The Welsh Piper expanded upon an excellent idea from Zak at Playing D&D with Porn Stars. GM oriented materials, especial setting materials, are written wrong. They are long tomes of text resembling histories or fiction instead of stuff you can use at the table.
Zak has since done a couple of posts that one could see as GM exercises similar to writing exercises. The first, as part of the original post, is "What's Chewing On That Carcass? Table For The Last NonDungeon Place Your PCs Were...(roll d6)". The second, a day later was "d6 Why Did that Happen?" table for the last city or settlement your PCs visited. The first seems less useful to me but the second is great in terms of explaining the secret behind what to me was just an event that the players fixated on.
Yet even the first, is useful if you look at Erin's reasons this is so brilliant. It's a weird, simple encounter table which makes it easier for me to customize my encounter/random event tables.
What really struck me is how my "5 & 23" idea for gathering PDFs of The World After info falls into this. It's also a cheap and easy idea for blog posts.
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