Not So Perfect Invisibility Potions

 

 

Yay, Potion of Invisibility! Roll 1d10:

1. Potion works as intended; its user becomes blind for 1d12 minutes after the potion's effect ends.
2. Potion makes invisible only for the particular type of enemies. Roll 1d6: 1-3 living creatures, 4 demons, 5 undead, 5 unliving (golems, automatons etc.).
3. In addition to invisibility, potion's user begins to glow. I guess it's possible to miss it in broad daylight. 
4. In addition to invisibility, potion's user starts to stink horribly (CHA halved, beings possessing acute sense of smell may be able to detect him/her with relative ease). This side effect lasts until the next full moon.
5. Potion works as intended, but first three creatures with level / HD lower than the potion's user become invisible for him/her.
6. Potion's effect kicks in with significant delay (4d6 hours!).
7. Potion was mixed with another magical potion (determine randomly), duration / potency of both effects is halved.
8. Duration of invisibility is doubled - as well as all damage received by the potion's user for as long as he/she remains invisible.
9. Duration of invisibility is tripled - but each turn of its effect the user must save vs Magic to avoid giggling uncontrollably. If natural 1 is rolled during the saving throw, the porion's user starts to laugh so hard that he/she is unable to perform any other actions this turn.
   
10. This potion seems to be perfect - invisibility lasts forever. Each morning, potion's user must save vs Magic to become visible for the next 24 hours. This effect can be dispelled by a high-level wizard / priest. Or divine intervention. Or infernal contract.
    

Also, back in 2012, I made something similar for the Potions of Invisibility.

Random Posts!

Roll 1d8 and be amazed.

1. Blackened Iron Pillar. Every new moon, a group of 2d6+5 cultists gather around to sacrifice an albino, three headed goat. Then, an Iron Demon (AC 4, HD 17, 3d12 damage) is summoned and forced to listen to the cult leader's terrible poetry.
2. Pink Marble Post.  Every damaging spell cast within a one-mile radius from the pillar deals half of its normal damage (rounded down) and amount of HP restored by the healing spells is doubled.
3. Platinum Column. Extremely valuable (778879 gp) but guarded by 13 Platinum Golems (AC 2, HD 8, 2d6 damage) which sadly explode when destroyed, dealing 4d10-4 damage.
4. Goblin Radio Tower. This huge wooden post has highly-advanced receiver mounted on its top. Clearly it's of an alien origin and it beams the Space Goblin King's commands down to his minions on the planet. Unfortunately, the device is smeared with goblin feces. There are three large goblin encampments within two-mile radius from the Tower. 
5. Bone Column. Looks like a huge human spine. Every living creature killed within the one-mile radius from the Column rises as an undead after 1d4 hours.
6. Glass Spire. If touched with one's forehead for one hour, the post heals of one's wounds and reverses the effects of stat and level draining. In addition to healing, it curses with terrible nightmares that hinder sleep (-1 to all stat checks and saving throws) for the entire month.
7. Clay Pillar. Looks like a chimney build with crudely made bricks. On closer inspection, each brick is decorated with a tiny, extremely complex rune. If one spills his/her/its blood (1 HP worth of blood) and touches the Pillar, he/she/it becomes instantly teleported to the second, identical Clay Pillar, located somewhere else within the same star system. Doesn't work on bloodless creatures.
8. Phallic Post. It just looks like a ginormous schlong. Move along.
   

Random tables!

1. Brass Spiked Table. Made of uhh, spiked brass. Any summon spell cast while the scroll / spellbook sits on this table is more effective, but in quite unexpected way - the number of summoned creatures is increased by one, no matter if the spell summons a cricket or a lessed deity.
2. Swan Table. Made of white wood, with strangely curved legs. Big enough for two human-sized creaures to sit on it. Can be used in manner similar to magic carpet - just way weirder.
3. Twenty-legged Table. Made of reddish, cracked wood, at least twenty feet long. When approached, it transforms into an enormous centipede and attacks! AC 4, HD 5, fast movement, save vs Poison or 1d4 additional damage and -1 to all attack rolls for one hour (cumulative).
4. Malachite Workbench. All poison brewed on this table are more potent - either lasting for twice as long, or dealing additional damage die, or modifying victim's saving throw by -1.
5. Pink Topaz Table. Any food left on this table for at least ten minutes loses its poisonous properties. Unfortunately, it also loses any taste, while keeping its nutritional value.
6. Singing Oak Table. Each night, a huge mouth appears on the surface of this table. It devours everything that was placed on it. The items can be safely retrieved if the secret codeword is sang.
7. Goblin Stool Table. Any gold placed on this table is transmuted into goblin feces. Any silver is enchanted, dealing additional 2d6 damage to all zoanthropes (effect lasts for 24 hours). Any water is transformed into lemon juice. And fruits are transformed into cucumbers. Transmutation process starts immediately and lasts for 1d4 minutes.
8. Coffee Table of Great Fun. Made of finely polished walnut and adorned by a shimmering, floral rune. Anyone who touches the rune must save vs Magic or temporarily gets 13 additional HP, -1 to AC (to a minimum of 2) and gets extremely drunk. Additionally, they become plagued by nasty hallucinations of naked but extremely hideous dryads (-1 to all rolls). Effect lasts for six hours.
   

