The Book of Random Tables

Cut down gamemaster prep time with D100 random tables. Use these random tables to enhance your RPG campaigns and have more fun at the gaming table. For use with any fantasy TTRPG like Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, 13th Age, and more.

Playing Tabletop RPGs Solo

The random tables found in these books are essential to solo RPG players. Fill rooms as you explore and surprise yourself with quest ideas and random rumors. Use random tables to enrich your solo RPG play.

The Book of Random Tables

25 1D100 random tables for fantasy tabletop role-playing games.

Find items for a wizard’s chambers, campsites, desks, and more. Also, exciting random encounters for different terrains.

Plus 600 fantasy names for non-player characters.

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These random tables come in handy any time your players are searching or exploring or looking for jobs.

Rooms in dungeons are always tricky. Players want to search every inch, but as a game master, you don’t want to keep giving out treasure. The four dungeon room tables give interesting items for the characters to find without enriching them.

Don’t waste your time prepping things your players will never see. Just pull out these tables and create a quality gaming experience simply by rolling dice.

Roll randomly for items in a troll’s cave, a smithy, and more. Also, find jobs, witty insults from THE bard, fortunes, orc names, goblin names, and NPCs. Plus 500 fantasy town names.

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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.

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Do you play Dungeon & Dragons, Pathfinder, or other fantasy tabletop role-playing games? If so, these random tables come in handy any time your players are searching or exploring.

Don’t waste your time prepping things your players will never see. Just pull out these tables and create a quality gaming experience simply by rolling dice.

In this fourth volume of the Fantasy RPG Random Tables book series, you will find items in a dragon’s lair, critical hit and miss tables, underground and jungle encounters, a bounty board, and much more.

The Book of Random Tables: Quests

Need adventure ideas for Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder? Cut down your GM prep with 1000 quest options.

This book is a collection of quests or adventure ideas for use in fantasy tabletop role-playing games.

The ideas are organized by a broad topic and are placed in a random table format. Each table has one hundred ideas. You can use these adventure ideas to run RPG sessions in several ways.

You can read through the tables and choose an idea. You can take several ideas and combine them into one scenario for a campaign. You can roll randomly on a table to find an adventure on the fly. You can also use these ideas as side quests within original or premade campaigns.

The first six tables contain ideas that range from story hooks to scenarios to globe-spanning adventures. These tables are organized under the topics: Dungeons Hooks, Royal Quests, Forest Quests, Doorways to Another World, Town Quests, and Sea Quests.

The next three tables are as follows: Questing Beasts, Quest Objects, and Lost Cities. Here you will find the name of a thing and a bit of context. These are meant to be used as the goal of the quest. How the goal is attained is up to the gamemaster.

Meta-Quests is the last table in the book. It is a list of simple ideas that can be used as micro-quests much like collecting feathers in Angry Birds or bobbleheads in the Fallout videogames.

The Book of Random Tables: Quests 2

The one thousand adventures or quests for fantasy tabletop role-playing games in this book add flexibility to the gamemaster’s toolkit.

The purpose of this book, just as the first book of quests, is twofold. First, these adventure ideas help gamemasters cut down session prep by providing hooks and situations quickly. Our time is one of the most important resources we have, and we should not be wasting it. Second, these quests are kindling for the gamemaster’s imagination. These ideas are meant to help fan the flames of creativity.

The quest ideas in the book are arranged by a broad topic and are placed in D100 random table formats. The ideas can be used in a variety of ways. A gamemaster can roll randomly on a table or select ideas based on their preference. The ideas can be springboards to new campaigns or side quests or storylines that are weaved into an existing campaign. The ideas can be used as-is or mashed together to suit gamemasters’ needs.

The tables of ideas are Curses, Deserts, Disasters, Dragons, Dwarves, Fighter Guild, Ghosts, Halflings, Mountains, and War.

