The Book of Random Tables : Fantasy Role-Playing Game AIDS for Game Masters

Cut Your Game Master Prep Time with 25 Powerful d100 Random Tables

Run better fantasy tabletop role-playing game sessions with less prep and more play.

This book is packed with 25 d100 random tables designed to help Game Masters, Dungeon Masters, and fantasy RPG referees quickly generate content during prep or at the table. Whether you run Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, OSR games, or other fantasy TTRPGs, these tables give you instant inspiration when players explore the unexpected.

Stop wasting hours prepping details your players may never see. Instead, roll dice and generate rich, flavorful results on the fly.

What’s Inside This Fantasy RPG Random Tables Book?

• 25 d100 random tables for fantasy tabletop role-playing games
• Hundreds of evocative items, encounters, and story hooks
• 600 fantasy names for NPCs, villains, and background characters
• Perfect for session prep, improv play, sandbox campaigns, and hexcrawls
• Works with any fantasy RPG system

Use these tables whenever players search rooms, explore wilderness, ask for rumors, or poke into places you didn’t expect.

Sample Random Tables Include:

Items & Locations

• Items in a Wizard’s Chamber
• Items in an Alchemist’s Lab
• Items in a Cottage
• Items in a Bandit’s Hideout
• Items in an Office
• Items in a Warehouse
• Items in a Royal Tomb
• Items in a Noble’s Bedchamber
• Items in a Port Master’s Office
• Items on an Adventurer’s Dead Body
• Items in a Hunter’s Camp
• Items in a Ship Captain’s Quarters
• Items on a Dead Goblin
• Items in a Fantasy Desk
• Items in an Inn’s Kitchen

Gear, Lore, and Flavor

• Weapons, Armor, and Equipment
• Book Titles
• Potion Ingredients
• Medicinal Herbs
• Culinary Herbs & Spices
• Gemstones

Encounters & Adventure Hooks

• Forest Encounters
• Mountain Encounters
• Swamp Encounters
• Seafaring Encounters
• Catastrophes
• Rumors & Odd Jobs

Ideal For:

• Dungeon Masters and Game Masters
• Fantasy RPG sandbox and open-world campaigns
• OSR, D&D-style, and Pathfinder games
• GMs who love random tables, generators, and improvisation tools

Want Even More Random Tables?

This book is part of the Dicegeeks random tables series. If you enjoy this volume, be sure to check out the other fantasy and genre-focused RPG resources. Learn more at: www.dicegeeks.com

Matt Davids is a writer, a creator of tabletop role-playing game resource books, a novelist, a podcast host, and a former filmmaker. He is the author of the Amazon bestsellers, The Book of Random Tables and The Book of Random Tables: Quests. His first novel, The Spaceport Gambit, was released in June 2021. He lives in Missouri with his wife and their four children. His bookshelves groan under the weight of classic literature, science fiction, and fantasy. He enjoys playing Dungeons & Dragons, studying cinema and philosophy, and knows more about 80s post-apocalyptic movies than any reasonable person should.