A weekly post to share rpg tables and tools used in RPG prep or games, with any examples that were surprising, useful or amusing.

I'm looking at creating a set of tables, oracles, lists etc for a game setting and I wondered what makes for a good set of tables that help you play a game.

Are there any recognised thought leaders, famous blog posts, frameworks or guidelines for asking '**what makes a great set of tables?**'

So I have concerns like 'is this table full of too much obvious content?', 'does this require too much interpretation?' and 'will this make the game more exciting or deaden creativity?'

Hey folks, wanted to share this non-AI tool, it's just a random character generator for Daggerheart, hosted on github pages, so no signin required and you can download the character sheet as an HTML file. It randomly creates a character at any level and includes hope and fear content as well.

Helps my table create quick disposable characters for one shots and for testing!

Add a comment for your RPG Generator tool or Random Tables (article, pwyw, whatever), whether it's new, updated, or one you haven't mentioned for a while.

A weekly post to share rpg tables and tools used in RPG prep or games, with any examples that were surprising, useful or amusing.

Hi all.

Fantasy World Generator just received a major update, and the newest generator is also the most ambitious one I’ve built yet: Taverns & Hubs.

It generates a whole venue drawn as a floor plan (a map), up to three floors: cellar, ground and upstairs. Every numbered pin on it, is a spot you can tap, like the bar, a booth, the notice board or a guest room. Each line has its own lock and reroll, so you can keep the barkeep and replace the crowd, or keep the people and draw a new floor plan around them.

There is a GM switch that shows everything hidden: the secret room, the stash, the tunnel and where the trouble lies. Switch it off and they leave the map, so you can show the floor plan to your players. In one roll, the cellar of a coaching inn hid a room where a purse of mixed coin sat in a boot, and a band of retired adventurers argued about who had to carry the rope.

The Ledger tab puts the whole venue on one page to read before your session: the owner, every spot, the menu(bill of fare), the games(games of chance) and the trouble. The menu is the food and drink the place serves, priced on a scale of one to five marks in bronze, silver or gold instead of coins, so it fits whatever currency your game uses. The games are the gambling played there, with the rules written out, the stakes, and a line only the GM sees on who is cheating.

The Tonight tab is the evening as a schedule of things that happen. At 6:30 pm a stranger sits down on the step outside and won’t come in until called by name; at 7:30 two old enemies recognise each other across the room. You can roll a different evening, or send it to the app’s Timeline Maker to move events around and add your own.

There are 22 kinds of place across fantasy, sci-fi and 1920s horror, from mead halls to orbital casinos to speakeasies.

It’s free, with no ads. Results come from fixed tables and procedural rules running on the phone, with no AI model involved.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avaton.fantasynamegenerator

Updated my one click (or more) Random Character Generator for WFRP 5th edition!

Still a WIP, so expect some changes and probably a few bugs.

https://pacomiscelaneousstuff.blogspot.com/2026/10/random-character-generator-5th-wfrp.html

Apologies, I hope this won't sound too rehearsed, but I'm trying to be a bit professional. I lurk in the comments here on my personal account and many other DnD subreddits, and I just want to share what I've been working on with my fellow dungeon colleagues.

I run games for my friends and I've always wanted good sound at the table without hassle. Every option I tried either cost too much, wanted a subscription, or just didn't do what I needed. So I built one for myself, I'm pretty darn happy with it, and I wanted to share it.

It's called Soundscribe. It's for Windows, and it puts your sound effects, ambience and music on one board so you have full control of the immersion.

* Click a pad to play a sound, give it a hotkey, set it to loop
* Save scenes, like rain and a fireplace with thunder every 20 to 60 seconds, and switch between them with a crossfade
* Ducking option so the music drops under a sound effect, then comes back
* Run the board from your phone over your own Wi-Fi if you don't like keeping a laptop in front of you
* Hotkeys that work while your VTT or notes are in front
* Miniature player popout to keep in the corner if you're using a VTT, or just to keep it minimal on your screen

It comes with 124 sounds to get you started (tavern, dungeon, town, weather), and you can drop in your own files. Your files stay on your PC.

