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Tables for hazards and events using alliteration to create ideas for fantasy encounters and foes.
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Creatureless Conundrums, Noncombat Ideas using Alliteration
If you want a way to come up with ideas for noncombat or creatureless encounters using the power of alliteration.
Roll a d10 or choose once to get a creatureless conundrum with alliteration.
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
Nocturnal Niggles
| 1d10 | Adjective |
|---|---|
| 1 | bothersome (or bloodsucking) bugs |
| 2 | delirious (or dangerous) dreams |
| 3 | horrifying (or haunting) howls |
| 4 | luminous (or laughing) lights |
| 5 | a macabre (or missing) moon |
| 6 | merry (or mocking) music |
| 7 | nearby (or nonsensical) noises |
| 8 | nasty (or nonstop) nightmares |
| 9 | scary (or slinking) shadows |
| 10 | thoughtless (or thorough) thefts |
Seafaring Setbacks
| 1d10 | Seafaring Setbacks |
|---|---|
| 1 | a burning (or blighted) boat |
| 2 | frightening (or fascinating) fog |
| 3 | a magical (or maddening) maelstrom |
| 4 | a shadowy (or sinking) ship |
| 5 | a sudden (or supernatural) storm |
| 6 | tentacled (or tidal) terrors |
| 7 | voracious (or vocal) vermin |
| 8 | weird weather (roll on Weird Weather for details) |
| 9 | whispering (or worrying) waves |
| 10 | a zany (or zippy) zephyr |
Urban Ugliness
| 1d10 | Urban Ugliness |
|---|---|
| 1 | blazing (or bewitching) buildings |
| 2 | a careening (or crashed) cart |
| 3 | greedy (or gruesome) gossip |
| 4 | mysterious (or midnight) murders |
| 5 | noisy (or nosy) neighbours |
| 6 | partisan (or palatial) politics |
| 7 | persistent (or peculiar) plague |
| 8 | random (or revolutionary) riots |
| 9 | a suspicious (or sickening) stench |
| 10 | an unlikely (or unfair) ultimatum |
Weird Weather
| 1d10 | Weird Weather |
|---|---|
| 1 | baffling (or beseeching) breezes |
| 2 | chaotic (or colorful) clouds |
| 3 | hammering (or horrifying) hail |
| 4 | mystifying (or musical) mist |
| 5 | relentless (or ruinous) rain |
| 6 | scorching (or sickening) sun |
| 7 | sentient (or shimmering) snow |
| 8 | theatrical (or threatening) thunder |
| 9 | wailing (or wintry) winds |
| 10 | a terrifying (or telepathic) tempest |
Wilderness Worries
| 1d10 | Wilderness Worries |
|---|---|
| 1 | baffling (or beseeching) breezes |
| 2 | chaotic (or colorful) clouds |
| 3 | hammering (or horrifying) hail |
| 4 | mystifying (or musical) mist |
| 5 | relentless (or ruinous) rain |
| 6 | scorching (or sickening) sun |
| 7 | sentient (or shimmering) snow |
| 8 | theatrical (or threatening) thunder |
| 9 | wailing (or wintry) winds |
| 10 | a terrifying (or telepathic) tempest |
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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