The idea of this is nice but I I think there's a few issues with the tables as written that make it a little awkward to use out of the box, the mix of modern day and fantasy elements mean you'll have to make some modifications to make it properly usable(yes you can reroll or just describe something else but that's still an extra hoop to jump through) so for future tables it may be worth splitting them out to have a few similar tables for broad settings, so rather than a toy car the medieval fantasy version of that table might have something like a doll or wooden horse, while the modern day version of another table might replace the book of spells with a manual of technical information,
the choice to have a 50 item table is odd since there's not really any good way to randomize that quickly at a physical table, best you could do would be d100 divided by 2 rounded up which makes randomizing it slower and adds more mental strain to the DM for math when the point of a table like this is to REDUCE strain
Thanks for the feedback! You make a very good point about the mix of modern and fantasy items. Our plan for future generators is to definitely make genre/time period-specific lists to streamline things.
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The idea of this is nice but I I think there's a few issues with the tables as written that make it a little awkward to use out of the box, the mix of modern day and fantasy elements mean you'll have to make some modifications to make it properly usable(yes you can reroll or just describe something else but that's still an extra hoop to jump through) so for future tables it may be worth splitting them out to have a few similar tables for broad settings, so rather than a toy car the medieval fantasy version of that table might have something like a doll or wooden horse, while the modern day version of another table might replace the book of spells with a manual of technical information,
the choice to have a 50 item table is odd since there's not really any good way to randomize that quickly at a physical table, best you could do would be d100 divided by 2 rounded up which makes randomizing it slower and adds more mental strain to the DM for math when the point of a table like this is to REDUCE strain
Thanks for the feedback! You make a very good point about the mix of modern and fantasy items. Our plan for future generators is to definitely make genre/time period-specific lists to streamline things.