d36 Automated Encounter Complications

Made this table out of overlapping sticky notes on my DM screen. It looks very janky, but it works pretty well, so I decided to automate it. When I end up making biome posts for the blasted lands I will most likely expand this further with subtables and then create a version of this for each of the biomes.

1 Terrain shifts dangerously.
             1 Sinkhole/cave-in from below.
             2  Rockfall/treefall/collapse from above.
             3  A new hazard appears.
             4  An unseen hazard becomes triggered.
             5  Dangerous weather or gas effect begins.
             6  Utter catastrophe, entire surrounding area is falling apart.
2 Terrain shifts dynamically.
             1 New difficult terrain appears.
             2 New obstacle appears.
             3 Existing obstacle is removed.
             4 A new point of interest appears.
             5 A hidden area is revealed.
             6 Hidden loot is revealed.
3 Enemy changes.
             1 Simple mutation.
             2 They use a hidden item.
             3 They unleash hidden powers.
             4 They display sudden ferocity/heroism.
             5 They recieve a boon/reward from their god.
             6 They decide to flee.
4 Wandering monster appears.
             1 Scavenger looking to clean up scraps.
             2 Scavenger looking to fight the wounded winners.
             3 The enemies' natural predator.
             4 The PCs' natural predator.
             5 A truly coincidental random encounter.
             6 The apex predator of the region.
5 An enemy appears.
             1 Reinforcements/more of the existing foes.
             2 An ally of the enemies.
             3 A bounty hunter with a bounty on the PCs.
             4 A familiar evil npc.
             5 An evil adventuring party.
             6 The alpha of the pack or leader of the organization, with their retinue.
6 A potential ally appears.
             1 Law enforcement of the region, attracted by commotion.
             2 An enemy of the enemy appears.
             3 A bounty hunter with a bounty on the enemy.
             4 A small neutral adventuring party.
             5 Friendly familiar npc.
             6 Friendly adventuring party.

d100 Weird Powers, or Why McDowell's OSR Discord is the Best

So... I needed some little powers for a project I'm working on. I decided to turn to the OSR Discord for help... A flurry of creativity later, and now we have this monstrosity!

