Savage Worlds Low Life: Random Bodul Tables

Roll for the central piece of the Bodul:

1-5 Torso
6 Head
7 Leg or Foot
8 Hand or Arm or Tentacle
9 Eye
10 "Ball"

Roll how many body parts are connected: 2d4 minus 1 (one to seven)

Roll for each of the parts

1 Torso
2 Head
3 Leg or Foot
4 Hand or Arm or Tentacle
5 Eye
6 Primary or Secondary Sexual Organ

Each of these body parts is connected to 1d4 minus 3 additional body parts (zero to 1)
Exception: if you roll a Torso 1W4 minus minus 2 additonal body parts (zero to 2) are connected

Bonds for Contemporary Games

Roll at character creation on this table and fill in the name of another player's character of your choice. If you are really unhappy with the result, you can reroll. (These bonds are lifted from Dungeon World.)

01 _______________ is strange and confusing.
02 _______________ is always getting into trouble—I must protect them from themselves.
03 This is not my first adventure with _______________.
04 I heard stories about _______________ long before I ever met them in person.
05 I am working on a documentary about the adventures of _______________.
06 _______________ trusted me with a secret.
07 _______________ does not trust me, and for good reason.
08 _______________ is a good and faithful person; I trust them implicitly.
09 _______________ is in constant danger, I will keep them safe.
10 ____________________ smells more like prey than a hunter.
11 A vision showed me a great danger that follows ______________.
12 _______________ owes me their life, whether they admit it or not.
13 I have sworn to protect _______________.
14 _______________ is soft, but I will make them hard like me.
15 _______________ has stood by me in battle and can be trusted completely!
16 _______________ is a brave soul, I have much to learn from them.
17 I stole something from _______________.
18 _______________ has my back when things go wrong.
19 _______________ knows incriminating details about me.
20 _______________ will play an important role in the events to come. I have foreseen it!
21 _______________ is keeping an important secret from me.
22 _______________ saved me from certain doom, and I must repay them.
23 _______________ was a faithful friend when I had nothing.
24 _______________ has been a friend to me when others were prejudiced.

Random Relationship Table

Inspired by the Powered by the Apocalypse games, you can use this table to randomly decide what relationship 2 player characters had before the game started.

1 Siblings
2 Lovers (Ex-Lovers)
3 Coeds / Same Teacher
4 Teacher and Student
5 Jealousy / One sided love
6 Best friends
7 Predecessor
8 Common Nightmares / Visions
9 Common Possession / Heirs
10 Cousins
11 Fate (Randomly bump in each other regularly)
12 Partners / Coworkers

Random Crime Table

I want to run a mini campaign that is similar to GTA. The characters start in prison or an asylum.

Everyone of them has to roll on the "convicted for a crime" table. It's the player's choice if the character actually committed the crime, or if the conviction was for a crime the character was wrongly accused for.


01 Drug Possession
02 Prostitution
03 Theft
04 Tax Evasion
05 Vandalism
06 Arson
07 Bribery
08 Burglary
09 Car Theft
10 Self Justice / Lynching

11 Membership in an Illegal Organisation
12 Assault
13 Aggraveted Assault
14 Drug Dealing
15 Conspiracy
16 (Armed) Robbery
17 Forgery / Fraud
18 Extortion (Blackmailing)
19 Computer Crime
20 Rioting

21 Illegal Immigration
22 Kidnapping
23 Deadly Accident (potentially under the influence)
24 Manslaughter
25 Murder
26 Terrorism
27 Serial Murder
28 Dangerous Mental Condition
29 Publishing of Dangerous / Forbidden / Obscene Material
30 Forbidden to Mention (Kafkaesque)

More Random Tables (for Vornheim)

As I just started running Vornheim with my own Old School Bastard.

While I am really happy with the tables in the book at the moment, I am already looking for more stuff I could use.

This is a first step: Hustle and Bustle of a Big City

Random tables for contemporary gonzo settings

Roll a d4 for boring, a d6 for adventure, a d8 for action, a d12 for supernatural (make them aliens for scifi feel) and a d20 for batshit insane. You can raise the stakes with each encounter. Start with a d4 and move it up for each achievement of the player characters! Or use the random die table in the end for mostly standard, but a few strange results.

encounters (1 in 6 chance of kinship)
0 scientists
1 cops
2 junkies or bums
3 celebrity (actor, singer, politician, scientist, writer, model)
4 demonstration
5 street gang
6 disaster (earthquake, flood, huge hole in ground, fire, virus, swarms)
7 (bank) robbers or terrorists
8 (serial) killer
9 beasts or werewolves
10 experiments or vampires
11 zombies
12 fae
13 evil children
14 smallish UFO or magic tower
15 doppelgangers
16 armed nazis
17 dinosaurs or magicians
18 dimension hole
19 giant creature á la Godzilla, King Kong or plain old giant or dragon
20 huge spaceship or god

(Use this for names: Random authentic US names)


Next City Block (you can draw a square on a map, increase die size each roll, if you want)
1 residental (urban or suburb)
2 shops / restaurants / bars
3 offices
4 park /water
5 square / parking lot
6 slum
7 motorway
8 government
9 museum
10 monument
11 church / temple
12 factory
13 harbour / sea
14 prison
15 military
16 airport
17 mountain
18 abyss
19 lava
20 tentacles

