"Aggressive archers, bewitching barbarians, cavorting cultists, drunken druids and an embittered efreet."
Tables for A to E using alliteration to create ideas for fantasy encounters and foes.
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Alliterative Adversaries
If you want a way to combine humour and unusual results to spark ideas
Roll a d10 or choose once on each column to get an Adjective and an Adversary and combine. Or roll once using the Adjective and Adversary in that row.
There is a fantasy Alliterative Adversaries generator at ChaosGen. And also a pdf of these and more tables on DriveThru RPG as Alliterative Adversaries - Fantasy Random Tables.
Alliterative Articles - A-E | F-J | K-O | P-T | U-Z | hazards & events
A is for Avaricious Apes
| 1d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplished or austere | assassin or archmage |
| 2 | avaricious or antlered | avenger or artisan |
| 3 | assertive or arrogant | aberration or angel |
| 4 | ambitious or ambushing | adventurers or avians |
| 5 | absurd or adventurous | animals or admirers |
| 6 | anthropomorphic or agile | apparitions or aunts |
| 7 | animated or ancient | acolytes or apes |
| 8 | angry or athletic | archers or abominations |
| 9 | aggressive or ageless | alchemist or ancestor |
| 10 | artistic or aquatic | apprentice or autocrat |
B is for Bragging Bards
| 1d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | babbling or brutal | bandits or beetles |
| 2 | blinking or breathtaking | bears or butchers |
| 3 | bewitching or blinded | bodyguards or beings |
| 4 | belligerent or battling | basilisk or barbarian |
| 5 | beseeching or bloody | baboons or boars |
| 6 | bullying or blushing | banshee or beggar |
| 7 | burly or blasphemous | bats or beasts |
| 8 | bragging or blighted | bard or blackguard |
| 9 | boisterous or brawny | berserkers or besiegers |
| 10 | brutish or berserk | bugbears or badgers |
C is for a Caring Cyclops
| 1d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | charmed or curious | captain or conjurer |
| 2 | courageous or chanting | cyclops or changeling |
| 3 | confident or confused | commoners or constructs |
| 4 | captivating or capricious | cat or charlatan |
| 5 | cavorting or cloaked | courtiers or creatures |
| 6 | crafty or conquering | companions or crocodiles |
| 7 | capable or cruel | cultists or crabs |
| 8 | clever or crablike | champion or coven |
| 9 | crying or cryptic | chimera or cavalier |
| 10 | compulsive or convincing | cockatrices or challengers |
D is for Desperate Dwarves
| 1d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | demanding or dishonest | dryads or dancers |
| 2 | destructive or dire | dogs or deputies |
| 3 | dauntless or distressed | doppelganger or demigod |
| 4 | dancing or depraved | demons or daughters |
| 5 | drunken or delusional | duelists or diggers |
| 6 | dazzling or doomed | dragon or druid |
| 7 | dashing or desperate | dwarves or doubles |
| 8 | disgusting or dying | diviner or demonologist |
| 9 | dangerous or dreaming | disciples or deer |
| 10 | demonic or dishonoured | dinosaurs or dracolich |
E is for Elderly Entertainers
| 1d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | emotional or educated | elves or envoys |
| 2 | eerie or extraordinary | elk or ents |
| 3 | eldritch or epic | elders or enforcers |
| 4 | embittered or equipped | elemental or empyrean |
| 5 | enchanting or elated | emissary or expedition |
| 6 | enthusiastic or exiled | enchanter or entity |
| 7 | errant or entertaining | enemies or elephants |
| 8 | elusive or enlightened | efreet or ettin |
| 9 | enraged or entrancing | eagles or earth elementals |
| 10 | elderly or exalted | entertainer or eternal |
More Alliterative Adversaries
There is a fantasy Alliterative Adversaries generator at ChaosGen. And also a pdf of these and more tables on DriveThru RPG as Alliterative Adversaries - Fantasy Random Tables.
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