when they go off-script
They went left. Here's who runs the shop
Instant names, shops, taverns, street events and rumours for when the party goes somewhere you never planned.
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Every table has the moment. You prepared the manor house, and the party wants to buy rope first. Somebody asks the shopkeeper's name, and four people wait while you make one up.
This page has five buttons for that moment: a name for any ancestry, a shop with a keeper and a priced stock list, a tavern with something going on tonight, something happening in the street, and a rumour worth following. All of it is written by hand and all of it rolls instantly. No waiting on a generator while the table watches. Pin anything you use, add a note saying who it was, and next week you'll still know the innkeeper's name.
- Names for all nine SRD ancestries, written from scratch
- Shops with SRD prices, and a curio shop that sells real magic items
- A d100 of street events and a d50 of rumours
- Pins with notes, so an improvised NPC survives until next week
Read the tables free, right now
Every row is on this site, ungated. No account, no sign-up — the subscription is for rolling them, not reading them.
- Random Street Events — d100 Table for Towns and Cities 100 results
- Tavern Rumours — d50 Table of Rumours and Plot Hooks 50 results
- Tavern Name Generator — Roll Twice on a d30 30 results
- Tavern Specials and What's Happening Tonight — d20 20 results
- Human Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
- Elf Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
- Dwarf Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
- Halfling Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
- Gnome Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
- Orc Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
- Tiefling Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
- Dragonborn Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
- Goliath Names — d20 Given and Family Names for 5e 20 results
It doesn't come alone
Improv Tables is one of seventeen tools in a single $3.99/month subscription, and they share a party.
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