If you enjoy making your own maps, developing your own campaign world, naming everything can be quite a struggle... and making those names sound sensible and original even harder. Here's a handy list to make naming those forests that you've just got to have in your fantasy campaign world (where will the elves or nastier critters lurk, after all?) a bit easier.

They all sound real - like I might find them if I looked on a map - and that's the impression that you want to create with your campaign world - that your alternate reality is just as real as the, er, real one outside your window, just someplace else.

If you go down to the woods today... maybe it's the Ashblossom Grove or the Black Snail Wood that you will visit.

This product was a bit of a disappointment, as I was expecting a long list, similar to the other "100 x items" lists.

It has "male or female" for your first selection, for the second it is 10 "NPC's", the third selection is 50 "Quests" and the fourth and final selection is 10 different "Outcomes".

So, basically, you truly only have 50 full on Quests, the rest are just simple alterations to the Quests to make one a bit different from another. The Quests are pretty good and varied, but you don't get the kinda of variety that "10000" in the title promises.

I got this for $.50 and it was worth it, but you've got to decide if it's worth a dollar to you.

This is the place that very few people think to head for, but it has the source of all knowledge...books! What to do if you want to tan & dry animal skin, or build traps or weapons.

They say history repeats itself, so characters need to keep themselves from making mistakes by looking in history books. Want to survive longer from wandering undead in a wooded area, look for a book on building deer blinds in trees or on tall supports.

It also is the perfect place to put a twist in your adventure, especially if it is a mystery. The characters must find a specific book or passage in a book. You roll randomly to find out what book they are looking for, this provides you with a challenge and the characters with a quest.

I recommend this list for any type of game, where the Player Characters would run across books randomly.

This is one of my favorite lists (#4) for keeping nearby when running a game of All Flesh Must Be Eaten or a good game of Slasher.

Rather than having to worry about tiny mundane objects and where they are placed, I simply wait until they are in the right spot and take a couple of rolls on this list.

This is a place that you see almost as much as the rooms of a house. It is a great list, as I don't have to worry about coming up with items on the fly! Let's see what we get for a triple roll...dry erase markers, paperclips and a rolodex of business cards. What can your players do with these things to survive?

I highly recommend this list for any type of modern game, where the Player Characters would run across these type of items randomly.

This is one of my favorite lists (#3) for keeping nearby when running a game of All Flesh Must Be Eaten or a good game of Slasher.

Rather than having to worry about tiny mundane objects and where they are placed, I simply wait until they are in the right spot and take a couple of rolls on this list.

This is the room everyone heads to for weapons when they get caught inside a house. A random roll or two and we've got an egg timer, a cookie sheet and a bunch of spoons? What good are they against a relentless killer or a horde of undead?

I highly recommend this list for any type of modern game, where the Player Characters would run across these type of items randomly.

This is one of my favorite lists (#2) for keeping nearby when running a game of All Flesh Must Be Eaten or a good game of Slasher.

Rather than having to worry about tiny mundane objects and where they are placed, I simply wait until they are in the right spot and take a couple of rolls on this list.

A package of snack cakes, a quart of motor oil and a couple of bottles of hand sanitizer give you what?...that is the puzzle you want to hand to your player characters.

It is especially fun in Apocalypse oriented games.

Rock on! This is one of my favorite lists for keeping nearby when running a game of All Flesh Must Be Eaten or a good game of Slasher.

Rather than having to worry about tiny mundane objects and where they are placed, I simply wait until they are in the right spot and take a couple of rolls on this list.

It is fantastic for tossing in a couple of random objects, such as a can of spray paint, a shop vac or small pair of pruning shears and watching the game progress in a completely new fashion.

I highly recommend this list for any type of modern game, where the Player Characters would run across these type of items randomly.

I balance cost against the value of an RPG product, and an item priced at a dollar is an easy sell for me.

With that in mind there isn't a single cent of value in this product.

Its a complete rip-off. It is not a list of 100 steampunk inventions, it is a list of 100 sentences which appear to be compiled either by a random word generator or cut & paste.