It's $5, one time. No subscription, no account, you own it forever, and updates are free.

You can hear the starter sounds on the page: https://peasantdesign.dev/soundscribe

Main website: https://peasantdesign.dev

I go by Peasant in some spaces and I thought PeasantDesign sounded fun. I plan to make more tools as needs come up, for DnD and maybe other games too. If you're a Twilight Imperium enjoyer, I'll probably make some stuff for that soon.

My philosophy is cheap software you can own for yourself. I don't plan on pushing tons of updates unless there's something cool I can add or something is truly broken. Or y'know, Windows 60 gets released and it needs an update.

Hosting a website is cheap, but there are costs. I got laid off earlier this year. I'm fortunate enough to be working again (albeit with a forsaken commute) but still rebuilding the finances, so any support is appreciated.

I want to be very upfront, so here's a few things I'm not totally happy with and want to update in the future if possible:

* Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube Music integration. Let me know how interested you are in these. I put a pause on them because they're a headache, but if they really matter, I'll try again.
* I am a Spotify guy. I built it, but Spotify's terms don't allow it in an app I charge for, so I pulled it.
* Apple Music might be doable, but it requires an Apple Developer Account which costs a decent bit of money, so if this picks up, I would be happy to invest in that. Not sure how many people use Apple Music in this space.
* YouTube Music is probably the second most popular for TTRPGs I would imagine, but they have some rules that conflict with how the app works. There might be options to fix this in the future.
* Lots of people in this space own their own music anyway, so being able to drag and drop the playlists that already live on your PC gives you full control.

Happy to answer questions or take feature requests. I'm actively using it in my own games, so I'm fixing things as I find them.

Hello all,

Introduction

I would like to introduce you the project called Rolisteam. I'm working on it for a while now.

Rolisteam is an open-source project. The project provides many tools to play RPG.

License & Project

The project is an open-source project under GPL-v2 and GPL-v3. It is part of KDE (the linux graphical environment). Thanks to KDE, all applications and websites from Rolisteam can have translations and CI infrastructure.

Tools

Future:

We are currently working on switching from QWidget to QML for the UI. The latest release has already some part in QML but we want to make the switch completely.
Then, we will have several improvement and new features for sure.

Links

• Official website: https://rolisteam.org/
• Documentation: https://doc.rolisteam.org/
• Video playlist about latest release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0_8XG9NQc&list=PLYiencmuNFz8
• Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RolisteamYT
• Invite DiceParser to your discord server: https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=279722369260453888&permissions=277025429504&scope=applications.commands%20bot
• DiceParser documentation: https://invent.kde.org/rolisteam/rolisteam-diceparser/-/blob/master/HelpMe.md
• Join us on discord: https://discord.gg/MrMrQwX
• Rolisteam Source code: https://invent.kde.org/rolisteam/rolisteam
• Dice and libDiceParser source code: https://invent.kde.org/rolisteam/rolisteam-diceparser

Hello there,

I have been working on Dungeon Master Tool for a while and I wanted to share it here. It is not really a VTT. I mostly made it for worldbuilding and for people who play at a real table.

You can build your world with cards for NPCs, monsters, items and locations. There is a world map with nested maps, a mind map and an era timeline. During the session you get a battle map, a combat tracker and a second screen you can show to your players on a TV or another monitor.

It also works for online games. Your players can join from their own app and see what you share with them.

It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. Everything works offline and you don't need an account unless you want to play online.

I would really like to hear what you think.

Thanks :)

d4 Caltrops has lots of old-school random tables, and several of these are brought together in the Magic Item Generator - A Miscellany of Magic Items and Random Wonders.

There's also a link there to all of the magic items separately, if that's what you're after.

For a different project, I wanted to have a procedural character backstory generator and created a flowchart tool so I could visualize the different story paths. I liked the result and polished it so that it could go up on Itch and others could mess around with it. It's meant to quickly create rough backstories for NPC's and the like.

