inspired by this post, but not necessarily related so i made my own
what game or supplement do you think has the best tables? i'm particularly interested in random tables but i also love, like, lists of inventory items and the like.
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I don't have any good examples, but I do have a favourite bad table. I won't share it immediately so as to avoid derailing, but I do like the question and it makes me realise I'm a real grouch about bad tables.
i would love to see the bad table. i'm, as usual, looking for bot inspiration-- tables are kind of like bots with their guts on the outside-- and you can learn as much from bad code as good code
In the rpg Traveler you roll on so many different tables during character creation that the PC could die before game starts
the starting items by social class in The Nightmares Underneath is a fav of mine
You're welcome to use any of my name generators for your bots if you want! They're not technically tables, but they're effectively the same
dark heresy (Warhammer 40k roleplay) has some amazing tables for Bad Stuff.
there are critical damage tables for each damage type - body area pair ranging in effect all the way from 'you got a pretty bad scratch' to 'you're ripped apart in such a horrifying way that everyone has to make rolls to avoid slipping on what's left of you'
there's also a great table for using psychic powers - if you roll doubles you get psychic phenomena which has like 30 random effects, mostly silly or spooky but there's also a 'perils of the warp' result that makes you roll on another table. then you get stuff ranging from everyone's gun jamming to the psychic disappearing and being replaced by a demon that hates everyone, friend or foe
my group regularly attempted 'tactical' perils rolls where they just hoped the perils effect hurt the enemy more than the party