Mad King's Decisions - random table

Roll 1d10 and enjoy the mayhem:

1. Contradict your last edict.
2. Contradict your last edict, only to revert to it 1d4 days later.
3. Show up on the big horse race event*.
4. Pact with your biggest historical enemy with no apparent reason.
5. Propose annexation of all of border kingdoms.
6. Nominate kingdom's biggest d6: 1 idiot; 2 con, 3 criminal, 4 evil cult leader, 5 lunatic, 6 legendary monster - as your advisor.
7. Execute the realm's d6: 1 archmage, 2 spy leader, 3 royal physician, 4 key general, 5 advisor, 6 key minister.
8. Exile all the d4: 1 royal guards, 2 royal cooks, 3 capital city's administrators, 4 army officers.
9. Revert your last 1d4 edicts. There is a 37% chance to revert the reversal day later. Roll separately for each edict. 
10. Roll twice and combine the effects!

*) I love NASCAR, as one of 2d20 Europeans who watch it. 

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Ridiculous Random Results - Disappointing Treasure

Another random table from my latest release. Roll 1d20 and enjoy your disappointment:

1. Chest full of candies shaped like coins
2. Pouch full with colorful glass shards
3. Sculpture of a chest
4. Moldy leather armor
5. Rugged traveler’s boots, soaked with potent psychedelics
6. Magical tome, totally ruined with tar
7. Scroll tube full of children drawings
8. Miniature full plate armor, rusty
9. Chest within a chest within a chest within a chest
10. Chest with a very complicated lock; the key to open it is the only item inside
11. Two gilded potties, full of ancient “treasure”
12. Beautiful wooden sculpture - unfortunately, it seems it was used as a target practice at least few dozen times
13. Ornate oil lamp made of brass; no Djinn inside
14. Supposedly magical wand, broken in three pieces
15. Wooden case full of small flasks or jars
    
16. Small portable altar or a reliquary, made of a hollowed-out loaf of bread
17. Scroll containing an ancient cipher that turns out to be totally gibberish
18. Map leading the to the Tomb of Thousand Traps
19. Dragon egg, hardboiled
20. Jar containing two dozen goblin testicles, preserved in honey

 

Ridiculous Random Results - what's inside?

 

Some content from my latest booklet- the Ridiculous Random Results which I dropped two days ago - is already available here on the blog. Here's the list of all random tables, as well as linkage to things that were already posted here!

THE SECRET OF POWER
ANNOYING TRAITS OF THE HIRELINGS
EXOTIC RACES/ORIGINS OF THE HIRELINGS
WEIRD ITEMS IN A TOOL LOCKER
RIDICULOUS MAGIC ITEMS
ACCURSED FOOTWEAR
USELESS CREATURES
DEITIES FORGOTTEN FOR A REASON
IDIOTIC CHARACTER BACKGROUND DETAILS
BIZARRE ROOMS
THINGS UNEARTHED BY MISTAKE
ARTIFACTS THAT FELL FROM THE SKY
FAKE ELIXIRS
STRANGE SMALL ITEMS
GOBLIN DISHES
USELESS FURNITURE
MORONIC RUMORS
DISAPPOINTING TREASURE
UNWELCOME GUESTS
NASTY LIGHT SOURCES
FAILED FAMILIARS
MAPS & PLANS
UNUSUAL PETS
FESTIVALS & CELEBRATIONS
USELESS OCCUPATIONS
GOBLIN SAINTS

RIDICULOUS RANDOM RESULTS - OUT NOW!

As you probably noticed, nowadays I prefer to make content that is, well, weirder than usual. And slightly over the top. