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Big book full of random tables for fantasy world?

Started by Teodrik, August 12, 2016, 12:18:13 PM

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Teodrik

August 12, 2016, 12:18:13 PM Last Edit: August 12, 2016, 01:38:38 PM by Teodrik
I am looking for a big book full of tables for a fantasy world to use at the table for just random stuff. I already use Vornheim for running a campaign in Sigil. I want something similar. Already also got the Tome of Adventure Design but thats more full of tables before the adventure, not during it. So what would you recommend  me?

Edit: Forgot to mention, I am looking for stuff available in dead-tree format.

talysman

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August 12, 2016, 12:48:22 PM
Quote from: Teodrik;912512I am looking for a big book full of tables for a fantasy world to use at the table for just random stuff. I already use Vornheim for running a campaign in Sigil. I want something similar. Already also gog the Tome of Adventure Design but thats more full of tables before the adventure, not during it. So what would you recommend  me?

I haven't seen the book The Dungeon Dozen, but I've followed the blog where those tables first appeared, and they are pretty useful for that kind of thing. In a similar vein, there's The Dungeon Alphabet. I guess neither of those qualify as "big" books, but it's still a lot of material.

There's also a Wilderness Alphabet, I believe, which I presume is similar to the Dungeon Alphabet, but for hexcrawling. Haven't seen that one, though.

The Judges Guild Ready Reference Sheets are sold out now, finally, but maybe there's another way to find them?

estar

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August 12, 2016, 12:53:58 PM
Kellri, do you want to get this or should I?

In all seriousness, few can be beat Kellri's Old School Encounter Reference.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8l15nXmXT3BSmdOaG1nRnVnbzA/view

Also the Judges Guild Ready Ref sheets can be found on RPGNow.
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/932/Ready-Ref-Sheets-1978?it=1

David Johansen

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August 12, 2016, 01:42:01 PM
Well, there's various books.  Rolemaster's GM Law has some fun ones like the escaping a sinking ship table and random terrain tables and random event tables.  The encounter tables in Creatures and Monsters look good but generate "Common Bird" way too often, the absence of common birds might constitute an encounter but geez did they ever actually playtest those tables.  The old Midkemia Press Cities book had wonderful city encounter tables.  I think Troll Lord Games had some big books of random stuff in their Gygaxian Fantasy line.
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talysman

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August 12, 2016, 04:52:05 PM
Quote from: estar;912524Kellri, do you want to get this or should I?

In all seriousness, few can be beat Kellri's Old School Encounter Reference.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8l15nXmXT3BSmdOaG1nRnVnbzA/view
I didn't mention Kellri's PDF because I wasn't sure it was still being distributed.

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;912533Saw this book of random tables on an EN world thread a while back
I have the Ultimate Toolbox, I believe, but I don't recall if I was impressed with the actual product or not. Since I don't think I ever used it, maybe not.

Pyromancer

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August 12, 2016, 05:06:24 PM
Quote from: talysman;912565I have the Ultimate Toolbox, I believe, but I don't recall if I was impressed with the actual product or not. Since I don't think I ever used it, maybe not.

I like the Ultimate Toolbox and have used it numerous times. If you look up "big book full of random tables for fantasy worlds" in a dictionary, there is a picture of the Ultimate Toolbox there.
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August 12, 2016, 09:51:38 PM
It is still available. I'm revising all of it for OSRIC at the moment, to be called Dangerous Dungeons (layout is a serious task for a 500+ page book). Some of the original subsystems I wasn't really happy with and others I just wanted to embellish a few hundred percent. If you're really interested, I have all of the chapter drafts available for review on the Dangerous Dungeons forum on Knights & Knaves Alehouse. For world creation, what you're probably looking for is in Chapters 7-11. Otherwise, you can still download the original CDD4 from my blog linked below.
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August 15, 2016, 01:02:02 AM
The Adventures Dark And Deep GM's guide has a whole bunch of quite good random tables in the back.
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