Items Stolen From Dreams

I have, after nearly a year of work, finished one d100 table, its been a long and arduous process and if I'm being honest I probably should have just dropped it but it feels really good to finally be done with it. 

The table is an expansion of the 6 dream based items I did for my self made Inktober challenge last year.

You can download the pdf of it here for whatever price you want including free (which I recommend).

Simple character generation tables

I came up with this simple system to make characters or npcs very quickly and simply. 

You need 4 different tables backstory, form, psychology, and training. 

Backstory: a notable event from your past

Form: anything physical about your character

Psychology: anything mental about your character

Training: something this person is good at 

Below are two sets of tables, the first for a generic medieval world and the second is vaguely inspired by Elden Ring. 

 

Medieval

Backstory
1 was a squire to a knight
2 survived a plague
3 survived a siege
4 impressed a noble
5 conscripted for a war
6 scandalous love affair
7 ran away from home
8 gained the ire of a powerful noble
9 cursed by a wizard
10 had a prophetic vision

Form
1 armored
2 wears fine clothes
3 dismembered limb
4 cool scar
5 ugly scar
6 bald
7 wears simple clothes
8 wears eccentric and over the top clothes
9 calloused hands
10 beautiful

Psychology
1 True Love
2 chivalry
3 political power
4 drunkard
5 pious
6 cruel
7 loyal
8 seeks forbidden knowledge
9 paranoid
10 ignorant

Training
1 noble
2 jester
3 knight
4 peasant
5 merchant
6 priest
7 magician
8 hunter
9 scholar
10 alchemist

 

Elden Ring

Backstory
1 imprisoned
2 exiled
3 hunted another person
4 persecuted for religious beliefs
5 slew a dragon
6 found or made a mimic of yourself
7 scandalous rumors made against you
8 failed in making yourself immortal
9 cannibalized a powerful being
10 had your god be slain
11 slew a powerful figure
12 saw a companion be corrupted
13 was hunted
14 inflicted with a curse
15 fought in a great war
16 traversed a large, poisonous swamp
17 studied at a great place of learning
18 sacrificed a companion for power
19 found a powerful weapon
20 saved someone

Form
1 flaming eyes
2 crystals fused to body
3 withered, skeletal body
4 silver skin
5 ornamented armor
6 burned
7 scarred
8 clay body
9 masked
10 red hair
11 diseased
12 many limbed
13 chimeric traits
14 giant
15 rotting body
16 brambles grow on body
17 blind
18 prosthetic limbs
19 robed
20 ridiculously heavy armor

Psychology
1 acquire secret knowledge
2 insane
3 coward
4 honorable
5 wants to become a lord
6 duty bound
7 unflinching faith
8 naive
9 opportunistic bastard
10 defender of the current order
11 kill a god
12 spread a infection or force
13 destroy the current order
14 fading mind
15 survival at any cost
16 find the truth of the world
17 reclaim the power of the past
18 become a great warrior
19 guide others and offer assistance
20 delight in slaughter

Training
1 knight
2 astrologer
3 bandit
4 nothing, a wretch
5 a merchant
6 blacksmith
7 wizard
8 priest
9 heretical priest
10 battle mage
11 inquisitor
12 maiden
13 witch
14 noble
15 druid
16 savage warrior
17 medic
18 general
19 herbalist
20 scholar

Messy Relationship Tables

Use to generate complex, messy, and partially contradictory relationships between people, results with a slash in them are relationships that are asymmetrical, when you roll it apply one side to one person and the other to the other person, if applying this to only a single person use the more active one (use envies rather than is envied by for example).


Methods for generating relationships


1 roll twice, these two traits define their relationship
2 roll once, this trait defines their relationship, then roll two more traits one for each person, these traits are exclusive to that person
3 roll twice for each person, each person's traits are exclusive to that person
4 roll thrice, these three traits define their relationship, note higher chance to make nonsensical results


Dark/risky relationships are placed at the back of the list, starting at 15, so that they can be easily removed should you wish.


1 loves, platonic
2 teaches/is taught by
3 acquaintances
4 annoys/is annoyed by
5 makes bored/is bored by
6 loves, parental/familial
7 respects
8 is friends with
9 works for/employs
10 is curious about/is the focus of curiosity by
11 depends on/is depended on
12 rivals
13 trusts
14 pities/is pitied by
15 loves, romantic
16 envies/is envied by
17 hates
18 is blackmailing/is blackmailed by
19 dominates/is submissive to
20 wants to vicariously live through/is being lived through
21 neglects/is neglected by
22 worships/is worshiped
23 traumatized/is traumatized by
24 wants to kill/may be killed by




Examples
Using only 2 people, the Fighter and the Thief.

Method 1
First roll: wants to vicariously live through/is being lived through
Second roll: rivals
The Thief is in a rivalry with the Fighter but the rivalry is really just the Thief vicariously living through the Fighter.


Method 2
First roll: trusts
Fighter roll: trusts
Thief roll: makes bored/is bored by
The Fighter and the Thief trust each other but the Fighter finds the Thief very boring.


Method 3
First Fighter roll: loves, platonic
Second Fighter roll: loves, romantic
First Thief roll: hates
Second Thief roll: envies/is envied by
The Thief does not like the Fighter and envies them, the Fighter meanwhile does like the Thief though they aren't sure if they just want to be friends or not.


Method 4
First roll: pitties/is pitied by
Second roll: neglects/is neglected by
Third roll: is blackmailing/is blackmailed by
The Fighter is being blackmailed by the Thief but it actually isn’t that bad of a secret and the Fighter mainly just pities and neglects the thief.