I’m going to start my ‘reviews’ of random generators here, with the Tome of Adventure Design. After using this, I discovered a recently-released 2nd edition, but I’d already done the leg work with this one, so I guess a disclaimer is that I’ve done this using the 1st edition. On a quick glance at the 2nd edition they’ve tidied it up and added loads of extra bits to make it easier, so I’ll give that a go soon too; but this used the 1st edition.

As mentioned in the previous post, I’m interested in broad-brush strokes randomness; I don’t need individual detail (I’ll be using a tried and tested structure for that) but I do want some ideas to get me going. We’ve got a game of Shadow of the Weird Wizard, Rob Schwalb’s new-ish high fantasy game, booked in in a few weeks – so I thought I’d see what this threw up.

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