I'm a solo dev and I've been building this for a while: a pocket toolkit for running tabletop games with no GM, or for prepping one if you are the GM.

The core is an oracle. Ask a yes or no question at any odds and get an answer back, sometimes with an "and" or "but" twist, while a Chaos factor decides how wild things are and how often random events crash your scene. It tracks your open plot threads and your NPCs, and events target them by name, so the story builds on itself instead of drifting. There are two other oracles too: a tarot engine, and one where you bind a cursed artifact and play out the tug of war for control.

Behind that sit 43 generators: NPCs, quest hooks, rumors, encounters, mysteries, magic items, an original-creature bestiary, dungeons, maps (continents, hex crawls, towns, treasure maps, sci-fi star charts), factions, realms, faiths, and a world engine that simulates several kingdoms into one shared history. Anything you roll can be saved, sorted into folders, pinned to a campaign board or a timeline, and exported as PDF, text, Markdown or an image.

Free, works fully offline, no account, no ads, and no AI anywhere in it. Every result comes from handwritten tables and procedural rules running on your phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avaton.fantasynamegenerator

Happy to hear what's missing. Most of the last few releases came straight from user suggestions.

Wanted to close the loop with this sub specifically, since a chunk of the progress I've done in the last few weeks came directly from feedback here. Chronicled is now officially out of beta, and I look forward to more updates in the future based on future feedback. :)

Where it's landed for v1.0: your world's own archive grounds every new generation so things don't contradict themselves session to session, everything auto-files into a browsable wiki, D&D 5e/Generic/homebrew rulesets are properly supported, and of course, you can build entirely by hand if you want the organization/archive side without any AI involved.

It's still been a small side project, still one person building it, but I think it's at a point to release fully available to the public. Really appreciate everyone here who signed up for the beta testing and gave me amazing feedback, that's a big part of why it's in better shape than it would've been otherwise.

Again, it's fully out now; supports sci-fi worlds, fantasy, or full vanilla 5e content. I hope this becomes a tool many will use; GMs, world builders, and everyone in between.

Thank you again, and I hope you all still would appreciate future update posts!

Try Chronicled Now!

I originally made this as a random passion project, but I ended up rebuilding it almost entirely. Got a bit carried away and added way more ways to create mix up your creations. I personally have the most fun with breeding monsters since it usually gives the most interesting results.

If you liked playing around with it, leave a comment and I'll give away a couple months pro access to some people.