I am a big fan of rules-lite Old School / New School Renaissance / Revival (OSR/NSR) games like Yochai Gal's
Cairn RPG, Chris McDowall's
Into The Odd, and Ben Milton's
Knave and
Knave 2nd Edition.
Lately, I've been spending more time with the Knave 2nd Edition rules as I'm running games of it for my family and friends and some colleagues at work. The 2e book fits a lot of nice things into its compact, eighty page (or so), digest-sized format (which I prefer). Most of those nice things are the long list of tables that can be used for everything from naming a character, to designing traps, to figuring out what rations and potion items can be harvested from the monsters the PCs encounter.
It's neat stuff. My only quibble is that it is not necessarily easy to find. There is no real index in the book (something I don't generally like). Nor is there a comprehensive list, all in one place, of the tables that appear throughout the book.
At eighty or so pages, you'd think this would be easy, but I can't always remember which tables are in the book (and sometimes I mix them up with tables that appear in other books) or in what sections those lists might be appear.
Since there wasn't a list, I created one. I originally created this list in an ENworld forum for someone who was looking for the same thing that I wanted. I dressed it up and re-posted it to this blog in the hopes that it will be useful for even more people looking for the same thing.
This list of Knave 2e tables is presented in the order that they appear in the core rule book. In the future, I'll probably make another version or two that break out the tables by the section that the appear in and one in alphabetic order.
One side benefit of compiling the list is that it gave me ideas for tables that I wish were part of the book that I can create for my own games. A few years ago, I made a fun table of honorifics for a game of Pugmire that I was running for my family a few years back. All the cats had formal names that were lots of fun to add to characters. I would also like physical trait and reputation tables similar to the ones in Cairn, but expanded with a lot more options. I'm putting them on my list of future posts.
For now, I hope you can use this list...
List of Tables in Knave 2nd Edition:
Die - Table Name - (page number)
d100 - Careers - (p5)
NA - Level, XP Total, HP, Title - (p6)
d6 - Travel Die Results - (p8)
2d6 - Weather - (p9)
d100 - Travel Shifts - (p9)
d100 - Signs - (p10)
d100 - Locations - (p10)
d100 - Structures - (p11)
d100 - Place Traits - (p11)
d6 - Dungeon Hazard Die Results - (p13)
d100 - Delve Shifts - (p14)
d100 - Rooms - (p14)
d100 - Room Details - (p15)
d100 - Room Themes - (p15)
d100 - Dungeons - (p16)
d100 - Trap Effects - (p16)
d100 - Hazards - (p17)
d100 - Mechanics - (p17)
2d6 - NPC Reaction - (p19)
d100 - Activities - (p19)
d100 - Spells - (p22-25)
d12 - Spell Formulae - (p27)
d100 - Wizard Names - (p27)
d100 - Qualities - (p28)
d100 - Effects - (p28)
d100 - Elements - (p29)
d100 - Forms - (p29)
d100 - Mutations - (p30)
d100 - Delusions - (p30)
d100 - Disasters - (p31)
d100 - Magic Schools - (p31)
d100 - Domains - (p33)
d100 - Symbols - (p33)
d100 - Potions - (p35)
d100 - Textures - (p36)
d100 - Tastes - (p36)
d100 - Colors - (p37)
d100 - Ingredients - (p37)
NA - Cost of Living Per Month - (p38)
d100 - Tools - (p39)
d100 - Miscellaneous Items - (p39)
d100 - Books - (p40)
d100 - Clothing - (p40)
d100 - Fabrics - (p41)
d100 - Decorations - (p41)
d100 - Treasures - (p42)
d100 - Materials - (p42)
d100 - Weapons - (p43)
d100 - Item Traits - (p43)
NA - Building Cost - (p44)
NA - Room Style Cost - (p44)
d100 - City Themes - (p46)
d100 - City Events - (p46)
d100 - Street Details - (p47)
d100 - Buildings - (p47)
d100 - Inn Name 1 - (p48)
d100 - Inn Name 2 - (p48)
d100 - Food Traits - (p49)
d100 - Food - (p49)
d100 - Factions - (p50)
d100 - Faction Traits - (p50)
d100 - Missions - (p51)
d100 - Rewards - (p51)
d20 - Carousing Mishaps - (p52)
NA - Career Types - (p52)
d100 - Archetypes - (p53)
d100 - Male Names - (p54)
d100 - Female Names - (p54)
d100 - Surname 1 - (p55)
d100 - Surname 2 - (p55)
d100 - Personalities - (p56)
d100 - NPC Details - (p56)
d100 - Professions - (p57)
d100 - Goals - (p57)
d100 - Assets - (p58)
d100 - Liabilities - (p58)
d100 - Relationships - (p59)
d100 - Mannerisms - (p59)
d100 - Monsters - (p61)
d100 - Animals - (p64)
d100 - Organs - (p64)
d100 - Monster Traits - (p65)
d100 - Powers - (p65)
d100 - Scents - (p66)
d100 - Sounds - (p66)
d100 - Tactics - (p67)
d100 - Weaknesses - (p67)
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