Monday, June 5, 2023

Why so empty?

First thing, I did this late last night so the numbers might be a little off here and there.
 
If you've looked at the Dungeon23 stuff I've been doing, you can't help but notice the amount of empty areas and rooms. This is distressing to me. I place the blame on Table V. F.: Chamber or Room contents pg. 171 AD&D DMG.
 
Being as dissatisfied as I was, I started tinkering. I didn't want to have to start from scratch, I'm old and get tired easily. So I rolled some dice and started scribbling. Draw your own conclusions from the data, I don't remember doing most of this.

I rolled 100 d20 and 100 d6's.

Original table 

1-12 Empty        71
13-14 Monster Only   8
15-17 Monster & Treasure   13
18 Special   4
19 Trick/Trap   1
20 Treasure   3

Harumph! Thatsa whole lotta empty.

Reversed

1 Treasure   7
2 Trick/Trap   4
3 Special   7
4-6 Monster & Treasure   15
7-8 Monster only   12
9-20 Empty   55

Still too much empty...

set on a 1d6 table

1 Empty   15
2 Monster only   25
3 Monster & Treasure   12
4 Special   11
5 Trick/Trap   20
6 Treasure   17

Might have to go with the d6 table.... But since I can't resist messin wit stuff...

Reconfigured

1-2 Empty   11
3 Special   8
4 Monster & Treasure   12
5 Empty   2
6 Monster & Treasure   4
7 Empty   6
8-9 Monster   13
10 Empty   9
11-12 Monster  9
13 Monster & Treasure  5
14 Empty   3
15 Monster & Treasure   9
17 Treasure   8
18 Trick/Trap   6
19-20 Empty   4
 
From here my Dungeon23 stuff will get rolled on the reconfigured table, cause even I thought it was boring.

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