There has been some discussion in various places over the last couple of weeks regarding "lore," which isn't a great term, may...

This post original appeared on 2020 and was one of my most popular posts that year. Recent discussion of what constitutes good "lore&qu...

The lite rpg Grok?! uses random tables for character generation, but the standard ones weren't entirely suitable to my Gnydrion setting...

My kid has been rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender , which means I have been rewatching it, and that gave me a roleplaying game related i...

Since I read Lin Carter's worldbuilding advice in Imaginary Worlds , at least, I've had an interest in names and neologisms in setti...

Here are a few random tables to create the barebones of your own Dying Earth setting . What's happening? 1 The Sun is going dark 2 The S...

Continuing my random old science fiction solar system generators here with one for the asteroid belt. The asteroids are much less specified ...

If setting books for rpgs sometimes get a bad rap, history sections of setting books are probably even more widely reviled. There are reason...

I made this new logo yesterday so it seemed like a good time to post my Random Ultra-Warriors Generator . It's just a first draft, bu...

Art by Jeff Call 01 A jovial human trader eager to unload a large, glowing jar containing squirming creatures he claims are Mercurian d...

Mercury is the least defined of the inner planets in pulp and early sci-fi. Beyond it being tidally locked   (which we've since learn...

Mars shows less variation that Venus in pulp and old sci-fi sources. Still, not all Marses are alike, so you deserve your own unique yet...

Modern science tells us Venus is a hellscape resulting from runaway greenhouse effect, but that was not always the way we imagined it to b...

Art by Clyde Caldwell After way more intensive review of Barsoomian names in Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books and adding a dash of Gardne...

This is a page from Mercer Meyer's  Little Monster's You-Can-Make-It Book from 1978. I figure it would make a decent one of those &q...

The original d10 only version of this post appeared in 2011. Here it is again, revised and expanded... “ It was a motley crowd, Eart...

Interested in generating the sort of visually distinct science fantasy characters of the sort found in Masters of the Universe ? I've ...

This post first appeared almost eight years ago to the day. The original version ended with a blank #9, but commentors filled in more, inclu...

In Incredible Hulk #300, Dr. Strange tried to get read of the menace of the Hulk (who was in one of his brutish menace periods) but ba...

Here's a short random table of unusual encounters in the Boundless Sea west of the Land of Azurth. Some of these are likely to appear in...