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What Happened to Wizardawn? Suggested replacement?

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:57 am
by GrimlinJoe
I was using wizardawn for their random generation dungeons and tables for one shot solo games. When I went to it today everything had been wiped and all the generators removed. Anybody have any alternatives. I've been trying to run solo one shots using BFRPG and wizardawn made having quick random gen tables easy.

Re: What Happened to Wizardawn? Suggested replacement?

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:55 pm
by chiisu81
While it went from its original home to & Magazine, it looks like it's back to its original owner.
But, looking on that site it's basically become abandonware, whereas users now have to download the whole website/server to use the generators.
What did you like on that site compared to BFRPG's own tools?

Re: What Happened to Wizardawn? Suggested replacement?

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:26 pm
by rredmond
Yeah the code is too old for the site apparently :?

Download and run locally is what the creator of the program says to do.

Re: What Happened to Wizardawn? Suggested replacement?

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:08 pm
by GrimlinJoe
chiisu81 wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:55 pm While it went from its original home to & Magazine, it looks like it's back to its original owner.
But, looking on that site it's basically become abandonware, whereas users now have to download the whole website/server to use the generators.
What did you like on that site compared to BFRPG's own tools?
I would use dungeon door a lot for solo one shots. It worked great for solo play since with its random gens you didnt know what was lurking within each room. Plus the random tables were great. Practically a whole random dungeon campaign with the push of a button. Luckily I printed out a few so I could still run some on the fly. Also they had a whole section for alchemy tables and ingredients.

Re: What Happened to Wizardawn? Suggested replacement?

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 1:35 pm
by GrimlinJoe
Thank you everyone for the assist on this. was able to download the Wizardawn zip files to run this on my own.

Re: What Happened to Wizardawn? Suggested replacement?

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 1:46 pm
by rredmond
Great! And I remember Djeryv's (?) Dungeon Door - the Wizardawn precursor. :)

Good times, glad you are able to get it running, have fun!!

Re: What Happened to Wizardawn? Suggested replacement?

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:50 pm
by teaman
Have you ever used Donjon?

https://donjon.bin.sh

And Andrew Cooper's BFRPG character generator:

http://basicfantasy.andrewcooperonline.com


Hope these are of some help.