The maps it makes are seeded. So if I tell you I really like seed #2961, The Rank Vault of Seer Gargidious, and you click that link, you’ll see the exact same dungeon I do. This means you can bookmark the links and return at any time to see the same dungeon.

The dungeons are all randomly created. They’ll always start with a set of stairs leading to a corridor, or a spiral stair descending into a room, and there will be at least one door, then off it goes from there.

There are a few settings you can control. Map size gives the DungeonDeviser an indication of how big you want the output (though it’s not a room count). But picking map size 1 will get you a much smaller map than map size 4. You can also turn off the map titles. I’ll be honest, I love them, but I appreciate you may want to use your own names! You can remove the colours to make it monochrome. Finally you can hide the help panel at the bottom which explains all of the above.

I have other plans in mind for this tool. I want to add special rooms and DM notes (I’ll do separate numbers and explanations, so you can leave the numbers on but hide my explanations so you can describe your own rooms). The artwork comes from a single file as well, so I’m thinking it’d be nice to do a sci-fi tileset.

I’m trying to figure out an interactive mode as well, where the map only reveals as you open doors. But that was giving me a headache so it got pushed back!

Despite all my plans, I’ll do my damnedest not to interrupt the order of the randomiser. That means seeds you find and like today should stay the same no matter what I add. If I can’t manage it I’ll make an archived version available so you can finish your games.

If you find any issues with DungeonDeviser please just drop me a message. Ideally along with the seed where you saw the issue. I know of one problem, but I’ve only seen it once in thousands of tests, so I’m not too worried!

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That’s not to say I’ve been idle in my various hobbies, just that I various factors made updating the old blog tricky, so I just.. didn’t! But that’s all going to change with the wonderful new blog. KIV is BlokeCrafted!

A rebrand, and a new name, I want to include a wider range of crafty things on here, including for example some of the woodworking projects I undertake, so I wanted something less focussed. To be fair, KIV came from Kataan IV, which was the name of my Imperial Guard homeworld I built my army around, so I’d already gone quite far afield from that.

Most of the same projects should be here, I think all the images will still be working fine too. The IG Designer is still up at the same address (and don’t worry, I plan to rebuild it before December when the browsers finally put the last nail in Flash’s poor coffin), and I have another new tool coming out soon.

Expect lots of posts on here over the next few days as I’m currently furloughed and taking the opportunity to document all my undocumented projects!

Glad you stopped by, hope you stick around, cheers, Si.

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If you notice any issues (like I just spotted the text in the IHMN CC tool was white in white boxes, nice) then please use the contact page to let me know and I'll sort it asap.

Cheers folks.

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But we both enjoyed the game, so hopefully we'll get quite a few more in. I'm the modeller out of me and the guy I play with, so I'll be providing all the pieces and the new table I'm working on, but that's fine by me. Just hope I'm not complete crap at the game! New rule, let the modeller win..

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It started when I had a strange fixation with building a walker. Which led me to the idea of a steampunk walker. Which all inevitably led me to In Her Majesty's Name, a rather splendid rule set for skirmish battles in a Victorian Sci Fi setting. For those who don't know it takes place in the late 1890s, where a multitude of organisations around the world all vie for power, represented by small companies (warbands) on their behalf.

So you have the Scotland Yard boys, a bunch of coppers led by an inspector and occasionally aided by a super sleuth and his medically proficient aide. And you have a group of explorers; hunters, socialites and natives all rambling around darkest Africa. Prussians rock up with their reanimated soldiers. There's even a few cowboys riding around.

I've bought the rule book (twice, once on Kindle then in paperback!) and the first expansion Heroes Villains and Fiends. Not played yet but the rules seem to flow quite nicely. But then as you know I've never been a gamer, so for me it's more about the world to play in. I love how the background isn't explicitly laid down and defined and controlled (grim dark future I'm looking at you here!). It's hinted at in a few pages, the world is structured, but then you're intentionally left to run riot through their setting. Suits me down to the ground.

As usual when inspiration takes me I've jumped in with both feet. I've started assembling two companies with enough models for another couple. I've built a steam vehicle just as a random aside. And I've started a modular Victorian London town! It only needs to be 3ft square for the game, so I've decided to do it on 36 6" tiles.

