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Rollable tables.

I have seen some references to some ideas people have been using rollable tables. Just would like to get a better idea of what you do with them and how you use them.
You can use them two ways, You can create a chart that you can then roll on, you weight the entries and when you roll it it returns a phrase or a graphic. I use them for critical hit/miss tables like this. The other way you use them is for token graphics. If you have several graphics of the same thing. You build a table with all of those graphics and then use it to create a token. That token is associated with a character sheet and you right click on the token and select either choose or random to change the graphic without losing the association to the sheet. Good for having various armies that are not cardboard cutouts.
Folks have used Roll-able tables to make custom dice(Like Edge of the Empire), randomize a list of results(Like random effects or crit decks), as tokens with varying images(like a Summon Monster token with different kinds of creatures), etc. Any text or image you would want to put in a table and be able to select manually or roll randomly that you can think of, really. The one thing it DOESN'T do well is holding dice roll placeholders (you couldn't have a table of d4+1, d6+2, etc and have it actually roll)
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Also of note is using the token effect to have quickly changeable maps.
I use them to randomly pick a monster on a random encounter. and for simple loot generation.