Month: November 2015

Maze Rats

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Sam Bosma

I’ve spent the last few months polishing Maze Rats, a minimalistic OSR-style dungeon crawler derived from Chris McDowall’s Into the Odd, and which should appear soon in a supplement for that game, Odditional Material. I may expand it later into something more complete, but it’s perfectly playable as is now. It also fits onto two double sided sheets, making it ideal for players new to RPGs. You can make characters in minutes, and explain the rules just as quickly. Download the whole thing below and let me know what you think!

Maze Rats 0.1

d100 NPC Character Traits

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Elliot Alfredius

 

I’m on a random table kick, a d100 table kick to be precise. They’re all still works in progress, but I figure I’ll start throwing them up here for others to use. First up, 100 character traits for NPCs. Roll a d100, or just choose ones you find amusing.

  1. Always bored
  2. Angry drunk
  3. Annoyingly Cryptic
  4. Avant-garde
  5. Bigoted
  6. Bloody-Minded
  7. Boastful
  8. Bookworm
  9. Bossy
  10. Bully
  11. Calculating
  12. Can-do attitude
  13. Chatterbox
  14. Chirpy
  15. Collects small animals
  16. Compulsive Liar
  17. Condescending
  18. Conniving
  19. Conspiracy theorist
  20. Creep
  21. Decadent
  22. Ditz
  23. Egomaniac
  24. Exquisite dresser
  25. Extravagant
  26. Fanatically loyal
  27. Fast-talker
  28. Femme Fatale
  29. Fiercely ambitious
  30. Fits of melancholy
  31. Flamboyant
  32. Folksy Wisdom
  33. Gossip
  34. Hard-boiled
  35. Hears voices
  36. Hillbilly
  37. Hothead
  38. Hypochondriac
  39. Iconoclast
  40. Idealistic
  41. Illiterate
  42. Incredibly persistent
  43. Insightful observer
  44. Into crystals
  45. Jack of all Trades
  46. Jerk
  47. Klutz
  48. Knows everybody
  49. Life of the party
  50. Love-struck
  51. Mad genius
  52. Magnetic Personality
  53. Manic
  54. Master Orator
  55. Militantly Vegan
  56. Misanthrope
  57. Miser
  58. Mopey
  59. Naïve
  60. Nerd
  61. No-nonsense
  62. Obsessive
  63. Old Fart
  64. Overeducated
  65. Paranoid
  66. Perfect Manners
  67. Pouty
  68. Power-hungry
  69. Prickly
  70. Proselytizer
  71. Ruthless
  72. Sadist
  73. Self-destructive
  74. Self-important
  75. Self-pitying
  76. Senile
  77. Serene
  78. Shameless Flirt
  79. Slacker
  80. Slimy
  81. Slovenly
  82. Snarky
  83. Snitch
  84. Snob
  85. Social butterfly
  86. Sophist
  87. Spacey
  88. Terrible memory
  89. Thick
  90. Toady
  91. Totally unreliable
  92. Twitchy
  93. Vain
  94. Vengeful
  95. Village idiot
  96. Well-Travelled
  97. Whiner
  98. Wild Child
  99. Wisecracking
  100. World-weary