I need more random tables!

DM Magic

Adventurer
I'm putting together a collection of random tables. So far, I have random tables for:

Names: Beatrixm, Frizzle, Gisselle, etc.
Clan Names: Battlehammer, fireforge, strongheart, etc.
Family Names: Caerdonel, Koehlanna, Xistsrith, etc.
Honorifics: Chief, Honorable, Viscount, etc.
Epithets: The Bastard, The Gentle, The Sailor King, etc.
Races: Aasimar, kobold, halfling, etc.
Professions: Entertainer, entertainer, military, etc.
Traits: Argumentative, imaginative, promiscuous, etc.
Flaws and Secrets: Addiction, exaggerates, secret crime, etc.
Mannerisms: Always eating food, prone to singing or humming quietly, uses colorful oaths or exclamations, etc.
Frills: Always wears a masks: frowning, smiling, or surprised, gloves and matching scarf of electric-blue velvet, sword enchanted with the voices of singing men, etc.
Insults: "Are you in great physical pain or is that your thinking expression," "if your brains were explosives, there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off," etc.
Trinkets: Brass ring that never tarnishes, dead sprite inside a clear glass bottle, diary with seven missing pages, etc
Inns and Taverns: Alehouse of the Serpents, Octopus Club, The Wanton Nymph, etc.
Book Titles: Book of Solar Thaumaturgy, Essentials for the Equestrian, Common Signs and Omens, etc.
Locations of Mystery: Dragontooth Alley, Plain of Stone Spiders, Tomb of the Astronomer, etc.
Settlements: Moonbright, Seameet, Oakheart, etc.
Gods and Portfolios: Lathander, Selûne, Bane, etc.
Famous Battles: Ambush at Ithilien, Battle of Fornost, Battle of the Hornburg, etc.
Wandering Monsters: Plains, Mountains, Ocean, etc.

What random tables would you add? What random tables help you in the game?
 

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Very nice!

Thank you.

What I like to do is track what I've rolled on that table in a side document for later reference. For example, if a healing potion is blue, with a sweet taste and a floral fragrance, I can use that same info to describe potions that are part of treasure hoards or parcels and give my players a consistent, in-world way to identify potions they've seen before.
 



What random tables help you in the game?
Kitchen table
Playing table
Louis XIV table (used in one Batman TV episode, Joker chops it in half and pours paint on it, declares it "modern art". Later Robin sees the table and says "What did that poor table ever do to him?")
End table (pun intended)
 


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