d216 and markdown tables

I wanted to make a table (for table of tavern names) that uses d216 type notation. This is when you roll a d6 three times (or three diff colours at the same time and declaring one d6 as high, one as middle and one as low) and instead of adding them you concatenate the numbers.¹ This produces 216 unique numbers.

As it’s similar to base6 / senary. It has numbers that change the order of magnitude at the 6^th digit, for example:

• …
• 165
• 166
• 211
• 212
• …

Here’s a shell one-liner to generate a markdown table for d216:

printf '| d216 | foo |\n|:----:| --- |\n' ; \
for i in {1..6}{1..6}{1..6} ; do printf '| %4d |     |\n' "$i" ; done

The above produces:

| d216 | foo |
|:----:| --- |
|  111 |     |
|  112 |     |
|  113 |     |
|  114 |     |
|  115 |     |
|  116 |     |
|  121 |     |
|  122 |     |
|  123 |     |
...etc

A single brace expansion {1..216} wont work, as that uses base10 and produces numbers that can’t be rolled using d6s.