A game design concept as described by Daniel Cook. (article mirror)

Loot Drop Tables are a content driven approach to defining what kind of loot you want to drop and with what chance.

Quick Overview

• Define your tables in JSON or XML (or generate them on the fly!)
• Weighted drop table allows you to set drop chance of each loot item
• DropTableSampler picks random loot out of your table based on weights

Loot Table examples

• XML
• JSON