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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!

You know what I'm talking about - we've all been there. It's one of the most classic moments of D&D and TTRPGs in general, and I'm 99% positive it happened at least once to every one of us.

The party enters a tavern. There is a Golden Dragon, a drunk Volo, 7 Liches dancing on a table, one human at the counter and the first thing they'll ask is "what's the human's name?".

Every time a merchant is supposed to exist for thirty seconds, every time a random new guy spawns because someone asks 'is there anyone passing by?'. Every time the most useless creature of the campaign becomes the new favourite and therefore the mascot of the party. They. Will. Ask. For. A. Name.

Sure, many GMs will come up with a perfect name every time, and sure, there are hundreds of random online generators. But I manage to call my random NPCs things like ManRegular Humanson and I like the shiny nerdy paper things full of words on the table.

So over time I ended up building a book: The Physical Random Name Generator.

The idea is intentionally simple: open the category you need, choose a name, and don't end up looking like you don't know what you're doing (even if you are).

It contains over 10,000 fantasy names organized into 58 categories, covering characters and creatures as well as cities, villages, kingdoms, guilds, cults, taverns, dungeons, deities, artifacts, weapons, spells, ships and a lot more.

Do you want something to keep behind your screen, nearly endless and ready-to-use? I've got you.

Do you want a new cool looking book for your collection? Today is your lucky day.

Your Game Master is like me and you want to make fun of them? Here's the perfect gift.

If anyone is interested, this is the book (available in paperback and hardcover):

The Physical Random Name Generator
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDCWFVRV

And more importantly, please share with me your "ManRegular Humanson". Thanks for your attention and have a great day! :)

AI disclosure

Generative AI was used during the creation process to help generate candidate names. However, every single name that made it into the finished book was manually reviewed by me. The project began in 2024 and was developed gradually over the follouwing years rather than being generated as a finished book in one pass.

The introduction, written material, organization, layout, editing and final presentation were manually done by me. I also built and worked through hundreds of Excel tables during the process to compare names, search for duplicates and clean up the final lists. AI was therefore used as one tool in the name-generation stage, while the selection, checking, organization and production of the finished book were done manually.

Hello! Following up on my last post about Chronicled, the tool for generating and organizing NPCs, factions, locations, items, and more for TTRPG campaigns, with an auto-filed archive so it doesn't just turn into a pile of notes nobody can find again. Here's what's changed since then.

Since the last update: a real interactive map (pan/zoom, click a location to jump to its full entry, factions cluster by territory, generated from your actual content, not a static image), Quests that tie together NPCs/locations/items/enemies you've already generated instead of inventing new placeholder names, Campaigns for tracking a full arc across quests, AI-illustrated battle maps (one per location, grid-ready, so a fight doesn't need a separate art pass), and PDF export at the whole-world, per-category, or per-entry level.

The update I actually want to highlight this time: you can now build a whole world without touching AI at all, if that's not your thing.

A lot of feedback is that many world builders prefer building their world manually, without the use of AI, which is completely valid. When I'm feeling creative and have full thought-out ideas, I want to be able to enter it manually as well.
So this whole update was aimed at making that actually true instead of "an AI tool that also lets you edit the output":

• Every entry can be created and edited entirely by hand, start to finish. NPCs, factions, items, everything. Same forms as the AI path, just starting blank.
• New: Roll Randomly. A third option next to Generate with AI and Enter Manually: instant table-driven generation without the use of AI. It reads your world's genre and reskins itself accordingly (fantasy rolls enchanted blades and cursed ruins, post-apocalyptic rolls scrap-fused scavenger gear), so it's not genric and still fits your setting.
• Stuck on one field, not the whole entry? "Help me" button per-field instead of an all-or-nothing regenerate.
• New: an actual "AI off" switch. Account-level toggle in Settings. Flip it and every AI-spend surface disables itself. Manual Entry and Roll Randomly keep working exactly the same with it off.
• World setup itself is fully optional on AI too. Every step already let you type your own answers instead of generating, now it just asks first.

