Note: "Fluff" refers to anything created by DMs that is the actual content of a setting, campaign, and session, as distinguished from "crunch," the statistical information for a characer or monster. Though I do sometimes generate crunch in the forms of characters in specific games like Maze Rats, the primary goal is to generate intercompatible, system-agnostic content here.
The FluffGen blog has the goal of providing a series of free, easy-to-use content generators written in JavaScript for OSR D&D-style games. Most of the content is either system-agnostic or playable with OSR OD&D/AD&D games, such as Swords & Wizardry, Labyrinth Lord, or Old School Essentials. The idea is for things to be simple yet highly effective, and ultimately culminate in a complex project I've been calling ProcJenny or Hexcrawl, a combination hexmap terrain generator, world builder, and DM tabletop aid that is capable of outputting all created content to PDF for easy printing. Though I've begun prototyping certain aspects of it, I do not yet have a working demo, but hope to complete one by mid-year 2022.
I've figured out basically how to put JavaScript onto blogger, but may occasionally also link to JSFiddle or GitHub if the project is larger. My goal is to provide DMs not only with useful datasets (always in JSON) for roleplaying, but also with a basic engine and interface to use these datasets. Thus a DM can access a blog post on a phone that generates a Maze Rats or Knave character, hand it to a player whose character just died, or generate a bunch of characters and then print them out for use anywhere in a session of play.
I've always felt like there are so many cool and interesting tools and the OSR is great, but sometimes it can be cumbersome for an internet-age geek like me to do everything by hand, as I'm not exceedingly skilled at hand-drawing, and often enjoy using the wealth of materials created online to run specific adventures.
Yet the thrill of creation takes numerous forms, and this project can also tick some boxes for the Web Development bootcamp I'm currently in.
Enjoy!
