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The SF Tarot Card Generator. Ready for Prime Time?

Posted by Steven Savage on January 23, 2012

OK I upgraded the SF Tarot Card generator. Almost ready for prime-time?

Nine of Holograms
The Programmer of Computers
Two of Lasers
The Robot of Radars
The Scion of Circuits
Five of Radars
The Terraformer
The Artificer of Xenobiology
The Stolen Nebula
The Priestess of Technology
The Botanist of Novas
Deuce of Devices
Five of Mass-Drivers
The Bishop of Science
The Knight of Archeaology
The Biologist of Holograms
The Guardian of Repair
Five of Starships
Two of Cogs
One of Comets

- Steven

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The Ponies Have Won

Posted by Steven Savage on April 6, 2011

 Unless you've been under a rock with poor internet service, you've noticed that the new My Little Pony series (subtitled "Friendship is Magic") is huge online and has achieved a diverse fanbase that far exceeds the expected demographics. Of course it also has quite a pedigree, its creator being Lauren Faust of "Powerpuff Girls" and "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" fame. The Ponies, it seems, are taking over.

So of course, I HAD to make a generator for, ahem, "Magical Legend Ponies." To fit MLP-like characters. It's with deep irony that I note I have actually had a generator like this requested several times over the decade.

So for the fans new and old, all the Bronies online, and the friends who pushed me to do this, the Magical Legend Pony Generator is here:

[link]

And some examples:
* This stubby-legged male pony is an earth pony who is stressed and self-aggrandizing. His coat is green. He has a mane that reminds you of a pile of shredded paper. His wide eyes are gray. His mark is a coffin.
* This stubby-legged female pony is an earth pony who is apathetic and clever. Her coat is white and orange. She has a long, wavy mane that is gray. Her round eyes are ash-gray. Her mark is four pillows.
* This elegant filly is an earth pony who is angry and gluttonous. Her coat is charcoal-colored. She has a short mane that is yellow. Her slitted eyes are gray. Her mark is a biscuit.
* This bulky female pony is an earth pony who is logical and unreliable. Her coat is emerald. She has an extremely long mane. Her round eyes are bone-white. Her mark is a coconut.
* This leanly-built male pony is an earth pony who is obsessive and kind. His coat is red shading into black. He has a mane that is gray, and it reminds you of a drifting cloud. His eyes are gray. His mark is a net.
* This large female pony is a unicorn who is impractical and unintelligent. Her coat is red. She has a short mane. Her eyes are blue. Her mark is a crown.
* This lean male pony is a unicorn who is worldwise and ethical. His coat is brown. He has a mane that is gray, and it reminds you of a flame. His narrow eyes are smoke-gray. His mark is three cranes.
* This bulky female pony is an earth pony who is ethical. Her coat is peach-colored. She has a mane that is white, and it reminds you of a tangled bush. Her large eyes are gray. Her mark is a ledger.
* This muscular female pony is an earth pony who is aloof, studious, and peace-loving. Her coat is blue. She has a mane that is violet and gray, and it reminds you of a fluttering flag. Her eyes are orange. Her mark is a wheelchair.
* This muscular male pony is a unicorn who is playful and hypocritical. His coat is orange. He has a mane that is violet, and it reminds you of a shark's fin. His round eyes are sky-blue. His mark is a sword.

There you go folks. Ponies.

And in case you wonder, I actually did check the show out. It's got the same vibe as Faust's other work – family entertainment for all with a heart an a brain. I think we're seeing a Big New Thing here.

- Steve

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Mage Maker In The Works!

Posted by Steven Savage on March 14, 2011

Well the new contest goes on here: [link]

I'm almost done with a specialized magic-class generator, the Mage Maker! A few sample results:
Blade Soniseer
Blood Augurer
Carnomagna
Chanting Electromagus
Chaotic Thaumaturge
City Witch
Criminal Honor Audioseer
Decay Enchantress
Enlightened Terrawitch
Forge Exorcist
Forge Occultist
Golden Blade Hypnomage
Holy War Osteomagna
Illusion Magus
Impure Seismowitch
Pure Magna
Soul Medium
Spectral Hypnomagus
Time Illusionist
Toxin Theurgist

- Steven

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New Generator – Classic Cooler!

Posted by Steven Savage on October 23, 2010

Yes, it's done! My first generator in quite some time – a generator to transform classics with over-the-top cool elements!

The generator is here.

And some sample results:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol) with high-speed chases!
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) with assasins and a post-apocalyptic setting!
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) with plenty of explosions!
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) with astronauts versus ghost hunters!
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) with magical artifacts!
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) with giant robots!
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge) with a post-apocalyptic setting and faster-than-light travel!
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Artuhur Conan Doyle) with zombies and aliens!
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spencer) with lost continents!
The House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) with samurai!
The Oz Stories (L. Frak Baum) with supermodels and lost continents!
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) with a steampunk world and biotechnology!
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) with ghost hunters and biotechnology!
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) with holograms!
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) with genetic engineering and nanotechnology!

Enjoy!

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The B-Movie Generator: Beta!

Posted by Steven Savage on October 24, 2009

And here it is, released, but I'm still tweaking it.  Thus I'll consider it beta for a few days.

