Highlighting free and Pay What You Want random tables on DM's Guild
DM's Guild has a lot of quality paid content for D&D. And in addition there is much worth having for free or Pay What You Want (PWYW). This is a guide for Random Table pdfs.
DriveThru RPG - publishers | tomes of random | free titles | DM's Guild 5E - paid | free pdfs
Of worth are noting the considerable number of PWYW titles from Dungeons and Djinn and DND Speak
Disclaimer. I'm an affiliate for DM's Guild and I also create a lot of products with random tables on DM's Guild..
Toolkits
toolkits | characters | wild encounters | civilised encounters | npcs & taverns
Nerzugal's Dungeon Master Toolkit is a monster of a PWYW title with 114 pages including magic item enchantment tables. The sequel,Dungeon Master Toolkit 2, is also hefty, with random encounter tables.
Characters
toolkits | characters | wild encounters | civilised encounters | npcs & taverns
Names are important start with Nameonomicon: Dwarves - Name Generator and also one for Elves
Give characters pets and familiars or send them shopping with Shopping by Race: 18 Rollable Tables
Then there is 100 Bard Songs
Wilderness Encounters
toolkits | characters | wild encounters | civilised encounters | npcs & taverns
Encounters start with Random Encounters Expanded, 100 Beach Encounters, 100 Forest Encounters and Random Encounters: Dungeon Levels 1-3
For non-combat encounters there are 50 for Arctic, 50 for Desert. In addition are encounters from Dungeons and Djinn - , Forest, Coastal, Jungle, The North and Underwater
Civilised Encounters
toolkits | characters | wild encounters | civilised encounters | npcs & taverns
Start with 100 Urban Encounters Also character-focused events for the city, town and countryside
Dungeons and Djinn has non-combat encounters for On the Road and Urban
NPCs and Taverns
toolkits | characters | wild encounters | civilised encounters | npcs & taverns
Flesh out NPCs with 100 NPC Physical Traits, Random Insult Generator, 200 NPC Catchphrases
Lastly Inns and Taverns by Lifestyle has random tables for inns for 8 different categories
Your Random Table PDF Recommendations
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