brandtdamman / campaign-gen

Revival of an old suite of programs originally written while in early highschool. Rewritten using better practices and a better understanding of programming.

Campaign Generator

Table of Contents

• About
• Purpose
• Usage
• License

About

Origin

Throughout the period 2013-2015 (sigma one year), I wrote a series of applications:

• RPG Character
• Fantasy Map Generator
• Dungeon

While occasionally vague, the programs were the first large projects I developed in my early years of programming. A compilation of these programs was developed as Campaign Generator (or CampaignGen). This encompassed all three programs under a common application and color scheme.

Revival

Fast forward to the time of writing (approx. seven years), I have decided to look back at the projects and observe how clunky and mismanaged they were. CampaignGen as a whole is an excellent project and would be beneficial for many people; however, the state I left it in was not worth distributing publicly.

After almost eight years, I hereby introduce the repository where CampaignGen will be rewritten and be readily available for beginning and veteran RPG players alike.

Current Progress

Progress related to the revival can be found in Projects and Wiki. It is likely the revival timeframe will take a year to complete with other projects and academic work taking a higher precedent. Information listed in subsequent sections may be inaccurate at times. See Projects and Issues for possible circumstances.

Purpose

As partially mentioned in the previous section, CampaignGen was designed to aid a beginning player/GM with the early creation of characters, maps, and/or dungeons. This is successfully done via the multiple different sub-programs and usage of OSRIC. Other RPG handbooks may be used; however, OSRIC is licensed under Open Game License and more readily redistributable in specific fashions. It is left to the user to create the necessary database files for other RPG games (Pathfinder, AD&D, etc.)

Usage

CampaignGen is to be run on a Windows installation. Included in the repository is an InnoSetup script which can be compiled to produce the necessary SQLite database files and executables.

Installation

Not presently applicable.

Running

Not presently applicable

License

See LICENSE for further details. In short, follow the provided GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 for this repository and subsequent changes or self-forks.