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slaguru666andClaude Opus 5 d47a167fd0 Packs go to schema 2, so the catalog stamp records the new roster field

beat.mjs embeds a pack's roster verbatim into every area, so adding
beforeInitiative changed the shape of the emitted delve file — and two files
from the same seed could carry different structures under identical stamps.

The change originates in the packs, not in the generator's composition, so it
belongs to catalogVersion rather than GENERATOR_VERSION: the packs are at
schema 2 and a file now stamps barrow@2. The note on GENERATOR_VERSION says
which stamp owns which kind of change, since that was the ambiguity.

README's test counts were still 39 and silent about the adapter suite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-06 00:52:08 +01:00

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DELVE

An authoring system and Foundry VTT module for the VANITY tabletop RPG. Press one button and it generates a whole dungeon — fiction, areas, maps, encounters, hoards and a journal you can read cold — then drops it into your world.

Install (Foundry)

Add-on Modules → Install Module → Manifest URL:

https://github.com/slaguru666/vanity-delve/releases/latest/download/module.json

Requires the VANITY system, 0.10.4 or later — that is the release the Forge seams landed in, and without them a delve emits nine stray chat cards and three stray folders.

⛏ raise a dungeon
🗑 remove one you don't want — it deletes exactly what it made and nothing else
⏩ stage a delve you finished at the desk

Also a CLI

core/ is pure JavaScript with no Foundry dependencies, so a delve can be generated, rerolled and finished outside the VTT:

node core/cli.mjs --new --seed=my-delve --file=my.json
node core/cli.mjs --file=my.json --worksheet    # everything, with prompts for what only you can write
node core/cli.mjs --file=my.json --reroll=3:situation
node core/cli.mjs --file=my.json --play         # the tight, table-facing sheet

What it does and does not do

It generates the fiction, the order and the pressure. It does not write your read-aloud text or your climax, and it says so — those are prompts, not output. It gets you to a strong first draft in a minute instead of an evening, then gets out of the way.

DESIGN.md has the whole design history, including four rounds of adversarial review and two paper playtests that failed before anything worked.

Layout


`core/`	the generator — pure JS, 41 tests
`foundry-module/`	the Foundry module, with `core/` vendored — 60 tests
`paper/`	a hand-written delve and both playtest logs
`spike/`	the harness that measured VANITY's Forge outside Foundry
`samples/`	generated output

Licence

MIT — see LICENSE.

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