Eigengrau’s Generator: A Non-Gamer’s Primer
If you’re not from a D&D audience, you might need a primer.
Eigengrau’s Generator is a webapp that creates a whole fantasy town, complete with sociopolitics, buildings, and inhabitants. Think of it like a cross between Wikipedia and a fantasy travel brochure, detailing everything that goes on in the town.
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It’s used as a tool in Dungeons and Dragons games, where players will travel to towns to rest and recuperate in between adventures. These towns are often not important, though, and a busy Dungeon Master might not have time nor the inclination to write up the local tavern’s menu, or decide exactly what the blacksmith has in stock.
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When Eigengrau’s Generator was first developed, there were limited options for Dungeon Masters who wanted a full town generated, ready to read out to players. To date, it is the only town generator (to our knowledge) that takes a holistic, all-encompassing method of generation, where the sociopolitics and racial demographics of the town impact the NPCs that appear.