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It's a short history of D&D's corporate behavior. But really, it's a study of how the owners of D&D have repeatedly made the same mistakes, damaged their brand, and failed to learn from those mistakes. There are a couple points I'd probably quibble with, but it seems accurate. 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I stopped posting partly because I didn't have anything I felt needed to be said, but also because I have another project I've been working on that's taken all my time. I'd floated the idea before about posting about that here, too, but the blunt response was that they didn't want to hear about that.</p><p>I have several projects related to Last-Minute GM and/or Liber Zero still in the works. Some of them were announced here, some I kept under wraps, all went on the back burners when I shifted my focus to non-RPG matters. But I've had an urge or two recently to get back to work on those. We'll see what happens.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='pfButton'><a href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2023/06/long-time-no-post.html?pfstyle=wp' title='Print an optimized version of this blog post or generate a PDF'><img alt='Print' class='printfriendly' src='http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button-both.gif' style='border:none; padding:0;'/></a></div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2023/06/long-time-no-post.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2023-06-17T14:03:00-07:00'>2:03 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2023/06/long-time-no-post.html#comment-form' onclick=''>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/7239577512598038009/3974717068656143246' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-416517527'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=3974717068656143246&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/search/label/general' rel='tag'>general</a> </span> <span class='post-backlinks post-comment-link'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=3974717068656143246&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=3974717068656143246&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=3974717068656143246&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=3974717068656143246&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=3974717068656143246&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'></div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, December 11, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='2864906366346017940'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/12/drop-wolves-art.html'>Drop Wolves Art</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-2864906366346017940'> <p>A quick post about an old monster of mine. Remember <a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2019/05/wandering-monsters-drop-wolves.html">drop wolves</a>? Well, here’s what they look like.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTxBNRBReEkwgPPMR1aUeqlnh-lFc-PbRbNmHPvDYitootwOMMAyQue272-lyX8v8kwTTE_sXgj5AT36RcRg32pYzWL99QpuXPeAIbmT-eyjlmIZmv5M109_jVkf45lZuN3khDk7nTLVav-DF-1YB6kHOWkuPOXDcAXOaKLfLGnP_K2-IPGlwj3PSuww=s576" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="576" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTxBNRBReEkwgPPMR1aUeqlnh-lFc-PbRbNmHPvDYitootwOMMAyQue272-lyX8v8kwTTE_sXgj5AT36RcRg32pYzWL99QpuXPeAIbmT-eyjlmIZmv5M109_jVkf45lZuN3khDk7nTLVav-DF-1YB6kHOWkuPOXDcAXOaKLfLGnP_K2-IPGlwj3PSuww=w400-h223" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drop Wolves</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>(Or, at least, what a <a href="https://pixray.gob.io/text2image/">text to image AI</a> thinks they would look like. 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Specifically, how to handle gems. It’s inspired by <a href="https://odd74.proboards.com/thread/15120/history-gem-tables">this OD&D forum post</a> that’s been going on for that last month or so.</p> <p>How do you assign gems to treasure? More specifically, how much information do you include, or should you include? Full description of each gem and quantity, minimum information necessary, or something in between?</p> <p>I lean towards the minimum, with a few extra details. But before I get into that, I need break down the steps to assigning gem details. Loosely based on the “official” process, the steps are:</p> <ol> <li>Check if there are gems in a treasure cache or trove.</li> <li>Check the number of gems.</li> <li>Assign base gem value.</li> <li>Check how many gems are of higher or lower value.</li> </ol> <p>If randomly assigning treasure, Steps 1 and 2 are handled as part of the treasure table in either <strong>Volume II: Monsters & Treasure</strong> (page 22) or <strong>Volume III: Underworld & Wilderness Adventures</strong> (page 7) depending on whether it’s a wilderness treasure or dungeon treasure. Step 3 involves a roll on the Gem Base Value table on page 40 of <strong>Monsters & Treasure</strong>, followed by a d6 roll for each gem or group of 5 to 10 gems as Step 4.</p> <p>In the official process, you could argue that there is a fifth step, “Record the info, along with extra details like gem type or color”. But the books do not actually say that all four steps must be done at the same time, before the dungeon key is completed.</p> <p>I would argue that it’s easier to do Steps 1 through 3, record the info as Step 3.5, and put off the final roll for Step 4 when each gem is appraised.