12-23-2022, 10:55 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
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Random "X" Tables
A sort of repository thread for the Random Encounter, Wandering Monster, Pocket Contents, etc. table that can be so useful when you're experiencing GM's block or trying to get something done five minutes before the players show up. (Or you're showing off some implicit worldbuilding...)
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12-23-2022, 11:10 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
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Re: Random "X" Tables
Dungeon Vermin Table
This is for those creatures that might inhabit underground caverns, sewers, and eldritch dungeons - either because they find them comfortable or, in the case of the undead, that's where they spontaneously animate from unfortunate souls. Code:
d% roll Monster - Page Reference - Number - Notes 01-05 Jelly - Monsters p. 38 - 1 06-10 Ooze - Monsters p. 44 - 1d6 - Wanders 11-14 Pudding - Monsters p. 46 - 1 - Apply variant if appropriate. 15-16 Erupting Slime - Monsters p. 26 - 1 17-18 Ochre Jelly - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 149 - 1 19-20 Pudding, Giant Black - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 155 - 1 21-25 Giant Centipede (big) - Companion 3, p. 104 - 2d6 26-28 Giant Centipede (Humongous) - Companion 3, p. 104 - 1 - plus possibly 2d6 young (5 or 6 on d6) 29-30 Leaping Leeches - Monsters p. 40 - 2d6 x 10 31-35 Giant Spider (big) - Monsters p. 31-32 - 3d6 36-39 Giant Spider (huge) - Monsters p. 31-32 - 2d6 40-42 Giant Spider (humongous) - Monsters p. 31-32 - 1 - Wanders 43-45 Giant Beetle (big) - Companion 3, p. 103 - 1 or 1d3 x 10 46-50 Foul Bats - Monsters p. 28 - 1d6 x 5 51-55 Giant Rats - Monsters p. 30 - 1d6 x 10 56-60 Swarm - Monsters p. 54 - 1d hexes 61-62 Death Grip - Nordlondr Ovinabokin - p. 56 - 1 - Natural caverns only 63-65 Dark Cape - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 60 - 1d6 - Natural caverns only 66-68 Strix - Monsters 2 p. 42 - 3d6 69-70 Rock Mite - Monsters p. 47 - 1d6+3 71-72 Demon Spawn (Imp) - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 113 - 1d6 - Usually scouting for other demons 73-77 Doomchildren - Monsters p. 21 - 1d20+4 78 Toxifier - Monsters p. 56 - 1d3 79-80 Fiendling - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 82 - 2d6 81-84 Skeleton - Monsters p. 48 - 2d6+3 85 Ghost - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 89 - 1d3 86-89 Zombie, Infectious (“Horde”) - Monsters p. 36 - 2d6 + 3 90-93 Zombie, Reanimated - Monsters p. 62 - 2d6+3 94 Fury Wisp - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 105 - 1 95-96 Remnant - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 132 - 1 97 Wraith - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 156 - 1 - plus 1d6 Remnants and/or Draugr 98 Shadow - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 165 - 1d6 99 Wight - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 180 - 1 - plus 1d6 Wight-Spawn 100 Wight-Spawn - Nordlondr Ovinabokin p. 181 - 2d6 |
12-23-2022, 02:52 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Random "X" Tables
For a nice set of links to random NPC traits, contents of orc pockets, facial hair, 30 infinity rings, random curses, hireling backgrounds, wizard obsessions, etc. see http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/...able-when.html
For a really neat concept of curses and how to lift them, plus a random table of examples, see https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/201...20-curses.html |
12-23-2022, 09:39 PM | #4 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Binghamton, NY, USA. Near the river Styx in the 5th Circle.
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Re: Random "X" Tables
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This site has a ton of random RPG generators for many genre's. Names, planets, dungeons, towns, magic shops, and more. It's a great resource for quick random stuff. And then there's my own website GURPSLand where I have a random name generator for modern US, a basic Tavern Name generator, Cyberpunk Network generator, and most on topic for this forum a Random Dungeon Generator, written by Emily Smirle and Kyle Norton based on the Donjun Dungeon Generator but customized for the DFRPG/GURPS Dungeon Fantasy.
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12-24-2022, 08:36 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Saint Paul, MN
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Re: Random "X" Tables
Perhaps as a result of a curse or dark magic or a crystal ball, a PC is visited with a frightening vision. Each of these may be an opportunity for the player to improvise and/or for the GM to add layers to the story.
Frightful Vision Table (1d6)
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