Each table is developed around a general controlling idea to help gamemasters determine what ideas are appropriate for their campaigns or sessions. Some of the quests are basic concepts and others are more detailed. This was done on purpose to provide a variety of adventure ideas with different scopes.

The Book of Random Tables: Science Fiction

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Do you play Traveller or Starfinder? Star Trek, Star Wars, or Stars Without Number? Another science-fiction tabletop role-playing game?

If so, these 26 1D100 random tables will help you cut down your GM prep time. Don’t waste time creating things your players will never see. Use these random tables to fill in the details, so you as the game master can focus on storytelling.

The Book of Random Tables: Science Fiction 2

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Do you play science-fiction tabletop role-playing games? Like Star Wars, Star Trek, Stars Without Number, Traveller, or Starfinder?

These 25 random tables help you cut down GM prep time. Don’t waste time creating things your players never see. Fill in the details at the table or create the entire adventure by rolling dice.

Focus on storytelling and have more fun while running your RPG campaigns. Never get caught without a name or a cargo item. Spice up your sessions with random encounters and side quests.

The Book of Random Tables: Cyberpunk

Do you play Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020, Altered Carbon, Carbon 2185, or another cyberpunk tabletop RPG? Cut down your gamemaster prep time with 32 1D100 random tables.

This book helps the gamemasters of cyberpunk tabletop role-playing games cut down their prep time. These random tables add details to campaigns and sessions with a roll of the dice.

Find useful tables like Items in a Corporate Fat Cat Office, Items in a Desk, Items in a Hacker’s Apartment, Items in a Nightclub Owner’s Office, Items in a Street Doc’s Office, Nightclub Encounters, Rumors and Odd Jobs, and tons of names for non-player characters as well as corporations and nightclubs.

The Book of Random Tables: Cyberpunk 2

Do you play Cyberpunk RED, Shadowrun, or another cyberpunk tabletop RPG? Cut down your gamemaster prep time with 32 D100 random tables.

Just like the first book, this book helps the gamemasters of cyberpunk tabletop role-playing games cut down their prep time. These random tables add details to campaigns and sessions with a roll of the dice.

Find useful tables like Items in a Corporation Locker Room, Items in a Gang Hideout, Items in a Pawn Shop, Items in a Slurp, Shop’s Kitchen, Office Building Encounters, City Locations and Shops, Names, Brand Names, and more.

The Book of Random Tables: 1920s – 1930s

Do you play the Call of Cthulhu or Trail of Cthulhu or another RPG set in the 1920s or 1930s?

If so, here are 31 1D100 random tables to help you cut down gamemaster prep and keep your players engaged.

Find helpful tables like Items in a Warehouse, Items in a Desk, Items in a Mobster Hideout, Fictional Ancient Texts, Names for NPCs, Famous Athletes, Best Selling Books from the time period, and more. Plus more than 400 slang terms for the 20s and 30s are included.

The Book of Random Tables: Wild West

Do you play Deadlands or another Western or Weird West tabletop role-playing game?

If so, cut down your gamemaster prep time with these 26 1D100 random tables. Find tables like Items Behind a Saloon Bar, Items in a Doctor’s Office, Items in a Barn, Wanted Posters, a list of Snake Oils, and many more. Plus names that fit the old west.

Level up your tabletop RPG sessions and campaigns and have more fun at the gaming table.

The Book of Random Tables: Post-Apocalyptic

29 Post-apocalyptic random tables to help cut down your GM prep.

Wasteland wanderers need to search every location they stumble across. However, GMs 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.

The Book of Random Tables: Modern

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.

The Book of Random Tables: Steampunk

Do you play Space 1889, Etherscope, Iron Kingdoms, Tephra: The Steampunk RPG, or another steampunk RPG?

Cut down your GM prep with random tables like Airship Cargo, Artifacts, Drugs and Medicines, Items in a Desk, Items in a Scientist’s Lab, Items in a Study, Steam Engine and Boiler Parts, Cavern Locations and Encounters, Non-Combat Encounters, Adventure Hooks and Settings, Names, and more.