</p> <p>So here is my suggested gem generation process for GMs stocking treasures:</p> <p><strong>Step Zero: Pick a Dungeon Theme</strong></p> <p>Picking a theme is of course is part of the dungeon creation process, rather than the gem generation process, but what kind of dungeon you are creating and where it is should, logically, affect what kind of gems might be available. One trivial example is pearls, usually treated as if they were gems. Underwater treasures or coastal treasures might reasonably include more pearls than someplace far from an ocean. Other gem types could be more or less common depending on the region: if jade is more common in one area, dungeons in that area or connected in some way to that area might have more jade in their treasure troves than other gems.</p> <p><strong>Step One: Pick Your Gem Types</strong></p> <p>It’s arguably not immersive to describe gems to players this way:</p> <blockquote> <p>“You find 30 gems of 100 gp value.”</p> </blockquote> <p>It’s more immersive to describe them this way:</p> <blockquote> <p>“You find 20 sapphires and 10 diamonds.”</p> </blockquote> <p>But it’s crazy to roll for each gem to see what its type is, especially since the average PC probably won’t know the exact type, just the general appearance. The easier method is to assign three gem types to the dungeon as a whole, for example opaque red, murky green, and clear yellow. All gems in that dungeon will be one of those types, simplifying the next step.</p> <p><strong>Step Two: Check the Number of Gems</strong></p> <p>As you stock each treasure trove in a dungeon, you make three rolls:</p> <ul> <li>How many gems are Gem Type 1?</li> <li>How many gems are Gem Type 2?</li> <li>How many gems are Gem Type 3?</li> </ul> <p>You defined each gem type in Step One, so all you need to roll is a number. Gem Type 1 will be different for each dungeon. There is no table lookup for this step.</p> <p>Since we can subtract a number from the roll and discard any result of 0 or less, we can fold “Check for Gems” into this step as well.</p> <p><strong>Step Three: Revealing Details to Players</strong></p> <p>For reasons I’ll explain more in a future post, each of our gem types has a predefined base value. We actually don’t need to roll any more as part of dungeon key creation. We just need to tell the players “You find 10 gems that look like this, 8 that look like <em>this</em>, and 2 that look like <em><strong>this</strong></em>.” And there’s only three "this"es per dungeon, so players can just keep a running total of each gem type found.</p> <p>If there’s a dwarf in the party, or someone with gem appraisal skills, they can find out more details, including the exact value. Or they can have the gem appraised, or just sell it blindly without knowing the details.</p> <p>I plan on detailing each of these modified steps in a separate post, with appropriate tables. I won’t be posting before next week, however.</p> <p><strong>Series Index</strong></p> <ul> <li>Gems Intro (this post)</li> <li>Gems I : Types</li> <li>Gems II: Quantities</li> <li>Gems III: Assessments</li> </ul><div>(Will edit to add links as the posts are published.)</div> <p><img alt="Creative Commons license" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></p> <blockquote> <p>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons<br /> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0<br /> International</a><br /> (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.</p> </blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='pfButton'><a href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/11/gems-short-series.html?pfstyle=wp' title='Print an optimized version of this blog post or generate a PDF'><img alt='Print' class='printfriendly' src='http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button-both.gif' style='border:none; padding:0;'/></a></div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/11/gems-short-series.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2021-11-23T04:30:00-08:00'>4:30 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/11/gems-short-series.html#comment-form' onclick=''>7 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/7239577512598038009/2309705661188859464' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-416517527'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=2309705661188859464&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/search/label/dnd' rel='tag'>dnd</a>, <a href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/search/label/gm' rel='tag'>gm</a>, <a href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/search/label/treasure' rel='tag'>treasure</a> </span> <span class='post-backlinks post-comment-link'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=2309705661188859464&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7239577512598038009&postID=2309705661188859464&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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(Full explanation of my ranking system is <a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2020/09/my-review-guidelines.html">here</a>.) See, I know a lot of people freak out when I rank a movie as C (Average,) because common opinion is that “average” means “bad”. Or if I rank something as C, it means I didn’t like it.</p> <p>But actually I kind of like <strong>Eternals</strong>. I will probably watch it again when it hits the streaming services. I just recognize that it’s not really an <em>important</em> film. It’s competently made. Well, mostly competent. I did have to give it a minus for a couple flaws. But there’s really no reason to either recommend or recommend against seeing it. It’s just a movie.</p> <p>The flaws are that the film drags in places and lacks enthusiasm in others. Plus, one actor issue I’ll mention later. The film really needs to be short or at least move along quicker.