UNnatural Language Processing

I was reading about Natural Language Processing - i'm trying to learn how to noodle around with Python. Why? Well, I was going to use it to extract all sorts of cool words from the influences upon D&D, and create tables for Mythic GM Emulator. That's down the road, I think but I'm grokking the prinicples and it's not a bad way to learn.

I'm still mucking around with Python, but I did install it, read up on it, installed the Natural Language Toolkit, and a bunch of packages.

Meanwhile, I give you the 100 most common word-clusters/Noun-Phrases from all the prose stories that HPL wrote hisself. It looks like the most common non-stop words (that is, not included in the most frequently occuring English words) are: Time, Old, House, and Night. But Never and Strange are fairly close behind (time and old are far away more frequent). These were collected by software called KHCoder 3, and I got the corpus from GothicChic's pdf, converted to text. I will scrub the stopwords, maybe, but then all the fun stats change and you never know what you'll get that way.

old man old ones one night mr. ward great ones great race black stone such things first time other gods one thing charles ward dr. willett terrible old man old days old house young man joseph curwen other things nameless city other hand one day table of contents next day other side strange things young ward ancient house young men great old new england old woman one side old town old people unknown kadath old whateley million years old men earth's gods outside world many years old legends many things old folk old world cold waste same time old joseph curwen black man old sea randolph carter old tales bearded man dead city last night great abyss one man small hours one place sunset city human world old zadok two years ground floor open space old times dead man old bugs stone floor kind o other times human beings certain things the street mrs. ward old ephraim old keziah waking world town street other end water street great old ones land city outer world new city house of stone aout o white ship great cthulhu attic room black abyss one time great deal strange days next morning dark man two men other time new york

WHO KNOWS WHAT THE FUTURE MIGHT BRING? THE STARS ARE NEARLY RIGHT

DunjonCorp Traps

Jumping aboard a bandwagon I think but I had this in the pot cooking before the current fashion. This is my table smith table sections for traps and features. Ought to be pretty self-explanatory except for some of the code. Started ought as strictly Moldvay Basic style, then added some from Kabuki Kaiser's RoTU and the 1e DMG

The intent is to keep them on their toes and give them lots of stuff to play with. It's DCC oriented at the moment with some 3.5 influence also

Peace be upon you

TRAPS

1. AL x 10' Deep Pit 1d6 damage
2. AL x 10' Deep Pit with Spikes 1d8 damage
3. Cesspit - DC 15 Reflex or fall in, DC 15 Fort or catch random disease
4. AL x 20' Deep Pit 2d6 damage per 10'
5. AL x 20' Deep Pit with Spikes 2d8 damage per 10'
6. Slowing Gas - slow for 4 turns, DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save
7. Blinding Gas - blind for 4 turns, DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save
8. Poison Gas - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or {Calc~%Level%*5} damage
9. Hail Of Needles - 10 attacks per PC as fighter of Level %Level% doing 1 damage
10. Falling Stones - d6 damage per PC
11. Fusilade Of Darts - 4 attacks per PC as fighter of Level %Level% causing 1d3 damage
12. Burning Oil Shower - d6 damage plus 1 per round for Level %Level% rounds
13. Mummy Rot Powder - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or cursed as per mummy
14. Acid Rain - %Level%d4 damage plus damage to items
15. Javelin - d10 damage plus %Level%d4
16. Contact Poison - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or die
17. Shocking Grasp - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Reflex save vs {Calc~%Level%+8}
18. Cold Glyph - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or {Calc~%Level%*2}
19. Negative Energy Glyph - Save or lose 1 energy level
20. Phantasmal killer - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Will save or Die, passed = random insanity
21. Lightning bolt - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Reflex save or {Dice~5d6} damage, passed = half
22. Monomolecular scythe - attack everyone as Level %Level% Fighter for d20 damage, crits decapitate as Vorpal Sword
23. Disintegration Beams - DC {Dice~2d10+5} Reflex Save or {Calc~%Level%*10} damage
24. Radiation Field Projector - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or random major corruption
25. Tachyon Bolt - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Reflex save or age d100 years
26. Undeath Glyph - Awaken all undead, turn nearby recent dead into zombies
27. Rust Glyph - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Will save or lose all non-magic metallic items
28. Sonic Glyph - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or deafness for 4 turns
29. Mud Glyph - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Reflex save or mired in room for 4 turns
30. Arrrow trap - unluckiest PC gets Attack with d20+5 1d10 damage
31. Arrow trap, poisoned unluckiest PC gets Attack with d20+5 1d10 damage and random poison DC 15
32. Ball trap - all PCs in marching order DC 15 Reflex save
33. Caltrops - DC 14 Reflex save or 1d6 damage
34. Caltrops, poisoned - DC 14 Reflex save or 1d6 damage and poison or disease
35. Ceiling block falls - 1d3 unluckiest get a DC 14 Reflex save or 2d12 damage
36. Ceiling collapses - everybody DC 14 Reflex save or death - all stunned
37. Ceiling lowers - find the mechanism with DC 17 Intelligence check in 4 rounds or all die!
38. Chute - into an oubliette or down 1d3 levels on whole party
39. Door, falling - one door has a pit trap behind - roll under Agility to avoid falling
40. Door, one way - will not open from other side
41. Door, resisting - needs a DC 17 Strength check to open
42. Door, specific - only opens with specific command or item
43. Door, spring - door flies open and DC 15 Reflex save or 1d12 damage
44. Floor, collapsing - suddenly, the whole party makes DC 15 to avoid falling into the depths
45. Floor, illusionary - make a DC 13 Will save to disbelieve
46. Gas, blinding - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or -4 to all attacks
47. Gas, corroding - all items have a 1-5 on Action dice usage to fall apart
48. Gas, panic - everyone moves at +4 in the Initiative order for {Dice~1d4} turns but all actions are at -1d
49. Gas, nausea - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or roll -2d for initiative and -1d for Actions for {Dice~1d4} turns
50. Gas, obscuring - vision impaired while random monsters arrive, party loses surprise
51. Gas, poison - DC {Dice~1d10+12} Fort save or take 1d6 Stamina damage
52. Vacuum chamber - within {Dice~1d4+2} turns, the breathable air from this area and nearby {Dice~1d4} rooms is evacuated

