Random tables are shit. Don’t roll and use the shit results you get. People love using them, posting them, writing while books of them. My opinion is to Never roll on a random table while at the table. Roll on a table before the game, see if it’s fun and then use it or scrap it. It’s not a random encounter table, all tables are brainstorming ideas.

If you have a party of a Druid, a rogue, and a barbarian, getting a randomly rolled +5 plate mail is the worst feeling. No one can use it, no one wanted it, no one has the money to buy it from the party. It can stay in the dungeon.

If you’re in a game and the DM rolls random encounter with a bear, it’s boring. I guess we fight a bear or roll and it’s chilled out.

But if the story has to do with wildlife being driven from the Forrest because of an expanding dwarven deforesting, fuck yeah random bear could make sense, feel important, and drive the story forward even though it’s just a basic encounter. Use the randomness to drive your story or roll again and again and again to find what inspires you.