With the Dark City campaign back in full swing, I’m finally able to use my Book of Almost Everything. I created the Book in the waning days of the original Dark City campaign as I realized that I had a treasure trove of instant non-player characters, random encounters, and flavor text lurking in my back issues of Dungeon Magazine.
I spent a weekend finding and copying useful articles from my back issues, accumulating about 40-odd articles to use at the gaming table. And then the campaign promptly ended as I ran out of free time to work on Dark City, and the group moved onto other adventures.
With the campaign’s resurrection, I’m dusting off the old book, and eyeing a few new charts for its pages.
Table of Contents
The book is divided into four chapters: Optional Rules, People, Locations and Random Generators. At some point I’ll likely add another one for “Maps”, but that will require another pass through Dungeon. Here’s a list of articles that are presently included in the Book of Almost Everything, for those who are thinking of building their own.
Optional Rules
- “Bribes and Contacts” from Chapter 11 of the Book of Roguish Luck by Malhavoc Press
- “Cards, Dice & Skulls” Dungeon, April 2006
- “Swamp Dangers”, Dungeon, September 2005
People
- “Spells for Sale”, Dungeon, February 2005
- “Alert the Watch”, Dungeon, January 2005
- “Pilgrims on the Road”, Dungeon, January 2005
- “Bounty Hunters”, Dungeon, March 2005
- “Employers and Patrons”, Dungeon, April 2005
- “Unsung Heroes”, Dungeon, April 2005
- “Sages and Scholars”, Dungeon, June 2005
- “Seneschals and Majordomos”, Dungeon, August 2005
- “Specialists”, Dungeon, February 2006
- “Glimmerpane”, Dungeon, October 2005
- “Five-Second NPCS”, Dungeon, December 2004
- “Merchant Madness”, Dungeon, September 2005
- “Instant City Shopping”, Dungeon, January 2005
Locations
- “The Green Griffon Tavern”, Book of Roguish Luck web enhancement by Malhavoc Press. Download the PDF.
- “Inns and Lodging Houses”, Dungeon, January 2006
- “Wet Your Whistle”, Dungeon, November 2005
- “Passages into Darkness”, Dungeon, October 2004
Random Encounters
- 150 Benign Urban Encounters” from RoleplayingTips.com. Visit the web site.
- “100 Meals”, Dungeon, April 2006
- “100 Market Stalls”, Dungeon, June 2005
- “Graveyard Encounters”, Dungeon, December 2004
- “Abandoned Buildings”, Dungeon, November 2004
- “Art and Other Fancy Loot”, Dungeon, January 2005
- “One Hundred Useless Items”, Dungeon, April 2005
- “Essential Works”, Dungeon, May 2005
- “Beaker of Endless Potions”, Dungeon, August 2005
- “The Mobius Scrolls”, Dungeon, April 2006
- “Staffs of Power”, Dungeon, October 2005