Each is : (name) & (name)'s (nonsense sentence) powered by (steam, coal, radium), this (size) device is useful for (most practical adventurer / person of breeding / etc).

For a buck I knew I wasn't going to get any sort of detail, but I expected that I would get some ideas about steampunk devices that I could expand upon, seeds as it were.

Instead I received gibberish. There isn't the slightest indication of what any of these items are supposed to do.

Don't waste a dollar. There is nothing here.

You get what you pay for I thought I was buying a 100 bardic ballads, what I got was a 100 bardic ballad titles. It was still worth the money just less than I was expecting

A product such as this whose worth is only limited by its own merits (which should be clear to one and all), yet, I was unable to give it a full "5" because of the gross oversight in excluding (either by accident or, even more serious, by design) the random number "button". We (as I am sure you will agree with a hearty, "hear, hear") can only hope that this can and will be remedied when the newest edition ( I believe it would be the Quattuordecyllion edition) hits the shelves.

Designed for those wishing to play a one-off 'story game' this product makes imaginative use of PDF technology to not only provide you with lists of character/setting seeds which you are supposed to select by drawing cards but also will perform the draw for you if you don't happen to have any playing cards to hand!

The basic concept is that four players find out who they are and what they are doing in the game by drawing one card from each suit (one each, that is), and things develop from there. It is based on 'In a Wicked Age' by Lumpley Games, but if you aren't playing that it's still possible to imagine uses for this, from a looser story game spawned by the ideas brought up by your card draw to generating random NPCs for a role-playing game... good for a diversity and randomicity of characters and motivations that you'd be hard-pressed to come up with on your own.

You might even find that it spawns the odd adventure idea. Quite fun to play with.

Be it the library of the local College of Magic or the study of that wizened old wizard who lives down the road, there will be a pile of tomes around... who knows, you might even be lucky enough to get to browse through them.

So of course you ask what you've picked up to leaf through... and the GM has a sudden blind moment of panic. But fear not, if said GM has this in possession, it is but a moment with the percentage dice to tell you that you have a pristine copy of Le Grand Arcane, ou l’Occultisme Dévoilé (1868) by Eliphas Levi in your hands. Or maybe a battered and annotated volume entitled Cantus Circaeus (or the Incantation of Circe) (1591) by Giordano Bruno.

Use as is if you are running, say, Call of Cthulhu - you might want to change dates and maybe some of the author names (what, you didn't recognise Giordano Bruno? OK, leave that in, then!) to fit your particular setting.

A fine selection to conjure with... or maybe go mad... and some of them at least are really out there...

Bored with the same few demons turning up every time you do a spot of summoning. Here's a tool to delight the most dedicated demonology hacker...

Get a handful of dice and start working your way through a fairly complex, but quite logical sequence to come up with a unique name for the next demon to wink into existance inside your chalk diagram...

Lessee...

How about The Master Skelegoth of the Groaning Abyss, Prince of the Baleful Host?

Just make sure that your incantation is word-perfect and that there is no flaw in your circle of protection!!!

This is quite complex but rather fun once you settle down to it.

Lots of cultures think 'star signs' are important. So why not those in a fantasy world or even a far future one? With, of course, quite different stars in their skies from the ones that wheel overhead in the real world. So, no Libras or Leos or whatever (and no, I don't know mine so don't ask!).

Settle down with these tables and come up with some authentic-sounding astrological patter that works for YOUR world, wherever and whenever that is...

To start with, our star sign needs a name. Roll a 1d6 to find out the sort of constellation name we are looking for... OK, it is a 'Name the Profession' one (this will make sense in a minute, promise).

Get a 1d2 to determine which combination of name tables you'll roll a d20 on... that gives me Lilerta... um... next, I need to trundle off to the Professions table, and roll another d20... um... a Shepherd.

OK, Lilerta the Shepherd it is. Now to find out which season and where in the sky to find it... South sky in summer... and finally the usual astrological generalities, a good and a bad feature common to everyone born under that star sign... us Lilertans are Wise but Passive.

Maybe a bit long-winded, but the results are worth it for that added realism to round out your alternate reality.

Great download for the GM who likes some historical authenticity to the campaign.