Thank you for creating this and Merry Christmas.

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If you send him a PM I am sure he would supply the needed utility for it. I asked him to help me with something recently and he obliged. Go to Comment

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I was a bit torn up about including those. From the standpoint of creating an interesting history, you're right, they're no good. But from the standpoint of creating a historical record, which can be compared against an external timeline, it seems useful to have the potential for quiet periods. If nothing happened at a castle during the Thirty Years War, that could be historically noteworthy in-and-of itself.

In my experience, it doesn't come up very often, so, barring rolling it for a particularly short-lived castle, it doesn't present much of a problem.

A better way of doing it might have been to somehow randomize the time between rolls. Go to Comment

There are two problems with making it into a generator:

First, the Key Characteristics bit requires frequent creative input from the generator. While it can totally be done without that bit, using key Characteristics makes for far more interesting castles.

Secondly, and more importantly, I don't know how to program in Java or Flash or anything useful for an online random generator. If somebody else wants to convert it, I say go for it, but it's beyond me. Go to Comment

Sort of. There is no Key Characteristic chart, because it's intended for you to add your own as you go, as a way of connecting events over the castle's timeline, defining a starting situation for the castle, and adding elements of your own setting.

If there was a chart, and it had something like orcs on it, then it would be less useful for a castle built on Earth, or in a setting where there are no orcs. Go to Comment

@Echo: We do want things to happen, but sometimes nothing of note happens. Considering there are a mere handful of 'Nothings' in the chart, I'd say that balances noteworthy with mundane nicely.

@DLM: I second Echo, in that I can see this being used easily. It might also benefit from being converted into a random generator program, considering you've done most of the hard work for it (the content generation).

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Great idea. It reminds me of reading randomly generated history in Dwarf Fortress. A really easy way to generate the background for a place. Go to Comment

This is a fun write up. I enjoyed making a few castles. 

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 Agreed!  Great sub and can be converted to a generator.

Regarding the comment on key generation needing work, this is true with all random generators - these just provide a set of data a GM uses to form the timeline.

 

 

 

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I approve!

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Is it just me or is the Key Characteristic chart missing? Other than that, great sub! Go to Comment

These are awesome!!! Go to Comment

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Hillarious, I wish I had thought of it. 5/5

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Most of these made me laugh, and each of them is definitely usable without much trouble.

As a random aside, I was reading #11 and thought, "That title should be `Don't stop believing`". Best said while singing Journey.

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Witty. Funny. Thought-provoking. Usable. Neat. A great 30 which i somehow overlooked in my travels. Quite a few had the lol factor, like #12 for example. Great job.

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Pretty darn  cool Dragonlordmax!

Great twists to be used.

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Funny, useable and well written. I like the anecdotes too, they bring each twist alive. Great stuff.

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Some of these are a bit too "magicky" for me, considering that this is a 30 based on unintended consequences of R&D.  "It's Alive" and "Infernal Contraption" are two cases in point.  Still, this is a genuinely useful 30s sub with many good-to-great idea seeds.

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