THE D100 WEIRD POWERS TABLE
1 Light Feet: treat your falls as 20ft shorter distance.
2 You can moonwalk perfectly.
3 Decay avoids you, things do not rot while carried by you or when they are on your person.
4 You can use gestures and body language to communicate your intent to animals.
5 Cast-Iron Stomach: Advantage to PHY tests to resist harmful ingested substances.
6 You don’t leave footprints.
7 Your thumb can glow like a candle on command, only when there are no other light sources.
8 Flowers bloom in your presence.
9 Your head can spin around completely.
10 Can remove and reattach your eyeball at will. You can see through it while detached.
11 Can remove and reattach your hand. You can still control it while it’s detached.
12 You can intimidate small fires into going out by yelling at them.
13 You can cast little points of light where you look, like a laser pointer.
14 You have no pulse or life aura, but you are clearly not dead.
15 You can make your hair and fingernails grow really fast.
16 You have a perfect, toothpaste-ad smile.
17 Once per lifetime, you can cough up one tiny item that you need right now. It was always in your gall bladder, waiting for the perfect moment.
18 Can make animals silent by maintaining eye contact with them.
19 Can make plants talk by holding them in your hands.
20 Can breathe any harmless gas or vapor like it was air.
21 Can peel off your skin to make sheets of parchment.
22 Once per week, you can distill a vial of your blood into a healing potion.
23 Can generate an AA battery’s worth of electricity through your natural friction.
24 You can grab handfuls of gases as if they were solids.
25 You can exist in the same space as someone, but only if you have their stated permission.
26 1 in 20 people believe you are a hallucination. They will persist stubbornly despite evidence.
27 Your tongue is strong and prehensile and as long as your arm.
28 You can echolocate as long as you’re cussing.
29 You can taste emotions.
30 You can change your hair and eye color every time you see your reflection.
31 With effort, you can animate your shadow independently.
32 With effort, you can animate your reflection independently.
33 You can regrow fingers and toes.
34 You can imitate a specific type of bird perfectly.
35 When you dance, everyone feels like they should be dancing.
36 Nobody can remember your name.
37 You can remove your nose at will and have it still function.
38 You can change what age you resemble.
39 If you eat someone’s entire corpse, you can look like them.
40 You can make eye contact with someone and know their second worst fear.
41 You can view the inside of your body at will.
42 You can gain nutritional value from ice.
43 You can sweat at will.
44 You can stretch your body like taffy, but overstretching is a serious danger.
45 When you blink rapidly 3 times you can see in inverted colors.
46 1 in 10 of your fortune readings will come true.
47 If you can put on a play detailing somebody’s crimes, you can compel them to confess to those crimes.
48 You instantly know how much of something is in a pile.
49 You can, through great effort, become irresistible to bees for one minute.
50 In your palm is a bee stinger. If you stab someone with it, you both die when it is removed.
51 You never get dizzy. No matter how long you spin in place.
52 You can shoot your fingernails like darts: 1d6 damage, but they never grow back.
53 You cannot die while asleep.
54 Your hair can wrap around stuff on its own but not unwrap, it has to be cut off.
55 Depending on who you ask, your eyes are either black and blue or white and gold. It’s very contentious.
56 You can make food and drink bitter by scowling at it and thinking nasty thoughts.
57 When you get angry, you get warmer. Much warmer.
58 When you get sad, you get colder. Much colder.
59 You can see magnetic fields.
60 You always know where the nearest bee is.
61 You have true, honest to god empathy, and can accurately imagine how others feel.
62 You can make objects translucent by touching them. The larger the object, the longer it takes.
63 Fruits you throw explode with a loud but harmless explosion. You hate lemonade and destiny.
64 You can prestidigitate objects away. Except they really vanish. Even you don’t know where they go. They don’t come back.
65 You can revert to being a newborn once.
66 You can sleep in any position, even the most absurd.
67 If you make somebody cry you can track them perfectly for a day.
68 You can walk on oil-based liquids.
69 You can mix oil and water.
70 If you can guess what’s ambushing you before the dm tells you, you’re not surprised.
71 Your hallucinations are contagious.
72 If you eat a fish in one bite, raw, you get an detailed knowledge of what lives in the waters it came from.
73 You dreams leak every 5th night.
74 The crimes you commit in dreams are treated as real crimes. Run. (crimes against you in dreams are also treated as real)
75 You can slowly sink into earth or stone, but cannot breathe if submerged.
76 You have 3 arm segments and 2 elbows.
77 Everyone who sees you knows your name.
78 Your blood is ink. Ink transfusions can stop you from bleeding out.
79 You have a magic coin with your face on it. At will you can teleport it back to yourself, no matter how far away it may be.
80 You bleed small insects like spiders and millipedes.
81 You can cough perfume.
82 You can decide the state of schrodinger situations.
83 You have x-ray vision: anyone you stare at long enough will contract cancer in a decade. You haven’t told your friends and family.
84 You have x-ray vision: the ability to see x-rays.
85 White noise is created continuously at a point 20 feet above your head.
86 Precipitation never touches you.
87 You may chop off a finger to become invisible for twenty minutes.
88 Your fingers are invisible.
89 Your blood is invisible.
90 Anything coin sized or smaller that you hold turns invisible.
91 Your palms and soles are made of iron.
92 Your skin can be passed through easily; you can store small things in yourself.
93 Confetti shoots out of any container you open for the first time.
94 Your fingers are made of gold, but are still usable as fingers. Valuable, but never grow back.
95 Your arm has a mind of its own. It can help make decisions, but it fundamentally disagrees with you on some key issues.
96 You can always get lost, even when it should be impossible.
97 Your kiss is a painkiller.
98 You can speak any language that is no longer in use.
99 Weapons will whisper about the last thing they killed, if you listen carefully.
100 You can see through metal.

Made on Chris McDowall’s OSR Discord
Credits Wr3cking8a11, Type1ninja, Zoeology31, Imcoveredinbees, Tacosundae, Honest Hearts, Galacticnomad, compiled by Saker Tarsos, coding advice from Spwack
Automated with Spwack's Generator Generator
EDIT: Now upgraded to triple capacity by Spwack!!

DERELICT DESERTED DREADNOUGHTS

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(Third in the series after OUTLAWS and WIZARDS.)

They are living relics lost in time. You might see the silhouette of one in the distance, marching across the vast unknown for a cryptic purpose, or built into the side of a mountain. They carve tracts through the present according to the whims of the past. If you find one, will you be able to turn it to your side, through guile, mechanical expertise, or hacking skills? Or will it merely tread you into the dust like the footnote to history that you know you are?
Their programming is artful but never perfect. Over time, eRrOrS iN tHeiR CoDe MaY oCcuR.


You find this creation

It is programmed to

It is

It is armed with

It is upgraded with

Long ago, it

YOU FIND THIS CREATION

1 dormant, half buried, but will activate when it senses motion.
2 fighting another DREADNOUGHT.
3 downloading files from an excavated tech core.
4 trying to free itself from difficult terrain.
5 trying to repair another DREADNOUGHT that it doesn't realize is too far gone.
6 in a one-sided conversation with a dead DREADNOUGHT.
7 patiently waiting with the deep stillness of aeons.
8 trying to tidy up its surroundings. (ERROR: constantly repeats a single action)
9 falling apart, desperately scavenging parts to keep itself alive. (ERROR: sometimes scavenges living creature parts instead)
10 stuck in the middle of downloading a software update.
11 in the middle of a purposeless trek across countless leagues for a long-defunct reason.
12 hunting down a group of OUTLAWS who defaced it. (ERROR: to complement their artistic skills)
13 blaring obsolete propaganda from a long-lost civilization. Something like, "try our all-new plasma chips and enjoy their patented teeth-melting crunch!!"
14 in the middle of etching an obscure system of mathematical formulae.
15 in the middle of upgrading itself with (roll a new upgrade).
16 in the middle of integrating (roll a new weapons system).
17 butchering a corpse, meticulously separating and organizing each bit.
18 digging obsessively.
19 ticcing constantly, stuck in an infinite loop that any outside stimulus will break.
20 moving sluggishly, stuck in low-power-mode and needing a new source of energy.

