So I built this website way back April just to mess around. I spent a good bit of time on it and I pay to host it, but beyond some initial grand ideas, I never did spend much time updating it. However, I just bought a whole mess of old-school goodness with some X-mas cash and would love to put some of that stuff here if I can get around to it. Stuff like Majestic Wilderlands and a bunch of Fight On! and Knockspell issues.
Plus I’ve been reading more old-school blogs again lately and I’ve been bitten by the bug again. May as well try to get back into it as part of my new year’s kick on being more productive. Let’s give it a shot!
Reasons I Don’t Update
But those are just excuses, so I will try to do better in the new year. Here are a few reasons why I will try:
Reasons I Will Update
Of course, this post also serves as a method to check out how this plugin will work in practice, so that too. That’s it for now. Hopefully more to come soon!
Oh, and I thought of a neat (easy to implement) feature too, using a spoiler ajax thingy to show all the entries in the list if anyone feels like checking that out. It’s kind of silly on this one, but I’m betting will be nice when I have tables that borrow a lot from sources I’d like to give credit to and all that.
Full list of entries:
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Reasons I Don’t Update
- Laziness
- I suck at javascript
- Loss of momentum
- Excessive ambition
- Would rather play games
Reasons I Will Update
- Disgust at my own laziness
- New year's resolution to try harder at everything
- Easier method to post these via a plugin
- Decision to not make it so hard and just K.I.S.S.
Tags: new year
In this inaugural post to Omega Dungeon, I decided to start with what is probably one of the more infamous random tables in D&D history: The Harlot Encounter Table. This beauty originally appeared in the 1st Edition AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide. In my mind, it’s a classic of Gygaxian vocabulary, and something that is instantly recognizable as “old-school”.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the table was re-imagined in OSRIC 2 as the “Red Light Professions” table. It actually featured more options there than in the original table, and some new adjectives and nouns were thrown in as well as having some removed. Also, the order of the table was rearranged as well.
I figured this would be a good test of what I wanted to do with this site, so I decided to a bit of a “mashup” of the two tables. If you want to read more about how I did it, there’s more below the generator.
In the meantime, enjoy your random harlot!
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Tags: 1st Edition AD&D, dungeon generator, dungeon master, osric