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looking for the most extensive random tables
JohnnyMayHymn:
I'm making something ridiculous and looking for the most extensive random tables, don't care which system (anything from D&D to pathfinder, OSRIC or whatever), I also don't care whether it's cannon, home-brew, 3rd party or "licensed official content", books or websites.
Looking for everything random: encounters, NPCs, villages, dungeons, story plots, items, etc. everything.
I know that most DM/GM guides are going to have a lot of tables, and the complete list would be ridiculous, but which ones really went crazy overboard with the random tables?
Edit: Apparently, there's a whole subreddit for that called BehindTheTables they have a TON of random tables.
ketaro:
Have you ever looked at Hackmaster?
nijineko:
Rolemaster, otherwise known as "Chart"master.
Also, might I suggest you check here, however, be warned, you are almost certain to be offended if you actually read any of the rulebooks currently referenced as the unholy trinity, at least one of which has random tables for figuring out sizes of various anatomical bits.
Please note, that I have never played (or read) any of those three myself, though I am forced to admit that I have actually played one of the previous title holders, which has formulas for stuff like how hard you can exhale and massive tables of randomly generated powers, one of which table entry is "get every power in the book".
JohnnyMayHymn:
Hackmaster, Rolemaster, interesting, I'll look into those.
I had heard of the infamous FATAL, while I am using a lot of tables, ... I'm not going there, if you know what I mean.
Thanks for the replies!
Skyrock:
Most extensive single random table are clearly the various Central Casting books: https://rpggeek.com/rpgseries/2519/central-casting
It is essentially ~100 pages of a linked series of random tables to generate a random character background, with some very bizarre possibilities that can derail a campaign before it even begins (such as inheriting a working time machine).
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