01 / CLAIM
Open the stub
Read a settlement the other lenses minted — or one you wrote by hand — with its size, hex and region already on file.
Where it's headed
The plan, in the family's shape.
This page describes direction, not a changelog — Towns is in design while its siblings ship. The shape below is the family's proven one, aimed at settlements.
02 / PEOPLE
Cast the town
Innkeeps, reeves, smiths and trouble: real DFRPG builds from the family's NPC engine, geared to their station and rated for what they can handle.
03 / SEAT
Place the powers
Trades, markets and the local reach of the region's factions, drawn the family way: deterministic candidates first, an optional local model to choose and polish.
04 / WRITE
Fill the note, keep the fences
Everything lands inside the settlement's own generated fences, one writer per file. Your prose survives, exactly as the vault rules demand.
The inbox already exists
Four towns are waiting in the demo vault alone.
The vault spec reserved Towns' seat from day one: every Hexes export mints settlement stubs, and Campaigns on Automatic lists them as open work. The queue below is a real screenshot.
Built on shipped parts
The hard pieces already run.
Towns starts from working machinery, not a blank page — the same shared packages its siblings run on today.
The people
The Characters engine ships now, inside Dungeons. Real DFRPG builds from Dungeon Fantasy templates and packages, geared to station, rated for combat effectiveness, exportable to GURPS Character Sheet. Meet it on the Dungeons site.
The contract
The vault spec is public and already speaks settlement. Stub status, one writer per file, generated fences — the rules Towns will write under are in force today.
The lenses
Its neighbors are live. Hexes mints the stubs with every region it exports; Campaigns lists them as open work and will show the finished towns the day they land.
The doctrine
Deterministic code owns the structure. An optional small local model picks and polishes from closed lists, with a named fallback — the architecture every shipped sibling proves.
Meanwhile
The rest of the family ships today.
Hexes on Automatic mints these stubs with every region it writes, Dungeons keys the sites around them, and Campaigns reads the whole vault. Start the campaign now; Towns joins it in place.