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Skip to 31:28 if you just want to know my recommendation! (Perilous Wilds, Maze Rats, GUM, Sandbox Generator, GM’s Miscellany)
Links to the books mentioned:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/407161/The-Perilous-Wilds–Revised-Edition
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/411741/The-Perilous-Tables?filters=0_0_44825_0_0
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/396154/Tome-of-Adventure-Design-Revised
http://www.jedmc.com/ixdd/2016/7/12/wilderness-hexplore
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/430675/Sandbox-Generator
https://jeansenvaars.itch.io/game-unfolding-machine
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/197158/Maze-Rats
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/344554/The-Great-Book-of-Random-Tables
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3311/Raging-Swan-Press (GM’s Miscellany)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/124392/d30-Sandbox-Companion
https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2018/03/wilderness-hexes-version-10.html
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/348258/Artifices-Deceptions–Dilemmas
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/127180/Scarlet-Heroes
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/348791/Worlds-Without-Number
http://kellri.blogspot.com/2008/07/cdd4-final-version-3.html
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/356926/Untold-Encounters-of-the-Random-Kind
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/238369/Ironsworn
0:00 Intro
0:41 Perilous Wilds
04:00 Tome of Adventure Design
08:57 Wilderness Hexplore
12:04 Sandbox Generator
14:11 Game Unfolding Machine
17:03 Maze Rats
18:07 Great Book of Random Tables
19:25 GM’s Miscellany Collection
21:33 D30 Sandbox Companion
23:23 100 Wilderness Hexes
25:17 Artifices, Deceptions and Dilemmas
27:00 Scarlet Heroes & WWN
28:00 CDD 4 Old School Encounters Reference
29:23 Untold Encounters of the Random Kind
30:54 Ironsworn
31:28 Summary & Favourites
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Thank you for the shout out for my Wilderness Hexes! I need to get back to making more of those, the plan is to eventually have a hundred for each Terrain type 🙂
Thank You!!!
This was a great video and much appreciated. I learned about a lot of new respurces that I didn't know about and I personally really like this type of content.
Thanks for going over all of these! I really like the Manual of Hexterity, have you seen it?
I like tables, i love them… but they make to mutch work to use them. A bunch of books with tables but it takes to mutch to pick up and search. I prefear to use "inspirational" tables like verb+theme , action/theme and the likes. With the same results i can get diferent ideas depending the situation. Dont need to switch books or search for tables.
That sayd i still got a bunch of books with random tables … i guess all depends of the creativity of the person.
I like the video as i like to discover new things. I think next thing im trying to use will be hexflower "tables"
I wrote it in the transcript, but forgot on-stream to recommend new solo players to stick to 1-2 books of tables to keep it simple and consistent 😅
I'm covering a lot of books here, but using a ton of books is useful mostly for GM Prep – Using more books is okay as a solo player as you get accustomed to them, but at the start just stick to a few 🙂
Thanks for all the recommendations. A couple of these were not on my radar. What dice roller do you use if I might ask?
Me gustaría ver un video dedicado a Game Unfolding Machine. Saludos
Thanks for sharing some new books for me to add to my collection. Great video
Very helpful
Good one! 👍 I have a few of these, and I’m trying to not get (too much) more stuff 😂 So I’ll stay away for now. I’m currently mostly playing LotR LCG with a friend and I recently bought everything for LotR: JiMe, so working on getting that painted to play solo. The LCG just really got me into LotR, I also got The One Ring to play Strider Mode, but (of course) I’ve barely opened it yet 😂 I have finished painting the JiMe core box though 😁
Seriously there's SO MUCH in the Tome of Adventure Design. You pointed out things I didn't even realize were in there! Perilous Wilds is excellent, and there was a revision in late 2022 that really improved the dungeon generation procedure. Folks should look for the new revision, it's well worth it.
fantastic video! some old friends here. Ironsworn, combined with Delve, is still one of my favorites, for that general tone…but definitely need another resource for specific encounters with character – nice job
Amazing! Thank you for this. It wasn’t too long. Look forward to more solo Mörk Bork, or how about some Pirate Borg!!!
Great list, thanks!
While watching I had to order the Hardcopy incl. PDF of the Sandbox Generator from DTRPG. Now happy for the package I'll receive 😀
Now I need a random generator to help me pick out which random generator to use…
Thanks for this. I've already got some of the books/resources you mentioned such as GUM and Untold Encounters, but I was looking for something else. I'm looking for something that can help flesh out kingdoms and stuff. Most books cover dungeons and settlements such as villages and cities, but not entire kingdoms. Any ideas if such a book exists? I have heard Table Fables, but not sure if that's what I need. In the meantime, I am liking the sound of Perilous Wilds and Sandbox Generator.
What program did you use to throwing dice on the screen?
Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions, they've really helped me with deciding what would be best to use for my own adventures 🙂
I wondered if you had any experience with the "Realm Fables: World Generator" books and if you think they would be worth getting to aid alongside your recommendations here? Thanks!!
32:22 that looks like a cool print out, how did you do that?
I am working on a monster creator for my games. What specific book would you recommend for this? I'm looking for ideas.
Great video! Thanks.
All very good suggestions. I think I had 8 or 9 of them already.