In Season 3, Episode 16 of the Lair of Secrets podcast, the topic confused the heck of me so much, I thought I might have been suffering a stroke or aneurysm and couldn't comprehend the English language.
The entire episode was about oracles, yet I did not hear anything resembling a powerful influencer or charlatan in Delphi. Rather, they used it as a term to describe random generation tables for the role-playing side of the game, popularized in some circles in the Ironsworn RPG. Ken and David covered the full gamut of properly using those charts throughout the history of D&D and beyond, but seeing a different podcast do a reinterpretation of the term sandbox which is the complete opposite of its origins, I still twitch at the terminology used.
I was a huge fan of the random dungeon, terrain, and NPC personality generators in the appendices of the 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Handbook. It matches the direction of Ironsworn's mechancis: producing a random result that needs to be interpreted, whether it's a campaign world, or a new perspective on a character's backstory.
With the short and fluid nature of my Monday Night games, I tend to rely more on online generators to give me some inspiration, or just a name.
The sites I've used for motivation, inspiration, or to prevent perspiration if I'm stuck, in order:
- Fantasy Name Generators - I've used even prior to online gaming. Lots of real and fictional name generators
- Gamma World/MCC Tables
- Tormentor's Virtual Wasteland - Gamma World stuff and a whole lot more.
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