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Hey everyone! I've been working on this D&D tool called DNDToolbox for a few years now on and off as a passion project. I just released some new features that I would love feedback on! It's a free site (no ads, no registration required) where DM's can generate random items, encounters and NPCs to use in your sessions. You can try it out here: www.dndtoolbox.app

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Piece of advice, don't call it DnD so you don't catch the gaze of ~~sauron~~ hasbro

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It also implies it's limited to DnD, though I think all of it, or most of it at least, works with Pathfinder as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

How about rpgtoolbox.app?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point. It was the only domain name I could think of

[–] techwizrd 2 points 11 months ago

What about something like "roll for loot" or "loot table", or even "RPG toolbox"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looks great! I use a similar system in my Obsidian notebook for my campaign. You might consider connecting it to the Stable Horde for text and image generation instead of ChatGPT. It’s a bit more complicated, but totally free.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing! I'd never heard of Stable Horde before that looks awesome, I'll check it out!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This seems really well done, but it's only useful if you need truly random stuff. It'd be great if we could limit the randomness; for example we need a random sword specifically, or a random encounter with a specific subset of enemies, etc. Pure random is nice for random loot or magic shop items, but often you'll need a something more specific.

Edit: Also, for the NPCs, it'd be great to be able to reroll only specific parts of the NPC if we got one that is good but needs a few things to be different only.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the feedback! At one point it was possible to customize the generation a lot like you said and even edit the properties directly but it started to feel like work instead of a fun side project so I scrapped it. It might be worth taking another look.

It's not exactly part of the site directly but I did connect a custom ChatGPT to the generation functions which allows you to use it inside ChatGPT. I've been experimenting with it for the past few days and it is able to modify the generated content based on the context of your campaign really well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It is very well made, polished and all items are interesting. The only thing it might be useful is a filter used for narrowing down if I need something random but more specific (like only swords, only rings and amulets, etc...)

[–] simonmicro 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For a university project I've scraped a shitload of stuff from dndbeyond.com (primarly the homebrew section) - are you interested in that? I would have to dig if I still have the raw data available (were processed with some ai-model later).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah that sounds pretty interesting!