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This is a selection of "random thing" tables for various historical eras and future settings including SF, cyberpunk and post-apocalypse. It's one of those things that I rarely find necessary, but might be useful if e.g. I needed a random playlist of tunes to mention playing on the radio in a 1960s setting and didn't want to research it for myself.



dicegeeks Eras

https://bundleofholding.com/quick/DicegeeksEras

Dice Geeks Book of Random Tables for the Modern eraThis all-new dicegeeks Eras Bundle presents 11 .PDF ebooks of tables created by Matt Davids at dicegeeks that enhance RPGs set in many historical and future eras. If you run (for example) 1920s Call of Cthulhu investigations, modern-day superheroics, Shadowrun or Cyberpunk 2020 data heists, starfaring RPGs like Traveller, Weird West, steampunk, posts-apocalypse, and more, each of these 11 assortments of d100 tables can help speed up your game prep.

Longtime gamemaster Matt Davids designed a post-apocalyptic game, Anarchy, based on the OpenD6 System. He maintains a reference list of RPG System Reference Documents, and until this past February he hosted the long-running dicegeeks podcast. For several years Matt has busily populated entire books of percentile tables designed to spark creative ideas and help desperate gamemasters whose players suddenly decide to investigate some random name dropped in passing. In April 2022 our dicegeeks Random Tables Quick Deal gathered many of Matt's bestselling collections suited for fantasy RPGs. This new follow-up presents his historical work.

Each 50-page collection of percentile (d100) tables lets you generate locations, equipment, loot, character names, and encounters appropriate to a particular era of the past or a genre of futuristic science fiction. Each book includes more than two dozen tables that work with any roleplaying game set in that time. The historical books also include lots of authentic period info like book titles, famous people, slang terms, and other details that enliven your roleplaying sessions with the roll of a few dice.

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)

Dice Geeks Book of Random Tables for Cyberpunk gamesThe total retail value of the collections of random tables in this dicegeeks Eras Bundle is US$33. Customers who pay just US$7.95 get all eleven books of random tables in our Eras Collection (retail value $33) as DRM-free .PDFs, including Ancient World, Steampunk, Wild West, 1920s-30s, 1960s-70s, Modern, Cyberpunk 1, Cyberpunk 2, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction 1, and Science Fiction 2.


This isn't something I really expect to need much, given the ubiquity of Google and other search engines, but could be useful if I needed some ideas in a hurry. Since it's pretty cheap it's probably worth taking a look.

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