I’m working on an ambitious D&D project – something that I’m putting more time into than the Random Dungeon Generator or Dungeon Robber – and today I want to share a particularly Halloweeny piece of it.
Here’s an extra page of the hag entry from some imaginary Monster Manual. What’s this hag’s name? motivation? What creepy activity are you interrupting when you walk into her hut?
I think it would be cool if every D&D monster had random story prompts like this. I’d like to be able to flip open the Monster Manual to any entry and have everything I need to generate a completely unique, no-prep encounter. Depending on the monster, it could include specifics about the monster’s activities and goals, and perhaps some plausible names and encounter locations as well – a different set of encounter locations for each terrain type, of course. An extra page or so for each monster would do a lot towards making D&D encounters come alive.
It would also bring the Monster Manual up to an unpublishable 800 pages.
By the way, the D&D project I’m working on is NOT an 800-page Monster Manual. My ambitions are grander than that!
You’ll have to tell us more about what this project really is, Paul (or at least more guidance on what it _isn’t_ so that our dart-throwing speculationings can start to zero-in on the target 😉 ).
Allan.
Outstanding! I want to buy your 800 page monster manual.
Speaking of Dungeon Robber, it’s impossible to play now, as flash is blocked on my computer. Any chance you might update it to work without flash?
my apologies, got it working
great.
DND