Weird, Whimsy & Wonder

Ever feel like your encounters and descriptions keep falling back on the same old tropes? Like you’re pulling from a well-worn bag of ideas, and what comes out feels… fine, but not quite magical?

Weird, Whimsy & Wonder is a creative tool for TTRPG game masters and solo players who want to break free from the expected and summon something more memorable: strange, moving, or mysterious. It helps you craft moments that feel out of place in the best possible way, evoking awe, delight, eeriness, or curiosity.

You can use it in multiple ways: prepping for a session, improvising at the table, or as you play solo. In any case, this book helps you transform the mundane: you take ordinary creatures, places, items, or events, and reimagine them as something dreamlike, uncanny, or majestic. You can even start from a blank page and let the tables inspire you to craft those delightfully bizarre situations.

With a tightly-knit procedure made of simple, flexible tools, you’ll start from a seed and quickly grow it into something you wouldn’t have thought of on your own. 

Use this tool when…

• Your usual random tables are starting to feel flat, and you want to transform their results into something truly unique.

• You’re playing solo and want to surprise yourself with an unexpected scene that sparks delight, awe, or discomfort.

• You’re prepping a session and want to make a location feel magical, alive, or deeply strange.

• You need a break from the tone of your current adventure and want to inject a burst of joy, mystery, or weirdness.

• You’re designing a treasure and want it to feel like a relic no one else has ever seen.

• You’re improvising an NPC and want to pull the right levers to make them unforgettable, odd, or oddly charming.

• You’re crafting an encounter that needs to show off—whether that means setting the tone, raising the stakes, or spotlighting the eerie nature of a monster or the grandeur of your world.

• You have a blank page and five minutes to prep, and just need that first spark to get your imagination rolling.

Here's how it works:

See it in action:

Prefer reading?

Check out this write-up on my newsletter. it walks through the thought process behind the tool and includes a full example of how to use it.

In the book, you will find:

• A tightly-knit procedure. With easy-to-follow steps, you can elevate mundane creatures, places, items and people to truly unforgettable moments while prepping for a session or improvising on the spot.

• A flexible set of tables. Instead of offering a set of premade entries that would limit the mileage you would get from this tool, you will find a series of inspiring tables that will help you craft endless combinations, including a Seed table with 648 unique single word prompts to get you going.

• Guide on three different flavors. Strangeness can take many shapes. This toolkit offers guidance so you strike the right tone you are going for: uncanny and eerie (Weird), dreamlike and playful (Whimsy), or majestic and awe-inspiring (Wonder).

All the tables you need!

• SEEDS: 648 evocative single-word prompts to spark your imagination during any step of the process.

• SUBJECTS: 12 different things you can change in a scene, like people, places, items, and more.

• TRAITS: 36 aspects of your Subject that you can change, from scale or material, to purpose or customs, all with detailed explanations and examples of use.

• SHIFT: 18 ways you can change your subject's traits, expressed via single-word action prompts.

• FRAMING: 18 aspects of a scene you can highlight to bring your new creation to life.

All of this, packed into an 80+ page, hardcover book—richly illustrated, in vibrant color, and filled with clear, step-by-step guidance to help you use the tables and land the exact tone you’re aiming for.

What you get with your purchase:

• The complete PDF, fully bookmarked and hyperlinked
• A printer-friendly tables compendium
• An interactive, click-to-roll PDF on a single page
• Access to the web app