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A few of the thinks you list above actulaly exist see:

• Donjon, this is a set of online random generators.
• AdventureSmith This is an android app which contains multiple random generators.

Perilous Wilds is a great resource for locations, dangers, items, regions, whatever. There's also a web app for it that you can use to generate prompts for stuff on the fly: https://perilous-wilds.geekwire.net/welcome

You could also grab the app Adventuresmith; which is a collection of free resources to generate a wide variety of stuff for RPGs of all kinds: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith&hl=en_US

The Perilous Wilds has a Steading Random generator in it. User /u/rickenharp made a small web app to roll on those tables. You can read the original post here.

The Adventuresmith Android app contains a similar feature, too.

Sometimes you just need a location on the fly.

Edit: the web app version of the steading generator seems to be incomplete. The Adventuresmith one is not.

Also, Augmented Reality is included in a licensed phone app called Adventuresmith. Makes use during the game a lot faster and easier.

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith&hl=en_US

I use Inspiration Pad Pro on Windows and AdventureSmith on Android. Both are free, powerful, and customizable.

https://www.nbos.com/products/inspiration-pad-pro

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

I keep forgetting that I have this in my pocket, but it's a really useful little Swiss army knife of system specific (mostly osr, zero engine) generators and a few more general ones. Most of them use published content and a lot of that is easily portable to other games, depending on what you are looking for.

Adventuresmith android app on the play store.

I hear you. I loved the tables, but didn't like repeatedly rolling and flipping pages back and forth to generate some of the more complicated results at the table. So I made an Android app for it -- it's free, and ad-free: Adventuresmith

I initially made the app for PW, but it's since expanded to include a bunch of other generators from other systems/supplements.

I recently wrote Maze Rats, which is pay-what-you-want. It's a dungeoncrawler with super fast, flavorful character generation, simple but deadly rules, and tons and tons of random tables for generating whole adventures on the fly. There's even a free app that generates stuff from the tables instantly.

If you're on Android I've used this app . It includes generator for cities NPCs aliens and all sorts. Also has generators for other systems.

Practice.

... and tools.

Look around for NPC generators that will give you a nice quick brief description. Same with locations. There are plenty of all-in-one generator apps like this one that can be used to quickly make quick descriptions of people, places and things.

Steal. Read pre-published adventures. Take the bits that you like from them and build up a database of locations and people. When the party goes into uncharted territory, pull out one of those and run with it.

Dynamic maps. If you do it right, the party will NEVER go into uncharted territory, just think that they are. The kobold caves were to the west but the party goes east? As long as they don't KNOW that the kobold caves were to the west there's absolutely no reason that the caves aren't now to the east.

Somewhat cheap, but not too noticeable if done right: gating. Adventure is to the east, but party wants to go west? Have fun dealing with frost gients at level 1, guys.

My general GM style is to build my adventures in a modular style where I initially start off with a fully fleshed nearby world for about 3-4 sessions but make sure to build it in a way that I can quickly tweak any unused portions of the adventures to adjust for the level of the party and use them later on in the campaign rather than having to scrap them completely.

Oh man, if you guys haven't heard of Adventuresmith, you're missing out on the most useful GM tool I've ever seen. It takes tons of really excellent random generation tables from tons of different fantasy, scifi, and cyberpunk RPGs and puts all that content into one app. You can generate completely new monsters, dungeons, adventure hooks, detailed NPCs, spells, cities, etc etc. If you have it on your phone, you can basically improv whole campaigns, because everything you could need is right there. It generates things so fast, that if it gives you something weird, you can just click a couple times until you get something awesome.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith&hl=en

(Full disclosure, my Maze Rats tables are on it, but there's just a tiny fraction of all the content it gives you.)

There's an android app, AdventureSmith, that does a lot of good random generation for a bunch of different systems.

Adventuresmith is a phone app that uses generators from a bunch of games and other places. There're a bunch for generating magical artifacts and such, and it's just an all-round awesome app.

There's an app called Adventuresmith that might be useful:

>Generate tabletop RPG nonsense at the push of a button!

>Adventuresmith randomly generates elements for tabletop RPGs -- names, spells, items, monsters, characters, alien worlds, etc. Most generators are system-neutral, and can be used to add flavor to almost any tabletop RPG.

You can also roll dice with it.

Well you might find this one useful: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith&hl=fr

There's a free android app called Adventuresmith. It's got a lot of very good generators, including the awesome GM Apprentice cards (which have a generator for ideas for NPC possessions). I don't think any of them are specifically geared for post-apoc, but the app is regularly being expanded and the developer might take a suggestion for that genre. In the mean time, use one of the scifi tech tables to create suitably futuristic devices and just present them in the Fallout style.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

The emichron sector generator is great!

You might also be interested in my Android app, it's free and includes generators for a bunch of SWN tables: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

HexKit for making your sector maps if you wanted something more colorful than what Sectors Without Number has to offer.

Adventuresmith is an app for OSR games and it includes Stars Without Number NPC generators and other handy things like that.

