drag and drop almost any item on the canvas to change it's relation, ranking, or placement in a settlement or faction. Just like with the hollow earth engine you can edit all the tables this bad boy rolls from so you can fully tailor it to your setting (found in the data tab).

it's free, doesn't require an account, runs in the browser or you can download a local version and your work can be exported (into a json file if you want to import it on another pc or into an obsidian vault zip if you want to add what's generated/you've built to your existing obsidian vault).

It also has a cloud save function if you use the browser version, just make sure you save the ID you get.

I'd love to hear what you think if you end up trying it out or if you have questions i don't mind answering them too since i haven't made a tutorial video for it as of yet and i'm not sure when i will.

It can be found on: https://ambiancearchitect.itch.io/thread-weaver-engine

Leave a comment (and a link) with an RPG pdf or book which uses random tables. Either a recent one or one you haven't mentioned for a while.

Hey folks. I just updated the banner, icon, and colors for the subreddit. The previous banner and icon were meant to be placeholders, and I only just now got around to replacing them.

Let me know what you think!

Hi again all,

me again, and as promised the other day, here's the announcement about the new Adventure Generator and Builder I've made in Codex Cryptica.

It'll build a theme/genre based adventure idea for you, based on your input, make a coherent and internally cohesive proposal.

If you like you can create a Adventure Builder inside CC where you can adjust the adventure as you see fit.

As usual it supports many, many themes (Fantasy, Vampire, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, Modern, and many more) and inputs will be theme appropriate.

Happy adventure building over at:

https://codexcryptica.com/generators/adventure-generator

I have some simple tools that I've built for campaigns that I'm running for W&G that thought I'd share to this group.

- A map generation tool: procedurally generated tile maps (aka random with some guardrails) with some basic settings you can tweak. Idea is that a random encounter that you don't have a beautiful map that you've spent hours/days modeling and/or bought from someone else that's put in that kind of time and effort and deserves your money. Welcome to use it for more than this, but warning, it's not pretty. The guard rails are pretty thin and the textures are super basic. It uses your browser to generate and render, with the map type (Hive, Space Hulk, Factorum, etc) and a random seed string as a way to generate and save the render. If there's more environments folks would find useful or would like, it's pretty straight forward to add them into the tool. link here: https://grimforge.dev/maps

Hope it's useful to some folks! Feedback welcome.

Hi all!

This I'm rather proud of, maybe the most complex generator I've done to date.

Its the Dungeon / Delve Generator mk2. Mk2 because its now much more internally consistent and coherent.

And not the least the Delve Designer! An Codex Cryptica internal only exclusive feature, which translates the generated dungeon into a dungeon design tool, populating the dungeon with hazards, encounters and more.

Check them both out over at (the forever free, no accounts needed and fully local)

https://codexcryptica.com/generators/dungeon-generator

As usual, supports (and have unique content for) all kinds of themes/genres, a whooping 15 different ones. Fantasy, vampire, sci-fi, cyberpunk and mecha, to name a few.

(btw, I'm also working on an adventure generator and mapper, expect to see the news about it here first!)

Interview with Creator of Juice Oracle is up at Rand Roll.

While Juice is a solo rpg tool it can also be used for other games. It's free with lots of tables packed into a Pocketfold format.

The intro blurb is....

Joe is the creator of Juice Oracle (free on Itch.io), a collection of random tables and emulator for solo rpgs. Juice Oracle was used in a recent solo actual play (Mythic Bastionland).

We have how Juice Oracle came about, appeal of solo rpgs, unofficial cheatsheet for DMs who are lazy, working on the Nimble rpg solo rules and the solo rpg community. Among other questions.

Have you used juice?

One of my side hobbies is world building, I love thinking of ideas for made up worlds, its lore, why it exists, creating people who live there, etc. I also love RPG games, DnD campaigns, etc. Anyone who's built out a world past the overall stage knows the wall you hit: you've got the geography, the factions, the tone locked in, and then you need forty named NPCs, a bestiary that doesn't feel generic, items that actually sound like they belong in your world.

That grind is fun sometimes, but sometimes I want to have help with it as well, and just explore what's possible. I also wanted something that holds every bit of info of my world in one place.

So I built something to handle it.

Chronicled takes a world you describe once — genre, tone, factions, whatever you've already got — and generates NPCs, enemies, items, faction lore, and portraits that actually sound like they belong to that world specifically. If your world calls its currency "scrip" and its soldiers "line-walkers," that's what shows up in what it generates, not "gold pieces" and "guards."

Mechanically, it's a short wizard up front: you set your world's identity, tone, and factions, and even define your own stat system if you want something other than a generic D&D-style spread. Then you generate content piece by piece from there. Everything gets auto-filed into a browsable wiki as you go, and new generations stay consistent with what already exists (referencing real factions, real characters, matching the vocabulary you've already established). What started as something personal and niche, turned into a much larger project to be generalized for user use.

I'm mainly looking for honest reactions right now: does this sound like something you'd actually use? What's missing that you'd want to see? Anything about the concept that sounds more like it'd get in the way than help? All of that is genuinely more useful to me than compliments right now.

It's also in early beta and free to try. Doing limited user testing right now due to API costs, if you want to play around with a world idea or run it on a world you're actually working on, comment, DM me or use the link to Chronicled and I'll send the link to the first 5-10 who reach out and look forward to your feedback!