IT IS PROGRAMMED TO

1 cleanse the nearby area of lifeforms. (ERROR: cleans all lifeforms in the area)
2 prevent all harm to human beings. (ERROR: reads any physical contact as harm)
3 seek and destroy other automatons.
4 follow any orders directly given to it. (ERROR: makes it do the opposite of all orders given to it)
5 terraform the nearby area into a barren clearing.
6 eliminate a deadly pathogen. (ERROR: believes all humans are infected)
7 provide translation services to any sentient beings it sees. (ERROR: lies randomly and convincingly)
8 analyze its surroundings to compile a detailed biological report. (ERROR: must analyze everything, including, say, human entrails)
9 harvest the brains of exceptionally intelligent beings. (ERROR: seeks out stupid brains instead)
10 fight in a war long-since lost.
11 construct a temple for a long-lost civilization.
12 decrypt, and thus slay, a Living Cipher.
13 guard the tech-sarcophagus of its creator.
14 gather every tech-core it can find. (ERROR: and destroy them)
15 slay a legendary BEAST that plagued its civilization.
16 bring its creator back from the dead.
17 run an infinite series of strange-loop processes until it becomes sentient. (ERROR: it succeeds)
18 scour a memetic concept-beast from the cultural consciousness.
19 provide medical services to anyone it sees. (ERROR: by turning them inside-out)
20 return to its owner, whom it has forgotten... (will accept anyone who knows the username and password)

IT IS

1 a floating collection of brains stored in a jar.
2 a giant metal spider with eerie tiny baby hands.
3 a thin, spindly silver humanoid.
4 a bulky metal humanoid on tank treads.
5 a large four-rotor drone with insect legs as landing gear.
6 an uncannily almost-perfect representation of an average human.
7 a rolling sphere that unfolds into an upright insectile shape.
8 a tall stilt-walker on spindly legs.
9 a sleek chrome humanoid with bright red eyes.
10 a titanium sarcophagus on tiny spider legs.
11 a swarm of thousands of nanites that morphs between obscure shapes.
12 a hovering metal polygon of (1-20 sides)
13 a steel worm that burrows from below.
14 a sea-urchinlike arrangement of limbs.
15 a sleek, deadly, ferret shaped killbot.
16 a rusty scorpion-shapted scrapbot.
17 a humble blender with big dreams and never stopped upgrading itself...
18 a dog-shaped mulebot that moves in unnatural, uncanny ways.
19 a floating chrome saucer with thin grabby arms.
20 an sentient exosuit with the decayed corpse of its previous owner still inside.

IT IS ARMED WITH

1 dual cryogenic sprayers.
2 dual flame roasters.
3 dual shoulder-mounted gatling guns.
4 teargas grenade launchers.
5 buzzsaw arms that throw their buzzsaws like boomerangs.
6 an industrial grade cutting laser.
7 a mortar-launcher.
8 rapid-fire syringe shooters.
9 welding devices, whose attacks weld two targets together.
10 a sonic blaster that makes targets explode from the inside.
11 a massive industrial-grade drill.
12 a massive excavation arm.
13 dual lightning emitters.
14 mini-howitzer with ammo that makes anti-gravity zones.
15 targeted nanobot swarms.
16 a hacking device that can hack living brains.
17 high-powered gamma-ray emitters.
18 a suicide drone launcher.
19 riot foam. SO MUCH riot foam.
20 chest cavity that opens up to reveal this food processor lookin' thing.

AND IT IS UPGRADED WITH

1 x-ray optics.
2 a conveniently exposed shield generator.
3 mirror-armor that reflects light and energy based attacks.
4 auto-repair capabilities.
5 biofuel energy convertors.
6 a backup generator.
7 deployable mini-drones.
8 jet-propulsion systems.
9 two extra magnetic floating arms.
10 a holographic projector that creates copies of itself/things it sees.
11 racing stripes.
12 a SICK LADAR.
13 advanced echolocation radar systems.
14 kinetic shielding that grows stronger the more damage it takes.
15 hallucinogen sprayers.
16 massive speakers that can burst eardrums or carry sounds across miles.
17 weather station equipment including barometer and wind indicators that can provide forecasts.
18 a kitchen module including toaster, oven, stove, grill, and barbecue enhancements.
19 active camouflage.
20 cupholders.

