[Books and Tomes] A Quick Tool for 25 Random Books "on the shelf, in the dungeon"

[flannel]

So, I've got a pretty deep background in Excel (never done anything, really, with Google Spreadsheets before) and took a few minutes figuring out a few things and got a spreadsheet resource that autocalculates every minute a new list of 25 random book names.

In truth, while they're useful for quick "what's on the shelf" (and you put the magic book you planned to be there somewhere in the middle of the names you rattle off the list), I actually think some make for damn interesting story-ideation...

"Baron Hax's Forbidden Tablets of Dwarven Cults"... hell, that's be fun to reverse engineer.

Anyhow. Here's the link (and, naturally, tons of other stuff--resources and aids--on my blog (https://manysideddice.wordpress.com/)):

The Many-Sided Tool for D&D Library Books (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w4D2PKul2hJEur_Myij1_8qHQ4dhdAc7hCX7_Q-odk0/edit?usp=sharing)

[FightStyles]

Wow, an auto-updating spread sheet is pretty neat.

Well, I would say that 1 minute is too short. I barely read the list before they change. Also, I imagine you are pulling from 2 lists of some sort, but it does seem rather weird that all the books contain the word "of" in them.

But it could be useful in a giant library or something. I, on the other hand, like to have 1 or 2 titles per book shelf depending on how many book shelves there are in the room. I find that if you give a specific title to a book, they want to believe it's something important. Otherwise, coming up with what's inside the books takes time and that time is usually wasted over doing something important.

[coredump]

Neat little resource.... thanks