Rummaging through my Role Playing Game (RPG 📖) collection looking for random tables to make sure I’ve bookmarked for later reproduction (and adding to my Game Master (GM 📖) binder). I have mine already marked.
Kevin Crawford packs his RPG supplements with numerous random tables. Some are in the moment tables and others are very much “I need a 5 minute break to whip something up.”
What I have marked for copy/printing:
- Adventure Tags (Scarlet Heroes p 96)
- Encounter Twists (Scarlet Heroes p79)
- Group’s Size and Condition (Scarlet Heroes p79)
- Court Sites (Red Tide p85-89)
- Borderland Sites (Red Tide p90-p103)
- City Sites (Red Tide p104-110)
- Ruin Sites (Red Tide p114-134)
- Quick Cult Creation (Red Tide p142)
- Ruined Dwelling (Spears of the Dawn p112)
- Building a Social Conflict (Spears of the Dawn p113)
- Tomb-House(Spears of the Dawn p114)
- Building an Eternal Cult (Spears of the Dawn p115)
- Building an Urban Palace (Spears of the Dawn p116)
- Building a Noble Clan (Spears of the Dawn p117)
- City Streets (Spears of the Dawn p118)
- Building a Criminal Group (Spears of the Dawn p119)
- Lost Shrine (Spears of the Dawn p120)
- Cavern Complex (Spears of the Dawn p121)
- Adventure Elements (Spears of the Dawn p156-157)
- Quick Culture Generation (Spears of the Dawn p160-161)
- Quick Non-Player Character (NPC 📖) Creation (Spears of the Dawn p164)
- Quick Cult Flavor (Spears of the Dawn p166)
- City and Town Origins, Activities, and Obstacles (An Echo, Resounding p17-19)
- Ruins Nature, Traits, Obstacle (An Echo, Resounding p20-22)
- Resources Types, Obstacles (An Echo, Resounding p23-24)
- Lairs Nature (An Echo, Resounding p28)
- Quick Religion (Stars without Number p235)
- Quick Heresies (Stars without Number p236)
- Quick Political Parties (Stars without Number p237)
- Government Types and Evolutions (Stars without Number p186-191)
- Societal Traits and Conflicts (Stars without Number p192-197)
And sitting beside the binder will be:
- Jason Sholtis’s Dungeon Dozen - a book of off the wall, outrageous ideas and crazy situations.
- Wizard of the Coast’s Dungeon Master Guide (for Dungeons and Dragons: Fifth Edition (5E 📖)) - lots of tables, but no index of what all of those tables are.
Others that are on the short list to review are:
- Burning Wheel Headquarter’s Torchbearer - lots of tables for “when you roll into town” and “when you head out for adventure”
- Tactical Rules Studies (TSR 📖)’s Birthright - if memory serves, there are a few tables for domain specific events.
- Usherwood Publishing’s Old School Reference and Index Compilation (OSRIC) System Reference Document (SRD) - a reverse engineering of the 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG 📖) (with charts)
- Frog God Games’s Tome of Adventure Design - a massive set of tables for generating interesting adventures, monsters, situations, traps, books, etc.