LONG AGO, IT

1 failed in its primary purpose and had a crisis of self-worth.
2 was hacked and reprogrammed by a DISREPUTABLE WASTELAND WIZARD.
3 made an epic journey across vast leagues to fulfill a task that was obsolete once it reached its destination.
4 killed its creator due to faulty programming syntax.
5 was mistakenly worshipped as a stoic, shining god.
6 had a glitch and caused a massive industrial accident.
7 turned the tide in a famous historical battle between the two largest factions in the area.
8 went haywire and exterminated its creators, a cabal of hackers.
9 was said to guard the priceless silicon eye of a mad god.
10 witnessed the tragic fall of its civilization and remembered every detail.
11 became possessed by a destructive, corrupted Spirit.
12 was deployed as a crime-fighting unit in the city of Salvage.
13 developted the solution to create infinite energy, thousands of years after its creators were dead.
14 had a dream while in sleep-mode. (there is great stigma among automata about dreaming, and so will never admit it)
15 locked a malicious sentient computer virus within itself, and is caught in an eternal struggle to keep it contained.
16 was used as a war machine by a group of OUTLAWS to dominate the region.
17 mined trillions of units of defunct cryptocurrency.
18 attempted to uplink to the Firmament and nearly exploded from information overload.
19 developed a penchant for capturing victims and uploading their psyches to add to its gestalt consciousness.
20 built and maintained an irrigation system for a society long lost to time.

CONTRIBUTORS: Angus Warman(Spwack), Dandyman (Dan D), Type1Ninja, Twocalf, Brian Harbron, pronounjim,  GalacticNomad, and Max Cantor

DISREPUTABLE WASTELAND WIZARDS

Here and there they wander across the Blasted Lands: enchanters covered in the blood of butchered concepts, hunted by memories given teeth. Hiding in the space between breaths. They search for things that cannot be found. They are all doomed and they know it.
 
 

YOU FIND THIS INDIVIDUAL
1 In the stomach of a freshly slain monster.
2 Floating across a desert.
3 In a lotus position on the peak of a mountain.
4 Haggling with a shrub as though it were a merchant.
5 Trapped in a hollow statue of themselves.
6 Dying at the bottom of a ravine.
7 Seeking something impossible.
8 Dueling another DISREPUTABLE WASTELAND WIZARD (generate another).
9 Rocking back and forth in fetal position in a dank cave.
10 Performing autopsy on a dead eldritch horror.
11 Arguing with themselves and losing.
12 Carving something intricate and undecipherable into stone.
13 Taming a multifarious mutant beast.
14 Actively mapping an landscape that looks nothing like this one.
15 Reading a scroll upside down and nodding intently.
16 Bound, hanging upside down from a pole.
17 Fast asleep in a horribly uncomfortable position.
18 Digging a hole in an innocuous location.
19 Performing surgery on themselves.
20 Bashing their head against a wall.

THEY ARE
1 Irritated
2 Thankful
3 Interested
4 Contemptuous
5 Obsessed
6 Annoying
7 Hyperactive
8 Distracted
9 Standoffish
10 Snooty
11 Disillusioned
12 Optimistic
13 Over excited
14 Terrified
15 Traumatized
16 Delighted
17 Suspicious
18 Unpredictable
19 Offended
20 Enraptured

AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO
1 Wield profanity with deadly force.
2 Tame viruses.
3 Selectively shrink or enlarge small parts of things.
4 Knows one Command Word for the Firmament, and has mastered its use.
5 Is on speaking terms with a Spirit.
6 Indefinitely preserve organs and limbs, and thus sell them for profit.
7 Split things into their base components.
8 Shape their own physiology at will.
9 Steal thoughts.
10 Create and enforce Subspaces.
11 Flawlessly manipulate the emotion of disgust.
12 Rot things at will.
13 Be instantly forgettable.
14 Disbelieve and therefore negate supernatural effects that target them.
15 Bisect things into perfect halves.
16 Make living things grow at several times their normal speed.
17 Manipulate emotions through ultra-low frequency sounds.
18 Gaslight people extremely well.
19 Manipulate social connotations at will
20 Mutate at will.

ONCE, LONG AGO, THEY
1 Survived a mind-battle against a Tar Spirit, now is sentient tar filling a pneumatic suit.
2 Surgically removed their own skeleton in fit of unstable genius.
3 Sacrificed the ability to speak proper nouns in order to pass though the Silence.
4 Sees the dead versions of living things, from alternate realities where they died.
5 Can speak only in vapid pop-culture memes from a distant reality.
6 Lost an arm and a leg to a pack of Limb Dogs.
7 Replaced their head with a constantly shifting puzzle-cube.
8 Tried to abort self, failed, and was cursed to be pursued by floating echo-babies.
9 Tried to duplicate self, now pursued by evil twin.
10 Saw the end of all things and became utterly traumatized.
11 Murdered an alternate reality version of themselves and seamlessly took their place.
12 Had their face rotted off in a sacred ritual deep belowground.
13 Were cripplingly but not lethally irradiated.
14 Created, and quickly destabilized, a hive mind. Talks in the third person.
15 Were enslaved by creatures from the Deep Dreamlands who use them as a recording device.
16 Became a were-(d6 1: snail, 2: finch, 3: wasp, 4: centipede, 5: jellyfish, 6: worm) after a genetics experiment went awry.
17 Uncovered the True Meaning of a word so deeply that they can only speak that word.
18 Became the enigmatic leader of a rowdy gang of wasteland bikers.
19 Became the mortal enemy of another DISREPUTABLE WASTELAND WIZARD (generate another).
20 Became a conduit for hostile contagious memetic concept-beasts after making a dealing with an Encryptomorph.