This post over on r/SWN has a cheat sheet for SWN players. You can use that one and adapt it if you want.

I love the Adventuresmith app on my phone. I have it ready to go every session.

hamete virtual dice server is probably the best dice roller I've encountered.

I play Dungeon Crawl Classics, and Purple Sorcerer Games is an incredibly useful resource in that regard, plus they have a great app called the Crawler's Companion that also has a pretty great dice roller and lots of random generators, moreso geared towards DCC RPG, but certainly useful elsewhere.

Elfmaids & Octopi has the best d100 tables on the internets.

For dungeons and other generators, it's hard to beat donjon.

For hexcrawls, some amazing work is being done at Hex Describe.

To quickly generate a town or city, the Medieval Fantasy City Generator by watabou is definitely the way to go.

On top of all that

Hands down, one of the best Android apps is Adventuresmith https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

It speeds things up a bit to use generator apps

https://perilous-wilds.geekwire.net/welcome

Or on Abulafia: http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Category:Dungeon_World

Or, if you've got an Android device, try my app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

Adventuresmith for android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith&hl=en_US

I haven't tried but apparently, you can run it on a desktop too:

https://github.com/stevesea/Adventuresmith/wiki

And there is also the random table poobah, Donjon:

https://donjon.bin.sh/

I really like how I can print out 1-2 pages for Maze Rats or Into the Odd and give players a handout for them to find the rules themselves if they have questions.

Other systems that might be interesting:

• Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells
• Macchiato Monsters
• Freebooters on the Frontier.

Freebooters will be pretty familiar to you after World of Dungeons. It's a little more fleshed out than World of Dungeons, but is a OSR-ish take on Dungeon World.

Is the problem you're trying to solve system-based, or adventure/improvisation-based?

One supplement you might like is The Perilous Wilds. It has tons of advice and random generators -- a nice scaffolding of story ideas for you to flesh out with your players. Despite being a supplement for Dungeon World, the results can be pretty system neutral. To experiment with the random generators, you can use:

• https://perilous-wilds.geekwire.net/welcome
• Abulafia: http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Category:Dungeon_World
• Adventuresmith: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith (plug alert, this is my Android app. it's free, and ad-free.)

1) Check out Post world games catalogue.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/5137/post-world-games

Their Protocol series has over 50 entries, encompassing various genres. It's meant for at least 3 people, but if you and your friend are willing to take on more than one role or adopt some other method to simulate a 3rd person (there's a system for it, but I can't remember it's name), you should be good

2) find a universal system you like, then get the Adventuresmith app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith) and use any of the oracles to generate narrative.

3) the pseudo-RPG/board game "Untold - Adventures Await" (Untold: Adventures Await https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076KRJDQG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ViG2BbWDSFFD8) uses Rory's Story Cubes as Oracle dice. The structure of the game lends itself to stories resembling the heroes journey monomyth, if you're into that.

Have you seen the tables in Maze Rats?

There's also a great monster generator in the Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells addendum

Another monster generator here in Roll XX: Double Damage

If you're looking specifically for Dungeon World, take a look at the creature generator in The Perilous Wilds.

• an online version of it here: https://perilous-wilds.geekwire.net/creature

if you've got an Android device, you could use my app Adventuresmith. It's free, ad-free, and open source. And, will generate results for all of the above (and more).

Do you mean on the fly as in, at the table during the game, or as part of prep? I assume the latter because, you know, Tarot carts are gonna take some noodling.

Random tables! I like Scarlet Heroes for all the random dungeon/wilds/city adventure tables. The Into the Odd one-page ruleset has a dungeon and encounter generator that I've used to good effect several times now. Paid version of the full rules has some great random tables for generating its 1800s-ish cities, countryside, NPCs, etc. Chris, the author, also has cool things in his blog. Some random tables, adventure generators (train adventures! Underground canal encounters, etc).

Maze Rats is pay-what-you-want and has some great tables for dungeons/cities/wilds/NPCs/magic effects and all sorts of things.

If you have an android device, the Adventuresmith app has lots and lots of random tables. They're all taken (with permission) from free or pay-what-you-want sources.

take a look at the following:

• The Perilous Wilds
• Maze Rats
• Stars Without Number
• Metamorphica
• Roll XX
• Roll XX Double damage

If you've got an Android device, you might like my app Adventuresmith, it has random generators for most of the supplements above (everything except Metamorphica)

Do you need an actual database? Depending on the goals for your project, text files could be fine too. But, don't let me discourage you from scratching the development itch, especially if it's a fun way for you to expand the skills in your toolbox. :D

Some examples that use text documents for generator data:

Inspiration Pad Pro uses text documents http://www.nbos.com/products/inspiration-pad-pro

Abulafia generators, here's one http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Fantasy_Character_Concept

For my Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith), one of my goals is to eventually make it easy for people to extend the app with their own data (without me having to change my code or be a gatekeeper for user changes). To me, that meant putting the random tables in a text file (in my case YaML) and using somewhat standard templating syntax (mustache).

