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Quick Generator - Crimes & Punishments A quick generator is two tables that can be combined to produce an interesting result. It might be a story prompt, concept or something that can be summed up in one or two sentences. This particular Quick Generator covers Crimes and Punishments. It works...

Adventure Outline Maker - SciFi Edition As a GM or a story creator, you can often find yourself stuck for ideas. Especially after your players decide to go off carefully beaten track you designed. Or you forgot your notes and need to come up with at least the outline for an adventure in a few...

R.I.G.S. Sci-Fi Volume 1 The Ennead Games blog has a regular feature on it called R.I.G.S. (Random Item Generation System), in which an item is randomly created each week and the result is published and expanded on. System generic, these items are designed with a sci-fi or modern setting...

Demonic True Names, Use Names & Titles Demons come in many shapes and forms. One particular aspect mortals have trouble with is their names. Combined with the fact that knowing their true name can often give you power over them, most demons have a second name, commonly called their use name...

Helpful List Arbitrary Collection 2 Every week on the Ennead Games blog, normally on a Friday, a helpful list of 20 items is published. This list normally follows no set pattern, but many are based off real world subjects. The subjects range from names from faraway lands, to what you might...

Empire Builder - Settlement Overview Having the settlements name and street details is all well and good, but what about the town itself? What sort of defenses does it have? What is the law like? How many people live there? All these questions and more can make coming up with a settlement a...

Quick Generator - Space & Sci-Fi Encounter Concepts A quick generator doesn’t have many tables. It has been designed to come up with something in a quick and easy fashion, as the name would suggest. This generator is for coming up with a quick concept for a Sci-Fi or space themed encounter...

Campaign Chunk Volume 12 - Creature A Campaign Chunk is an item, place or something else that can fit into any campaign or story with little or no modification although some will be more suited to certain genres than others. They have few stats (if any) and help provide starting grounds for...

Spell Options 2 - Magic Missile For many a seasoned adventurer and explorer, magic can become, whilst still a useful tool, boring. You know what a certain spell is effective for, or how potent you need to be to use the spell found on a scroll. The Spell Options series is a way of tweaking...

Adventure Outline Maker As a GM or a story creator, you can often find yourself stuck for ideas. Especially after your players decide to go off carefully beaten track you designed. Or you forgot your notes and need to come up with at least the outline for an adventure in a few moments. The...

Equipment Maker 2 - Blade Everyone who goes on an adventure uses equipment. Without it, their adventuring days would come to a halt quite quickly. This generator doesn’t give you the details of any powers or abilities that are named or generated, that part is left up to you. It could simply...

Spell Options 1 - Fireball For many a seasoned adventurer and explorer, magic can become, whilst still a useful tool, boring. You know what a certain spell is effective for, or how potent you need to be to use the spell found on a scroll. The Spell Options series is a way of tweaking existing...

No new releases this week as Ennead Games is having a 5-year anniversary sale and is celebrating with 25% off virtually everything we have done. Items that came out in the last month or so or bundles are not included in this sale. It runs until 24th of October. What can you find in the sale...

RIGS Result Volume 5 - Weapons A while ago I created a generator for myself and my games that output randomized magic items. The idea behind it was to create a system that could output a couple of words or more that would suggest an item name or concept. The challenge then becomes to take this...

Quick Generator - Magictech Concept Sometimes you don’t need an insane amount of tables and charts. You may just need something quick and simple to help flesh out basic details without going overboard on the details. This is where the Quick Generator is helpful, providing you with a simple...

Creature Description Generator Volume 6 - Golems In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, magically created from clay or mud. Many others have been made from other materials, such as flesh, or clockwork. They all follow the commands of their creator or others that use...

Creature Description Generator Volume 5 - Goblins A goblin is a legendary evil or mischievous grotesque dwarf-like daemon or monster that appeared in European stories and accounts during the Middle Ages. Sometimes green, grey or various shades, they are often thought to be a smaller version of...

Two things this week for you, the first concludes the Quick Generator month with a name generator for Goblins , the 2nd is with my 40th birthday this week, a 40% off sale seems appropriate as a thank you for all your support over these last few years. The sale should be/have started by the...

Quick Generator - Magical Item Concept Sometimes you don’t need an insane amount of tables and charts. You may just need something quick and simple to help flesh out basic details without going overboard on the details. This is where the Quick Generator is helpful, providing you with a simple...

The Quick Generator month continues at Ennead Games with "SciFi objects". The odd bits of technology and weirdness you might find as you explore the universe. Quick Generator - Sci-Fi Objects Sometimes you don’t need an insane amount of tables and charts. You may just need something quick and...