Tools/Generators. Inspiration. Advice. Living Forgotten Realms. Specials Special adventures (sometimes referred to as Core Specials) are designed to be challenging, but fair and fun, experiences where the players must work together in order to successfully complete the entire adventure within the time limit. These adventures always premiere at major conventions, so the real-world slot time is usually a significant design consideration (as a rule of thumb, we put in about 120% of the content that a normal LFR adventure of the same length would have; the idea is that a group that is really on their game can make it through, but less-effective groups might not). Hamlet, Village, Town. While working on some town and village maps, I decided I really need a good set of guidelines for improvising town and village contents.
I don't like the usual village generation systems, with their arbitrary labeling of specific population ranges. Do I even need to know exactly how many people are in a village? Tools. You must have Java 1.6 or later (also called Java 6) installed on your system to run these tools.
Note that the OpenJDK/Java 7 does not currently work. Some tools require Java 5 or later as indicated on the Launch page. If you are using Mac OS X, your Java implementation is provided by Apple. Dungeon Mastering Tools - DM Tools for D&D 4E. The Hypertext d20 SRD (v3.5 d20 System Reference Document)