Happy New Year folks! I typed up a rules primer for the various mechanics associated with underworld exploration in original Dungeons & Dragons. This was something I did for players in my current games. I like my players to be aware of the game rules so that they can make well-informed decisions during play. I thought others out there may find such a document helpful. Or not. Of course, this document will contain nothing new or exciting for those who have played the original game extensively.
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Similar to my AI-generative experiments with MidJourney, I’ve been dabbling with AI to produce expanded content for homebrew campaign settings. It’s been kind of fun to upload some basic outlines and concepts to something like ChatGPT and then watch what it spits out. After some back and forth fine-tuning, the results end up pretty good (in my opinion). The re-skinned dwarfs I was calling the Komari Xul from the last post turned out pretty good. That started with little more than the Bazen Pur files in my links section and a detailed prompt outlining some thematic goals and sources of inspiration. Below is another example for a OD&D re-skinned halfling class using the same approach and files.
Komari Xul –The Severed Breed
A re-skinned OD&D Dwarf Fighting-man for the Bazen Pur Campaign Setting
“We Were Not Born. We Were Broken Into Being.”
Overview
The Komari Xul are not a natural people. They are a crafted breed, shaped by inhuman hands in steaming flesh-vats beneath the Peaks of Dawn, where light could not reach and screams echoed for centuries. They were not born of womb or love, but conjured from clay, bone slush, and fire-glass. Their flesh is packed dense with calcified memory; their sinews laced with arcane ligament runes.