Overland Random Event Table (BFRPG, B/X, Similar)

Basically, when traveling overland a d6 is rolled each day against the table below and subsequent tables as appropriate.  As with the Death & Dismemberment table, I've borrowed ideas and results from others.

d6	Result	Notes
1	Mishap	Roll 1d6 on the mishap table below
2	Encounter	Roll on the appropriate encounter table by terrain type
3	No result
4	No result
5	No result
6	Boon	Roll 1d6 on the boon table below

Mishaps:

d6	Mishap Result	Notes
1	Lose an item	Each player chooses an item(s) at DM's discretion from their list and makes a WIS check; failure indicates the item was lost or damaged beyond repair.
2	Hazardous Weather	Find shelter or make a WIS or CON check.  Failure causes 1d3 dmg.  Lose the day's travel or take double damage to move 1/2
3	Hazardous Terrain*	Make a WIS or CON check.  Failure causes 1d3 dmg.  Move 1/2
4	Become Lost*	Party guide makes a WIS check; success means you only move half normal movement as you find your way.  Failure indicates you've become lost and cover no ground today.
5	Turned Around*	Party guide makes a WIS check.  Failure indicates the party emerges from a random hex edge instead of the intended one.
6	Bogged Down	Slow going today; move at 1/2 normal rate.

* When following a clear path/ marker or being led by a guide with the wilderness lore background special ability, treat this result as no result on table above.

Boons:

	d6 Boon Result Notes 1 Making Good Time Travel 20% Further Today 2 Making Great Time Travel 50% Further Today 3 Find an Item Party selects a common item from the equipment list at DM's discretion and makes a WIS check.  Success indicates this item has been found. 4 Learn Something new Through observation, experimentation, practice or epiphany the party has learned something new on their travels today.  Each member receives 10 xp per character level. 5 Discover an Ally Meet an individual appropriate to the area who will befriend and/ or help in some small but meaningful way to the party. 6 Discover a Minor Location Discover a Minor Location and an opportunity for aid, XP and/ or treasure.

Death and Dismemberment Table (BFRPG, B/X, Similar)

Basically, when you hit 0 hit points you roll 1d20 and refer to the table below.  If you take any other damage while below 0, you roll again and deal with multiple results.  Characters can be stable but in negative hit points as a result of the effects or further actions taken.  If a character gets to -10 they are dead regardless.  I'm sure I borrowed some, most or all of this from somewhere. 

Death and Dismemberment Table

Roll (1d20)	Result	Effect
1	Instant Death	Described in dramatic fashion; allow for last words as appropriate
2-5	Severed or smashed (1d6 for hit location)	Treat head shots as instant death. Limbs are useless/ missing and torso indicates severed artery or fatal internal organ damage (e.g. punctured lung). Save vs. Death to remain conscious. Death results either way in 2d6 rounds unless healing magic is applied.  This magic will both restore lost HP and prevent death.  In the case of a damaged limb, cauterization or a tourniquet allows a Save vs. Death to survive.  Damage is permanent to survivors (i.e. limbs remain useless).
6-10	Broken Bone                 (1d6 for hit location)	Head shots result in concussion (see below).  Broken limbs are useless but can recover.  Broken torso indicates cracked ribs, can also recover.
11-17	Knocked Unconscious	Out for remainder of the fight, will awake after the battle with 0 hit points.
18-19	Stunned	Stunned for 1d4 rounds, incapable of useful action
20	Adrenaline Surge	Returns 1d4 hit points per hit die (minimum of 1 hp). At the end of the combat, the adrenaline drains away, hit points are reduced to zero, and the character falls unconscious for 2d6 rounds.

Hit location: roll 1d6

1= head

2= dominant arm

3= other arm

4= right leg

5= left leg

6= torso

• Stunned: can at most move 1/2 and perform simple actions, not to include attacking or spell casting.

• Concussion: stunned for 2d4 rounds then -2 to all rolls thereafter until healed to full hit points either magically or naturally.  Tire 5x as quickly

• Severed, smashed and broken arms: arm is useless.  -2 to rolls when using off-hand

• Severed, smashed and broken legs: movement halved, cannot run (can double move for normal movement rate) and tire twice as fast when moving

• Severed, smashed and broken torso: -2 to all rolls in addition to other effects

•  Recovery:  Recovering from a broken bone naturally requires 6+ (1d6 -Constitution bonus) weeks.

Random Name Creator for Mystery Cults, Magical Orders and Secret Societies

Minor Update:  fixed a problem on the Name Structure Table

The below is old content that I generated for a former D&D campaign and posted to a former blog.  I'm re-posting it because it remains useful to me in my current endeavors and I just think it's a lot of fun.

It should all be pretty self-explanatory and can be used as-is with dice.  Alternately, it's easy enough to put this in excel or even a web based app if you're inclined that way.  Feel free to use and modify the entries for local flavor, and note the CC license below.  I have to say there are more hits than misses when rolling the dice if you can live with randomness informed a bit by the whimsical, weird & bombastic.  

Step One, determine the structure of the name:

Roll d10	Name Structure
1 to 2	The A + B
3 to 4	The B of the C
5 to 6	The B of the A + C
7 to 8	The A + B of the A + C
9 to 10	The B of A + B (2nd B is optionally plural)

Step Two, roll a d100 for each of the letters (A,B & C) above and refer to the table below.