Feature

1. 3,Half-flooded with waist-high water. Next {Dice~1d4+1} rooms are also flooded
2. 3,Refuse & Putrid Smell
3. 3,Pixel mosaics, animated
4. 3,Voxel sculptures, lewd [Special]
5. 3,Statue from an ancient civilization: [Special]
6. 5,Broken scientific equipment
7. Magic Circle: [Special]
8. 3,Common Fungi blossom all around
9. 3,Slime Patches - 1 in 10 is monstrous and dormant
10. 3,{Dice~1d12} Shipping Containers containing {Dice~2d500} [NMS_Junk.Start]
11. Cryostasis tombs - {Dice~1d4} slabs: {Bold~[Monster]}
12. 3,{Dice~1d4} Mummified corpses: disturbing them causes [Special]
13. 5,Slithering sound
14. 2,Fire pit - 10 percent chance still lit down there
15. 2,Broken and decaying furniture - space station style
16. 2,{Dice~1d4} Thrones - disturbing summons {Bold~[Monster]}
17. Altar - [Special]
18. 5,Mechanical grinding sound
19. 5,Mechanical thumping sound
20. 5,Alarm screeching causes {Bold~[Monster]} to arrive in next turn
21. 2,Weapon racks - {Dice~1d4} ancient mono-scimitars, void grenades, or blasters
22. 2,Hyperbraziers and charcoal - inhaling fumes causes [Special]
23. 2,Ancient battlefield with {Dice~2d20} skeletons and their wargear
24. 5,Obscene hand-painted frescoes - viewing too long causes [Special]
25. 2,Mouldering Tapestries, worth {Dice~2d500} gp but weigh 1000gp
26. Large demon idol from an ancient civilization - worshipping causes [Special]
27. 2,Gene resequencer - change to random race if interacted with
28. 2,Clone Vat - interacting character sacrifices {Dice~1d12} HP and gets faithful/insane/flawed clone
29. 2,Corpse renderer - breaks corpses down into 1d10 potions
30. 2,Trash incinerator - receive 5 gold/AL in antique coins for worhtless items
31. 2,Sauroid pen - either dusty bones or {Bold~{Dice~2d4} Large Dinosaurs} in stasis
32. 2,Pillars of Scrutiny: if diverge from Alignment, then judged and causes [Trap]
33. Altar to Business/Commerce/Mammon - leaving money causes [Special]
34. Archway - stepping through transports to Astral/Ethereal/Dreamlands
35. Illusionary Ceiling - view the sky outside
36. Ancient Container - contains small hoard of [Treasure] plus [NMS_Junk.Start]
37. Interactive Map Dome - some far away region or land
38. Fire - blazing fire in center of room
39. Fireplace - active/inactive
40. Force Field - constrains [NMS_RoTUWM.Hard]
41. Fountain - [Special]
42. Illusion - [Special]
43. Infernal Machine - [Special]
44. Magically confined monster - [NMS_RoTUWM.Extreme]
45. Pedestal - [Special]
46. Pit - bottomless, or else the bottom goes to another realm
47. Pool - mysterious waters cause [Special]
48. Stairway to extra-/para-dimensional section of dungeon
49. Tangleweb vines - DC 14 Reflex save or held fast (whole party)
50. Well - make a wish or climb down to [Pocket]
51. Divinity terminal gives access to previously unknown minor godthing
52. Matter transmittal pad, moves within dungeon or far far away.
53. Warpgate to alternate dimension or plane
54. Soul Gem - every round a beam attacks random party member, DC {Dice~1d12+6} Will save negates, else soul sucked into Gem
55. Planetarium projector - if disturbed then laser attacks at d24 on each party member for 1d10 damage
56. Bottled City access
57. Shimmering Warpgate to [Pocket]