Pathfinder: Magic Item Generator

Have you ever looked at the random tables for magic items in a D&D settlement? They aren’t the sort of thing you can use at the table when the PCs unexpectedly visit a town. You’re supposed to roll for the number of minor, medium, and major items based on town size, usually with multiple d4s. Then you have to roll for each of those items – what kind of item is it? Which specific item is it? Are there any other details that need to be rolled? And if you get a potion, wand, or scroll result, you’ll have to pick the spells yourself (although thankfully Paizo provided random spell tables for just that purpose in Ultimate Equipment).

Alternatively, you could follow the contradictory rule that there’s a 75% chance that any item is available as long as it costs less than the town’s Base Value. But that, to me, make magic too easy to acquire and too commonplace. I prefer the random tables, for all of their lack of utility during play.

This was a minor thorn in my side in the Kingmaker campaign because the players would travel to Restov from time to time, and the wizard always wanted to know what scrolls and magic items were available. There are some random item generator webapps out there, but none met my specific needs of generating items for a town. They also often did not provide all of the details – what spells are on the scroll? What kind of energy does the ring protect against? Is there anything for a martial halfling to buy? And so on. I actually rolled up slates of available magic items for towns beforehand and printed them out so that I would have the data when needed at the table.

But that was rather time consuming and tedious. So I made my own random generator! Now when the players head to the big city, I can start up the application, pick the proper town size, click the button, and poof, done! I can also generate X number of items of any quality level (minor, medium, major) or item type (armor, weapons, etc.) if I need something more specific. The underlying engine is actually being used by the Kingdom Manager application to generate random items for settlement buildings, as well. I had crafted a primitive interface for the stand-alone generator, as it was only ever used by me. But I was recently thinking that others might find it useful, so I cleaned it up and am now releasing the program into the wild.

Why use this application over the other options out there? Well, obviously you don’t have to, and it doesn’t run on mobile devices, so that’s a definite mark against it. However, it’s the only random magic item generator for D&D that I’ve seen that does all of this at the same time:

• Easily generates all the items for a settlement of a particular size!
• Can generate an arbitrary number of items with user-selected filters (e.g. only weapons)
• Armor and weapons can be different sizes
• Specific spells are generated for scrolls, potions, and wands
• Additional details are generated for those spells and item properties that need them (e.g. energy resistance)
• Charges are generated for wands and staves
• Prices are provided taking all of the above into account
• The results can be sorted by different criteria

If you want to try it out, the program can be downloaded here.

Update: Please let me know if you’re seeing strange gold piece values for items! I think I fixed that issue but it’s difficult for me to test it out.

Update #2: Apparently I uploaded the wrong file when I thought I fixed the issue. Please download & install the latest from the link above if you’re having issues, and please let me know if the new version fixed them!

Update #3: Fixed an issue where weapons & armor smaller than Small or larger than Medium were not having their price adjusted for size.