Interview with Rhys of Eigengrau's Generator
"I suppose that it's a little bit different to other generators in that it's an all-in-one, and the generators feed into each other; for example, one can go carousing in the tavern, and one of the potential events is offending a faction, which is taken from the factions that already exists in the town."
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"I typically use generators as a springboard for coming up with character, story, and adventure ideas. I like to generate a good sample size and then read through the results and work off of what strikes me"
"to use them [random generators] as a seed for one's imagination to explore all sorts of fantastic stories, both at the gaming table and beyond"
"A random encounter, even if I originally defined the table that runs it, feels more authentic and less about me railroading my players through a series of set pieces"
"Keep track of what you are doing or making. A couple of years ago, after I had made over a hundred generators. I started work on one and got 2/3 of the way though it when something made me think..'Hang on...haven't I done this...I have!'. Wasted almost a week working on something I had already done...doh"
"It's so cool to see a community come together and create something with a singular goal in mind. People from all walks of life, many different countries, many different backgrounds come together to add their suggestions!"
"When I was writing the generator to start with and it was nearing completion, it suddenly stopped working and I was stumped for weeks. It turned out that my computer had auto corrected an apostrophe to a single quotation mark, which broke the code"
"I am most proud of the Starfinder Monster Builder, probably because it got the biggest response out of anything I've ever done."
"First and foremost, I make character generators for my friend Dave. His characters die left and right in our games. He plays really brave, really red-shirted characters. Suddenly, he needs a new character in the middle of a game and BAM! I've got one for him."
"Often, a desire to 'quickly create a generator and have it done in the next couple of days' devolves into a multi-month long project that seems to drag on endlessly"