Author: Steven

  • Review: Lost in the shuffle

    Lost in the shuffle is a free resource to generate random dungeons. It is clearly a small passion project. You have a deck of premade dungeon rooms from which you draw random rooms while exploring.

    The rooms themselves are varied and look fun. They seem to be balanced around B/X D&D levels 3 to 5. Many have small twists and things to discover. This makes the rooms worthy of investigation.

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  • Keep improvising d6 tables

    There is a complete subreddit of d100 tables. Many books have been written filled with random tables. I have even seen an occasional d1000 table.

    This looks great on paper, but in practice they are overwhelming. The answers are often just not right. For example, using a generic forest encounter table when you know it is spider-infested. I prefer improvising d6 tables instead.

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