I'll get some blogs up this weekend with the various projects of course. Oh and I hope you like the new site design. The old grunge one was feeling a bit dated and was too tied to the scifi modelling I'm doing less of.

On the meantime here's links to the (incredibly reasonably priced) IHMN books on Amazon:

In Her Majesty's Name

Heroes, Villains and Fiends

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On and off I'm working on some futuristic scenery. Not a war torn battlefield for 40k, but rather an actual future city for something like 5150:New Beginnings by TwoHourWargames. Like the idea of that game, though I'll be honest still not waded through the massive rulebook.

I'm also backing the current Mantic Kickstarter for Deadzone, their Necromunda-alike game. Which could work quite nicely in my new planned terrain.

Shapeways/squat stuff has taken a bit of a back seat. Not wanting to share the blame, since I know how bad I am at completing projects, but this time it was Wayland's fault. My last two orders have taken over a month to arrive, which really kills the vibe. So I'm afraid those are my last two orders with them and I'll be searching for an alternative 3rd party provider. Possibly Total Wargamer, but who knows.

Got lots of other ideas bouncing around my head but not really sure which to go with so before I jump in with both feet I'm testing the water this time. I'll post with actual updates when I have actual things to update

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I'm going to wind up both my blogs, KataanIV and Stadtheim, I've already imported all the content back into the site. I'll go post on there in a bit just to inform my handful of followers.

The site offers me a lot more flexibility with regards to content, layout and random stuff I can throw in. It does mean things like rss feeds are missing, if you would like me to add a feed let me know.

I've done a fair amount of testing on latest browsers (minor IE9 bug to resolve with the post update icons), but if you spot any issues please let me know. I'll get a contact form up asap. I'm also going to enable comments, think the comment script is still working. If you have anything to say please do!

And to celebrate the new site I've reposted the articles section and just finished my latest article, making medieval hand carts from balsa. I'm using these to decorate Stadtheim and give desperately needed cover to the footsloggers.

I'm also working on two new warbands which I'll document here in due course. An undead warband led by a female vampire, and a barbarian warband proxying as Norse.

Hopefully things will drive forward a lot, I've spent a lot of time making the site a hell of a lot easier to administrate. The point being if it's easy to use maybe I'll use it more! Fingers crossed anyway.

Cheers for stopping by. Tell your friends!

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I’m currently planning a new army to take over from the now complete Praetorians. I’m eyeing up a Slaanesh Cult built on the Grey Knights codex, mainly because it allows me the flexibility I want without being my third Imperial Guard army!

I’ve only started one model which will be my stormraven proxy based around a rather cool VTOL Landspeeder storm conversion I saw on dakka. I’ll get photos up once I’m somewhere useful.

That said I’ve just ordered the Space Marine megaforce that GW are currently offering. They don’t do deals that are genuine bargains very often (the last I recall are the Armageddon bulk purchase things), so seemed churlish not to partake. Especially when I already had 30 quid sat in my paypal account. 100 pound on the credit card and Robert’s your mother’s brother. As such my Angels of Elutriation may be making a return to the blog. We’ll see. I might chop up the land raider for the Cult.

Hopefully posts will be more regular for a while, assuming Skyrim doesn’t steal all my time over the Christmas break

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If you're not a member over there it's well worth a visit. I'm a member of a lot of gw related forums but AB is pretty much the only place I post. There's no bitching and petty arguments, no over zealous mods editing your posts before you've even hit submit, and no fething whinging about prices. Just a lot of very talented folks showing off shiny stuff.

And now I sound like an advert so I'm going.

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So I thought I'd fill that gap. There's still plenty to do but here's the current feature list:
 

• 5 pre-created regiments to start your design
• Interchangable elements from all 5 regiments
• Three colour palettes and custom hex code entry
• Saving and loading of designs

 

Next big thing I'm going to work on is a camo designer. Not entirely sure how it will function yet but I want to make it a free as possible whilst still being save-able (which probably means a range of recolourable precreated patterns).

Would love to hear any feedback. Once the camo tool is done I'm going to promote this around a few other forums and move it to a sort of open beta type phase. If it proves popular enough I'll work out a slick user control system so you won't have the rather clunky url get string method of saving, but we'll have to see.

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