</p> <p>Further thoughts:</p> <ul> <li>Too many new main characters for one film, so we really don’t get a feel for any of them.</li> <li>Rather than cut some of the characters, I think this really should have been two movies. <ul> <li>First movie focuses on the apparent threat from the Deviants and only involves Ajak, Sersi, Ikaris, Sprite, Gilgamesh, and Thena. It ends with Sersi contacting Arishem.</li> <li>Second movie adds Kingo, Druig, Phastos, and Makkari, and explores more about Kro while also switching to the Emergence plotline.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Splitting it into two movies allows us to explore more about Sersi, who seems to be our POV character in the film, but we really don’t get to know her well enough. All of the characters are treated pretty superficially, and only Sprite, Kingo, Phastos and Thena really stand out.</li> <li>Most reviewers, even if they give the movie a thumbs down, say the entire cast does a great job. I have to rewatch the film because I had a very different feeling: I kept thinking the Druig character was a pretty poor performance. 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It would help people a <em>lot</em> if I could put an instruction right on the map, so that the GM using it wouldn’t need to turn back to an instructions page. Instead, the introduction would give a couple simple icons and how to interpret them.</p> <p><strong>Example A: Side Passages</strong></p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Sn-JBFJu0DlVsZ0pA_rdJdLGZjgADpi9WqghXtoH8jX1u_o2wuKwUmmoykpfQajNDSPJwZuz_AudouPT7cu9sliztsvyegASjtaXyv2qrqDAaosGN83NgdIkcaXMkxBXNfE-VXKAU7V3/s740/d6rdg-glyph1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="530" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Sn-JBFJu0DlVsZ0pA_rdJdLGZjgADpi9WqghXtoH8jX1u_o2wuKwUmmoykpfQajNDSPJwZuz_AudouPT7cu9sliztsvyegASjtaXyv2qrqDAaosGN83NgdIkcaXMkxBXNfE-VXKAU7V3/s320/d6rdg-glyph1.png" width="229" /></a></div><p>The glyph for this shows three boxes, each representing a d6. The position of each door or doorway along the main corridor is the position of each d6, in order.</p> <p>Look for the lowest d6 roll first.</p> <ul> <li>If it is <strong>Odd</strong>, the exits start on the North or West side of the corridor.</li> <li>If it is <strong>Even</strong>, the exits start on the South or East side of the corridor.</li> </ul> <p>If the second or third exits exist, it will be on the same side as the first exit if the d6 that represents it is odd, or the opposite side if the d6 is even.</p> <p>(There would, of course, be another glyph for tunnels that run vertical on the map instead of horizontal, but I didn’t make one yet. It would look like the above glyph, but rotated 90 degrees.)</p> <p><strong>Example B: Tunnel Junctions</strong></p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgMoJ_3fYRgwuhPMRosG7FCHIVbiLEMMT9bPgfbxeiwbrkZyOBNH_pxvVbUNj4kUkANr6fRuf9ov5LlpWarPSnA7NwkuKNzMvaO6iHzl9QRMsZrtiXklHAROoFZdHiZZctlBwHJLlYSIO/s1385/d6rdg-glyph2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="1160" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgMoJ_3fYRgwuhPMRosG7FCHIVbiLEMMT9bPgfbxeiwbrkZyOBNH_pxvVbUNj4kUkANr6fRuf9ov5LlpWarPSnA7NwkuKNzMvaO6iHzl9QRMsZrtiXklHAROoFZdHiZZctlBwHJLlYSIO/s320/d6rdg-glyph2.png" width="268" /></a></div><p>Same 3d6 roll as for Side Passages, but the position of each d6 is the order of branches or exits clockwise around the compass. (This is what the curved “triangle” represents.)</p> <ul> <li>If <strong>two</strong> of the dice match, the d6 that doesn’t match tells you which direction to skip (left, middle, right.) Branches or exits will be in the other two directions, in clockwise order.</li> <li>If <strong>all</strong> the dice match, roll another d6 and check the result: 1-2 = turn left, 3-4 = middle or straight, 5-6 = turn right.</li> </ul> <p>In either <strong>Example A</strong> or <strong>Example B</strong>, the number of matches tells which table to use to look up the d6 result (loose, doubles, or triples,) as per the <a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/09/last-minute-d6-dungeons-drop-dice.html">Drop Dice Exits</a> post.</p> <p>Links to <strong>Last-Minute d6 Dungeons</strong> series:</p> <ol> <li><a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/08/last-minute-d6-dungeons.html">Tunnels</a></li> <li><a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/08/last-minute-d6-dungeons-update.html">Tunnels update</a></li> <li><a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/09/last-minute-d6-dungeons-exit.html">Exits</a></li> <li><a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/09/last-minute-d6-dungeons-drop-dice.html">Drop Dice Exits</a></li> <li><a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/09/last-minute-d6-dungeons-side-exits-from.html">Side Exits Update</a></li> </ol> <p><img alt="Creative Commons license" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></p> <blockquote> <p>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons<br /> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0<br /> International</a><br /> (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.</p> </blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='pfButton'><a href='http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/09/last-minute-d6-dungeons-map-glyphs.html?pfstyle=wp' title='Print an optimized version of this blog post or generate a PDF'><img alt='Print' class='printfriendly' src='http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button-both.gif' style='border:none; 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This helps explain why there is even a need for spell prep and why it is usually done between adventures rather than during them.