Posts tagged #random-table
Historic Event Generator
So your world is basically just heaven and earth and you want to be all “Let There Be Light!” and are running out of ideas. I have two words for you: Random tables. Obviously, you need to make your own, but ain’t nobody got time for that! So use mine. Now, I didn’t actually fill in each entry myself - I use a trusty little LLM to do that for me and then edited away until I liked the results. And I didn’t come up with the method myself: That’s something a Benedict monk taught me in history class as a teenager: The latin phrase quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando is 7 questions that can be asked about a historic event. Somehow it got stuck in my head. I’m probably totally wrong about it all, but as far as I remember, it translates roughly as:
SCA Heraldry Names
Just a quick reminder: SCA Heraldry has a ton of names by period and culture. You can distill random tables of names from there. Using ChatGPT to mash them up can sometimes also work.
Random Myth Generator
I stumbled upon the following link and need to remember it: Random Myth Generator by Chris Francis. That link will take you to a very simple page: It’s a giant button that says “Random Myth Article” and clicking on it will take you to a random Wikipedia article. Some examples you might get directed to:
Random Allemanic Names for NPCs
I’ve been working on a setting that would work well in Swiss German for a campaign. Fantasy names tend to be very English oriented and “home” base names just… don’t really fit a setting that goes well with Swiss German native speekers. I hope to explore that further another day, but for now, here’s a table of random NPC names to use in a setting that might be a place like medieval Switzerland:
NPC Development Questions (d20 Table)
Here’s a list of questions that could be used to help flesh out an NPC. I suggest rolling 3 times on the list and answering the random question.