v2.2 Encounter Generator (JavaScript/JQuery)

[wolffhound79]

Thank you for sharing this , this is awesome. I see the potential here for helping to map out areas ahead of where my players are moving to help speed up the game.

[Tegyrius]

Originally Posted by wolffhound79

Thank you for sharing this , this is awesome. I see the potential here for helping to map out areas ahead of where my players are moving to help speed up the game.

Excellent! I hope it turns out to be useful. If any of the added material yields cool stories, I'd love to hear about it.

- C.

[Tegyrius]

Updates to the expanded encounter generator since last post in this thread:

Cargo tables:
- Added national origin to appropriate smugglers' goods and other cargos.
- Added various products of post-apocalyptic chemistry.
- Cleaned up, expanded, and rationalized merchant cargos.
- Added livestock of various types to merchant cargos.
- Expanded trailer types and their corresponding cargo types.

Villages:
- Added villages' prewar economies for flavor and story seeds.
- Added warlord's personal troops to the defense forces of villages with the appropriate government model.
- Expanded list of trouble plot hooks in villages.
- Smugglers, stragglers, merchant convoys, patrols, military convoys, and large units may also be encountered passing through villages.

Farms:
- Farm encounters in cantonment territory may involve military agriculture.
- Ruined farms may instead be marauder-occupied farms.

Military convoys and large units:
- Some large units will be regimental/brigade/division command units.
- Expanded and rationalized engineering units' vehicles.
- Artillery units usually will be organized around a single gun or MLR type.
- Some military convoys will be repair/maintenance units or fueling units in motion.

Patrols:
- In cantonment and organized territory, some patrols will be training units.
- Added couriers as a variant patrol encounter, as well as possible additions to merchant convoys and villages.
- In independent and organized territory, some patrol encounters will be community militias rather than regular troops.

River encounters:
- Incidental additions to list of boat and gunboat hull types.
- Added river-specific military engineering unit as a sub-variant of military rover convoys.
- Added river-specific variants of refugee, roadblock, and marauder camp encounters.
- Encounters on rivers that flow through woods and swamps have greater (i.e., more plausible for navigable waterways) encounter ranges.

Merchant encounters:
- Added table of subtypes for traveling religious figures.
- Added table of subtypes for traveling entertainers.

Derelict trains:
- Cargo may now appear in intermodal containers atop flatcars.
- Added various special railcar types.
- There is a low probability that locomotives will be damaged but salvageable.

Miscellaneous:
- Pintle-mounted weapons may have gun shields of varying AV.
- Civilian vehicles are possible in some encounters.
- Some roadblocks (and, less frequently, some marauder camps) are fortified to varying levels.
- Removed Wear values from non-derelict vehicles, as it's not immediately relevant to the encounter.
- Added battlefield full of wrecks as another crater encounter variant.
- Chance of a dog encounter being a single friendly dog.

Software architecture and UI:
- Many under-the-hood changes for efficiency and ease of maintenance.
- Reworked architecture. Many functions are now in external JavaScript files rather than in the main HTML document to make debugging and future additions easier.
- Moved buttons to force-generate/debug specific encounter types to a floating sidebar.

- C.

[wolffhound79]

im excited to give this try when I final get home.

[rcaf_777]

what no bridging section?

[Ursus Maior]

I love this, thanks!

[unipus]

Excellent update, thanks! I've used this a few times in the prior version and it's often very handy.

One recommendation/formatting request? Maybe bolding some of the type would be useful for skimming an encounter on the fly? For instance:

>>
This is a patrol of 7 troops. They are Experienced NPCs with military small arms and a(n) light mortar. They are moving by semi-tractor w/ tanker semi-trailer.

Leader motivations: somewhat greedy (diamond 3), wise (heart jack).