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Cover of Roll for Table, Issue No. 1: A Roll Table for Rolling Up Roll Tables, written by Justin Estrada and Jessa Beckett. Hand-drawn dice and the Zapacorn on graph paper.

Roll for Table · Issue No. 1

Roll for Table

A Roll Table for Rolling Up Roll Tables

by Justin Estrada & Jessa Beckett (@astralmarmot)

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Free, or name your own price. PDF zine · 20 pages · 4.8 MB

Hey, thanks for stopping by! Roll for Table is where we build roll tables from scratch, live on stream, then roll on them to see what comes out. This zine collects everything from our first session: the generator we built, the five tables it rolled up, and the weird little things we made with them.

What’s inside (20 pages)

  1. The Generator 5 steps

    A roll table for rolling up roll tables. Five steps (die size, category, type, magic or common, and element) give you the seed for a brand new table. Roll all five or just two. It’s your idea generator.

  2. Festivals d8

    A d8 of what the town is celebrating, plus a d6 for how popular it is. (Things get really interesting at the extremes.)

  3. Magical Fauna d20

    A d20 of creature qualities. Roll a d4 to see how many you get, combine them, and figure out what makes it magical.

  4. Curses d10

    Ten magic effects that land on everyone around the cursed character, plus a duration table that goes from seconds to permanent.

  5. Tourist Traps d10

    Ten overpriced, misleading destinations, plus a d6 for how well (or badly) each one is run.

  6. Sacred Lost Relics d10

    Ten kinds of holy junk, plus a power level from weak to god-like.

A peek inside

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Plus what we rolled up on stream

A steampunk ska festival (The Pipes of Pottsfield), an electric unicorn squid that puts out local wi-fi (the Zapacorn), a friendly bird-crab that talks to trees (the Root Weaver), a ceramic ball bearing museum, a B&B run by a “dead” celebrity, a time-stopping sword, and more. There are simple stat blocks where they fit, and six adventure hooks to drop into your game.

Use it anywhere

The tables are written to be system agnostic, so they work in a cyberpunk world, a classic fantasy world, or anything in between. And remember, it’s just a guide. Take these tables and change them however you want. They’re yours now.

Grab a copy

It’s on itch.io. Free, or name your own price.

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Watch us make the next one

We build these live on stream. I’m on twitch.tv/justrada every other Thursday at 9 PM Eastern.

Next up · Thu, Nov 5 · 9:00 PM ET

looking for the actual plays I’ve played, run & edited? they’re over at At the Table →