Media Lab Books’ ideation-focused tabletop game series presents its fifth release, The Game Master’s Book of Astonishing Random Tables by Ben Egloff. This book delivers what the title promises – hundreds of tables filled with unique and exciting ideas and situations for use in Dungeons & Dragons 5e, Pathfinder, or any other homebrew campaign of the DM’s choosing. The book provides a thorough and extensive template for creating a campaign’s entire world, covering not just random encounters and items, but also a worldbuilding section.
By utilizing every table available in the book’s Worldbuilding section, it is easy to create a world ruled over by two different gods. The first is an older god, one who rules over Life, Death, and Light, and has previously been exiled from the realm of the gods and lost the majority of their power. The second god rules over Knowledge, Trickery, and Nature, and is having trouble gaining a following.
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The book provides tables and descriptions for determining things like landmasses, cities, towns, types of governments, economies, population sizes, building names, guilds, and much more. All of these breakdowns are intricately detailed while still allowing plenty of room for GM discretion. Like all other Game Master’s Book of… titles, Astonishing Random Tables also comes with three one-shot adventures players can use to quickly jump into a game and start testing the included content if they don’t want to create an entire world from scratch.
The best thing about The Game Master’s Book of Astonishing Random Tables is how easily it can be used alongside practically any other official or homebrew D&D campaign. In the middle of a massive heist scenario in Keys From The Golden Vault? Characters who plan on stealing might be interested in the Pickpocketing table, which contains 1d100 options of what crafty rogues can find in a target’s pocket, including items like “a stale dog biscuit and a bent metal tag that has the name ‘Bear’ engraved on it” and “5 gp and an IOU that reads ‘475 gold pieces. On my wife’s life. – Greg the Lesser’.”
2023-06-12 11:30:05
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