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ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Terry Herc has just published an RPG-themed DIY version of Rory's Story Cubes, provided as PDF templates:
I am a huge fan of Rory’s Story Cubes, which I discovered a few years ago. The core concept is that these d6 are printed with unique and evocative pictures, and you roll them and link the images together to create a story. As soon as I heard about these, I latched onto the idea, and I found them to be incredibly helpful when I got stuck.
https://terryherc.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/spark-dice-a-story-writing-tool/

Instructions for cutting up and gluing the templates over D6s are provided in the blog post, as well as images for creating over 200 different brainstorming dice.
 

jay_rab

New member
I really like the concept behind this, though rather then printing dice out, I saw he was using this site: https://game-icons.net/ and there is a random icon button at the bottom... so you could use that to roll for images without having to print them or overlay them to dice...

but really neat idea, I looked into something like this a while back and to have custom dice printed, it was around $500.00 for the number of dice he was looking at (this is with cheap plastic dice with printed faces)
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
I really like the concept behind this, though rather then printing dice out, I saw he was using this site: https://game-icons.net/ and there is a random icon button at the bottom... so you could use that to roll for images without having to print them or overlay them to dice...
I was thinking myself that an idea prompt generator working along those lines could be neat.

I just wish it was possible to include graphics in generator output, as creating your own interpretation of the resulting images is part of the creative process
 

jay_rab

New member
I was thinking myself that an idea prompt generator working along those lines could be neat.

I just wish it was possible to include graphics in generator output, as creating your own interpretation of the resulting images is part of the creative process
I am wondering if the dice roller for CL could be open to this as I havent looked at the web version but the one in the windows app looks to just be a bunch of images of the numbers, any insight into this @JochenL ?
 

JochenL

CL Byte Sprite
Staff member
Adamantium WoA
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Gamer Lifestyle
Borderland Explorer
The dice generator is the same in both versions. We could add images via URL. This would also be nice for log entries
 

JochenL

CL Byte Sprite
Staff member
Adamantium WoA
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Gamer Lifestyle
Borderland Explorer
Currently we use {"url"|text} for linking. What about {"url"|text|img} for <img> instead of <a> rendering?
This would use the transformation syntax we created for formatting.
It is similar and easy to implement.
 

JohnnFour

Game Master
Staff member
Adamantium WoA
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Gamer Lifestyle
Demonplague Author
Borderland Explorer
Cool. I love these kinds of tools. I've saved it into my Instapaper for later reading.
 
It has to be better than all these bird guts and tea leaves...

I had an idea for a fake SI that searched the internet based on keywords, then used actual conversations of real people modified by the present context, kinda like a parrot bot.

Too bad I'm a throwback, and am likely thinking of something that everyone else already knows about and uses.
 
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