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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MythosaAkira" data-source="post: 406015" data-attributes="member: 2428">I've been trying to figure out how to do some simple tables in eTools, but I'm not sure if I'm just missing something or if the table editor simply doesn't capable of doing what I'd trying to do.Here's a very simple table I put together in TableSmith; it's actually a stripped-down version of a table that's simple to begin with, for generating the names of Orc Tribes::Start1,[Adj] [Noun];Adj1,black1,red1,green1,blue1,yellow2,bleeding2,bloody2,cracked2,crooked2,dead2,dripping2,flaming2,jagged2,rotting1,dark1,shadow1,death;Noun3,tongue3,eye3,claw3,fang3,skull3,bone3,tooth3,fist3,talon2,axe2,knife2,blade2,spear2,moon2,rock2,cave1,rat1,snake1,wolfThe line in the "Start" group says "Grab something from the 'Adj' group, grab something from the 'Noun' group, and display them (with a space between)". The numbers on each line for each group are relative odds; in 'Noun', for instance, the entries with "3" are three times more likely to be generated than the entries with "1".A sample run of 5 'rolls' in TS is shown below:   cracked cave   bloody fang   blue axe   yellow skull   green clawI know that eTools can have text entries, and I know you can call other tables from a single table. So, to do the above, I'm assuming I'd have to have at least three tables - one for 'Adj', one for 'Noun', and one to call 'Adj' and 'Noun'. After that, my questions arise:- It looks like the only ranges you can roll on a table are based on standard dice: d4, d20, d100, etc. If you have a table that has, say, 17 entries, and you want each entry to have an equal chance of coming up, is there a direct way to do this? I realize there are any number of workarounds to do this; my question is whether there is a way to roll a "non-standard" die - a d17, a d34, etc. I know you can add a modifier to your roll, but that would weight the results, depending on how you did it.- Is there any way to have results from multiple tables displayed on the same line? In the above example, I know I can get a result that looks like this:   yellow (1)   skull (1)but how can I get something like:    yellow skull- Last question: You can specify ranges and values for each entry, but can you specify weight? For instance, the first five entries in 'Adj' above, as far as I can tell, would have to be represented in eTools like so:1     black2     red3     green4     blue5     yellowIf I wanted 'black' to be '1-2' instead of just '1', is there an easier way to do this other than having to re-number each entry?This isn't a criticism of eTools; I'm simply curious to find out if I'm missing something or doing something wrong.Thanks,</blockquote>

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