Fixing the shattered hopes for Dark Heresy: Shattered Hope

 Shattered Hope is a one-off campaign for Dark Heresy, which needs a few tweaks to be awesome for veteran players.

Background

Pregenerated campaigns are terrible for railroading. The plots are very confined and predictable, the challenges are either easy or annoying —requiring trial and error. The battles are boring and never ending. Experienced players are complete munchkins and will do everything to sabotage a railroading situation as it isn't stimulating. Once I run a pregenerated D&D 4e Eberon campaign, called "Seekers of the Ashen Crown", because I hadn't played 4e and I didn't have much time to prepare. It was so tedious that I let the players go wild. A joke item (a sealed book called "The Necronomicon") became the focus of the game and the plot spiralled into a rollercoaster of hilarious madness, which made the game the best/maddest I have ever heard of (Link to story).

Random name rolling tables (mostly funny)

In Dungeons and Dragons making up names can be hard. Hence the use of random rolling tables. Here are a collection of tables for personal names —no offense is meant by the presence of the names in certain group and many of the may be wrong (but I am sorry if your name is in the trailer trash part, say). The names are mostly scavenged from around the web.

Table of tables

Table to pick a table.

1. Modern
2. Trailer trash
3. Bogan
4. Hipster
5. Cowboy
6. Middleclass
7. Saxon
8. Norse
9. Post-roman
10. Roman
11. Bible
12. roll twice and mash the names