eigengrausgenerator

Natural Language And Its Generation

The English language is an unashamed thief of many different languages- Germanic, Romance languages, etc. We use a formal grammar and syntax, which poses some challenges to a programming-generated piece of text. Generating "natural" text is a difficult and many-headed beast, with a good deal of Natural Language Processing tech going into that sort of thing. Unfortunately, machine learning is expensive, and I don't understand very much of it. However, Eigengrau's makes do without any bulky API...

Next race to add

Hi folks! I'm going to push an update to the generator in the coming days so thought that I'd also include a new race. Vote!

A new bit of news...

Hi folks! Just thought that I would update people on what's going on since it's been a while since I last pushed an update.

Long story short, I have quit my research position as I was not enjoying it- I'm not "full time" on the generator as my days are currently being spent preparing to get married (!!!!). After I get married, December onwards will be totally free for me to spend a more considerable amount of time on the generator. I'm also literally two sessions away from my 3 year cam...

Status Update

Howdy folks! I just wanted to drop a quick note to keep you in the loop. In the following weeks, I’ve got a couple exciting things to share with you, including the results of the survey that I took earlier this year, which had about 200 responses, which was an amazing uptake. This data is gonna help inform what I prioritise on a macro level- I’m not yet entirely certain that the generator is sustainable as a full-time gig, but I would like to spend some more time actively adding features ...

Last chance to vote for Eigengrau's Generator in the ENnies!

You're probably already sick to death of me asking, but you have 24 hours to vote! 

Only 3 days left for voting in the ENnies!

Vote now for Eigengrau's Generator as Best Digital Aid in the ENnies!

Only nominated for the one category, so here's the handy-dandy link for it! Just select "Eigengrau's Essential Establishment Generator" as 1 and hit Vote! Too easy.

Eigengrau's Generator has been nominated for an ENnie!

Pleased to announce that Eigengrau's Generator has been nominated for an ENnie for Best Digital Aid! You can vote for me from the 18th to the 27th- results will be live streamed 9pm EST on September 17!

Thanks for a great couple of years (it occurred to me that I've never actually nailed down the generator's birthday, but I'm pretty sure it was July), and here's to many more!

https://ennie-awards.com/202...

2.8.12 has been released

Small update, with big changes!

Added

- You can now link directly to buildings and the owners of buildings that were pre-generated.  

Changed

- The generator no longer uses the location.hash for the seed, and instead uses the location.search property.

As an example, please enjoy being linked directly to the 2021-06-25 08:29:47 +0000 UTC View Post

"When do you use generators" survey result!

2.8.11 has been released

Added

- Some of the NPC stats are now editable.

Changed

- Fixed racial description while editing town demographics not updating.

- Fixed an annoying issue where the period at the end of the sentence for racial and religious demographics would be pushed to a new line.

- Made the dropcap on NPC profile pages standardized

- The text following the dropcap on the NPC profile page is no longer indented weirdly.

- Fixed NPC ...

2.8.10 has been released.

Hi folks! Just realised that I haven't posted on the Patreon in a while. If you were wondering where I was, I'm still alive and active, just forgot that Patreon had posting- join us on Discord for more immediate communication!

This update should fix the majority of NPC profile related bugs. I'm working on a more robust editing system!

Added

• Flex to button rows so they are a little more ...
  2021-06-14 05:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Announcing the Pantheon Contest!

Hi folks! 

In anticipation of Van Richten's Guide, I thought that it might be fun to try a little contest, which could also serve as a sort of stress-test for the religion system (and way to get people into the generator!). To that end, I am running a contest for who can create a pantheon (that you own the rights to / is public domain)! The rules are pretty straightforward:

• There will be three prizes: Best Overall Pantheon, Best Deity, and Community Choice winner.
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2021-05-08 01:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Vote on the Major Feature Poll!

Don't forget to vote on the Major Feature Poll- I will close it at the end of the month!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/next-major-50017321 

2.8.6 has been released!

Hi folks! Small update, which really only adds the ability to add custom images to buildings, factions, NPCs, and deities; this should help for those that are visual-minded like me, and love to have a reference image in place for important set pieces. This is a Hero tier patron feature, which I will add to the goal tracker, probably around the 175 patron mark :)

Added

- Edit button to buildings that have an editor (it's still rather terrible, but at least now it's...

Next Art Commission

Hi folks! New art poll to be filled by the fabulous Juho Huttunen. You know the drill!

How do YOU use the generator?

Hi folks! In anticipation of the ENnies at the end of the month, I'm doing another interview with longtime support Duncan, who runs RandRoll. I'm curious to hear how people are using the generator- I've heard that it gets use as a solo RPG tool occasionally, and people also use it at the table for spur-of-the-moment towns, as well as using it as a starting point for fleshing out towns ahead of time. What parts do you use the most? ...

Next Major Feature

Howdy folks! Just wanted to get your feedback on where you think my attention should go for the next major feature. 

Hierarchy system: A hierarchical system where NPCs have relationships with higher-ups. Also would include hierarchical relationships with factions and buildings; in towns where a faction has tightly controlled trade, this would reflect in the NPCs running shops, limiting their income

NPC Hobbies and Homes: A dynamic list of hob...

Ennies and Religion

Howdy folks! I just thought that I'd do a little bit of a write up, show you how the religion mechanics work.

First up: I'm going to be submitting to the Ennies this year! This means that I have until May 1st to get the generator to tip-top condition, as you can only submit in the year of publication- I talked to the fine folk at the Ennies, and explained that the generator has had what could be described as a public beta. They said that it was fine provided that the "full" release is b...

Art in Action + Dark Mode

Theydies and gentlethem, I'm suuuuuuper excited to show you this. This latest commission was the biggest yet, made possible thanks to you fabulous Patreon supporters- those at the $5 and above tier will get it in full, glorious HD for whatever nefarious purposes you wish in due time :) I seriously cannot thank you enough, we would not be able to commission such high quality art without your help.

So, we're still finalising the colour palette of the dark mode, but I wanted to get your th...

Taglines

Made a little tagline thing that refreshes on click- any funny DnD memes that I've forgotten?

Community Based Feature Unlocking

Howdy everyone,

I mentioned in the past that the way that the Patreon operates was going to change, and have finally settled on a solution. 

What will happen is we shall shift to a community based feature unlocking schedule- where features that are paywalled will become accessible to everyone when we hit the target- i.e. the GMBinder Export feature is currently a $5 Patron only feature, but when we hit 100 patrons, I'll remove the flag for that, so any and everybody can acces...

IPA Pronunciations!

Have you ever felt that what the NPC profile pages has been missing all this time was an IPA pronunciation for their name? Me too. So I fixed it.

You're welcome :)

Art Poll

Hi everyone! 

Art poll for the next commission to be filled by the fabulous Juho Huttunen.

Previous works: 

2020-12-27 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Where to next?

Hello! Hope that you have all had a fabulous Christmas, and are excited to get back to your games! Here's the major feature poll for 2.8. Current planned features are:

• The building editing that was promised in 2.7 (though I think you'll agree that the roads and exporting is a pretty decent consolation prize ;)
• Libraries (and book generation!)

Import Custom Deities & Religion overhaul

In order to make the deities that are imported act...

2.7 "All Roads Lead From Eigengrau" has been released!

Hi folks! Pushing out the update. Probably have let some bugs creep through as there have been some fairly significant overhauls, but I'll be relying on bug reporters to let me know.

Just want to be clear- the GMBinder export functionality is intended for $5/month patrons only. I would ask that you respect my wishes, but have not made any attempts to paywall it since an open source .html file is about as leaky as a sieve when it comes to trying to block...

Progress Report!

Howdy folks! Just wanted to give you a little bit of an update on how the next update is progressing. I know that a lot of you are super excited for the Foundry module (and I am amongst them); it's progressing along nicely. We (read: myself and Hadalonut) want to make sure that it's fully featured before release, so as to maximise the initial uptake.

The roads module has ballooned out to massive, epic proportions; I think that you'll really get a kick out of just how much detail is goin...

Tavern illustration!

To be featured in the next update: this gorgeous tavern illustration! Attached in glorious high resolution for your desktop background needs. As with the other commissions, this is made possible thanks to you fine patrons, and is MIT licensed- feel free to use this in your own published adventures (but it would be cool if you credited Juho Huttunen as the artist, and Eigengrau's Generator for the commission ;) )

Foundry Module

Hey guys! I just wanted to tease an upcoming module coming, being developed by the brilliant Hadalonut and myself. This is a module that automates the importing of the towns produced by Eigengrau's Generator into Foundry VTT (the best VTT solution). This module will import all of the output, and compile it into a nice, easy to manage system of folders, with Wiki-like links to relevant NPCs and buildings!

2020-11-27 09:38:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Major Feature Poll for 2.7

This is the major feature poll, which is going to require a fair bit more legwork than the minor features, which are all relatively simple to implement. 

Import Custom Deities & Religion overhaul

In order to make the deities that are imported actually have a meaningful impact, we need to add some more religion stuff- things like daily and weekly rituals, and abstenances. 

Mockup of what it might look like: 

2020-11-18 02:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post