Interview with Olga of Chartopia
"What is the best way to parse and recognize tokens/macros? How to parse and evaluate equations? How to develop an extendable framework of tokens that also allows to render the results to many formats (html, json, plain text, etc)? I love things like that."
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"Unquestionably, the best part is when people contact me to tell me how their players reacted; I still find it sort of mind-blowing knowing that what started as an aid for myself, has helped or inspired so many others who share my love for D&D. "
How did you get into creating for the DM's Guild?I had a liver transplant in August of 2014. I had been a stand-up comedian, but when I got sick I had to move back to my hometown of Spokane. Once I
"One Sunday a few years ago, my mapper was mentioned on a Kotaku article and got a lot of traffic and i quickly had to retool some parts of the site to cache database queries and optimize to not get me in trouble with my hosting provider."
"Do you know those children's books split into three vertical sections that allow you to make weird people, monsters, and stuff...? ...I created a 3 Line NPC generator along similar lines for my Campaign Logger GMing app."
In a year and a bit we've had 28 interviews with different creators. My first creator interview was with Emily of Fantasy Name Generators and the most recent was Jerry Joe Seltzer of 5thdnd.com
"Most of the feedback made me feel great. Others though, had harsh things to say and I realized that every DM runs their game differently. I get it. Randomness isn't for everyone."
"For me the most fun thing is thinking of a theme for the table and then reading lots of stuff to get ideas for the entries"
People have a hard time wrapping their head around the idea of a "Procedurally Generated Monster".
"There are billions of possible combinations, and I never get tired of seeing what happens once you click that "generate" button over and over again and the type of dungeon the algorithm comes up with. I cannot describe the happiness I felt when I saw the first random dungeon that didn't look like frankenstein's monster."