The Sleeper’s Tables · Vol. I
Strangers & Secrets
Three d66 tables for the people and places the party runs into between fights. Roll on it when a stranger needs to want something right now.
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- 9 pages
- 108 entries
- Screen and print editions
- Plain text for VTTs
- US Letter
- System-agnostic, No rules text
Two of the book’s 9 pages, and six of its entries below. The rest is in the PDF.
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Roll What They Want.
The book reads two dice left to right, so a 3 then a 5 is entry 35. Here one entry in each band is open. Roll for a band and the book opens there. The other 30 stay locked, and so does every other table in the book.
NPC Motives, Scene Snags & Found Things
The party will always turn to the one person in the room you didn't plan for, and "he's a merchant" only buys you a few seconds. Roll here and that person wants something specific, like the exact sum they owe someone frightening, counted out before dark. This is the first of the Tables books, and it covers everything around the fight.
The other two tables are for a scene that's gone too smooth and needs to go wrong, and for a searched room that ought to give something back. There are 108 entries in all. Each one starts with a bold catch-word you can read at a glance, then a full line for when you have a few more seconds. The details stay loose on purpose, so whose debt it was and why the salt is gone get settled by the people at the table.
It asks for two dice and a fantasy game. Any system will do, and there's nothing to prep before the session.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- 3 d66 tables (What They Want, What Goes Wrong, What They Find), 108 entries in all.
- Entries grouped in sixes, so a single die works when only the flavor matters.
- Screen edition plus a plain-white print edition, US Letter.
- Every table as plain text, ready for VTT decks and house tools.
- Bookmarked, DRM-free PDF you can copy from and mark up.
- System-agnostic, with no rules text.
For the creature standing in the doorway, see Vol. II, Monster Motives & Tactics.
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The Sleeper’s Tables
More Tables
Vol. II
Monster Motives & Tactics
Four d66 tables about how one particular monster behaves. Use them alongside whatever bestiary or monster book your table already runs.
Vol. III
Story Seeds
A book of sentences to start from and end on, with strange inheritances in between. It works for writers at a desk and for game tables at session zero.
Vol. IV
Trinkets & Hoards
Four d66 tables for treasure, covering everything about it except what it's worth. Roll when a pack gets searched or a hoard turns up, and again after the party carries it home.
