Barrowdork

Tools for the table, dug out of the Barrowmoors

Hire a torchbearer. Name your characters. Steal a rumor.

Today in the Barrowmoors

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Roll Up a Body 3d6 down the line · in order · no arranging

For when you need a body but haven't decided who it belongs to.

What They Say in Helix d20 · some of it is even true

What a stranger hears in the taprooms of Helix, on the edge of the Barrowmoors. Steal any of them.

Nobody has told you anything yet.

Places Where the people come from

The Tally House

  • Hirelings three at a time, off the board or off the bench
  • Sellswords with kit, terms, and a stat line
  • Eight towns, each with its own door and its own trade
On the bench
Pull somebody off the bench

The Taproom

  • A night in any tavern of the fief — kitchen, cellar, and beds
  • Who's drinking, what they're doing, and why they matter
  • Entertainment, reception, and the thing that goes wrong
At the bar
Open the doors

The Naming Rites Four peoples, four ways of being named

Dwarf Name Generator

  • Hill dwarves of Dūnby — plain surname, then the work
  • Hold dwarves of the mountains — House, then the blood
  • Three in four across the fief are hill folk
Specimen
Strike the Name

Lizardfolk Name Generator

  • Stillwater, Maw-Binder, or tribeless
  • A forename, then the name the trial earned you
  • The record pairs each with a visual tell
Specimen
Claim the Name

Gnoll Name Generator

  • Free Pack, Ravening, or packless
  • A personal name and the nickname the pack gave you
  • The pack you came from, or the one you lost
Specimen
Earn the Name

Bullywug Name Generator

  • Four registers, from deep marsh to the Croaking Reaches
  • A given name, a mud name, and maybe a rank
  • The Legion's stone-words, spoken sincerely and wrong
Specimen
Give the Croak

Turning of the Worlds Free. No sign-up. Works on a phone at the table.

The Almanack

  • Thirteen months of twenty-eight days, forever
  • The moon on her twenty-six day walk — she never sits still
  • Market days, festivals, solstices, and the Houses of the Shepherd
Today
Read the Year

Cast Your Stars

  • Root — the moon you were born under
  • Road — the year you were born into
  • Shears — the Fates' own portent
The Reader flips
This is your Wanderer.
What the future holds...

What Is This

  • Barrowdork is a small shelf of free tools for tabletop games.
  • Built for Old-School Essentials and Shadowdark — nothing here won't work at any table.
  • They come out of Barrowdark, a homebrew campaign in the world of Edro, in a frontier town called Helix at the edge of a moor full of graves.
  • The word-lists are somebody's actual campaign, not filler.
  • No accounts, no tracking, no cost. Open a page, roll, write it on your sheet.