I like the other generators but this one has: " Unrestrained Lust Creature wants to mate. Now. Anything alive will do. And then the next one. And the next. If you don’t want to, it will force you to, even if this means killing you before the mating takes place."

So, no. No no no no nope. No thanks.

The Elegant Fantasy Dungeon Generator is a great generator to use whenever you approach your usual crawl in the dungeon. It keeps things very staright foward with each step to come up with different elements to your dungeon. The tables will provide you easily what your dungeon looks like and it's mood, origins, how it became one, features based on room size, doors, corridors, hidden passages, and your dungeon heart. Which the dungeon heart can link with the origins tables on page 5. Though you can make it how you like it to be intended for.

Now the approach with a rough sketch of your dungeon is by drawing circles based on what room size it is. There are three: Small, Big, Huge. If you make any room based on these three sizes. it will offer basic features for small rooms, advanced features for big rooms, and complex for huge rooms. You are encouraged to add a bit to spice up your rooms. It will also explain also the layout in it and give you some gameplay time:

• Small rooms are ~15 minutes of gameplay
• Big rooms are ~30 minutes of gameplay
• Huge rooms are ~60 minutes of gameplay

I will say with this approach to how you can layout plus add/remove rooms based on a minimal appraoch may not be for everyone. Especially with some rulebooks can state your player character's movement rates, light provided by torches, combat rules, throwable items that effect an area and so forth. Though once you finish your dungeon as the baseline you could go back and determine how small or big they are and draw that on graph paper. The portion of room features when laying out your dungeon will give you the type of feature and a description of that type. This can help after you add in additional room contents from the rulebook you choose to get an idea of what the area looks like. Overall if you are looking to heavily focus on dungeon crawling and to roll on some tables to make your place interesting then I highly reccomend this.

The 5 stars begin with the fact of this being a Pay what you want thing! Following that, the quality is awesome. You generate a combination of features for artifacts, and not only you get a fluff word but also a description that can evoke meaning to the results you get. Presentation and format is clean and concise. Could be a bit more compressed as it seems a bit that there's too much space.

I dig this one. Mr. Sadowski packs a big punch in a simple little 16-page PDF. Like the tome of adventure design, the EFCG concentrates on 'top-down' generation. Rather than rolling stats it generates creature's shape, size and attributes and leaves it to the DM to assemble & stat up in the end. Although it means more work for the long-suffering DM, the possibilities are limitless. The first few tables remind me of Raggi's RECG a little bit (is that really a crime?) and it distinguishes itself elsewhere so I'm fine with that.

It includes a few entries rarely seen in creature generators, like "static" for creatures that don't move, or the classic "swarm." The Mental Faculties table was a nice touch too. The Random Features section is a really good mix. Special abilities, visual quirks and odd behaviours all mixed together, so you really don't know what direction it'll take you. If he had only covered the basics this would still be pretty decent, but the Finishing Touches section puts the icing on. Peculiar Circumstances, the Weirdifier and Horrifier tables add strange behaviours, compulsions or abilities that you almost never see in these things, like "oneiric - you will have ominous dreams about its presence long before you even meet it." Fuck yeah.

Number of Rolls? There are 9 tables, but Sadowski encourages the reader to continue rolling until the idea comes together. I didn't use every table and made 12 rolls on my first try. Would I use this in the middle of a session? No way. Sadowski explicitly says not to in the introduction. Variety and Reusability? Looks like it has enough possible combinations to get over the 'almost infinite' hump. I'll be using this one again for sure.

originally posted to terriblesorcery.blogspot.ca

Great! I used it as an "idea generator" for drawing creature design thumbnails. I really like the "Random features" part + the "Attitude randomizer", and the way results combines with other tables of this book to imagine a creature, its behavior, and its place in an imaginary world facing other creatures randomly generated. I recommend this Creature Generator for this use. Seems to be interesting in game too but I haven't tested it yet. :)