Five Solutions to the Birthday Paradox in Tables
When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particularly for random encounter tables.
RANDOM BLOGWAGON
Issuing a challenge to all bloggers: blog about the topic of “randomness” on a random day in June. Additional random tables are provided to assist you in your posting.
Chain Stocking the Hex Map
A new method for procedurally generating the terrain of a hex map that adds some level of “memory” to the otherwise disconnected random tosses of the oracle dice.
All Along the Clocktower
Are you using overloaded encounter dice to track time? Clocks like from Blades in the Dark? Here is a more tangible, toyetic alternative method for tracking progress of anything in TTRPGs from time to damage, and a few ways you might use it: the Clocktower.
Slush Magic
Ten Thousand Random Spells and How to Cast Them (in roleplaying games, of course).
Familiars: A Witch’s Best Friend
Rules for familiars when a magical black cat simply isn't weird enough for you.
Wizard Diss Tracks
Wizards are petty creatures, prone to getting into arcane beefs with their fellows. I present rules for wizards researching diss spells to further their beefs along with a d66 random table for origins of the beefs between wizards.
Overloading the Random Encounter Table
A all-in-one roll for random encounters, reaction, surprise, and distance.
Shopping in D&D is Garbage, And How to Fix It
Don’t let shopping for gear be a chore. Make it part of the game with this Yahtzee inspired shopping minigame.
Names on the Borderlands
A d100 list of fantasy names for humans, dwarves, elves, halflings, goblins, lizardfolk, orcs and more!
Tempus, Fudge It
Include time-tracking directly in your game’s procedures, and you will never have to fiddle with a calendar for your campaign every again.
When to Hold ‘em, When to Roll ‘em
Dice are for divination, a tool that gives final say to fate. When you roll the dice, respect the result. But when you know what the result should be, don’t roll the dice.
In Defense of 3d6
3d6-in-order is a somewhat maligned method for generating stats, but there is a place for it. Beware: very unscientific survey contained herein!
Anti Canon Ancestry II: There Be Goblins!
Goblins from outer space invade the Prismatic Wasteland!
Anti Canon Ancestry
How Prismatic Wastelands handles “race.” A character’s ancestry doesn’t define them. Instead, the player helps define the world through their character’s ancestry.
