Do you play Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder? Are you spending hours on GM prep? Well, no longer. Cut down game master prep time with 25 1D100 fantasy random tables. Find items for a cell, a wine cellar, a dead orc, and more. Also, exciting random encounters for different terrains. Plus food and drink. Some of the tables in the book: Inn Names Names of Knightly Orders Desert Encounters Forest Locations Road Encounters Items in a Cell Items in a Chest Items on a Dead Orc Jewelry Items in a Wagon Items in a Wine Cellar Beers Thieves Guild Quests Dungeon Health Side Effects Get The Book of Random Tables and The Book of Random Tables 2
Make your fantasy tabletop role-playing game even more epic with hundreds of creative and unexpected details to keep your story fresh, your settings vivid and alive, and your friends guessing! Take your fantasy world to the next level, all with the roll of a die! Random Tables: Cities and Towns is a utility book for fans of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, allowing Game Masters to generate on-the-fly content for adventurers traveling, shopping, or simply passing through towns and cities. Adventurers love to ask tough questions that can sometimes put Game Masters on the spot and put their creative skills to the test. Never fear being stumped when the party asks: What building is across the street from the thieves’ guild headquarters? Who runs the local potion shop? Who is staying in the other rooms of the party’s tavern? Generate all of these answers and more by rolling on the dozens of randomized tables provided within these pages. Your players will love your fast-paced and exciting adventures; and even you will be on the edge of your seat to see what happens next!
For many tabletop RPG players, the joy of an in-depth game is that anything can happen. Typical adventure modules include a map of the adventure’s primary location, but every other location?whether it's a woodland clearing, a random apothecary or the depths of a temple players elect to explore?has to be improvised on the fly by the Game Master. As every GM knows, no matter how many story hooks, maps or NPCs you painstakingly create during session prep, your best-laid plans are often foiled by your players' whims, extreme skill check successes (or critical fails) or their playful refusal to stay on task. In a game packed with infinite possibilities, what are GMs supposed to do when their players choose those for which they're not prepared? The Game Master’s Book of Random Encounters provides an unbeatable solution. This massive tome is divided into location categories, each of which can stand alone as a small stop as part of a larger campaign. As an example, the “Taverns, Inns, Shops & Guild Halls” section includes maps for 19 unique spaces, as well as multiple encounter tables designed to help GMs fill in the sights, sounds, smells and proprietors of a given location, allowing for each location in the book to be augmented and populated on the fly while still ensuring memorable moments for all your players. Each map is presented at scale on grid, enabling GMs to determine exactly where all of the characters are in relation to one another and anyone (or anything) else in the space, critical information should any combat or other movement-based action occur. Perhaps more useful than its nearly 100 maps, the book's one-shot generator features all the story hooks necessary for GMs to use these maps as part of an interconnected and contained adventure. Featuring eight unique campaign drivers that lead players through several of the book's provided maps, the random tables associated with each stage in the adventure allow for nearly three million different outcomes, making The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters an incredible investment for any would-be GM. The book also includes a Random NPC Generator to help you create intriguing characters your players will love (or love to hate), as well as a Party Makeup Maker for establishing connections among your PCs so you can weave together a disparate group of adventurers with just a few dice rolls. Locations include taverns, temples, inns, animal/creature lairs, gatehouses, courts, ships, laboratories and more, with adventure hooks that run the gamut from frantic rooftop chases to deep cellar dungeon-crawls, with a total of 97 maps, more than 150 tables and millions of possible adventures. No matter where your players end up, they'll have someone or something to persuade or deceive, impress or destroy. As always, the choice is theirs. But no matter what they choose, with The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters, you'll be ready.
Do you play superhero or other modern-setting tabletop RPGs? Cut down your gamemaster prep with 48 1D100 random tables. Speed up play at the gaming table with random tables like Mission Hooks, Random Encounters, Items in a Ship Cargo Hold, Items in a Car, Books, Items in a Warehouse, Names, and much more all geared for tabletop RPGs with modern settings.
29 Post-Apocalyptic Random Tables to Help Cut down Your GM Prep Wasteland wanderers need to search every location they stumble across. However, in a role-playing game, gamemasters shouldn't waste their time figuring out every piece of junk that litters the wasteland. Simply use these random tables and let the dice decide. Some of the tables are: Highway Encounters, Gang Names, Projectile Weapons, Clothing, Water, Food, Drugs, plus 22 more tables with tons of random items.
