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Here's how you play two-tome bingo (2TB). You're guaranteed to get some sort of wicked combination that your players will hate, fear, and respect you for. Get out your Tome of Horrors Complete and open up your Tome of Adventure Design pdf. Find a d10. It's probably in the desk drawer or the Crown Royal bag. Okay, got it?
No, seriously, find the d10 or open a random number generator. I know you didn't actually do it yet.
Okay, now:
1) Roll 3d100. That's your page number in Tome of Adventure Design. Go to that page and pick a table if more than one is on the page. Roll a result. That's your ToAD playing piece. It might be a corridor width, a backstory, a villainous plot, an attribute of somke kind of critter, a clue, whatever.
2) Now roll 1d1000. That's your Tome of Horrors page. Probably there's only one monster on it. If you get more than one monster, you get to pick.
3) Combine the monster and the table result.
For example, I rolled page 94 for my ToAD page,and rolled on the description of a visitation this: "Caused by the attenuation of the aether, phlogiston, or astral substance at a particular point. Alternatively, it is the attenuation of material matter which causes the visitation."
Then I got a brain rat on page 452 of Tome of Horrors. So here is my result:
A gap in the aetherial membrane of reality has been letting in swarms of brain rats from another dimension; they are using ESP and mind thrusts (this was with the S&W version -- it's probably more specific in the PFRPG book). Totally cool stuff. Then I thought of backing them up with a brain-wererat, and then I thought that maybe something is chasing them ... (!) What sort of extra-dimensional cat-equivalent eats brain rats is pretty scary to contemplate...
In fact it would be fun to get some results on this from people and put them together into a free FGG pdf...
Tome of Adventure Design
Pre-order pdf/print edition or just get the pdf to find out.
There is also a free sample download here. Look for UBAD download, as its former name was Ultimate Book of Adventure Design.
Disclaimer: Matt rolled for me.
Dawn, your result for two tome bingo (2TB) is a 183, 98 (a wheel apparatus + religion), and a giant fly.
This is what I came up with, on the fly. (get it? :D)
A crazed religeous ascetic uses giant flies to power his mill wheel which crushes the bones of insufficiently devout visitors into meal for the holy bread he gives away to his followers.