THEY CURRENTLY HAVE
1 A silver skull mask with scope-eyes.
2 Floating geometric metal bits that speak for them.
3 Boombox-pauldrons constantly blasting neurofunk.
4 A prehensile metal claw fused to spine.
5 A living tattoo that makes scintillating conversation.
6 Symbiotic fungal-armor.
7 A four-dimensional hypersword.
8 A shoulder-mounted mini-howitzer.
9 Bisected armor that opens to bring forth Summoned entities.
10 A rorshach test helmet that unnerves any who look at it.
11 A theremin that makes all who hear it (d3) 1: vomit, 2: weep, or 3: shit their pants.
12 A rechargeable gatling drone.
13 Anti-grav boots.
14 Lightsplitting gloves.
15 Infra and X-ray vision goggles.
16 A heavily encrypted data disk.
17 Knowledge of the name of a long-lost god.
18 Knowledge of the location of a Vault.
19 Endlessly folding Escher-staff.
20 Portable probability splitter.

(Many thanks to Angus Warman for teaching me the mysterious ways of javascript!)
This is now part of a series of generators!

SAKER'S SUMMON HACK

(UPDATE: Angus Warman has automated this table in Javascript!!)
   

Summon forth randomly generated grotesque monstrosities from other planes! Watch as they wreak havoc upon the mortal sphere- wait, what's that one doing to your character? Ooh that wasn't pretty. Hope you didn't eat spaghetti recently!

 

(-This is a hack of the Summon spell from the Lamentations of the Flame Princess Core Book, including some random table bits from the Random Esoteric Creature Generator, with some new bits added.

-A very important thing for me when doing this project is giving proper attribution to the sources of the ideas that I have borrowed. At the end of this post you can find an overview of changes made, my reasoning for said changes, and my attempts to give credit where it is due.)

PROCESS

1. Determine amount of Hit Dice.

2. The Summoner tests their INT stat to limit the abstractness of the Entity. If the caster fails, there is a chance for an Abstract Form, or a WORLD-SHATTERING DISASTER.

3. Determine form. Roll 1d20 for the (type), and if the Summoner succeeded on their stat test, roll 1d12 for the (material). If the caster failed, roll 1d20 for the (material).

4. Determine Appendages: roll d6: (1-2: None 3-5: One 6: One and roll again.) To generate an appendage, roll 2d20. The leftmost one determines the (adjective), the rightmost one determines the (noun).

5. Determine Powers: roll d6: (1-3: no powers. 4-5: one power. 6: one power and roll again.) For each power, roll 2d6. The leftmost die determines which section of the table, the rightmost die determines which result from that section.

6. The Summoner faces the Entity in a domination battle (d20 + Caster Level vs d20 + Entity HD) to determine whether they control it, how long it lasts in this world, and what other horrific consequences may occur.

Default stats: AC 12, 1 attack for 1d6 damage, move 120’ (ground).

FORMULAIC SUMMONING

-If you sacrifice creatures during the Summoning, or create a magic circle for the Summoning, you gain 1 formula point for each HD of the sacrificed creatures, or for each 500sp spent on making the circle.

-You can spend 1 formula point to change your INT tests or domination rolls by 1. You can spend 3 formula points to reroll any result on any of the Entity generation tables. You can spend 5 formula points to try to summon a specific Entity if you know their planar Signature.

PLANAR SIGNATURE

Sometimes you can learn the Planar Signature of a specific summonable Entity, in which case you record the characteristics of the Entity on your character sheet, and you can choose to summon that specific Entity by using 5 formula points. If you succeed on your initial INT roll to limit the abstractness of the Entity, then that specific Entity will emerge.

FORMS

(Roll two dice simultaneously for Form and Material. If you succeeded your INT test, Roll 1d20 for the Form, and 1d12 for the Material. If you failed your INT test, roll 2d20: the leftmost one is the Form and the rightmost one is the Material.)

