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Organizing Custom Tables

Custom Tables

Use categories, icons, tags, and links to keep your Meaning and Event Focus tables tidy and powerful.

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Organizing Custom Tables

Custom Tables 5 min read Updated Sep 21, 2025

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Where to organize

  • Open the Custom Tables feature through the navigation drawer or if on desktop, from the icon button on the right.
  • Choose the categories tab.
  • Categories, icons, and translations are managed alongside your tables.
  • Unlocking note:
  • on Google Play, Amazon, and the Apple App Store, Custom Tables is an IAP; Itch.io and Microsoft Store include it with a higher‑priced purchase.

Meaning vs Event Focus

  • Meaning Tables: produce results like “Attack” or “Distant Location” and often chain to other tables
  • Event Focus Tables: decide what kind of event happens (e.g., NPC Action), often the first roll in an event workflow

Categories & icons

  • Categories define icon, label, and sort behavior for table groups
  • The app seeds built‑in categories from an asset file; you can reset to defaults if needed
  • User categories live alongside the defaults; keep built‑ins untouched and add your own under the user categories area

Best practices

  • Short display names; add detail in descriptions
  • Swap in your prefered language. Portuguse has official support in the app (thank you Retropunk!) and I hope to offer more official language support for other languages as time goes on
  • Add tags to tables and entries to improve search and grouping
  • Use consistent tags for adventure arcs, biomes, factions, tones, etc.

Linking tables

  • Set a link to another table or list for each entry in your table. from a specific result, immediately roll another table (or an Adventure List)
  • Set a link to another table or list any time the table is rolled on. after producing a result, roll one or more follow‑ups
  • Maxmium chained rolls are currently set to 10. Let me know if you think that should change.

Starter files

  • Meaning templates/samples: JSON, CSV, TXT, PSV
  • Event Focus templates/samples: JSON, CSV, TXT, PSV
  • Categories template/sample
  • Find them under the “Getting Started with Custom Tables” guide’s Starter downloads

Not supported yet

  • Weighted tables are not yet supported—use explicit ranges (1..N)

Next steps

  • Get oriented and create your first tables: see “Getting Started with Custom Tables”
  • Import/Export details: see “Importing & Exporting Custom Tables”
  • JSON field reference: see “Custom Table Schema” and “Categories Schema”