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RPGaDay 2025 13: Darkness
Darkness seems to be a pivotal thing for an OSR experience. Darkness is foreboding and dangerous. The OSE SRD notes that “[a]ll non-human monsters and many demihuman races have a special kind of vision that allows them to see in the dark.
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RPGaDay 2025 12: Path
Today’s prompt, “Path”, lead me to think about a feature I don’t really describe much. I’ll describe the journey somewhere or events that happen. I’ll describe moments of rest, or unique features of a landscape being traversed.
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RPGaDay 2025 11: Flavor
Immediately, this prompt made me think of describing potions. I want to have an easy way to generate more unique looks and experiences for potions. So, this table can generate a variation of experiences of a potion.
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RPGaDay 2025 10: Origin
I really enjoyed reading Carcass Crawler 5, which has a chapter on creating Level 0 characters. As part of that, on p.14 there are background tables listing a profession, items carried, and a fitting weapon.
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RPGaDay 2025 09: Inspire
I was a little stuck on today’s prompt, “Inspire”. So, I used the little roll tables for additional inspiration. I got a 5, for “Why”; a 1, for “Envious”; and a 3 for “Genre”.
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RPGaDay 2025 08: Explore
Another day of my self-imposed random table per day challenge for RPGaDay2025! “Explore” is a bit of an easy prompt for this: any encounter table involves results of exploration. So, I tried to do another D-Devil table to have it generate curious results.
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RPGaDay 2025 07: Journey
Today’s entry for what has become RandomTableADay for me is on the topic “Journey”. A few years back, I read the Welsh Piper’s post on Hex-based Campaign Design (Part 1). In it, The Welsh Piper speaks of efficient hex map design, referencing an old, lost-to-the-internet post by Greywulf, on a Microlite d20 site.
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RPGaDay 2025 06: Motive
I’ve been on a kick now with making random tables for #RPGaDAY2025, so maybe I’ll just go nuts with it! This time, I want to try my hand at making a “D-Devil Table” as explained by Baron De Ropp.
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RPGaDay 2025 05: Ancient
Similar to yesterday’s entry, today I wanted to make another random roll table. Again, I wanted to make a d30 table, using a different style this time. Here, the result on the 10s determine how to interpret the result on the 1s.
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RPGaDay 2025 04: Message
Today’s topic is “message”. I have to admit, I was a little stumped to write something here! In the end, I figured to create a little random table of possible message delivery methods.
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