</p> <p>But one particular idea I’ve had about this spell prep is: some spell prep involves using a material object to make a temporary ethereal duplicate of that object that the spell caster “carries” with them, as if it were equipment. Examples of this for 1st level spells:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Hold Portal</strong> <em>(object: iron spike)</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Casting the spell wedges an invisible spike under the door, preventing the door from moving for a short period of time.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Shield</strong> <em>(object: wooden shield)</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Summons an invisible shield between the caster and opponents the caster is facing at the time of casting.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Magic Missile</strong> <em>(object: arrow)</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Summons an invisible arrow or large dart into the caster’s hand that can be thrown immediately at an opponent.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Light</strong> <em>(object: lit candle)</em></p> </blockquote> <p>When prepped, the light from the candle is “stored” ethereally, attached to whatever is holding the lit candle (M-U’s hand, end of a staff, etc.) When cast, the light becomes visible above the attachment point and moves with it. Max duration = max burn time for a candle.</p> <p>1st level spells would only be able to bring back one quality of the object used (like the light of a candle, or the obstruction ability of an iron spike.) The object itself would not appear (not a conjuration, in other words,) so you couldn’t use <strong>Hold Portal</strong> to summon spikes to use as climbing gear, for example. 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The question assumes in both cases that there’s an extra-dimensional space involved, as mentioned in the <strong>Greyhawk</strong> supplement.</p> <p>But I thought: What if there isn’t?</p> <p>I’ve written before about how I prefer a <a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/04/re-thinking-cosmology.html">one-plane cosmology</a> with a material world that has additional states of matter beyond solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. To maintain that, there couldn’t be any extra-dimensional spaces under my cosmology. So where does the hole part of a portable hole come from? Where do things inside the hole go when it is removed?</p> <p>How I interpret Portable Holes:</p> <ul> <li>Turns a ten-foot long cylinder of connected solid material into <a href="http://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2021/05/mystical-states-ethereal-realm.html">ethereal</a> matter.</li> <li>The effect stops when it hits liquid, gas, or any other non-solid material and does not continue, even if solid matter resumes before the ten-foot range is reached.</li> <li>Objects or living beings that enter the hole at this point aren’t transformed. They are just normal objects occupying space previously filled with solid matter.</li> <li>When the hole is removed, any ethereal matter tries to return to its solid state. If something is already in the same space and can’t be pushed out, it remains ethereal until that space is no longer occupied.</li> </ul> <p>This means that if someone is crawling through a Portable Hole through a stone wall when the hole is removed, they become embedded in stone. 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When rolling for side exits from tunnels, the drop dice method only tells you how far along the tunnel section each exit is, but doesn’t tell you which side of the tunnel it is.</p> <p>I was aware of this, but left it out for a reason: I wasn’t happy with the methods I came up with. There’s basically four obvious methods of dealing with it.</p> <ol> <li>Roll 1d6 or flip a coin for each exit to determine which side.</li> <li>Don’t roll again. Just pick the side that makes the most sense (no connecting back to already-mapped areas, for example.)</li> <li>Make the exit roll do double duty. If d6 result is odd, exit is on North or West side of tunnel, whichever makes sense. If d6 is even, exit is on South or East.</li> <li>Same as #3, but only for first exit in tunnel section. Second exit will be on the side alternate, and third exit will be on the same side as first exit.</li> </ol> <p>Method #1 adds extra dice rolls, right after we trimmed some out, so it’s no good.</p> <p>Method #2 is fine as a general principal to modify random results where needed, but the whole point is to make a random generator.</p> <p>Method #3 is a bit predictable. For example, a loose (no match) d6 result of 1 is a side tunnel, but under this rule, all side tunnels would be on the same side of a tunnel. Method #4 fixes this a little, but still could be more random.</p> <p>But since we are also rolling dice of different colors (two light-colored, one dark-colored,) we could make use of that to modify Method #4.</p> <ol start="5"> <li>If the dark d6 result is odd, the first exit is on the North or West side of the tunnel. If the dark d6 is even, the first exit is on the South or East. Second exit will be on the opposite side, and third exit will be on the same side as the first. Modify any result that would lead back into already-mapped areas.</li> </ol> <p>If we really feel the need for more randomness, flip the second or third exit to the alternate side if the d6 result is the “opposite” of the dark d6. 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