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Here's my little toy box of assorted gizmos, entertainments, and utilities. Most of them are powered by javascript and random number generators.

Derelict Gen   ERG   Hex Gen   Inspiration   Instant Girl  
Instant NPC-UW   Instant Vessel   Lang Gen   Map Gen   
MZ Life   Plot Gen   Riftbreakers   Rocket Calc   Saga NPC  
Zero Dice   Zero Tarot   Zero Tiles

2020-06-08: Inspiration is a set of random prompts to create a character that is not tied to a specific game system.
2020-06-08: Zero Tiles is a handy tool for working with letter tiles to spell words. It's insppired by inspired by Spell: the RPG from Whimsy Machine Games.
2020-06-08: Instant NPC creates random characters using Uncharted Worlds.
2019-03-19: Heh, I updated the main page but forgot to put web toy specific posts here. Added Derelict Gen and added several new features to MapGen.
2019-02-05: Instant Vessel creates random vehicles using the Far Beyond Humanity rules for Uncharted Worlds.
2018-01-10: Map Gen, added added a sector map option for explorers
2018-01-04: Zero Tarot, added rotated cards and basic card list
2017-05-14: DAT Builder v0.3, Supports Frozen Thunder

2017-01-06: Hex Gen, a text based hex grid maker

2016-01-06: Zero Dice, added d10s to the mix

2015-11-23: Zero Tarot, a fool's story generator Inspired by a tarot based story game that I heard on a podcast.

2015-07-15: Here are a trio of web toys from the old site:
Map Gen, creates space sectors in several styles.
Plot Gen, randomly generates zany plots.
Rocket Calc, number crunchy rocket science.

2015-01-29: Zero Dice, a story dice generator
Updated Zero Dice so you can also select regular dice or Fudge/Fate dice. Some of you may have noticed that it is easy to tweak the results. That's acceptable because the main purpose of Zero Dice is either to use it on-line with friends as a story challenge game or to use Zero Dice for for your solo gaming needs. In a solo game, the only person that you're cheating is yourself and hopefully you're getting a better story out of the effort. Enjoy!

2014-08-22: I'm proud to host some of my son's games as well. If you like the idler style of games, check out SHMUP Idler. Basically an idler is kind of like an interactive screen saver and game combined. This is still a work in progress, but you can still play it.

2014-06-18: Instant Magical Girl Generator, is based on Ewen Cluney's game, Magical Burst. Click a button and get a complete magical girl character for his game to use as a PC or NPC.

2014-05-16: Zero Dice, a story dice generator
Roll one to six virtual icon dice and make your own story.

2013-02-27: Star Wars Saga Edition NPC generator.
There is also a ready to print version.

2013-02-24: DAT Builder v0.2, Create Damage Allocation Templates for assorted vehicles. Later versions will allow for more games and offer other modes like map making.

2013-02-22: Evil Robot Generator, randomly creates robots for your mechanical hordes.

2013-02-21: Random Language Generator, this utility takes assorted language patterns and randomly generates (hopefully) useful words to inspire you when creating and naming things.

2013-02-14: MZ Striker (Excel 2010) & MZ Striker (Excel '97)

2013-01-31: Mekton Zeta Life Path Generator

2012-03-19: I've got several items that I want to add, but I want to focus on the major projects for a little bit before I add some of my older gizmos.

2012-3-16: Zero Hour
 

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