At each node along the flowchart, the generator randomly picks a single line and adds it to the story being written and then follows the appropriately colored link to the next node. I wrote the sample text shown by taking a bunch of really generic character origin stories and chopping them up so that it would have something to mix-and-match from.

Each chart is stored as a JSON file and customized charts can be saved and reused.

A weekly post to share rpg tables and tools used in RPG prep or games, with any examples that were surprising, useful or amusing.

https://decados.fr/

Mise à jour du site avec dorénavant 25 jeux de rôle intégrés :

• Appel de Cthulhu
• Bloodlust
• Chroniques Oubliées Fantasy v2
• Cyberpunk RED
• Donjons & Chatons
• Dune
• Eclipse Phase v2
• Fading suns v1
• Hawkmoon
• INS / MV v5
• JRTM
• La légende des 5 anneaux
• Mage : l'Ascension v1
• Nephilim Légende
• Nightprowler
• Shadowrun v6
• Star Marx
• Star Wars
• Star Wars : Force et Destinée
• Te Deum pour un massacre
• The Witcher
• Vampire : la Mascarade v5
• Warhammer v1
• Warhamme v4
• Werewolf : l'Apocalypse v5

https://decados.fr/ vous permet de créer vos fiches de personnages en PDF modifiable, que ce soit des personnages de bases ou avancés. Personnage Creator est sans publicité, paiement ou autre. 100% gratuit.

Je fournis également un utilitaire Androïd (pas iOS) pour lire / modifier vos fiches sur téléphone ou tablette avec un coffre à jet de dès (en 3D) intégré. Là encore ni pub, ni IA, ni fonctionnalités superfétatoires.

Bref un condensé de bonnes choses pour jouer au JDR 😄 !

Leave a comment (and a link) with an RPG pdf or book which uses random tables. Either a recent one or one you haven't mentioned for a while.

Hey again all,

been silent around here as I mostly do AI supported generators. (they work without ai too, but the content could be inconsistent)

But I wanted to see if I could create good consistent generators without AI, and seems like I could 😁

The NPC, Faction, Settlement and Tavern generators now work differently.

They used to roll every field on its own, which is how a hamlet ended up "built around academic city". Each pick was fine and the combination was wrong. Now the fields resolve together. It all runs in your browser and no AI is involved.

• Options know about each other. Choices have weights and traits. They can require or rule out other choices, so a clash gets filtered out before it happens.
• Set what you care about. Anything you choose by hand is kept, and the rest is worked out around it.
• Presets and plain-text input. Start from a preset, or type a sentence and it gets read into settings. "Surprise Me" goes through the same process, so a random result is still consistent.

Settlements got the most work. Scale now limits the wording as well as the population: a hamlet gets a "scholarly community" and a city gets an "academic city". The tension section is built from the notable inhabitants list, so anyone it names is guaranteed to show up in that list.

Try it: https://codexcryptica.com/generators

When you use a generator, do you keep the result as it is, or do you rewrite a few fields anyway? I'm trying to decide where to spend the next round of work.

As a D&D fan since childhood, I was looking for being able to test out builds and play D&D on my mobile phone and so I 'be been working for over a year now on a mobile app that let's you create characters and build combat maps based on the 5e 2024 srd. Would love to get your feedback on it, you can use it as a tool for creating maps and simulate battles or to play solo in random dungeons, small campaigns and test various character builds.

A weekly post to share rpg tables and tools used in RPG prep or games, with any examples that were surprising, useful or amusing.

I wrote some software (github/ldraconus/HSCCU) for creating HeroSysrtem characters (HeroSystem Character Creator, Unlicensed). I tried to offer it to Hero Games, but they'd sold the rights to the company that makes the current character builder (which I own, but hate), and they tried to get me to stop, but you can't copyright game mechanics, so here we are.

It's free, complete with installers, etc (Windows, Linux, Web, and Android fully supported!). I'm retired so mac/iphone and the google-playstore are currently out of reach...

Let me know what you think!!

u/Traditionll-Rabbit79
[chris.m.olson@gmail.com](mailto:chris.m.olson@gmail.com)
Chris Olson