Here's a pretty simple YaML file: https://github.com/stevesea/Adventuresmith/blob/master/adventuresmith-core/src/main/resources/org/stevesea/adventuresmith/core/ss_and_ss/adventure_title.yml

For content, you might look at Stars Without Number's free version.

Here's some existing generators that use that data: http://swn.emichron.com/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

A bunch more resources listed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SWN/comments/49usyy/stars_without_number_resource_list/

The tables in SWN are great! Definitely look at emichron.

And, thanks to Kevin Crawford's generous licensing policies, there are lots of other fan hacks and resources

More resources on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SWN/comments/49usyy/stars_without_number_resource_list/

And, the G+ Sine Nomine community: https://plus.google.com/communities/108012684439844399874

Also, you might find my Android app useful: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith It has many of the SWN generators from the free supplements.

It might be android only, but here you go!

there are some great tables in the following:

• Maze Rats
• The Perilous Wilds

To get a feel for what The Perilous Wilds can generate, look here https://perilous-wilds.geekwire.net/creature

If you've got an Android device, you could also try my app (Adventuresmith - Google Play) it has the generators for Maze Rats, The Perilous Wilds, and a bunch of other sandbox-y supplements/systems.

If you like the tables in SWN, there are many resources to help you get the most out of them. Here's a very comprehensive list: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/2mazpm/the_complete_resource_package_for_stars_without/

SWN sector generator (generates sectors, planets, NPCs, politics, etc)

If you've got an Android device, try my app: Adventuresmith -- it has generators for SWN and a bunch of other supplements/systems.

for sci-fi: Stars Without Number (the core book is free and available on DTRPG, look in /r/SWN for more resource links)

Cyberpunk: Augmented Reality

For wilderness fantasy: The Perilous Wilds -- supplements Dungeon World, but has tons and tons of great random tables. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/156979/The-Perilous-Wilds

Maze Rats has some great tables in it too. (PWYW)

Both Roll XX books from Raphael Chandler are PWYW http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/108917/Roll-XX (there's horror, fantasy, scifi, modern, and supers tables)

Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells has some great tables too. And Macchiato Monsters.

Courtney Campbell's Hack & Slash blog has this beautiful bit of work: https://retrorpg.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/tricks-empty-rooms-basic-trap-design-by-courtney-c-campbell/ (lots of great stuff for dungeon dressing)

/r/BehindTheTables has a huge amount tables

Jeremy Strandberg's upcoming Stonetop has this great tool for generating evocative magic items: https://plus.google.com/+JeremyStrandberg/posts/JAve2pfJG1M

Can you tell I'm obsessed with tables?

I liked the Perilous Wilds tables so much, but hated rolling on them... so I made an Android app to do so. It's kind of snowballed from there, and now I have all the supplements I mentioned above (and some others) in the app

You can get it here (it's free and opensource)

I like AdventureSmith. It's free, though.

My sources start with the incredible Stars Without Number Resource List, especially the extra weapons lists and blank starship sheet. Other things I've used include:

Sourcebooks

• Over The Edge, 3rd edition
• Weather The Cuckoo Likes (Over The Edge)
• City-State of Tyr (Dark Sun)
• Shackles of Blood (5e)
• One Page Dungeon Contest entries
• Technoir (Indie cyberpunk)
• Frozen In Time (Dungeon Crawl Classics)
• Grandfather's Rain (Other Dust)

GM Tools

• Cheat sheets for players and ships
• Sectors Without Number for sector mapping
• Heromuster for combat management

Random Tables

• Augmented Reality for some sweet, sweet cyberpunk flavor and to give my netrunner something to hack
• Adventuresmith app for Android
• Orffenspace
• Libove
• Donjon

Dungeon Generator

Medieval Fantasy City Generator

Perilous Wilds, obviously. See the Adventuresmith App as well.

As others have mentioned -- Stars Without Number is your friend. Lots of great tables to build aliens (sentient and non-sentient), worlds, and whole sectors.

Rafael Chandler's Roll XX has some sci-fi tables http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/108917/Roll-XX

And Starship from Hell is also chock-full-of-flavor http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/121744/The-Starship-From-Hell

For SWN, check out /r/SWN's sticky posts for resources. This generator is great fun too http://swn.emichron.com/

Or, (self-promotion alert, self-promotion alert, awooooga! awoooga!) if you've got an Android device, you could try my app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

There's also this, which incorporates a variety of tables into an Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

For a sample of Perilous Wilds, you can try this https://perilous-wilds.geekwire.net/welcome , and there's some here too http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Category:Dungeon_World

Or, (self-promotion alert! awooga! awooga!), if you've got an Android device you can try this app I recently released: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.steavesea.adventuresmith

Make sure to roll up a bunch of stuff before the game, though. Nothing breaks immersion like the DM stopping the game every two minutes to roll up another NPC or monster. (Source: I did that during my only Maze Rats session.)

Or just get Adventuresmith.