Example, on a d10 I rolled a 6 just now, The B of the A+C.  Rolling three d100's for each of the letters B, A & C I get:  43, 30 and 67 for...

The Enchanters of the Fecund Owl

Not crazy about that one?  No worries.  Three more dice: 50,77,97 and we get...

The Gathering of the Sciapodous Wind

Still not for you?  Go back to the d10... 2.  The A+B... 42, 61...

The Intangible League.

Maybe something grander...

The Malevolent Gongoozlers of the Miasmic Eye

You get the point.  

Roll	Column A (adjective)	Colum B (name of order)	Colum C (another noun)
1	Acerbic	Academy	A deity from your campaign world
2	Amazing	Accomplices	A location in your campaign world
3	Arcane	Acolytes	Abacination
4	Artful	Adepts	Agerasia
5	Asyncronous	Advesaries	Arm
6	Benevolent	Affiliation	Ascension
7	Bizarre	Alliance	Asphyxiation
8	Black	Antagonists	Basilisk
9	Blasphemous	Apprentices	Bastard
10	Blue	Array	Benefactor
11	Bombastic	Assemblage/ Assembly	Beyond
12	Cloaken	Associates	Bicone
13	Cogent	Astrologers	Bitch
14	Coherent	Attendants	Blood
15	Compelling	Autohagiographers	Cachinnation
16	Convivial	Autolatrists	Cat
17	Cosmic	Brood	Catechism
18	Curious	Brotherhood/Sisterhood	Charientism
19	Drunken	Cabal	Claw
20	Eccentric	Children	Colossality
21	Eldritch	Circle	Conquest
22	Engorged	Clutch	Cosmos
23	Enigmatic	Coalition	Crystal
24	Esoteric	Cohorts	Cyclops
25	Esteemnable	Collaborators	Day
26	Exceptional	Collective	Decrepitude
27	Extraordinary	College/ Collegium	Drake
28	Fallen	Combine	Earth
29	Fantastic	Community	Emptiness
30	Fecund	Company	Emunction
31	Fraternal/ Sororal	Concilliabule	Exsibilation
32	Gibbous	Concordance	Eye
33	Gluttonous	Confederacy/ Confederates	Feather
34	Golden	Congregation	Fey
35	Green	Conjurers	Finger
36	Gregarious	Consortium	Fire
37	Honorable	Conspirators	Forest
38	Hooded	Coterie	Fox
39	Incoherent	Court	Hand
40	Inconceivable	Coven	Harpy/ Siren
41	Indigo	Covenant	Heavens
42	Intangible	Daughters/ Sons	Hells
43	Invincible	Enchanters	Hydra
44	Invisible	Enemies	Illusion
45	Jumentous	Faculty	Key
46	Kyphorrhinos	Fellows	King/ Queen
47	Learned	Fellowship	Lake
48	Leering	Flock	Leg
49	Locquacious	Fraternity/ Sorroroty	Leucrotta
50	Luminous	Gathering	Leviathan
51	Macabre	Gentlemen/ Ladies	Liripip
52	Magnificent	Gongoozlers	Malefactor
53	Maledicent	Hadeharians	Mandrake
54	Malevolent	Heirs	Masquerade
55	Mendicent	Host	Maw
56	Miasmic	House	Member
57	Mighty	Incorporation	Mime
58	Nameless	Initiates	Monolith
59	Omnipotent	Institution	Moon
60	Omniscient	Kinship	Mountain
61	Orthodox	League	Mumpsimus
62	Paternal/ Maternal	Library	Nelipot
63	Peculiar	Lyceum	Night
64	Phenomenal	Magicians	Oblivion
65	Roll a number on any die: add "-fold" to the number shown )i.e. "7" becomes "sevenfold"	Magisters	Octopus
66	Roll a number on any die: use the adjective form of the result (i.e. "7" is "seventh")	Maladroits	Orb
67	Polished	Members	Owl
68	Preeminent	Necromancers	Owlbear
69	Profound	Neophytes	Pentacle
70	Prolific	Roll a number on any die, use it as a noun	Petrichor
71	Puissant	Order	Phenomenon
72	Pyknic	Pack	Phoenix
73	Red	Pact	Portal
74	Ruined	Party	Prince/ Princess
75	Ruminating	Philosophunculists	Prophet
76	Scarlet	Prodigies	Puissance
77	Sciapodous	Progeny	Rendevous
78	Secret	Protagonists	Reverberation
79	Shining	Pupils	Riddle
80	Singular	Ring	River
81	Skillful	Savants	Sepulchre
82	Sovereign	School	Shadow
83	Stalwart	Scions	Sphinx
84	Steatopygic	Seers	Stars
85	Stoic	Seminary	Stipulation
86	Supreme	Senate	Stone
87	Thelemic	Society	Sun
88	Ulotrichous	Sodality	Tentacle
89	Unclean	Soothsayers	Tongue
90	Unknown	Sorcerors	Tooth
91	United	Stalwarts	Transcendence
92	Unlevened	Swarm	Tree
93	Unorthodox	Thaumaturgists	Unicorn
94	Veiled	Theurgists	Wanweird
95	Ventripotent	Thralls	Water
96	Vigorous	Throng	Weirding
97	White	Tribe	Wind
98	Wilting	Union	Wolf
99	Yellow	Warlocks/ Witches	Wyrm
0	Zealous	Wizards	Wyvern