Ben Egloff and artists, The Game Master's Book of Astonishing Random Tables: 300+ Unique Roll Tables to Enhance Your Worldbuilding, Storytelling, Locations, Magic and More for 5th Edition RPG Adventures
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Even when not being unofficially D&D-specific, it's still generally based in the dark, violent fantasy realm, but there's still plenty that I can twist and sanitise to inject random encounters and inspiration into our friendly junior RPG. I don't know if I'll ever need to roll a whole pantheon of deities and system of government in quite this much detail, but I can't fault it for being excessively comprehensive.
2022 / Ebook / 174 pages
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Collects various slim rip-offs into a more substantial prompts compendium that's almost worth paying for, if it was more relevant for our needs at present.
2023 / Ebook / 32 pages
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More a creative writing rule system than a game, I might give its dice tables a go if I need more help cobbling together scenarios for real games.
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One of the quirkiest episode guides out there, this is really an ambitious (sometimes overly so) mission in opening up every episode of the series thus made into a practically playable module. It has some useful pointers for the rapidly-approaching day when I run out of ideas and start awkwardly forcing Red Dwarf into my five-year-old's junior RPG. She may recognise some of them from bedtime stories.
2019 / Ebook / 120 pages
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A nice idea for future activities, if a bit homeworky. Help them out with some RPG random dice tables if they get stuck.
