01 / BRIEF
Set the intent
Choose the scale, danger, source books, tone, and any set pieces the evening requires. Party CER keeps encounters sized to your delvers.
How it works
A generator that remembers you have to run this thing.
DOA handles the spatial work, content passes, and export plumbing. The judgment calls stay yours, because they only make sense with your players in the room.
02 / BUILD
Generate the place
Biomes, organic zones, and room geometry become a connected dungeon from one deterministic seed. Same seed and settings, same dungeon.
03 / REVIEW
Inspect the trouble
Read the adventure frame and room key. Check exits, CER, hazards, treasure, and hidden routes. Reroll the parts that miss.
04 / EXPORT
Take it to the table
Send players the clean map. Keep the secrets, procedures, encounter notes, and treasure to yourself.
Local AI, fenced in
AI imagination, made to follow the rules.
DOA’s directors run on a local model — the app can download one and run it on its bundled llama.cpp runtime, or connect to the Ollama, LM Studio, or llama.cpp server you already have. They interpret your brief and improve the narrative, but every action travels through a typed tool the generator understands. No model, no problem: the deterministic generator runs fine without one.
Director request pipelineGuardrails active
01 / Ground
Your party and library set the facts: CER, owned source books, DFRPG data, tone, tags, and requested set pieces.
02 / Propose
Local AI turns the brief into intent: loose notes become structured suggestions and director actions.
03 / Build
Deterministic systems do the physical work: partitions, zones, rooms, connections, encounters, treasure, and player-safe visibility.
04 / Verify
Validators get the last word: they reject impossible geometry, broken references, and disallowed mutations before the result reaches the dungeon.
AI proposes → typed tool call → seeded pass → validationResult: a valid, runnable dungeon
The prep packet
Everything the table needs. Nothing the players shouldn’t see.
DOA tracks each room’s purpose, connections, inhabitants, contents, and visibility alongside the map geometry.
Dungeon geometry
Tactical spaces at DFRPG scale
One-foot cells preserve wall thickness and room detail; a one-yard hex overlay keeps the finished map useful at the table.
GM key
Notes built for play
Adventure framing, room descriptions, encounters, hazards, treasure, and dungeon procedures remain attached to the place they belong.
Player safety
Secrets stay secret
Player exports omit hidden connections, GM notes, encounters, treasure, and the adventure frame.
Export desk
Use the dungeon where you actually play
Export GM and player PNGs, Foundry VTT scenes, Universal VTT files, Markdown room keys, placement TSV, and the complete dungeon state.
The monster library also installs directly into Foundry VTT as a compendium of 457 ready-to-drag Actors.
The bestiary
457 monsters. Statted, illustrated, browsable right now.
Every monster in the public library carries a complete GURPS stat block, an original portrait, a top-down token, a hex token cut to its real footprint, and GCS files that work outside DOA. It feeds the generator’s encounters — and it runs in your browser, no download, no account.
Selective control
Random where you want it. Stable where you need it.
Keep the topology you approved while revising the encounters, treasure, or dressing that still needs work.
Seeds
Repeat a result exactly. Keep the same seed and configuration when you need the same dungeon bones again.
Rerolls
Change the offending part. Encounter and dressing rerolls preserve the approved topology.
Sources
Use the books on your shelf. Enable the DFRPG and GURPS sources you own before the next generation pass.
Local AI
Polish is optional. One click downloads a small model onto the bundled runtime, or point DOA at Ollama, LM Studio, or llama.cpp. Deterministic code still owns the dungeon state.
The Stage Manager
Four director personas, played by your local model.
KovathCreative director
VorgaEncounters
MizzikFurniture & loot
ZarlzazzNarrative
Early access
It works. It’s not finished. Come break it.
Version 0.1.x ships every platform, generates real dungeons, and has rough edges we list honestly on the known issues page. When something misbehaves, a bug report with the seed is the most useful thing you can hand us.