IT IS A… (Form)

1. Mirror of Caster: has the powers and abilities of the Caster.

2. Canine: if it charges, +2 to hit and CON save vs knockdown.

3. Crab: 2 attacks base, +2 AC.

4. Eyeball: Always sees attacks coming, advantage on saves, no back arc and no sneak attacks.

5. Frog: Leaps, as its attack, can land on someone for DEX save vs knockdown and 2d6.

6. Insectoid: Can climb on vertical surfaces.

7. Polyhedral: Roll d20 to see how many sides it has, if any die rolls that number, gains a power.

8. Snake: Immune to knockdown, has infravision.

9. Squid: Roll for exactly 1 appendage, then copy it 6 times.

10. Humanoid: no powers or abilities to speak of.

11. Whirlwind: Can pick up an opponent on an attack if they fail a STR save.

12. Pillar: Tall, can reach high places.

13. Maw: Can swallow whole on natural 20.

14. Machine: Produces a miniscule copy of itself each round.

15. Brain: Attacks psionically, targets WIS instead of AC.

16. Puddle: Takes half damage, can squeeze through cracks.

17. Cloud: Immune to normal damage.

18. Mushroom: emits spores on death that grow tiny parasitic versions of itself.

19. Amorphous Mass: Can shape itself into basic forms at will.

20. Beautiful Member of Gender According to Caster’s Sexual Preference:

MADE OF… (Material)

1. Cytoplasm: If it rolls a 20 on an attack, instead it makes an exact copy of itself.

2. Blood: Takes half damage, heals for the damage it deals to living creatures.

3. Brains: Has a guaranteed extra power.

4. Crystal: +4 AC, vulnerable to shattering.

5. Excrement: Disgusting, all within melee range hit at -2, disadvantage for grapplers.

6. Leeches: every point of damage it deals is instead a leech attached to target, deals 1hp/turn.

7. Fungus: Spore cloud, Wis save versus hallucinations.

8. Entrails: Can absorb dead bodies it moves over to heal 1d6 per body.

9. Slime: Regenerates 1d6/round.

10. Seaweed: Immune to fire.

11. Smoke: Immune to regular damage. Attacks by suffocating.

12. Swarm of Smaller Versions of Itself.

13. Absence:                                                                                                                                    .

14. Dream-Matter: Immune to physical. Attacks put target to sleep (WIS save), all sleeping creatures within 50 ft are puppets to its will. Cannot die until all within 100ft are awake.

15. Irradiated Matter: Each round within 50 ft, CON save vs Radiation Poisoning. Weapons that strike it have a 1 in 6 chance of being irradiated.

16. Hate: Attacks fill the target with senseless murder-rage for 1 round/damage taken (WIS save). Can only be damaged by those with true peace in their heart.

17. Lightning: Damaged only by nonmetal. Auto hits and deals an extra 1d6 to targets in physical contact with metal or water. If in a lightning storm, triple its HD and damage.

18. Shadow: Damaged only by things that are also a light source (fire magic, glowing sword, etc.). If in darkness, double its HD and damage. Can hide very convincingly in other shadows.

19. Pure Light: Damaged only if it is in an area of darkness or in a shadow. Blinds all those who try to look at it. Attacks against it are at disadvantage.

20. WORLD-SHATTERING DISASTER (see LotFP player core book pg 140 or make your own)

APPENDAGES

(Roll 2d20 for each appendage. The leftmost die is the Adjective, the rightmost die is the Noun. Each appendage gives an extra attack.)

WITH… (Adjective)

1. Adhesive: Sticks to its target.

2. Beautiful: Unnerving to look at, +1 AC.

3. Blurred: Don’t know what it is till it’s hit you.

4. Crawling: Confuses on hit.

5. Chiming: Deafens on hit.

6. Dead: Spoils all perishable goods on target.

7. Floating: On hit, CON save or start floating away.

8. Glowing: Irradiates on hit.

9. Gushing: On hit, target’s skin becomes translucent/slimy and can only breathe water.

10. Humming: Calms on hit.

11. Stony: Knocks down on hit.

12. Immaterial: Don’t know what it is till it’s hit you, but has disadvantage to hit.

13. Malformed: Has disadvantage to hit.

14. Necrotic: Rots flesh on contact, damage doesn’t heal naturally.

15. Prehensile: Can be used to grab and hold things.

16. Pungent: Enemies in melee get -1 to hit.

17. Reflective: Blinds enemies on hit.

18. Smoking: Scalds on hit for +1d6 damage.

19. Throbbing: Enrages on hit.

20. Transparent: Don’t know what it is till it hits you.

…(Nouns)

1. Antenna: ultra-senses, attack does no damage.

2. Branches: +1 AC due to tough bark.

3. Eggs/Seeds: damage taken has a 1/6 chance of dropping an egg or seed that will hatch into a tiny version of the Entity in a few rounds.

4. Eyes: attack is psychic and targets WIS stat instead of AC.

5. Face: disturbing, -2 to all rolls from one opponent. No attacks though.

6. Genitals: let your imagination go nuts.

7. Horn: if it charges, +1d6 damage.

8. Legs: +30 move.

9. Lumps: At half HP, a new appendage bursts forth.

10. Quills: Shoots 1d3 quills at -3 to hit, 1d6 damage each.

11. Oil: 1-2 Flammable 3-4 Acidic 5-6 Regenerative

12. Ovipositor: On hit, CON save vs Implanting a tiny egg version of itself.

13. Proboscis: On crit, latches on.

14. Sores: Doesn’t contribute an attack, damage taken has a 2/6 chance of popping them, AoE 1d6 acid.

15. Spinal Chord: +1 AC due to exoskeleton.

16. Stinger: Fort 4 save, 1-2 Sleep Poison 3-4 Paralyze Poison 5-6 Hallucinogen

17. Suction Pods: Can suck to target.

18. Tentacles: Can try to grapple.

19. Teeth: On crit, latches on.

20. Wings: Can fly.

POWERS

(Roll 2d6 for each Power. The leftmost die determines which section of the table, the rightmost die determines the entry in that section. Each section can act as its own mini 1d6 table.)

THAT HAS THE POWER OF… (power)

1 PHYSICAL

            1 Acid for blood, 1d4 acid damage to those who damage it.

            2 Regenerating, 1d6hp/round, can regen lost limbs as a troll.

            3 Fast Reflexes, +1 to initiative.

            4 Catching projectiles, 1/round.

            5 Extremely tough skin, 1d3 damage resistance.

            6 Gigantic: +1d6 HD, +1 size category and an extra Appendage.

2 TRANSMUTATION

            1 Heating metal that it touches as per the spell.

            2 Turning rock to mud on touch and vice-versa.

            3 Turning metal to wood on touch and vice-versa.

            4 Stone-Shaping.

            5 Turning air to water in a 15’ cube, cube holds its shape.

            6 Mutating characters it touches.

3 MAGIC

            1 Devouring Magic, heals 1d6/spell level.

            2 Reflecting magic back on caster if it successfully saves.

            3 Projecting a 15’ radius Antimagic aura.

            4 Learning any spell cast in vicinity, has 1d3 HD level spell slots.

            5 Casting Command 1/round in an uncanny, civilized, genteel voice.

            6 Telekinesis.

4 ANIMATION/SUMMONING

            1 Animating 1 inanimate object/round.

            2 Causing its dead victims to rise as Dread Wraiths.

            3 Animating 1 dead corpse/round.

            4 Casting Summon once, with equal HD.

            5 Animating a nearby element into a 1d6HD elemental as an action.

            6 Reproducing by budding once/round. The buds remain until exterminated.

5 ENTROPIC

            1 Damage aura, all within 30’ take 1 damage/round.

            2 15’ aura of magical darkness.

            3 Rusting metal, rotting wood, deals 1d6 extra necrotic damage on touch.

            4 Those starting turn within 15’ must save or start screaming incoherently.

            5 Players cannot say (1d3) 1: adjectives 2: nouns 3: verbs.

            6 Artifice within 20’ begin to dissolve into their material components.

6 METAFUCKERY

            1 Illusory power. Roll twice: one is its actual power, one is the fake power.

            2 2-Dimensional.

            3 Producing 1d3 Mirror Images/round.

            4 Unstable proportions; size category is proportional to initiative rolled.

            5 Mimicing voices and sounds.

            6 Roll for 2 powers instead of one.

DOMINATION

-The Summoner makes an opposed d20 roll against the Entity to determine the Entity’s disposition and how many rounds or minutes it lasts in this world.

-The Summoner makes a d20 roll and adds their Level. Then the Entity makes a d20 roll and adds their HD.

-The difference between the two rolls and determines what happens…

Summoner wins by 20+: The Entity is bound to your service within this plane forever.

Summoner wins by 10-20: The Entity is bound to your service for 1d10 + HD days, after which it returns to the infinite-foetal-wellspring-of-cosmic-horror. You also learn its planar Signature.

Summoner wins by 6-10: The Entity is bound to your service for 1d10 + HD minutes, after which it returns to its nightmarescape-at-the-edges-of-universal-consciousness.You also learn its planar Signature.

Summoner wins by 1-5: The Entity is bound to your service for 1d10 + HD rounds, after which it returns to its horrific, churning homeworld.

Tied, 0: Roll again.

Entity wins by 1-5: The Entity is not under control, and will chaotically frolic within this realm for 1d10 + HD rounds. Roll for a Minor Consequence.

Entity wins by 6-10: The Entity is not under control and is extremely vexed. It lashes out in a blind rage at being ripped from its reality for 1d10 + HD rounds. Roll for a Major Consequence.

Entity wins by 10-20: Reality bends and minds buckle under an unseen malevolence. The Entity warps existence around itself for 1d10 + HD round. Roll for a Disaster.

Entity wins by 20+: The door between realities has been not opened but rent asunder, immediately roll for a WORLD-SHATTERING DISASTER (see LotFP player core book pg 140 or make your own).

MINOR CONSEQUENCES Entity is capricious, chaotic, and cryptic AND…

1.  The Entity imprints on the first being it sees (the Summoner) and will try to protect it from all harm. It does not understand the other PCs’ existence and thus views them as threats, and will murder them freely to keep the Summoner safe from harm.

2.  The Entity develops an attachment to the Summoner, viewing them as a favored pet. The other PCs are an annoyance and it will try to disperse them using whatever means it has. It will try to take the Summoner home with it, by force if necessary.