"Playing a role-playing game is a delicate dance. If everything runs smoothly, it feels like you and your friends are able to maneuver effortlessly through dramatic, epic, and uproariously silly scenes where everyone gets a chance to shine. And yet, other times it just doesn't come together. Combat slows to a repetitive grind, the Game Master runs out of good Non-Player Character (NPC) ideas, or after twenty-six rounds maybe even the most beautifully designed encounter just gets a bit stale. Sure, you could prep an absolute powerhouse of an all-killer-no filler role-playing session. Spend time getting fun character voices ready for every NPC. But that sounds like way too much work. This is the book you turn to for help. It's a big book of ideas designed to slot right into your existing campaign, organized into neat little tables. If you salivate at chaos magic effect tables and daydream about wild, unexpected die results, you already know it can also be fun to throw caution to the wind and let randomness determine as much as possible. Even the most organized GMs and the tightest adventure modules benefit from a little spice!"--
Get ready to add even more dark and dangerous detail to your table fantasy tabletop role-playing game with hundreds of random tables designed to help you create epic storylines full of mysterious dungeons, secret entrances, and more! Take your fantasy world to the next level, all with the roll of a dice! Random Tables: Dungeons and Lairs is a utility book for fans of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, allowing game masters to generate on-the-fly content for their adventures traveling through dangerous dungeons, choosing room and hall aesthetics, and discovering unique sealing techniques. Adventurers love to ask tough questions that can sometimes put game masters on the spot and put their creative skills to the test. Never fear being stumped when the party asks: What type of rumors are embedded into this dungeon? What’s this room's feature and how can I navigate it? Is this door made from magical properties or is it normal? Generate all of these answers and more by rolling on the dozens of randomized tables provided within these pages. Your party will love your fast-paced and exciting adventures, and even you will be on the edge of your seat to see what happens next!
Do you play Traveller or Starfinder? Or Star Wars, Star Trek or Stars Without Number? Or another science fiction tabletop role-playing game? If so, these 26 random tables will help you cut down your GM prep time. Don't waste time creating things your players will never see. The massive illegal drugs table works great with cyberpunk as well. Use these randoms tables to fill in the details, so you as the game master can focus on storytelling. The tables include: Space Encounters Planetary Exploration Encounters Rumors from the Spaceport Bar Spaceship Mechanical Problems Items in a Desk Items in a Government Office Computer Files Items in a Cargo Hold Types of Stars Types of Planets Illegal Drugs Plus 15 more! www.dicegeeks.com
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An absolute delight to read . . . How lucky we are that [Ruth Reichl] had the courage to follow her appetite.”—Newsday At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that “food could be a way of making sense of the world. If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were.” Her deliciously crafted memoir Tender at the Bone is the story of a life defined, determined, and enhanced in equal measure by a passion for food, by unforgettable people, and by the love of tales well told. Beginning with her mother, the notorious food-poisoner known as the Queen of Mold, Reichl introduces us to the fascinating characters who shaped her world and tastes, from the gourmand Monsieur du Croix, who served Reichl her first foie gras, to those at her politically correct table in Berkeley who championed the organic food revolution in the 1970s. Spiced with Reichl’s infectious humor and sprinkled with her favorite recipes, Tender at the Bone is a witty and compelling chronicle of a culinary sensualist’s coming-of-age. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Ruth Reichl's Delicious! Praise for Tender at the Bone “A poignant, yet hilarious, collection of stories about people [Reichl] has known and loved, and who, knowingly or unknowingly, steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world’s leading food writers.”—Chicago Sun-Times “While all good food writers are humorous . . . few are so riotously, effortlessly entertaining as Ruth Reichl.”—The New York Times Book Review “Reading Ruth Reichl on food is almost as good as eating it. . . . Reichl makes the reader feel present with her, sharing the experience.”—Washington Post Book World “[In] this lovely memoir . . . we find young Ruth desperately trying to steer her manic mother's unwary guests toward something edible. It's a job she does now . . . in her columns, and whose intimate imperatives she illuminates in this graceful book.”—The New Yorker “A savory memoir of [Reichl’s] apprentice years . . . Reichl describes [her] experiences with infectious humor. . . . The descriptions of each sublime taste are mouthwateringly precise. . . . A perfectly balanced stew of memories.”—Kirkus Reviews
