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Happy Year of the Horse 🐴

Here's a fun d100 Table I've gotten a lot of mileage out of to celebrate!

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d100 - One Hundred Horses
G rowing up around Horses, how I use them in these games might be one of my vernacular tells . One of those little things that I always s...
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February 17, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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I've updated my Random Table Index with the most recent Tables I've posted: blog.d4caltrops.com/p/random-tab...

We're hovering around 179 on this page alone now!
Image of a small person in a yellow and green robe with a matching conical hat and a tail peeking out from below the robe. The person has pointy ears and is rolling two six-sided dice using a dice cup.
February 17, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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d100 - Collective Nouns for Numbers Appearing
More Colorful Terms for Groups of Monsters/Encounters
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d100 - Collective Nouns for Numbers Appearing
F or as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by the sometimes-weird words we use for Groups of Things. In my youth, I cam...
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February 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Post a car pic you took
Green Vehicle with Window Art depicting a Sasquatch and an Alien standing together in a Forest, subtitled with "An Unbelievable Bond"
February 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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An Incredible effort is underway to narrate all the Bloggie Nominations this year for your listening enjoyment!

My Wilderness Stocking - Expanded received this absolutely amazing treatment from Patchwork Paladin: podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...
[Gameable] Wilderness Stocking - Expanded, by ktrey
Bloggies 2026 Nominee (Gameable Category): Wilderness Stocking - Expanded by ktrey (d4 Caltrops) Narrated by Patchwork Paladin Episode Links: d4 Caltrops: Dungeon Stocking - Expanded d4 Caltrops: wilderness tier
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February 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Describe your Bluesky account in a single image
Woman driving on Cell Phone with the text "The Tables are my Corn!" imposed upon it.
January 31, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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d100 - Magical Belts, Girdles, or Cinctures
One Hundred Wonders for those Waistlines
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d100 - Magical Belts, Girdles, or Cinctures
A nother Table of Magical Wonders (to be dutifully added to the Generator eventually!) This one focuses on Belts, Girdles, Sashes, or oth...
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January 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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d100 – Absent Adventurer: Where Have You Been?
One Hundred "Excuses" to address a Missed Session
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d100 – Absent Adventurer: Where Have You Been?
S ometimes we encounter situations where a specific Character isn’t available for a given Game Session due to the vagaries of scheduling or...
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January 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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d100 - Magical Toys & Trinkets
Enchanted Items for the Young or Young At Heart
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d100 - Magical Toys & Trinkets
W himsical Wonders needn’t always be intended for those who’ve Grown Up. Here are one Hundred Magical Toys & Trinkets aimed at a younger a...
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January 10, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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2025 Table Thread! 🧵
Just like last year, I am going through some of this year’s Tables I’ve shared and giving them another once over. I’ll include a few of the “Easter Eggs” that jump out at me as I read through them again (but I won’t spoil them all!)

Over 40 this year!
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Silly Idea: Character Generation via the MASH multi-player pen-and-pencil Oracle/Children's Game. You could even have the Player fill in their own options!
MASH Character Generation Example.
December 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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New Generator: I've taken the dozens of tables I've produced over the years for Magical Items and finally loaded them into a generator to produce new wonders with a single click! blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/magi...
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Magic Item Generator
W ith a little bit of digital elbow grease, I’ve finally managed to create a Generator that produces Magical Items from the dozens of d10...
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December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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d100 - So You've Spent Too Long At Sea...
Unfortunate Fates to Befall Seafarers who shy from Shores
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d100 - So You've Spent Too Long At Sea...
J ust as there is a Mythic Underworld and Mythic Wilds , why not also cultivate Mythic Oceans ? Perhaps when one spends a bit too long as...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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d100 - Treasure Map Minutia & Cartograph Complications
One Hundred Hints & Ideas for Ameliorating those Maps
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d100 – Treasure Map Minutia & Cartograph Complications
R epresenting a full fourth of the Random Results when Scrolls are generated as Magical Treasure in most of the earlier presentations, Tre...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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d100 - Where is that Treasure Hidden?
A Hundred Hiding Places for those Twinkling Troves
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d100 - Where is that Treasure Hidden?
A s another elaboration to assist with Dungeon Stocking duties, here is a Table I’ve put together of some potential locations to secrete ...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Holmes! Just the Blue Book, no Box, Adventures, or Dice (so we used the chits)!
Cover of the Dungeons & Dragons Holmes Blue Book
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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d100 - Lair Locations
Where are those Wilderness Encounters when they're not a-Wandering?
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d100 - Lair Locations
W hen Stocking Hexes , I occasionally find myself at a loss when it comes to all those “Lairs” that can get generated in the Process. Tho...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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On the tail of a similar readthrough of B1, this one's starting up for B2: Keep on the Borderlands! Lots of fond memories of running this, probably more times than I can count at this point!
forlornencystment.bsky.social Woefully Encysted Creature @forlornencystment.bsky.social · Dec 5
Here we go! I'm starting a readthrough of Dungeon Module B2: The Keep on the Borderlands! Is it a better introductory adventure than B1? Let's find out!
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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d100 - Heavenly Hallmarks or Gifts for the God-Touched
One Hundred Holy Handouts
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d100 - Heavenly Hallmarks or Gifts for the God-Touched
M any months ago, I completed a table for Tiefling Traits and Infernal Features in which I promised a Post pertaining to their more Angel...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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A great summary of some of the things that make B1 really interesting, and how it's a bit of a shame it doesn't get as much attention as B2. Check out the Stocking Thread too!
forlornencystment.bsky.social Woefully Encysted Creature @forlornencystment.bsky.social · Dec 3
I wrote about B1's role as a teaching module & how that affects its room descriptions, which are filled with stuff to look at, poke, & question. As a result, almost every room is a playground for the DM's imagination when placing monsters & treasure. Write your rooms like this! #TTRPG #D&D #BX #OSR
B1 and Toyetic Dungeon Rooms
Over on Bluesky, I did a walkthrough of B1: In Search of the Unknown . I already wrote about how B1 tells the story of Rogahn and Zelligar ,...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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First Blogger decided to use my Topic Table! They got a very fun one:

56 Summarize your Campaign Setting in 2d20 words or Less

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Summarize your Campaign Setting in 2d20 words or Less
The font of creativity, d4 Caltrops, posted d100 brain food for bloggers so here is my attempt at fulfilling a prompt.  I rolled a 14 so h...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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d100 - Brainfood for Burgeoning Blogs
One Hundred Tentative Topics to Post About
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d100 - Brainfood for Burgeoning Blogs
R ecently, some impressive work Mapping the RPG blogosphere by elmcat had me thinking about the recent surge in new Blogs about these ga...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Yeah. Just might have to put something like this together after all!
Long live the Blog!
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Beginning of a d100 Table of Topics that new OSR/TTRPG Bloggers can roll on if they need ideas for a new post.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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And it's finished!
One Hundred #over/under Tables: A Prospero Potpourri

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It was super fun to flex some of my old Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi muscles before they completely atrophied!
Over/Under Tables: A Prospero Potpourri by ktrey
100 Random Tables for Over/Under
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November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Last of these piecemeal #over/under Tables while I polish up the compilation: Yes, we made it to 100 total! 🎉

* Bootleg Movies
* Comic Strips
* Tattoos
* Goodbyes 😢
Ten Bootleg Vid-Chips Ten Serialized Comic Strips Ten Tattoos Ten Goodbyes
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM