Full Overview
A longer description of what Eigengrau’s Generator is.
Eigengrau’s Generator procedurally generates towns complete with sociopolitics, descriptions, and those little touches of creativity that separate a hand-crafted tavern from the drudgery of improvising your umpteenth pub on the spot. Spend less time preparing things like the name of the bakery, and more time on the stuff that really matters- Eigengrau’s Generator can generate enough breathing room to roll up your next encounter. With 17 different building types, NPC personality and backstory generation, and instant plot hooks, there’s enough detail for even the most curious of players to be kept busy.
Descriptions with continuity and logic that sound natural. Permalink
Eigengrau’s Generator has been built from the ground up to augment (not replace!) a DM’s own work. Through open source contributions and over a year of full-time development, the Generator has developed sophisticated systems that generate a cohesive town that can be inserted into any magical fantasy setting. Users can add their own custom pantheons, and customise the output to make it fit with their playstyle at the click of a button.
Emergent storytelling through narrative-focused design. Permalink
Eigengrau’s Generator procedurally generates towns from the ground up, with the biome impacting types of building material that are available, a town’s wealth and population changing what establishments are featured, and sociopolitics and economic modeling influencing the types of people that inhabit the town. The generator features full NPC relationship trees, with employees, debtors, friends, family, co-workers, drinking buddies, and secret crushes!
Economic Modelling For Realistic Towns Permalink
Using occupations taken from 16th century Parisian tax records, Eigengrau’s Generator models social class, professions befitting the class, and just how many cartographers a village of 500 can support (hint: none). Collaborations with Board Enterprises of the seminal “Grain Into Gold” supplement sees merchants stocked with items appropriate to their size.
Hand-crafted Creativity Permalink
The Generator’s Discord community has contributed over 2,000 different plots, premises, descriptions, and ideas to the public domain, enabling the Generator to use the imagination of hundreds of people to make every encounter unique.
Open Source Permalink
Eigengrau’s Generator is open source software. It uses a “Goal Based Content Unlocking” system, in which features are available early online to anybody that joins the Patreon, or if you get your hands dirty with the source code, you can just build it from scratch.