ItemFactory
A random weapon and armor generator which provides richly detailed descriptions, unique names, and basic item stats for fantasy world building.
ItemFactory generates items loosely based on the names and constituent pieces of common medieval weapons and armor.
Examples
name: ornate electrum wail of shame
class: light armor [chest]
type: brigandine
rarity: rare
material: electrum
construction: scale
stats:
protection: 39.28
movement: -0.18
noise: 0.54
luck: 6.25
description:
A faultless brigandine with spotless and immaculate
spaulders, diligently crafted from scale electrum. The
plackard, spaulders, gardbrace, and culet are all covered
in labyrinthine inscriptions, and the entire brigandine
gleams with a prismatic shimmer.
name: blighted iron halberd
class: two-handed weapon [axe]
type: halberd
rarity: crude
materials: iron, cracked wood
stats:
damage: 7.71
range: 3.16
speed: 2.28
luck: 2.61
description:
A lousy halberd with a gnarled and scratched haft,
inexpertly fashioned from iron and cracked wood. The
pommel is pitted and bent, and the beard is covered
with bits of fur and gashes.
Item rarity probabilities
Items are generated with the following probabilities, unless the user choses to generate their own item. In the future, I may add a feature to allow the user to input their own probabilities.
| rarity | probability |
|---|---|
| crude | 0.50 |
| common | 0.25 |
| uncommon | 0.15 |
| rare | 0.06 |
| legendary | 0.03 |
| mythical | 0.01 |
Materials
Each item's material depends on its rarity. Weapons get a secondary material, while armor gets a construction method descriptor. Both secondary materials and construction methods are chosen with equal probability for weapons and armor, respectively.
Weapons
| rarity | material (probability) | secondary material |
|---|---|---|
| crude | iron (0.91), steel (0.09) | splintered wood, cracked wood, warped wood |
| common | iron (0.083), steel (0.833), bone (0.084) | ash, maple, beech, hickory |
| uncommon | steel (0.083), bone (0.833), obsidian (0.084) | maple, beech, hickory, mahogany |
| rare | bone (0.083), obsidian (0.833), electrum (0.084) | hickory, mahogany, walnut, cherry |
| legendary | obsidian (0.083), electrum (0.833), adamantite (0.084) | walnut, cherry, birch, korina |
| mythical | adamantite (0.91), meteorite (0.09) | bloodwood, ebony, black walnut, purpleheart |
Armor
Light armor is produced using either lamellar or scale construction methods. Heavy armor is produced using either plate or laminar construction methods.
| rarity | light armor material (probability) | heavy armor material (probability) |
|---|---|---|
| crude | hide (0.91), leather (0.09) | iron (0.91), steel (0.09) |
| common | hide (0.083), leather (0.833), obsidian (0.084) | iron (0.083), steel (0.833), obsidian (0.084) |
| uncommon | leather (0.083), obsidian (0.833), electrum (0.084) | steel (0.083), obsidian (0.833), bone (0.084) |
| rare | obsidian (0.083), electrum (0.833), bone (0.084) | obsidian (0.083), bone (0.833), onyx (0.084) |
| legendary | electrum (0.083), bone (0.833), adamantite (0.084) | bone (0.083), onyx (0.833), adamantite (0.084) |
| mythical | adamantite (0.91), meteorite (0.09) | adamantite (0.91), meteorite (0.09) |
Weapon types
Weapons fall into two major categories, one-handed and two-handed, and four sub-types, blade, blunt, axe, ranged (note: ranged weapons are only available in the two-handed category). All weapons are generated with equal probability.
weapon:
one-handed:
blade:
- dagger
- corvo
- stiletto
- shortsword
- seax
- xiphos
- baselard
- gladius
blunt:
- morning star
- mace
- club
- flail
axe:
- labrys
- hatchet
two-handed:
blade:
- longsword
- claymore
- broadsword
- bastard sword
blunt:
- war hammer
- meteor hammer
- dire flail
axe:
- war scythe
- battle axe
- halberd
- glaive
ranged:
- recurve bow
- scythian bow
- crossbow
- longbowArmor pieces
There are five basic types of armor, each of which has a heavy and a light variant. All armor items are generated with equal probability.
armor:
heavy:
head:
- helm
- helmet
chest:
- cuirass
- corslet
hands:
- gauntlets
- gloves
feet:
- boots
- sabatons
shield:
- pavise shield
- kite shield
light:
head:
- hood
- coif
chest:
- brigandine
- gambeson
hands:
- gloves
feet:
- boots
shield:
- buckler
- targe shieldItem parts
Weapons
Each item gets a list of three to five parts chosen randomly according to the item type, and which are used in the generation of the item's description.
Some examples of item parts:
blunt: throat, cheek, flange, face, crown, haft, handle, grip
bow: nock, face, hilt, grip, limbs, belly
heavy chest: breastplate, pauldrons, faulds, gardbrace, tasset
light hands: rerebraces, cuffs, lower cannons, vambraces, carpal plates, wrist plates
Names
Item names are determined by the item's type, rarity, and material.
My personal favorites I've seen so far: copper tooth of dusk, god husher
Descriptions
Item descriptions are generated based on the item's type, rarity, material, and sub-type.
Stats
Item stats are a function of the item's type, rarity, and sub-type. Note that these are very basic generic stats, and don't follow any particular gameworld's mechanics.
Each stat type has a base-value, and each item type has a multiplier for that stat value (e.g., claymores have a higher range multiplier than do daggers).
Weapons
damage: the base damage level of the weapon
range: the effective range of the weapon
speed: how quickly the weapon can be handled
luck: determines the chance of a critical hit
Armor
protection: the base level of protection this armor provides
movement: the player movement speed penalty attributed to this piece
noise: how much of a racket this armor produces during movement while wearing
luck: chance of critical hit from an enemy
Possible Feature Additions
- Allow the user to design their own item stats
- I've looked into possibly designing a GUI, but I quite like using the terminal
- Allow the user to design their own word banks, or add to the existing ones