Collection: I Search the Bookcase!

This 3-page collection of ideas for books on your in-game bookshelves should help you figure out what to say when one of your players goes to inspect the mad mage's books. Books are a great way to embed lore into your world and share it with your players. Additionally, some books may have been owned by magical creatures, or a wizard may have left a note or two in the margins, creating a whole new adventure for your players to chase after. Or maybe you'd rather make your own books? These tables will help you decide what it looks like, how it's written and what's so special about your books.

We've been working all this last week on designing rolling tables along with instructions and how to for the Dungeon Year Design Journal, and we just released it! The Town Generator alone has 10x 1d20 columns to define your town. Also included are:

2d66 population generator

3d20 faction builder

4d66 NPC generator

3d66 syllable-based name generator.

2d66 Flora and 2d66 Fauna tables

1d66 Biomes

1d66 Weather

1d66 Funky Table (to add to other rolls to make it funky)

1d66 Themes table to switch it up every week or month

2d66 tables each for: Fantasy objects, cyberpunk objects, horror objects, and space objects

2d66 Planetary location table

2d66 for both fantasy and modern rooms

1d6 "Today, let's make..." table

2d6 Question Oracle table.

That's 2,060 entries total across 20 tables. We worked to build these tables for use across many genres of game, or use them to make whatever you'd like.

Trinkets from the world of Torrid, which I will hopefully get to run a game in, soon! Torrid is a world thought to be abandoned by the gods, with their only remnant being a divine thunderstorm called the Winged Light. It’s just a storm, with no consciousness or morality, but those who survive a lightning strike from it become “Torches” - demigod-like heroes. The world has survived a cataclysm already, but it’s looking like it could be due for another...

I did the art for this one! I’m looking to do most / all of my homebrew art going forward.

Resource: 1d100 Random Mysterious Objects

Have you ever wanted to give your players something weird but not powerful, just to leave them scratching their heads? Or maybe your campaign starts with a rat-infested cellar, where the players find something strange that kickstarts their adventure to become legendary heroes. Want to introduce a mystery, plot hook, original loot, or a clue for a puzzle? These rolling tables should help!

This resource provides a d100 rolling table of random mundane or magical objects that leave your players wondering. Where did it come from? What's its purpose? Who made it? The other two tables provide you with options for the object's original purpose, and its current or original owner or creator! Maybe the BBEG demilich uses that portrait of a lost companion to draw power from, or that strange copper cube is actually a complicated key that opens the tomb of a long-dead legendary hero. The possibilities are endless!

Collection: "I Search the Haversack!"

This chapter is a second part to a previous set of rolling tables ("I Search the Bookcase!"), expanding on the rolling tables provided on this blog to help you decide what to put into your world when your players get investigating. "I Search the Haversack!" contains 18 separate rolling tables with many different options to decide what that bandit chief carries on his person, what sort of bags the drow priestess takes with her, and where that death slaad keeps its valuables. Roll on these tables to determine what their bags or carried objects look like, how they have been packed, what is in the bags and whether the players will have any use for it. Accidentally put a merchant caravan in your game, and now the players have a cart full of objects, but you're not sure what they were transporting? Take a look at the "Merchandise" table, and you'll find what you're looking for to give your players a push into the right direction. Enjoy!

See the first part, "I Search the Bookcase!", here!

Draconic appearance generator, inspired by the beholder appearance generators in Volo’s Guide to Monsters.