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<blockquote data-quote="TBeholder" data-source="post: 8613743" data-attributes="member: 41606">Anyway, random-out-of-nowhere stuff is likely to look silly more often than not. Random stuff shaped by otherwise observable details that can be randomly generated (and put together by GM) can look natural.Try to look in sandboxes. Those are made of random tables. Specifically for SF, in Stars Without Number. Though a lot can be easily translated or generalized (see also Worlds Without Number for example) between various genres.SWN encapsulates some flavor in World Tags, along with the sides that will obviously come up often.For example, #2 is:Then Adventure Seeds table can use those. For a simple case —There are also standalone tables to generate random urban encounters, random wilderness encounters, conflicts between 2 random groups over random things, random schisms for random religions, etc. These details&nbsp; can become plot hooks, of course. More in splats (which are not free). And in Sandbox magazine (which is). For example,A lot of such things are not genre specific anyway, so may as well take from anywhere. WWN:With tables for Aristocratic, Business, Criminal, Familial Clan and Religious variants. It’s generic enough to use in most settings without any tweaking at all. Until you get to the Court Tags, but most of those are things like Ancestral Obligation or Decadent Court,&nbsp; and the few that rely on setting-specific details are nicely encapsulated and can be swapped one by one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TBeholder, post: 8613743, member: 41606"] Anyway, random-out-of-nowhere stuff is likely to look silly more often than not. Random stuff shaped by otherwise observable details that can be randomly generated (and put together by GM) can look natural. Try to look in sandboxes. Those are [I]made of[/I] random tables. Specifically for SF, in [I]Stars Without Number[/I]. Though a lot can be easily translated or generalized (see also [I]Worlds Without Number[/I] for example) between various genres. SWN encapsulates some flavor in World Tags, along with the sides that will obviously come up often. For example, #2 is: Then Adventure Seeds table can use those. For a simple case — There are also standalone tables to generate random urban encounters, random wilderness encounters, conflicts between 2 random groups over random things, random schisms for random religions, etc. These details can become plot hooks, of course. More in splats (which are not free). And in Sandbox magazine (which is). For example, A lot of such things are not genre specific anyway, so may as well take from anywhere. WWN: With tables for Aristocratic, Business, Criminal, Familial Clan and Religious variants. It’s generic enough to use in most settings without any tweaking at all. Until you get to the Court Tags, but most of those are things like Ancestral Obligation or Decadent Court, and the few that rely on setting-specific details are nicely encapsulated and can be swapped one by one. [/QUOTE]

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