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While I can't guarantee a time, I know it will be a PDF someday. And yes, it will have selectable text, that much is certain.

-DM Jeff

Would it help if I just constantly came to this thread and bugged you about it everyday? :)

This is a book I think would help best in game prep for me, which I do mostly at work durring free time... So I can't really have a non pdf book. :P

But I really want it! :D
 

Would it help if I just constantly came to this thread and bugged you about it everyday? :)

This is a book I think would help best in game prep for me, which I do mostly at work durring free time... So I can't really have a non pdf book. :P

But I really want it! :D

It won't hurt to do it.

And it'll keep the thread at the top.

:)
 

Ya know, there's plenty of random dungeon generators out there.

But with Ultimate Toolbox, would it be possible to make a totally random campaign? :lol:

Edit: After a few moments of skimming through the Intro/Index pdf, it looks like it just might be possible...
 

Edit: After a few moments of skimming through the Intro/Index pdf, it looks like it just might be possible...

I think someone once woted as the original Toolbox was like "20 campaigns waiting to happen, just roll dice". If that's the case I'd like to wager the Ultimate Tolbox is "nearing 75 campaigns waiting to happen, just roll dice". Yeah, there's that much stuff in there. :cool:

-DM Jeff
 

I think someone once woted as the original Toolbox was like "20 campaigns waiting to happen, just roll dice". If that's the case I'd like to wager the Ultimate Tolbox is "nearing 75 campaigns waiting to happen, just roll dice". Yeah, there's that much stuff in there. :cool:

-DM Jeff

75?

jeff's being modest

there's plenty more than that in this book

combine them together and you get voltron
 


The PCs all have rolled up their characters and have sat down to play. The DM opens the Ultimate Toolbox.
DM: Okay, is everybody ready? Excellent. All your characters are *roll* "bound by a charter or contract" and your patron is *roll* a "stuttering lady-in-waiting" who has offer you a unique reward, *roll* "an ancient or forgotten song."
Fighter: What's the stuttering lady-in-waiting's name?
DM: Umm... *roll* "Pentalis Boneburner"

PCs: WHAT?!?
DM: Oops, I rolled on the wrong table...
Cleric: Where are we?
DM: In *roll* the town of "Northspire"
Rogue: What's in this town?
DM: Um... *roll**roll**roll* The town "old and is need of repair. Walls crumble, no civic pride is evident, brick work lacks mortar," and there's a "simple large tower housing students from nearby colleges" and a "terminating vista."
Fighter: I attack the terminating vista.

Other PCs: What?!?
Fighter: It sounded threatening. Like a gazebo.
DM: So you're all at the terminating vista?
PCs: Sure...
Cleric: What's here?
DM: *roll* There's "Ricsek" a "minstrel composing while intoxicated."
Thief: He's drunk? I pick his pocket. *roll* I succeed! What do I find?
DM: *roll* HA! HA! A natural 20!

Thief: Is that good?
DM: You find a "fork."
General laughter
Fighter: Is there a tavern or inn nearby? If so, I go there.
DM: I'll say 3 in 6 there is. *roll* Yes, and its called *roll* HA! Another natural 20!"
Fighter: Oh no...

DM: It's called "Magog. A dank, horrid tavern caterting to antisocial mitfits and the like."
Fighter: What's a "mitfit?"
Cleric: I think he mean "misfits."
DM: Well, its either a typo or a new kind of monster.
Fighter: Eitherway I go Inn. Get it? Inn? Har har.

Thief: I backstab the fighter with my fork. *roll* Damn. Natural "1"
DM: Your fork breaks against the fighter's armor. And its not an Inn, its a tavern.
Cleric: You never told us our patron's name.
DM: "Pentalis Boneburner."
Fighter: I go into the tavern.
Thief: Same here.

Cleric: No. You said "Oops, I rolled on the wrong table" or something.
DM: Ok...um. It's "Pentalis Boneburner."
Cleric: But that sounds like a villain's or a hooker's name.
DM: Well...let me see, "Pentalis" is actually a wizard and "lady in waiting."
Cleric: So, our patron is a "Stuttering lady-in-waiting" wizard named "Pentalis Boneburner."
DM: Yep.

Fighter and Thief: Cleric, will you hurry up? We're gonna get drunk!
Cleric: What does she do? Did she tell us any plans.
DM: *roll* "Genocide." uh... I mean...
Cleric: Genocide!?!
The DM quickly flips to another chart, cursing himself for revealing the villain's hidden agenda. *roll* She wants you to "explore the tunnels unearthed by a previously hidden door."
Cleric: And commit genocide!
Fighter and Thief: Are we drunk yet!
DM: No.
Fighter and Thief: Oh come'on! You didn't even roll!

Thief: I wanna found out the local gossip before I get drunk anyway.
DM: *roll* You find out that this town gets "flooded every spring."
Thief: From who?
DM: *roll* From the "Human tax-collector (and bodyguards)" who "sits in the corner counting the tithes."
Thief: Why the hell would I talk to a tax-collector?
DM: Well, let's figure out your motivation. *roll* You "want to start a nation."
Cleric: At least its not genocide.

Thief: What would I want to start a nation?
DM: Well, your other motivation is... *roll* a need to "entertain."
Fighter: I am drunk yet?
DM: No.
Fighter: Oh, come'on. You didn't even roll. I'll even buy the finest grog for El Presidente Thief here...

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I came up with all that just using the free downloads. I'm sold. I'm getting Ultimate Toolbox ASAP.

Edit: just to break the narrative up a bit for legibility.
 
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