Constellation and Night Sky generators, with a star chart

[eserlan]

A mate half-jokingly asked why the star system generator gives you a whole solar system but no sky to look up at from the ground. It was clearly meant as a dig, not a spec. I built it anyway.

The new Constellation generator builds one named constellation: a star pattern, the specific culture that reads meaning into it, an origin myth, when it's visible each season, a mundane practical use, its cultural or religious weight, an omen it's said to give, and one adventure hook.

Try it here: https://codexcryptica.com/generators/constellation

You can:

• Generate a single constellation with a star chart diagram: a mechanical layout of the pattern's stars, rendered on the page and linkable to the entity's Map tab, the same flow the Star System generator uses for its orbital diagrams.
• Switch to Full Night Sky mode for 8-15 constellations from one shared culture, spread across all five seasons and multiple regions of the sky, with myths that cross-reference each other so the sky reads as one connected mythology instead of a list of unrelated star groups.
• Keep the star pattern and its cultural interpretation as separate data, so the same sky can later be reread by a different culture without starting over. That reinterpretation flow itself is still on the list.

What do you usually want a constellation to do at the table: mark the season, carry an omen, or point toward a myth the party can chase down?