Our Favorite Random Tables | 5e D&D | Web DM
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- Wanna know the best way to prep for D&D and TTRPG? GET IN HERE! Random tables are one of the best ways to get inspired and make surprising and engaging encounters. Today, we've got a short one for you where we tell you all our favorite resources. And most of them are FREE. Check it out.
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Have you guys discussed 2e Pathfinder vs 5e DnD yet? I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts on it.
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Thanks for the Maze Rats shout out!
Video topics have been spot on lately
Thank you! We're very focused on usefulness and utility.
*rolls up sleeves*
This is my jam!
Only eight minutes? Awww.
Full hour coming Friday-sat :)
@@WebDM So is wednesday just a preview for the friday video?
Nope, not a preview but a look at a related topic. Some content is exclusive for the short vid.
The Tome of Adventure Design is phenomenal. It's incredibly dense, if you're just reading the book and stopping to think through the results you get or the entries you read.
It has an adventure generator that is just a d100 table for generating adventure _names._ One of my favorites that I thought up after consulting this table was "The Aerial Asylum of the Bronze Creature".
The way I interpreted it, it was a flying, inverted pyramid plated in bronze, that travels through the sky. It was created by a long-defunct empire to house insane spellcasters, with the ability to absorb any spell cast within its walls. Nullifying magical outbursts and powering the asylum at the same time. Its warden is a bronze lion, a magical construct that is one with the asylum itself. The many rooms in the pyramid may still contain the scrawled writings of mad wizards, their secrets there to be gleaned by those willing and able to enter it.
Elfmaids & Octopi are AWESOME
this is seriously one of the best d&d series on youtube, i will always find helpful nuggets of information here. you guys are doing pelor’s work ☺️🙏
Thank you so much Liam!!
I'm a scifi DM mostly these days. I use tables from Stars Without Number for the bulk of it. Mothership's 'Pound of Flesh' is a beautiful setting book, but also full of great tables for space station generation (in fact, SWN and Mothership's online communities have a lot of nice content). There's a book called Augmented Reality on drivethru rpg that's meant for cyberpunk city/corporation/gang/etc generation, but it's also very applicable to scifi settings in general when things go street level on a planet. Finally, the Metamorphica is full of mutation tables and the revised version is very well organized. This book is fantastic for inspiring monsters, mutations, powers, and the like no matter the setting.
Love the length of this video!! I often lack the time to watch the full videos except in parts here and there, but I love these length that I can do in one setting!
Sweet. We're mixing it up a bit because yeah we know not everyone can sit through that much and a long vid is not always the best way to share info!
While I prefer like longer content (I know you guys are releasing longer versions too) I gotta say these short ones are a great reference, because you'll watch something and then need it later and to go through a whole 30 minute video to find that one mention that Jim or pruit makes to a tool or something is a painful adventure I've gone one too many times haha
Those sound like some awesome ideas, I want them all! Lately I've been frustrated with crates and barrels that never say what's in them so I just say they're all broken or spoiled so I've been making tables of trade goods that I think would be found in a medieval fantasy setting. Also I'm hoping this would make it a lot more interesting than finding bunches of gold everywhere.
Stars Without Number tables are unbelievably useful, Sine Nomine are incredible.
It's awesome that you're bringing OSR content and blogs into the mainstream.
I’ve been looking for some good random tables for a little while now, as I feel like I’ve exhausted the ones in the books I own. You guys came in clutch with this video!
Best TRPG chanel on TH-cam. You folks rock 🤘
Thank you so much!@
Consider checking out The Perilous Wilds by Jason Lutes. I've heard Ben Milton say that it inspired his tables in Maze Rats. But Perilous Wilds has been my go to book for generating overland exploration since its release.
WebDM seems to add their wisdom mods to all of the knowledge checks they make during their videos.
Always love a good random table.
Lmao! The absence of your over the top intros IS in itself a great WebDM intro. Instead of the awesome goofy lead-in-
"So. Jim. Favorite generators?"
I love it. Its about the intros you *don't* do sometimes.
Got one of our recent faves coming up in our long random table vid
Thank you so much I’ve been watching you all for quite a while and you help me be the best DM I could possibly be thank you so much ❤️
Sounds like someone's a fan of Questing Beast.
This channel is the gift that keeps on giving
Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that you are my favorite D&D TH-camrs, keep up the awesome work and the great conversations :) love you guys
Thank you so much, Andre!
I love the hour long episodes. But the short ones are real nice also
Every podcast you do where you off hand mention random tables you use, I've just scribbled it down on a piece of paper then lost the piece of paper at work. Now I don't have that problem anymore, thanks guys!