Buildings
1 shed
2 slum housing
3 flat
4 family home
5 sub urban home
6 council housing
7 trailer
8 mansion
9 dorm or elderly home
10 fast food shack or diner
11 shop
12 skyscraper
13 power plant
14 stadion
15 university
16 circus
17 zoo
18 mall
19 graveyard
20 park

If you want a more detailed random table for buildings, just use the foursquare categories as random table.

motivations
1 power
2 love / passion
3 wealth
4 pride
5 outside expectiations
6 credibilty
7 helping others
8 the challenge
9 consequences
10 lust
11 hunger
12 mind control
13 addicton / survival
14 evil
15 complete crazyness
16 nihilsm
17 love & peace & drugs
18 suicide
19 absorbation
20 boredom

rumors (those can be crazier than the truth obviously)
[encounters] are in [building] to [fight/start pact] with [encounters] for [motivations]. Nobody can guess how [encounters] will impact the situation.

support (1 in 6 chance of betrayal)
1 family
2 colleagues
3 new love
4 professionals that want money
5 subculture
6 celebrity (actor, singer, politician)
7 class
8 foreigners
9 secret organization
10 bloodline
11 foreigners
12 animals
13 ghosts
14 robots
15 oracle / enigma
16 sentient nature/ city
17 AI internet system
18 aliens
19 angels
20 gods

weather
1 sunny
2 foggy
3 rainy
4 overcast
5 heatwave
6 snow and ice
7 hurricane
8 dangerous smog
9 radioactive
10 eternal night
11 time freezes
12 grey goo

Random die size
1 d4
2 d6
3 d8
4 d10
5 d12
6 d20

Using random hit location die to create NPCs

I often want to define a non player character within seconds.

While there are many tables for random names and motivations, I also wanted to know their 1 or 2 outstanding traits.

For that I am going to use my six sided hit location dice in the future: on it's different sides you find body parts. I just roll and connect each symbol with a stat and/or skill category.

Head - 1 - Smarts
Body - 2 - Vigor
Left Arm - 3 - Charisma
Right Arm - 4 - Strength
Left Leg - 5 - Speed or Double Outstanding
Right Leg - 6 - Agility

Random tables for RPGs

I am quite interested in running a pure sandbox campaign at the moment - especially after buying Carcosa.

Obviously I will need a lot of random tables. So I will collect them in this post.

I recently found the very useful random-generator.com where people can create their own RPG content.

This website has a few as a starting point:

Random Fantasy Tables called "Tables for Fables"

More Random Random Tables

Names

Random authentic US names

Random name generator

Random Star Wars name generator

Random Letter Sequence generator

Characters

Seventh Sanctum Random Character Tables (they offer a lot more as well)

Completely random Warhammer FRPG 2nd edition character creation, including background

Random Labyrinth Lord / Old School Character

Random Gamma World characters

Random Synnibarr NPCs (no stats, all background!)

Superfast 1 outstanding stat NPCs from my blog (needs dice)

Encounters and Plots

Detailed plot generator recommended!!

Basic Plots in literature (needs dice and some serious thought)

Random City Encounters

Random Daily Mail headlines generator (Daily Mail is a right wing UK tabloid)

WotC's  Random Adventure Hook Generator

Crazy Random Plot generator (can produce multiple layers)

Random Science fiction adventures (needs dice) This is part of a whole series of articles including random tables.

You should also not forget that just opening a random article on wikipedia can provide more inspiration than you will ever need.

Also fun: Random Crossover generator (originally for fanfiction, but also great for adventures)

Maps

On the following site you will find a lot of very sophisticated tools, like random map generators (and much more).

Random cities for contemporary gonzo in my blog (needs dice)

Adventures

Check out this post in my blog: Random adventures


Other Stuff

Faction Connection Diagram (for 4 factions; needs dice) from Vornheim

Meta Tables

Best Random Tables for Gaming has not only tables, but also links to sites with lists of tables


If you want to point to any helpful resources, please, leave a comment!

I will add them to the list.

Gamma World Random Character Generators

I had lots of fun with the new D&D Gamma World last night, just creating random mutant characters. Today I found a Gamma World online character generator.

Give it a try. Those characters rock!

For even more options (20 additional origins from Famine in Far-Go and 8 from Legion of Gold) check out the official Gamma World Random Character generator on the Wizards of the Coast website. They call it an Interactive Character Sheet.

And finally a third one: it does not seem to include Famine in Far-Go, but has the Origin Powers listed. That was missing from the other two character generators: Gamma World Random Characters with Power Cards.

I printed loads of random Interactive Character Sheet characters and keep them in my Gamma World box. If a player needs a new character, he or she just pulls out one of them and decides if he wants to keep it. (I also photocopied all the origins, so that players don't have to look up their powers in the rule books during the game.)

Update, May 2011: I found out about another JavaScript character generator for Gamma World 7th edition, or D&D 4E Gamma World, as you can call it as well.

Random adventure generators

Random created adventures seem to solve many of the problems people have with GMing. They are created superfast and instead of preparing stuff that maybe never come up for hours you can fill in the details really needed during the session.

With the only versions you don't even need to roll on a lot of tables.

I found this nifty adventure generators recently. Give them a try!

Random dark future adventures.

Random fantasy adventures.

Bonus: a random Viking generator.