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Favorite system-agnostic GM tables/tools/resources

Started by nope, July 17, 2018, 05:49:44 PM

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nope

#30
August 03, 2018, 11:49:42 AM
Quote from: Kuroth;1050796Chronicles of Talislanta (1987) is system free, and it is all a ref needs for a Talislanta campaign.  Most of the other first edition books are pretty light on system content, though (Naturist Guide and Sorcerer's Guide).

Pirate's Guide to Freeport (2007) is completely system free.

If you like Kevin Crawford's games, Red Tide (2011) has very little system based content, with most of the book setting content.

Richard LeBlanc's d30 books are good table books (lulu). They are D&D type of game focused, though very broadly.  D30 Sandbox Companion and d30 DM companion are pretty neat.

Going back to days of yore, Thieves World (1981) for Chaosium was designed for most of the systems around back in the day.  It's an all time favorite of mine.

Thieves World, Red Tide and the D30 stuff look awesome. Thanks a lot, I'd never even heard of Thieves World previously!

Quote from: S'mon;1050814By far my favourite systemless resource is the random tables at https://donjon.bin.sh/ - you have to poke around a bit to find the best ones eg https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/random/#type=encounter;enc_type=Road for fantasy road encounters or https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/random/#type=Space%20Encounter for space opera space encounters.

I can second this, there are some very good generators in here. I'll have to wade through my bookmarks and pull a few additional generator sites to post here in case anyone else finds that kind of stuff useful.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1051121I'm confident you'll find it useful.

This has turned out to be exceedingly handy; in addition to the variety of tables (sections of which are laid out in a logical fashion) I like the agnostic alchemical effects, and the clues/revelations. Well-structured and I can see a lot of thought and care was put into this; will have to read it more in-depth this weekend. This is definitely going to get used a lot in my upcoming game, thanks!

spon

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August 03, 2018, 02:35:17 PM
I've used some of the traps from Grimtooth's Traps, and I'm currently in a D&D 5th Ed game where the GM is using Vornheim to liven up the cities we're visiting. It's been pretty cool so far.

Merrill

#32
August 03, 2018, 02:39:19 PM
Dry-erase character/monster tokens (circular)

So simple, and yet I use these all the time

Dimitrios

#33
August 03, 2018, 02:53:17 PM
Quote from: Kuroth;1050796Going back to days of yore, Thieves World (1981) for Chaosium was designed for most of the systems around back in the day.  It's an all time favorite of mine.

I got tons of use out of the Chaosium Thieves World box back in the day. I'm also still amused that they included NPC states for Traveller.

I wonder if anyone ever actually used it in their Traveller game.

ffilz

#34
August 03, 2018, 04:52:36 PM
Quote from: Dimitrios;1051357I got tons of use out of the Chaosium Thieves World box back in the day. I'm also still amused that they included NPC states for Traveller.

I wonder if anyone ever actually used it in their Traveller game.

Not yet (imagine my face with an evil grin on it)...

RPGPundit

#35
August 05, 2018, 02:43:23 AM
Quote from: Antiquation!;1051337This has turned out to be exceedingly handy; in addition to the variety of tables (sections of which are laid out in a logical fashion) I like the agnostic alchemical effects, and the clues/revelations. Well-structured and I can see a lot of thought and care was put into this; will have to read it more in-depth this weekend. This is definitely going to get used a lot in my upcoming game, thanks!

Very glad to hear that!
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