I LOVE RANDOM GENERATORS AND DICE CHARTS!!! Anyways a very informative and useful video. I paused and re-watched to take notes! Thanks so much!
I've found Inspiration Pad Pro from NBOS Software to be an incredibly underrated tool for creating and using random tables. Tables can be as simple as a list of names, or incredibly complex, using a scripting format that's virtually a programming language in itself. I convert all the random tables I find into IPP format and it's proven invaluable in game prep and quick mid-game random results. And it's free.
I'm not affiliated with NBOS in any way, just a happy user and I can't recommend it highly enough.
I love how I looked up Abulafia, and find out it's broken. The message was dated November 12th, too. Like, literally the next day after this video came out.
So many new videos lately!!! You guys are spoiling us. Thank you!!
Glad to make more!
I was able to run my first dnd game thanks to you guys. Your videos are extremely helpful and full of great ideas. Thanks for being you.
Awesome!!! Glad to help!
Long-time user of Donjon, ChaoticShiny, and Seventhsanctum. Will definitely check out the other sites listed, I absolutely love these types of generators.
Looks like Abulafia isn’t up anymore sadly
Checking it out! Hopefully it's temporary.
Aww man, I hope they get it working again, this site is such a great resource. I've contacted them before when the site broke, and they were pretty quick to reply.
I don't know why the hyperlink isn't working, but coping and pasting the link sent me there no issue
@@andrewwestfall65 Yeah but if you go there, everything is missing. At least using Chrome. Like if you click the treasure link, none of the generators bring anything up. It doesn't even have the logo it used to.
It now says that the ISP upgraded the version of PHP and that broke their MediaWiki installation.
Heroforge the masters of your ideas the moment you use their tools
When I got nothing to do, I come up with tables and draw maps. I love random tables for so many things.
so helpful, seriously, thank you
Great short video idea. Keeping up-to-date with resources can be hard when your favorite sights disappear, or don't support the latest edition. I often find myself wishing for more sensical generators. But suspect that those cost money.
Thank god! I’ve been wondering this!
I'm going to check these out. Should get some use out of it with my games. I think my players will like it.
Not enjoying the shorter bits of content lately. but useful as always!
Nothing beats the random encounter table in Tomb of Annihilation, I have found nothing as good. I wish WotC would make a whole book with just an expanded version of chapter 2 of ToA.
Kobold Fight Club is also pretty nice to quickly build encounters
I use maze rats and knave tables all the time!
Thanks for watching, Eric!!
No love for Ironsworn? The tables in there are great. Shawn Tomkin created such a great thing with it. make a fleshed out NPC with 4 d100 rolls. And there's roll20 mods for it, so you don't even have to look at the tables to see what you got. Oh, and IT'S FREE!
Ironsworn is cool! We haven't played it enough yet.
And another day passes that I miss web dm
Thanks.
Thanks for the veterans day gift lol.
Is this like a clip of a longer video to come?
Yes. I need these
Don't you mean dozens and dozens and dozens, if not grosses? If we're starting in dozenal, let's stick to dozenal :-P
Not only is this one of my favorite topics but Jim is rocking a dope ass sweater. Where'd you get that sweater my dude? I want one.
No idea, it was a gift from his wife's grandma, LOL but we'll let him know you liked it
@@WebDM Thank you. I appreciate it!
You can make you're own charts! Seriously charts for days let the charts fly! Set a number range between a 1d4-1d100 start assigning shit to numbers pretty cool! 😎
My DM uses the 10k table of wild magic.
I was just looking for something like that *yes*
Glad to help!
Could we get a example of runing a dungeon using the advice and tables and stuff youve givin from the tid bits episode and maga dungeon episode ect.
Thanks for the request! We are planning something like that
@@WebDM any possible idea on episodes out that would be by chance? Ive been wanting to run that castle whiterock set but i am still having difficulty understanding how i use the dungeon steps
Do you guys use the tables from the DMG or do you prefer other sources. Sometimes I feel that the magic item tables from the dmg in specific can be a bit of a drag.
We take em from all over, and that's what this is about
Any good tables for Eberron? Would love something for encounters across Korvair by region
What were the books they mentioned?
There is also www.reddit.com/r/d100/ which is a subreddit all about creating d100 tables. There are a ton you can search up if you cant find a specific table. Or you can make a post and get help creating one.
Cha'alt!
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They're what DMs crave
A web DM video shorter than 10 minutes? Heresy!
Is there a list of links mentioned in this video?
In the description!
Crap! Missed them the first time. Thanks 👍
I’m not sure how I feel about this new editing style. Its not that I don’t like it, I just feel like it doesn’t let points linger quite long enough.
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It's Wednesday my dudes.
Happy Wednesday
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