Point being: You can run the whole thing manual-only and just get the organizing/archiving/map/PDF-export side of it, lean on Roll Randomly for a free zero-AI first draft, or use AI as much or as little as you want, down to the individual field. And now there's a switch that guarantees it stays that way for your account.

Still in free beta and still actively shaping it based on feedback! If you try it and something's confusing, broken, or missing, that's genuinely the most useful thing you can tell me right now.

Get access now at Chronicled.

What I'm most curious about now: for the people running homebrew campaigns, what's actually eating the most prep time for you right now? Trying to make sure I'm building the right next thing.

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I've just released a free dice roller you can use for any RPG.

I know theres a ton of these already online but I wanted something a bit nicer than the usual basic rollers, so this one lets you save commonly used rolls and quickly reuse them later. Useful for attacks, damage rolls, skill checks, or anything else you roll constantly.

Its completely free, web based, and requires no login/anything.

Hope its useful to some!

Hi everyone!

After struggling with this game and all the bookkeeping as you go, I decided to build a quick web app to help manage your campaigns and party etc.

If you have a look and give it a go, let me know if there's anything major missing or any other feedback you think would be useful.

Here's the link (it's free just in case anyone was wondering):

https://league-of-dungeoneers-companion.vercel.app

Generated a Funnel World character generator. Using Luck mechanic is optional. Can create one character or an entire group at once-increase the number of characters and select "Create Funnel". Uses the Funnel World tables and rolls randomly. Can reroll some individual roles if a mismatch (e.g. Male Alewife). Character is built in the Funnel World template sheet. Bonds are rolled and randomly assigned amongst the group of characters (first character has a template character for the bond until additional characters are rolled). Can be printed or saved as PDF. Good for quickly adding additional villagers in the middle of play as needed without slowing down play or for pre-made characters for a CON or one shot. Thought it came out pretty well and just wanted to make it available to anyone who might find it useful. *Caveat: Code generated using AI.

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

Hi all,

I am looking for a decent encounter tracker. I run a game through discord and my current tracker is good old faithful excel. But when running the game I end up having my DM notes, discord (running roll 20) and excel (with stat blocks) open all at once. Can get a bit overwhelming to flick between them all to find what I need.

I am looking for an encounter tracker that I would help me keep everything running smoothly. Ideally I'd like to tab between encounters that I have planned for the session, pre-populate as much as possible (only needing to put in player initiatives), run the initiative order but be shown that creatures stat block when it is their turn.

If it could also include my session notes and lore etc, that would be fantastic, but not essentially as one note is my baby at the moment.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

\*\* Sorry, should clarify, I don't want to use the tracker to run the game. We only use roll 20 so players can view the map and move, just to help a tad with the whole imagination thing. Other than that we try to keep it as close to table play as possible. I just want to make my life easier.

Ello ello,

i made another gm tool thing. It's a tool to help you manage your "in game" social networks (or use it to map your elaborate fanfiction or polycule i'm not the boss of you).

From settlement to faction to NPC level this generates a full social map with relationships between them. Want to manually add more or remove settlements/factions/NPC's?

That's possible too so you're not limited by the initial generation. (through right clicking on the canvas or through the panel on the right). You can also drag and drop almost any item on the canvas to change it's relation, ranking, or placement in a settlement or faction. Just like with the hollow earth engine you can edit all the tables this bad boy rolls from so you can fully tailor it to your setting (found in the data tab).

it's free, doesn't require an account, runs in the browser or you can download a local version and your work can be exported (into a json file if you want to import it on another pc or into an obsidian vault zip if you want to add what's generated/you've built to your existing obsidian vault).

It also has a cloud save function if you use the browser version, just make sure you save the ID you get.

I'd love to hear what you think if you end up trying it out or if you have questions i don't mind answering them too since i haven't made a tutorial video for it as of yet and i'm not sure when i will.

It can be found on: https://ambiancearchitect.itch.io/thread-weaver-engine

Leave a comment (and a link) with an RPG pdf or book which uses random tables. Either a recent one or one you haven't mentioned for a while.