In August 2023 we presented the dicegeeks Eras Bundle featuring 11 .PDF ebooks of tables created by Matt Davids at dicegeeks that enhance RPGs set in many historical and future eras. If you run (for example) 1920s Call of Cthulhu investigations, modern-day superheroics, Shadowrun or Cyberpunk 2020 data heists, starfaring RPGs like Traveller, Weird West, steampunk, posts-apocalypse, and more, each of these 11 assortments of d100 tables can speed up your game prep and ease your gamemastering tasks at the table.
Longtime gamemaster Matt Davids designed a post-apocalyptic game, Anarchy, based on the OpenD6 System. He maintains a reference list of RPG System Reference Documents, and until this past February he hosted the long-running dicegeeks podcast. For several years Matt has busily populated entire books of percentile tables designed to spark creative ideas and help desperate gamemasters whose players suddenly decide to investigate some random name dropped in passing. In April 2022 our dicegeeks Random Tables Quick Deal gathered many of Matt’s bestselling collections suited for fantasy RPGs. This new follow-up presents his historical work.
Each 50-page collection of percentile (d100) tables lets you generate locations, equipment, loot, character names, and encounters appropriate to a particular era of the past or a genre of futuristic science fiction. Each book includes more than two dozen tables that work with any roleplaying game set in that time. The historical books also include lots of authentic period info like book titles, famous people, slang terms, and other details that enliven your roleplaying sessions with the roll of a few dice.
There were eleven ebooks of tables in our Eras Collection (retail value $33) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including Ancient World, Steampunk, Wild West, 1920s-30s, 1960s-70s, Modern, Cyberpunk 1, Cyberpunk 2, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction 1, and Science Fiction 2.
