Barrowdork

Tools for the table, dug out of the Barrowmoors

Name your characters. Steal a rumor. Roll something strange.

Today in the Barrowmoors

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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...

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

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.

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.