The Power of Random

I may have mentioned that my son and his friends are interested in playing Pathfinder RPG.  I offered to run a few sessions, and realized this is a good opportunity to get my West Marches-style sandbox off the ground.

I broke out some old tools, including a random-table-roller I built… 12-14 (d3+11) years ago, maybe? and constructed a set of tables out of Matt Finch’s Tome of Adventure Design to get some ideas of places to put in the sandbox.  I messed with things a little; instead of just the three sets of tables provided, I mixed and matched between them.

The first fifty results I got:

• Birthing-Boxes of the Carnal Horror
• Blue Isles of the Ancestral Frame
• Breathing Dungeons of the Flame-Hunters
• Bronze Jungle of the Guard-Farm
• Brooding Cellars of the Bandit Nomads
• Calcified Garden of the Flying Tribe
• Calcified Pits of the Witch Caverns
• Circuitous Sanctuary of the Jewel Titan
• Clay Mansion of the Lion-Wizard
• Collapsing Edifice of the Feral Guardian
• Collapsing Island of the Elemental Minotaur(s)
• Confessional Game of the Monkey-Golem
• Confluent Portal of the Howling Druid
• Crude Grotto of the Cockroach-Hybrid
• Crumbling Outpost of the Loathsome Goddess
• Crypt-Fountain of the Flame-Tribe
• Crypt-Swamp of the Centipede-Manticore
• Cursed Foundry of the Hyena-Spawn
• Cyclopean Barracks of the Vampiric Centaur
• Dank Cocoon of the Elephant-Horde
• Dank Prison of the Winged Mother
• Deadly Isles of the Reaction-Connector
• Ectoplasmic Rune of the Howling Ooze(s)
• Entry-Cells of the Sabertooth Gargoyle(s)
• Eroding Barracks of the Killing-Organs
• Factory-Keep of the Heart-Combiner
• Filth-Vines of the Monkey-Efreet
• Fossil-Orb of the Imprisoned Society
• Fossil-Pools of the Ice Rat(s)
• Fossil-Wards of the Loathsome Seed
• Ghoul-Tower of the Leeching Golem
• Granite Dimension of the Massive Wizard
• Horned Sanctuary of the Reaction-Gallery
• Hunting Dens of the Skeleton Swamp
• Lethargy-Church of the Dragonfly-Cannibal
• Lethargy-Haven of the Brain Octopus
• Mud-Pits of the Ice Combiner
• Prayer-Cairn of the Bat-Chieftain of Goblins
• Sacrificial Statue of the Snake-Rakshasa
• Sentient Pyramid of the Lava Warlord
• Shadow-Harvester of the Army of the Alchemist
• Skin Bowl of the Mad Warlord of the Orcs
• Teleportation Rafts of the Dragonfly-Keeper
• Teleportation Spouts of the Master Congregation
• Three-Part Cliffs of the Sacrificial Barge
• Toxic Halls of the Spell-Hatchery
• Unreality-Token of the Elemental Whisperer
• Unthinkable Brewery of the Jade Displacer
• Vision-Incubator of the Blood Crown
• Vision-Preserver of the Elemental Priest(s)

Obviously not all are usable as they are, but an impressive number of them will need some consideration before I cull them.

This has some possibilities.  Let’s see where this goes….