LanternVault Closed Testing Update – NPCs, Shopkeepers & Generation QOL

[Si6 Labs]

Hi everyone,

A new LanternVault Closed Testing update is now available, covering several major features and quality-of-life improvements completed over the last two days.

Generation Quality-of-Life Improvements

Several generator controls have been streamlined to make setup faster and reduce unnecessary tapping.

New improvements include:

• Settlement Size, Wealth Level, and Magic Tier now support Random as the default selection, consistent with other randomized generator options.

• Finite selection controls now expand inline for faster access instead of requiring additional navigation.

• Party/Profile management has been centralized for more consistent use across the app.

• Party-dependent controls now appear only when they are relevant.

• Shops now include convenient Undo and Reset controls.

• Treasure has its own localized Undo and Reset controls so changes can be reversed without affecting unrelated work.

520 Canonical Shopkeepers

The complete pre-rolled shop catalog now has a permanently associated Shopkeeper for every one of the 520 canonical shops.

These are no longer generic merchant placeholders. Each Shopkeeper has their own identity and characterization while remaining permanently paired with their original pre-rolled shop.

The expanded Shopkeeper system includes:

• Unique names and identities

• Individual personality and descriptive details

• Dedicated Shopkeeper descriptions

• Permanent association with the appropriate canonical shop

The original pre-rolled shop catalog remains intact while now providing much richer NPC context for each location.

New Standalone NPC Generator

LanternVault now includes a dedicated NPC generation system separate from Shopkeepers.

NPCs can be generated as independent campaign characters and retained for future use.

Saved NPCs can now be:

• Generated and saved

• Reopened without regenerating their identity

• Updated as persistent character records

• Duplicated safely

• Assigned to the appropriate Campaign/Profile

• Exported and imported

This makes it possible to build a reusable collection of recurring NPCs rather than treating every generated character as disposable.

Build a Shop Around a Saved NPC

A saved NPC can now be explicitly selected as the Shopkeeper for a generated shop.

Using BUILD SHOP creates a shop around that character while preserving the NPC as the authoritative character record.

The new integration supports:

• Explicit manual assignment rather than automatic conversion

• Preservation of the NPC’s original identity and character data

• Use of the NPC as the contextual Shopkeeper for the generated shop

• Shop rerolls without losing the selected NPC

• Saving and reopening NPC-anchored shops

• Single-use handoff between the NPC and Shop generators to prevent stale assignments

• Switching back to the shop’s original canonical or pre-rolled Shopkeeper when desired

Existing canonical Shopkeepers and pre-rolled shops remain fully supported.

What to Test

Please focus testing on:

• Generating, saving, reopening, and editing NPCs

• Duplicating, exporting, and importing Saved NPCs

• Confirming NPCs remain associated with the correct Campaign/Profile

• Using BUILD SHOP from a Saved NPC

• Confirming the selected NPC becomes the Shopkeeper without losing or changing their original identity

• Rerolling shops while retaining the selected NPC

• Saving and reopening NPC-anchored shops

• Switching between an anchored NPC and the original canonical Shopkeeper

• Undo and Reset behavior in Shops and Treasure

• Random defaults and the updated inline selection controls

Thank you for continuing to test LanternVault. These updates significantly expand the connection between persistent campaign NPCs and generated shops while continuing to improve the speed and usability of the generation workflow.