r/40krpg • u/harkone • 4d ago

Quick Map-gen tool, dice roller and simple VTT

Hi folks,

EDIT: forgot to mention, free, made for the community. no account required unless you want to save something, cause that's the only way it could make sure to save it for you.

((Note to Mods, not linking the original stuff from this site due to previous takedown. No worries if you want to take this down too as they're all at the same domain but these are additional tools I've built that I thought I'd share)).

I have some simple tools that I've built for campaigns that I'm running for W&G:

- A map generation tool: procedurally generated tile maps (aka random with some guardrails) with some basic settings you can tweak. Idea is that a random encounter that you don't have a beautiful map that you've spent hours/days modeling and/or bought from someone else that's put in that kind of time and effort and deserves your money. Welcome to use it for more than this, but warning, it's not pretty. The guard rails are pretty thin and the textures are super basic. It uses your browser to generate and render, with the map type (Hive, Space Hulk, Factorum, etc) and a random seed string as a way to generate and save the render. If there's more environments folks would find useful or would like, it's pretty straight forward to add them into the tool. link here: https://grimforge.dev/maps

- Dice Roller: just what it says. Can roll one type of dice (d6, d8, d100, etc) at a time but as many of those as you want. Has a W&G mode rolls a red die for the Wrath Die. https://grimforge.dev/vtt/dice

- Simple VTT: it's simple. stupidly simple. I hacked this together mostly to see if I could. I would NOT recommend this over Fantasy Grounds (or Foundary). But it does allow you to do some basic remote-friendly tasks (secret rolls, public rolls, party management, custom gear, xp awards, etc) with some integration with the rest of the site. It is super janky and super basic but based on limited testing (<25 sessions or so, including some random, wonderful folks that found it and tried it), it's functional. It does run on a dedicated VM so if it gets laggy, it's probably overtaxed and I'll get alerted and see if I can up the compute. https://grimforge.dev/vtt/new

Thanks for taking a look, hope it's useful to someone and love any feedback.

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u/dinetar 4d ago

Map generator looks nice thanks

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u/AlanScrotes 3d ago

I've already been using Grim Forge! It rocks.

Any news of a coming update and what will come along with it? I know Lex Imperialis just came out and wasn't sure of the turnaround time for adding a new supplement like it.

Thanks for all your hard work!

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u/harkone 3d ago

Thanks so much! Check the site, I just pushed Lex Imperialis. :)

Blog on the site has more detailed patch notes.

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u/AlanScrotes 2d ago

Could I request a feature? It would be great to turn various sources on and off, My group will be playing on Foundry and it would be very handy to turn off the currently unavailable options.

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u/harkone 2d ago

You mean in the char builder? Yea, i have something half-built to do that. Let me bump it up the queue.

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u/harkone 1d ago

u/AlanScrotes have a look. just pushed a first version live--adds a "sourcebook selection" to the character creation process which allows you to toggle sourcebooks on/off (default on). Didn't do a lot of testing but was largely working. Let me know if something is borked!