Here it is! https://cros.land/rpg-setting-generator-and-world-building-tool/
One of the main frustrations I’ve had as a game master was running a game in the Feywild, where I had to create every town from scratch. For example, the Elven Enclave in the lands of Summer required me to think of who ran the place, the NPCs the players would meet, the types of conflicts that would arise, and so on. It was rather taxing, and I remember doing that for my entire campaign in the Feywild.
This experience led me to think about creating a world-building tool to complement my growing list of game master tools. This tool would take the lore you’ve already developed and generate a general overview of the city, town, village, space station, planet, or whatever you need. You could then create sub-locations within that location, each with a list of factions and NPCs, which could become quest givers.
I wanted to create a dashboard that would allow a game master to quickly generate and organize this information, making it easier to build sessions without overburdening yourself every time. While you can bring your own creativity to the table, having an outline generated for you is really helpful.
This tool also allows you to copy all the content generated as plain text, hierarchical HTML (with descending h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 tags), or homebrewery markdown. I’m told that the HTML format can be used in Foundry VTT, although I’m not a user, so I’d appreciate confirmation on that. For homebrewery markdown, page breaks can’t be automated, so you’ll need to insert those manually.
I hope you find this tool useful. Any feedback you provide would be wonderful. I still have some ideas for improving this tool, but I’ll probably move on to enhancing the 5e stat block generator tool, which many people are using. I have a lot of ideas to make those stat blocks better and more robust.
Until next time, thank you very much.
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