Friday, August 29, 2025

Random Appendix N Campaign Concept Generator


Need a campaign idea or at least a prompt to develop your own? Just roll on the following table based on the AD&D "Appendix N" and fill in the blanks! 

Protagonists like [A] in a setting like [B] with magic like [C].

Roll     Author
1         Poul Anderson
2         Leigh Brackett
3         Lin Carter
4         Edgar Rice Burroughs
5         L. Sprague De Camp
6         De Camp & Pratt
        Lord Dunsany
8         PJ Farmer
9         Gardner Fox
10       Sterling Lanier
11       Fritz Leiber
12       H.P. Lovecraft
13       Abraham Merritt
14       Michael Moorcock
15       Fred Saberhagen
16       Magaret St. Clair
17       J.R.R. Tolkien
18       Jack Vance
19       Manly Wade Wellman
20       Roger Zelazny

So, I got A=17, B=20, and C=12, which gives me: Protagonists like JRRT, a setting like Zelazny, and magic like H.P. Lovecraft. I'll interpret that this way: There's a tidally locked planet (suggested by Jack of Shadows), where the nightside is dominated by Elder god-horrors with an oppressed human class in a technological realm, and the dayside is a sylvan realm of elves and dwarves, who seek to keep back the encroaching hegemony of the nightside.

One more example: A=4, B=14, C=10. ERB, Moorcock, and Lanier. This is an easy one. A group of "modern" Earth folk find themselves in post-apocalyptic realm of knights and chivalry where psychic powers are viewed as magic.

Give it a try!

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