Sunday, December 19, 2021

D&D Module Word Clouds

Spent some time in R abusing a script I originally made for work:

It takes in an RPG PDF and makes a word cloud out of it!

The below is the general vibe of B2: Keep on the Borderlands:


 

And this one is B4: The Lost City (my favorite):

From a simple semantic similarity analysis, B2 and B4 have:

  • ~95% Jaccard similarity
  • ~65% Cosine similarity

It's possible to take pretty much any module and see how semantically similar it is to any other module, though what this means exactly is (ironically) uncertain. I do think it may be good to run this analysis if you were planning to emulate the contents or style of a certain type of adventure. A dreary abuse of the method would be to claim it lent validity to being more OSR-than-though.

Worth exploring?

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