B-Movie Generator

A few sample results:

Assault Beyond Cannibal Island
Attack Beyond Mercury
Beast Siege 2013
Beyond Magic
Destiny of The Terrifying Captain Edwards
Holiness Cellar
I Married Elizabeth Bathory
Legacy of The Decadent Professor Turner
Madness Innocents
Master Sensuality
Monsters of Filth
My Dad Married Elizabeth Bathory
Terrible Castle
The Fear of Canada
The Horrible Emperor Mitchel
The Magic of The Listener Uninhibited, Part II
The Mind Listeners
The Molecular Killers
The Sensual Mystery of The Saint Louis Damnation
The Wrath of Paul Bunyan

- Steve

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Samples from the B-movie generator

Posted by Steven Savage on October 18, 2009

And with the latest contest ready to be judged, let me return to the in-progress B-movie generator.  Here's some samples from the latest run:

Beyond Atlantis
Body of Infinity
Eye of Jack the Ripper
Island of the Reaper
Robinson Crusoe in Paris
Seeker Attack 1980
Sergeant Passion
Siege of Britain
Soul of the Mutant
The Abominable Professor
The Asylum
The Clone in Toronto
The Eye Whisperers
The Legendary Invisible People
The Mission
The Nuclear Women
The Soul Trappers
The Tales of the Wolf-Person
The Torture Chamber of Lizzie Borden
The Torture Chamber of Terror

- Steve

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The Next Generator: B-movies

Posted by Steven Savage on September 16, 2009

I know I started it ages ago – and decided to re-start it to tackle it in a more organized manner.  Some results:

  • Assignment: Justice
  • The Abominable Adventures of the Scorpion-Women
  • The Adventures of the Piranah-Person
  • The Amazing Teacher
  • The Asylum of Elizabeth Bathroy
  • The Evil Amphibian Person
  • The Impossible Adventures of Joan of Arc
  • The Psychic Man
  • The Saint Louis Evil
  • The Wonder of Canada

I think it's got a good feel so far – and there's more to come.  I'm taking "The Psychotronic Encyclopedia" and going through it to find common movie title patterns.

It's a bit of heavy effort, but worth it.

- Steve

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New Generator – Fusion Class Generator!

Posted by Steven Savage on July 30, 2009

The Fusion Class Generator is largely finished: HERE

Still not 100% thrilled with the vocabulary, but maybe a little break or a few suggestions will help.

Some Examples:
Blood Miner
Computer Pioneer
Illusion Secretary
Power Linguist
Media Crucifier
Bullet Alchemist
Phased Artificer
Sword Drifter
Sagebrush Poisoner
Cybernetics Pioneer
Pain Physicist
Mystic Policeman
Heretic Bowman
Media Cowgirl
Homestead Templar
Steel Murderer
Steel Antrhopologist
Army Homesteader
Apocalypse Tinker
Saddle Healer

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Class Fusion Generator:

Posted by Steven Savage on July 18, 2009

Well I'm working away at a Fusion Class generator to make
classes/professions for fusion-type settings (Serenity, WH40K, etc.)
where genres are mixed.  A few samples:

Science Fiction-Fantasy:
Ethereal Explorer
Rocket Monk
Mutant Mage
Dream Linguist
Ethereal Mutant
Mutant Druid
Black Hole Bowman
Ethereal Surgeon
Planet Healer
Phased Ranger

Science-Fiction and Western:
Antimatter Homesteader
Sagebrush Engineer
Homestead Botanist
Lunar Gunslinger
Stagecoach Xenobiologist
Stellar Sheriff
Robot Rustler
Orbital Sheriff
Brand Analyst
Gunslinger Cyberneticist

Modern-Horror:
Horror Policewoman
Police Blasphemer
Programming Heretic
Accounting Sacrificer
Data Necromancer
Heretic Detective
Programming Torturer
Data Cultist
Stock Necromancer
Cult Psychologist

And finally, Western-Steampunk:
Shotgun Baloonist
Telegraph Bombadier
Shotgun Machinist
Anti-gravity Cowgirl
Industrial Rustler
Cattle Mongerer
Saloon Artificer
Cattle Pharmacist
Bomb Gunslinger
Mechanism Showgirl

So far the big issue is finding data for the Western option, with some
issues for modern and horror.  Either way it IS working out – so
suggestions are welcome!

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Fusion Class generator – experiments!

Posted by Steven Savage on July 8, 2009

And the Fusion Class generator, which makes classes that are for "genre fusion" stories/games, is humming nicely.  A few examples.

Fantasy/SF:

  • Astral Analyst
  • Alchemical Botanist
  • Dream Linguist
  • Royal Chemist
  • Bio-Engineered Invoker
  • Holy Xenolinguist
  • Nova Exorcist
  • Quasar Knight
  • Spirit Explorer
  • Mystic Antrhopologist

SF/Western:

  • Xeno Gunslinger
  • Telegraph Chemist
  • Pan-Dimensional Rustler
  • Phased Cowboy
  • Atomic Showgirl
  • Cowgirl Cyberneticist
  • Sector Homesteader
  • Sun Gunslinger
  • Matrix Prospector
  • Cowgirl Analyst

And finally

Western/Horror:

  • Cowboy Heretic
  • Ranch Killer
  • Heretic Cowgirl
  • Cult Showgirl
  • Blasphemous Rustler
  • Blasphemous Cowboy
  • Gun Sacrificer
  • Shotgun Killer
  • Dread Homesteader
  • Hersey Prospector

Not perfect, but it's showing promise.  I need to flesh out the vocabularies of course, and am in the midst of that now.

- Steve, aka X

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