r/rpg_generators

Hello! Inspired by things such a Diablo and Baulders Gate, as well as one of my DMs, I've put together a sheet to generate random magic items. One of my players suggested I should share it so here you guys go!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158AkQj3OGaYt6ZEigTz2qvk9eR5H0BRJ03zkyFvIzJk/edit?usp=sharing

Only run it through 2 Playtests so far, so I'm welcome to any feedback regarding moving some numbers around or the rarities of certain effects, and if you don't like some effects (Such as Otherworldy Logic, I favour Chaos!) you can simply click the checkbox on the Index Page to prevent it from showing up

I will say, the generated results aren't meant to be given as is to the players, GM is still needed to decide if the item is attunement, which of the 3 options below (Armor, Accessory, Weapon) it should belong to, or if a reroll is needed. Addiontally if you have multiple instances of the same effect such as Healthy scattered on your equipment, you only take the best.

Hope you have a great day!

Most plot twist generators just hand you a random reveal ("the mentor was evil all along!") with no regard for what your campaign already established. Half the time it contradicts something you already told the players, or comes out of nowhere with nothing to foreshadow. So I built a generator that has to work with the facts you already have.

You give it the current situation, and it finds an assumption inside that situation to overturn — not a fact to erase. It keeps everything you've established true, reinterprets what it means, and gives the players real new choices instead of just a shocking reveal.

Try it here, no login required:

https://codexcryptica.com/generators/plot-twist-generator

The generator creates:

• The reveal itself, plus the assumption everyone believed instead
• The rationale for why the false assumption made sense at the time
• Fair foreshadowing you could have planted earlier
• Immediate consequences for the party and the world
• New choices the reveal opens up for the players

You can steer the type (betrayal, hidden motive, escalation, the enemy isn't the real threat...), how big the impact should be, when it lands, and whether you want it foreshadowable or a pure surprise.

It's also available inside Codex Cryptica, where it can pull in your actual campaign events and entities so the twist reinterprets your story instead of a generic one.

I'd like to know: when a twist you improvised turned out great, was it because you planned the foreshadowing, or because you got lucky retconning it after the fact?

i made a generator called Glimmervale that lets you create characters and the text to image plugin will create a sprite sheet for it you can then just play the game and stuff i think its really fun, theres a public lobby where everyone can join thats just the continue button, then there is a create adventure button which makes a private lobby with a code so you and freinds can join the same private world, the person that made it has dm powers and can do whatever they want to the world and enemies and players, if this sounds fun heres the link check it out!: https://perchance.org/glimmervale

I checked every dice roller on Perchance so you don’t have to 🎲

I just shipped a stand-alone dice generator (RPG Dice Machine) and wanted to know what else was out there — so I pulled the source code of the platform’s dice generators and the official dice plugin and did a proper comparison.

The short version: there are a bunch of dice generators on Perchance, but almost all of them fall into two camps. Either they’re a single page that re-rolls on refresh (a row of dice icons, or one die of each type listed out), or they’re a thin wrapper around the official dice plugin — which is a neat little JavaScript function that can parse “2d6+3” and give you a total, but nothing more. A few are just casual d6-vs-d6 mini-games from years ago.

The most feature-rich thing before mine was the official dice plugin itself, and even that only returns a number. No one had individual die results, no one had advantage or disadvantage, no one had a d20 check calculator with a GM modifier, a DC, and a pass/fail verdict. No one had roll history either.

So I built all of it. RPG Dice Machine gives you the standard dice buttons (d4 all the way to d100), free-form notation like “3d8+5”, a per-die breakdown with natural 20s and natural 1s called out, advantage/disadvantage with an odds explainer, a full d20 check tool that does the modifier math for you, and a history of your last rolls. It’s mobile-friendly, has a proper dark fantasy look, and it’s all self-contained — no plugin dependencies, just my own dice engine.

If you’re a tabletop player, give it a roll and let me know what’s missing. 🐉

RPG Dice Machine — dice with a brain, not just a face.

It's also integrated with full DM preparation tools. You can get it here for free: https://bukanpawkemon.itch.io/dalang-campaign-dashboard

Hi folks, here is my submission for the OnePageRPG Jam 2026, a mini rpg using the Astra System, a system that I develop that use special dice and a pool system, designed so that reading the result from a roll is straightforward and very easy (no math involved!), as well as a couple perks (advantage/disadvantage rules that does not imply rerolling the pool).

