there's a thing called hackmaster, it's like a parody version of D&D from the comic Knights of the Dinner Table, and i got a glance at the official rulebook once because the very sweet guy i was staying with wanted to show me the critical hit table. it was really funny, you roll on it with a d10,000
anyway i think about that giant table a lot and i want to use a d10,000 more. i'm the core audience
i want a d10,000 wild magic table
another thing you can do is like the way they do magic items in 5e and others where like, you roll on a big table with a d100 and it tells you to roll on other tables various times, which also use a d100
you roll an 86 and it's like "roll on magic items table C 1d4 times" so you roll that d4 and you get a 3 and so you roll up three magic items on that magic items C table
it's like that
@pan there's a game called rolemaster that's big on a different kind of very extreme table rolling
like, for every attack, you roll a d100* plus modifiers and you look up the result on the attack table for your weapon, looking in the column corresponding to the armor type you're attacking. and then it tells you how much damage you do and whether you get a critical hit and if so which critical table to roll on and what modifier to apply. (then the critical tables are simpler tables but with lots of very specific (sometimes gory) entries)
it's a lot but kinna neat imo. some related games made it so that there are fewer armor types and not as many attack tables to simplify it a bit.
- there are some extra details where you have a 5% chance of having to roll again and add it and similarly for subtracting so that notionally you can roll any positive or negative number but probably won't go suuuuuper far
@alyssa ah that's so cool o.o that's honestly super cool