Random Stuff

It's time to give props to a friend.

If you're in the midst of a story, deep in mid-National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)--a.k.a. "November"-- and stuck for a character's name or description....

If you're in the midst of a game session, your players take an unexpected trip through the jungle, and you suddenly, out of the blue, need to pull a tribal religion out of your hat....

If your players are tired of meeting NPCs named "Bob"....

If your blaster-wielding smuggler scoundrel needs a part to repair his not-so-stock space freighter and you just don't know what to call it....

Or you just want to kill a couple hours looking at random superstitions, creating your own ancient coinage, or even looking at randomly-generated Country songs....

Do yourself a favor and head on over to Chaotic Shiny.

I've experienced all of the above myself.

This is probably the best collection of random generators I've found on the 'net. These are all home-grown and sprung fresh from the mind of Chaotic Shiny's operator, Swordgleam. It's truly amazing to look at the work and effort, not to mention the product! Nearly any generator a self-respecting author, game player, or DM could want is all right there.

There are even a couple of packaged deals for sale at reasonable prices. Tool bundles for assisting DMs in world creation. Did I say these generators were excellent resources?

New generators are coming out all the time; I would subscribe to the newsletter/bulletin as well, just so you can get all the Chaotic Shiny generator-related goodness you can get.

I'm especially partial to the name generators. Although Swordgleam would probably argue that I'm fond of the sci-fi parts generator....

At any rate, whatever your flavor, whatever your need, I would urge you to hop on over and check out Swordgleam's work at Chaotic Shiny.