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Barrow and Castle share a kernel — a dead claimant whose appetite outlived them. A market or a river has no corpse in it, so the other two families needed the kernel to generalise, and it does: something wanted a thing, and something was done to keep it that way. Only who "something" is changes. TOWN, on village geometry. The appetite belongs to the place and the claimants are offices — a Corporation, a Watch Committee, a Guild of Mercers. It wants to be prosperous, respectable, safe or necessary, and it priced people out, chartered them away or struck them from the rolls to stay that way. Motifs: ledger, appearances, vigilance, thoroughfare. FOREST, on forest geometry. The appetite belongs to the wood, and the claimants are its own names for itself. It wants to be entered, fed, spread or left uncounted, and it took people, grew through them, or let them wander. Motifs: paths, tithe, reclaiming, trackless. Settlements also needed their own naming rule. A barrow is named for its occupant; a town is not — it has a name and the claimant merely runs it. Packs declare placeNameStyle, so "The Town of Watch Committee" is now Cold Harrow, run by the Watch Committee. Three of fifteen requested themes are done. The remaining twelve are the same job repeated rather than a design question, since all three kernels now exist. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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, 0.10.5 or later.
- ⛏ 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, 39 tests |
foundry-module/ |
the Foundry module, with core/ vendored |
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.