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Showing posts with label Random Generators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random Generators. Show all posts

Monday, September 19

CyberPunk 2020 Fast, Dirty, Expendables & Lifepath Generators

 I stumbled onto this on-line generator just now, and wow, does this have utility for any of my sci-fi, science fantasy games! Looks like it is from the publishers of the original Cyberpunk 2020 game as well. My recent explorations with running these "vintage" science fiction games has made me quite comfortable with a range of these old-sometimes-clunky-but-fantastically-fun games. Space Opera, Traveller, Cyberpunk 2020, Star Wars, Ring World, Hawkmoon, Universe, Gamma World, Star Frontiers... for what it is worth I can run any of these in short order. Yeah, to bad none of this expertise has practical applications in the job market, but I do take a certain satisfaction in being able to love and utilize these arcane weapons in sophisticated ways.

Generators like these make using these games even easier! Access to many different random generators help keep interesting content flowing at the table by these in-genre deflections of thought to hit the right note, idea, or genre trope on the fly mid-session. 



Saturday, November 6

Super Hero Super Villain Name Generator

Very generic name generator Now with one of 14 intriguing origins story included in every name pack! for superhero/supervillain inspiration. I came up with 386 450 "words" which would be part of a decent supers name and created a table to randomly choose a word twice from the table. Not perfect, but it will spark your brain with ideas you otherwise wouldn't have spontaneously fallen upon.



So take the result, shave it into shape and then build your new Supers character!

Super Hero / Super Villain Random Name Generator


Sunday, June 20

Lizardman Diaries Megaslum NPC Generator Automated

Michael Raston over at his Lizardman Diaries blog regularly writes up split tables for all sorts of interesting gaming content. What I like about the lists he posts is they usually are four separate categories or more. This makes them ripe to plopped into Last Gasp's random generator creator. I just copy the content, put it in the html engine and wa-la, I have a new button in my bookmark bar for instant content available for my online game session in real time.  

His current random generator is for Cyberpunk Megaslum NPCs. Always handy for any sc-fi, cyberpunk game I'm running. Feel free to bookmark this page to keep Michael's table handy!


Megaslum NPC Generator




Tuesday, April 27

Cut through the Crack House Supers Tool

 Superheroes are going to end up in a crack house. They are just going to. For any number of reasons. The Superheroes in the current "house" game of the Vanishing Tower Press, Even Heroes Bleed, they eventually end up in a crack house. 

Question is, how not to make it boring? I am starting simple with a short list of denizens to be found in said crack house. I also map out a crack house, but you can procedurally generate your rooms as the session plays out. My list of important deniziens in the crack house looks like this;

OG,     Original Gangster, violence.

WH    Whore, helpful and smart.

A       Addict, random reaction.

S        Soldier, violence

M       Meat, the McGuffin.

Room descriptions are a must for a crack house, there are so many rich details accessible to everyone's imagination a GM who lays it on thick is going to start off the encounter as tense as you are going to get it. Here is the split-tabIe I put together; 

1. Wet Drywall        Only Support                       Wracking Cough

2. Urine                   Unstable stairs up/down    Creaking and snapping wood

3. Gasoline             Open Window                     Hysterical Laughter

4. Rotten Carpet     Stuck Door                           Low Whispering

5. Cat Litter             Table set with a meal          Cry for help

6. Burnt Electrical    Mean Dog                            A challenge  

Okay, I worked and expanded these lists a little bit and made your single result button to click below. Click on the link and get a quick description of squalor!


 

You Find in the Crack House