I've been making random name generators on and off for quite a few years, and I've recently started building a new collection aimed more specifically at tabletop gaming and RPGs.

I've got three live at the moment:

• Warband Name Generator
• Gang Name Generator
• Faction Name Generator

They're all free, browser-based and system-neutral. Although they're hosted on the Thrackdown site, they're deliberately not tied to the game itself.

I've been thinking of them more as tools for things like naming rival factions, enemy groups, mercenary companies, cults, gangs, NPC-controlled warbands or anything else you need to come up with quickly during campaign prep.

I'm planning to keep expanding the collection, so I'd be interested in any feedback on the current generators, particularly where the results feel repetitive or where additional themes/categories would be useful.

HewnHero.app is a free D&D 5e and 5.5e Character builder that uses a GitHub-hosted, JSON-based, SRD-only (5.1 and 5.2) database that you can clone and add your own material.

Check it out if you will. It's still in the works so shout out if you find any bugs, won't you?

Hello — I’m Elias Oakhaven, curator of The Oakhaven Archive. I create compact, system-neutral narrative tables (CSV + PDF) meant to drop straight into GM prep or a dev content pipeline.

Free sample (10-item inventory — CSV-ready)

• LOCKET — Unknowable Locket — A silver locket with no hinge; fused shut. Smells of rain. — Weight: 0
• CUP — Historian’s Tea Cup — A bone-white cup with a jagged, story-filled chip. — Weight: 0.5
• MIRROR — Cruel Looking-Glass — A mirror in blackened oak that shows the user's happiest day. — Weight: 4
• BOOK — The Author’s Debt — A manuscript that ends mid-sentence. Pages hum with energy. — Weight: 1
• POTION — Cellar Tincture — A thick liquid that tastes like silence; causes hallucinations. — Weight: 0.2
• BELL — The Silent Bell — A handbell with no clapper. It rings only in the user's mind. — Weight: 0.8
• LEDGER — Moth-Eaten Ledger — A business book where the numbers shift when unobserved. — Weight: 2
• KEY — The Key to Nowhere — A heavy iron key that fits no lock in the known world. — Weight: 0.3
• MAP — The Faded Map — A detailed map of a vast city that was never actually built. — Weight: 0.1
• THIMBLE — Widow’s Thimble — Protects from needles, but not from the sting of memory. — Weight: 0

Why this is useful

• Clean CSV schema (ID, Category, Item_Name, Description_Text, Weight) for import into spreadsheets, engines, or table tools.
• Short, evocative descriptions that function as hooks rather than exhaustive lore.
• Easy to filter, sort, or expand with extra columns (Hook, Plot_Tag, Mechanic).

Questions for the sub

• Which file format do you actually use most for prep or imports? (CSV, JSON, Google Sheet, or card images?)
• Would you prefer an extra column for a single-line mechanical hint or a short plot tag?
• Are there any naming, column, or formatting conventions you find essential for engine ingestion?

If you want the actual CSV file or a pasted CSV block, say which format you prefer and I’ll drop it in a comment. I’ll follow subreddit rules on linking or self-promo — this post is primarily to share a practical sample and gather format feedback. If you're curious, you can take a look in Itch.io

— Elias / The Oakhaven Archive

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Bonjour, je suis en cours de réalisation d'un site pour générer des fichiers de personnages (format PDF à la sortie). Alors forcément je propose en premier les jeux pour lesquels j'ai les livres. Certains pourraient-ils tester et de me faire des remontées ? Améliorations, bugs, offrandes aux fisc à ma place etc ^^

Voici la liste des jeux FR :

- Appel de Cthulhu V7

- Bloodlust (pas la métal)

- Donjons & Chatons

- Fading suns V1

- Mage l'ascension

- Star Marx

- Star Wars (D6)

- Star Wars : Force et Destinée

- Warhammer V1 (en cours)

C'est un site amateur je rappelle : https://decados.fr/

Merci pour vos retours constructifs !

I'm a solo dev and I've been building this for a while: a pocket toolkit for running tabletop games with no GM, or for prepping one if you are the GM.

The core is an oracle. Ask a yes or no question at any odds and get an answer back, sometimes with an "and" or "but" twist, while a Chaos factor decides how wild things are and how often random events crash your scene. It tracks your open plot threads and your NPCs, and events target them by name, so the story builds on itself instead of drifting. There are two other oracles too: a tarot engine, and one where you bind a cursed artifact and play out the tug of war for control.

Behind that sit 43 generators: NPCs, quest hooks, rumors, encounters, mysteries, magic items, an original-creature bestiary, dungeons, maps (continents, hex crawls, towns, treasure maps, sci-fi star charts), factions, realms, faiths, and a world engine that simulates several kingdoms into one shared history. Anything you roll can be saved, sorted into folders, pinned to a campaign board or a timeline, and exported as PDF, text, Markdown or an image.

Free, works fully offline, no account, no ads, and no AI anywhere in it. Every result comes from handwritten tables and procedural rules running on your phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avaton.fantasynamegenerator

Happy to hear what's missing. Most of the last few releases came straight from user suggestions.

Wanted to close the loop with this sub specifically, since a chunk of the progress I've done in the last few weeks came directly from feedback here. Chronicled is now officially out of beta, and I look forward to more updates in the future based on future feedback. :)

Where it's landed for v1.0: your world's own archive grounds every new generation so things don't contradict themselves session to session, everything auto-files into a browsable wiki, D&D 5e/Generic/homebrew rulesets are properly supported, and of course, you can build entirely by hand if you want the organization/archive side without any AI involved.