I hope you enjoy it, here it is ! https://icidesdragons.itch.io/astra-mini

Hi all,

ever struggled with investing an interesting or not a bipedal alien?

The new alien race generator on CC is here to help!

It'll make a coherent (truly) alien for you, that'll will give fun scenarios to play out for you and your table

Test it out over at

https://codexcryptica.com/generators/alien-race

(don't forget about all the other generators over there either)

I have a very specific weakness as a GM.

I can prepare villains, encounters, locations, lore, plot hooks and whatever else for hours.

Then a player points at some completely irrelevant person I invented twelve seconds ago and asks:

“What’s their name?”

And suddenly my brain contains no names.

None.

This is how perfectly respectable fantasy NPCs end up being called things that sound suspiciously like John Guardman.

Online generators obviously exist and they're great, but I tend to run games with notes, books, dice and other physical stuff around me, and I really didn't want another reason to grab my phone or open a browser in the middle of a session.

So a while ago I started building my own lists.

Then the lists got bigger.

And bigger.

And eventually this got slightly out of hand and became an actual book:

The Physical Random Name Generator

It now contains over 10,000 fantasy names divided into 58 categories.

There are the obvious ones like humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, dragons and various character types, but also names for kingdoms, cities, villages, noble families, guilds, cults, taverns, shops, forests, mountains, dungeons, temples, deities, artifacts, weapons, magical items, spells, books, ships, festivals and a bunch of other things.

There's no 5e mechanics involved, so the entire thing is system-agnostic. For me it's basically just another reference book behind the screen: something unexpected needs a name, find the relevant section, steal one, pretend you planned it all along.

It has now somehow escaped my desk and exists as an actual paperback and hardcover.

So if you're also the kind of GM whose carefully constructed fantasy world is populated by people named Bob the Definitely Planned Blacksmith, you might find it useful:

The Physical Random Name Generator
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDCWFVRV

AI disclosure

Generative AI was used during the creation process to help generate candidate names. Every name that ultimately made it into the finished book was then manually reviewed by me.

I started the project in 2024 and worked on it gradually rather than generating the finished book in one pass. The introduction and other written material, organization, layout, editing and final presentation were done manually by me.

I also built and worked through hundreds of Excel tables to compare the lists, identify duplicates and clean up the final selection.

So AI was one of the tools used during the initial name-generation stage, while the reviewing, selecting, checking, organizing and production of the finished book were handled manually.

https://gm-board.web.app/

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on Crystal Codex, a browser-based companion for fabula ultima campaigns.

I started this project because I’ll soon be running a campaign at home. I wanted to use my projector to display combat scenes like a classic JRPG, while allowing my players to keep their characters updated and accessible from their phones.

Crystal Codex lets you create and play characters and NPCs, manage campaigns, share read-only character sheets, and prepare synchronized scenes that can be displayed on a separate screen during play. The interface is inspired by 32-bit JRPGs and is designed to feel like a game menu rather than a traditional management application.

The project is still in development, and my campaign starts this Sunday, so it will soon have its first real test at the table.

I’m sharing it because I’d love for people to try it and tell me what they think. Bug reports, confusing interactions, missing rules, and suggestions for improvement would all be greatly appreciated.

Most cult generators give you a name, a creepy ritual and a hooded figure. The half I always ended up writing myself was the boring half: what the group tells its neighbours, and how long that story holds up once the party starts pulling at it.

So this one creates both halves. Every society comes out with a public face and a secret truth, and those two things are usually in tension.

Try it here, no login required:

codexcryptica.com/generators/secret-society

The generator creates:

• What they believe, and what they actually do about it
• The public cover they hide behind, from a charity to a trade guild
• A secret truth the inner circle knows and the rest do not
• A current conflict that is already underway when the party arrives
• Adventure hooks tied to that specific society

I would like to know how other GMs handle the moment the players find out what a society actually is. Do you plan that reveal, or let them stumble into it?

Hey all! I have now extended my generators to now also generate languages

Try it out over at

https://codexcryptica.com/generators/language-generator