3.  The Entity develops a fascination with one or multiple of the Summoner(or the party as a whole)’s most impressive possessions. It will immediately try to steal and wear/use them if possible, and take them back home with it to its homeworld.

4.  Entity is voraciously hungry and will begin to consume all organic matter it sees. It will prioritize meat over plant matter and will go after the nearest food source (the Summoner)

5.  The Entity is a fanatical Entropy Partisan and despises artifice in any form. It will try to destroy any artificial item or construction it sees, especially PCs’ items and clothes.

6.  Entity attempts to communicate in an uncanny genteel voice but it speaks in incomprehensible word salad, and can be easily offended into a murderous rampage if a PC says the wrong thing.

MAJOR CONSEQUENCES Entity is hostile, murderous, and insatiable AND…

1.  Summoner divides into two identical clones. They behave exactly the same, but one of them is filled by the Entity and it will burst forth to attack at the best opportunity. If the real Summoner dies, the Entity may cunningly usurp their place for the long term. (The Entity’s duration within this world does not start counting down until it reveals itself.)

2.  Entity and Summoner switch bodies, but nobody notices immediately, and the Entity has access to Summoner’s memories enough to perform a decent likeness of their personality.

3.  As the Entity gets pulled into this world, the caster gets pulled into the Entity’s world, and will remain there until the Entity returns.

4.  The Entity gains 1d6 HD, gains a new power, and proceeds to rampage against all living things (starting with the Summoner) until killed or its time expires.

5.  The Entity doubles its HD, gains d3 new powers, and proceeds to rampage against a randomly chosen living creature each round until killed or its time expires.

6.  1d10 additional Entities follow through after this one, generate each separately. They are all panicked and will lash out at random beings in the vicinity (including each other) until their time expires or all other creatures are dead.

DISASTERS Entity is malevolent, cunning, and deviously hostile AND…

1. “Get ‘em, boys!” 1d6+2 additional Entities follow through, generate each separately. They are a coordinated extraplanar death squad bent on the eradication of all non-summonable life, and will last in your world until killed.

2.  All humans and humanoids within 120’ swap bodies for the next 1d10 + Entity’s HD minutes. After the duration, they make a CON test to return to their original bodies.

3.  At end of the Entity’s turn each round, it casts Summon, using its HD as a modifier for rolls.

4.  The Entity brings some of its home plane with it. For each round that it is in this world, the surroundings change to become those of its homeworld, and they stay that way permanently.

5.  All creatures (including ambients, which will gather in swarms) within 120’ must make a WILL save or be puppet slaves to the Entity’s will until it leaves.

6.   All humanoids within 120’ have an identical clone appear next to them, that will try to fight them to the death. The loser disappears completely, winner is unquestionably the new person. The clone is a perfect physical copy that has exactly the opposite political and social views as the original character.

 

Changes and Credits

If I do not mention that a section was my own original content, the content of my playgroup, or was borrowed from the Random Esoteric Creature Generator, then it is part of the underlying structure of the spell from the Lamentations Core Book. 

-The step-by-step process remains largely the same, but I’ve tweaked the generation processes to encourage multiple dice being thrown simultaneously, which speeds things up.

-Instead of the original Form Table, we now have two tables, one for the Form the entity takes, and one for the Material the entity is made up of. The goal here was to try to develop a wider and more entertaining variety of outcomes for the entities. You will recognize many of the entries here from the Core Book, others are of my own devising.

-One of the issues my playgroup had with Summon is that entities very rarely showed up with appendages or powers. I’ve reworked the system that determines this. It’s less explosive, but adds interesting bits much more consistently.

-Each (adjective) and (noun) of an appendage now bring a small combat effect that you can feel free to ignore/make up, but this was so that busy DMs have an easy way to figure out what weird thing is going to happen to a player if they get poked. Quite a few of these table entries came from RECG and the Core Book, and filled in with my own bits.

-Powers are now a 2d6 36 entry table, made of 6 mini-tables that have been categorized so that DMs could use them to generate more specific powers. A lot of these powers have been borrowed from RECG, some were by me, and some of the most interesting ones were crowdsourced from my playgroup.

-The biggest change here is the consequences of a failed summon. The opposed domination roll is largely the same as the one in the Core Book, but I’ve expanded on the repercussions of failure. I’ve added Minor Consequences which result in the entity behaving in ways that aren’t overtly hostile, but will still cause significant problems to the players. You will recognize many of the Major Consequences and Disasters from the Core Book. What were known as Abstract Forms in the Core Book have been renamed to WORLD-SHATTERING DISASTERS, but those Core Book entries are goddamn masterpieces that I couldn’t find any ways to change.

-Formulaic Summoning was a way to reorganize the Thaumaturgic Circles and Sacrifices section in the Core Book. Planar Signatures are a way to give players the option to summon a specific entity again. These two are, in my opinion, the shaky areas of the project and most subject to change.
-Changes contributed by Angus Warman at http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/.