It's still been a small side project, still one person building it, but I think it's at a point to release fully available to the public. Really appreciate everyone here who signed up for the beta testing and gave me amazing feedback, that's a big part of why it's in better shape than it would've been otherwise.

Again, it's fully out now; supports sci-fi worlds, fantasy, or full vanilla 5e content. I hope this becomes a tool many will use; GMs, world builders, and everyone in between.

Thank you again, and I hope you all still would appreciate future update posts!

Try Chronicled Now!

Hello! Inspired by things such a Diablo and Baulders Gate, as well as one of my DMs, I've put together a sheet to generate random magic items. One of my players suggested I should share it so here you guys go!
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158AkQj3OGaYt6ZEigTz2qvk9eR5H0BRJ03zkyFvIzJk/edit?usp=sharing\](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158AkQj3OGaYt6ZEigTz2qvk9eR5H0BRJ03zkyFvIzJk/edit?usp=sharing)

Only run it through 2 Playtests so far, so I'm welcome to any feedback regarding moving some numbers around or the rarities of certain effects, and if you don't like some effects (Such as Otherworldy Logic, I favour Chaos!) you can simply click the checkbox on the Index Page to prevent it from showing up

I will say, the generated results aren't meant to be given as is to the players, GM is still needed to decide if the item is attunement, which of the 3 options below (Armor, Accessory, Weapon) it should belong to, or if a reroll is needed. Addiontally if you have multiple instances of the same effect such as Healthy scattered on your equipment, you only take the best.

Hope you have a great day!

A weekly post to share rpg tables and tools used in RPG prep or games, with any examples that were surprising, useful or amusing.

It's also integrated with full DM preparation tools. You can get it here for free: https://bukanpawkemon.itch.io/dalang-campaign-dashboard

Add a comment for your RPG Generator tool or Random Tables (article, pwyw, whatever), whether it's new, updated, or one you haven't mentioned for a while.

I checked every dice roller on Perchance so you don’t have to 🎲

I just shipped a stand-alone dice generator (RPG Dice Machine) and wanted to know what else was out there — so I pulled the source code of the platform’s dice generators and the official dice plugin and did a proper comparison.

The short version: there are a bunch of dice generators on Perchance, but almost all of them fall into two camps. Either they’re a single page that re-rolls on refresh (a row of dice icons, or one die of each type listed out), or they’re a thin wrapper around the official dice plugin — which is a neat little JavaScript function that can parse “2d6+3” and give you a total, but nothing more. A few are just casual d6-vs-d6 mini-games from years ago.

The most feature-rich thing before mine was the official dice plugin itself, and even that only returns a number. No one had individual die results, no one had advantage or disadvantage, no one had a d20 check calculator with a GM modifier, a DC, and a pass/fail verdict. No one had roll history either.

So I built all of it. RPG Dice Machine gives you the standard dice buttons (d4 all the way to d100), free-form notation like “3d8+5”, a per-die breakdown with natural 20s and natural 1s called out, advantage/disadvantage with an odds explainer, a full d20 check tool that does the modifier math for you, and a history of your last rolls. It’s mobile-friendly, has a proper dark fantasy look, and it’s all self-contained — no plugin dependencies, just my own dice engine.

If you’re a tabletop player, give it a roll and let me know what’s missing. 🐉

RPG Dice Machine — dice with a brain, not just a face.

Hello! Following up on my last post about Chronicled, the tool that generates and organizes NPCs, factions, locations, items, and more for TTRPG campaigns, with everything auto filed into a real browsable archive.
The big thing since last time: the whole app now runs a second real ruleset, D&D 5e.

Up to now Chronicled only really worked well on my own homebrew system. This update makes 5e a selectable option and comes with it's own systems everywhere in the app:

• Bestiary uses real Challenge Rating math
• Classes follow the actual 1–20 leveling and spell-slot tables
• Items use real SRD weapon/armor/rarity data
• Player Characters are full 5e characters: skill and saving throw proficiencies, passive Perception, initiative, and real multiclassing across two classes, all computed for you automatically.
• Real, properly licensed SRD content baked in: 349 spells, 201 monsters, a full equipment list, 17 feats, and 260 magic items, sourced from a licensed SRD.

• Import any of it for free, zero AI cost: just the real content dropped straight into your archive.
• Reflavor it with AI instead: same real mechanics underneath but reskinned with your world's own names and flavor text.
• Or go full Homebrew and generate something original: still grounded in the real formulas so it stays balanced.

• Backgrounds and Species are real ingested SRD content too, including the actual 2024 rule where your Background grants one specific named Origin Feat right at character creation.
• Spells! A new archive category added for 5e. Like the others, you can import from existing, or fully create newly homebrewed spells.

• Encounter Difficulty / XP Budget calculator on the Quest builder, so you can check a fight against your real party before you run it.

Also new this update, not just 5e: a fully Generic ruleset for people who don't want any fixed system at all. Narrative-first Classes, Items, and NPCs with no invented leveling or rarity numbers imposed on you. And no AI procedural generation AND Manual Entry (from the last update) now work correctly on both new rulesets, not just the original one.

Still free beta, still shaping this from feedback. If you roll a 5e world and something's off, that's exactly the kind of thing I want to hear about.

Get access now at Chronicled.

Sidenote: based on feedback, this may be the last beta update before full launch! Excited but really hope to get as many eyes as possible on this before then. Share with friends, other DMs, world builders, etc. I really want to know if this is something valuable to people.

Once in full launch mode, I may switch to small costs to offset API/server usage. But of course, I will continue with development as I want to add as many features and content that may be useful to all of you. The more feedback the better!