October RPG Blog Carnival Challenge

Two thoughts intersected this afternoon in my head. My first thought and the foreword to my first Random Table post in a while was this:

After reading so many posts on the Loot edition of the carnival, and the many naysayers, I set myself out this month to publish 2 tables a week about loot. I am setting out to show that the basic humdrum tables normally found around, of course are not going to be very helpful, and are going to give you well, random loot. But by building tables with a purpose, and rules, you can build an emergent story from the random table.

The second thought was earlier this morning when I read about the NaGaDeMon. Which intersected nicely with a project that I was going to begin working on this month.  So I am challenging myself to create a set of tables, and a system to help create a Hoard.

So, here’s what I am going to do for October, I am going to publish posts under a subject I will call The Hoard. The goal of this will be to pull together the many aspects of a treasure hoard, give it rules, and guidelines, and create a cohesive story (and Stat Block) about the treasure hoard. I will use the TST column with this project to be able to produce a table that you can use at anytime to generate your own Hoard.

The Hoard Project:

1.  Origins
1. Creation
2. Accumulation
3. Provenance
2.  Loot
1. Coin Piles
2. Decoratives
3. Trade Goods
4. Mundanes
5. Miscellaneous
3. Consequences
1. Economic
2. Social
3. Physical

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that while doing some research on this project that I came across ALMOST EXACTLY what I wanted to do.  That Document comes from Hack Slash.  Proving that Random Tables can be used to create an interesting cohesive treasure.

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~ by Troy on October 6, 2011.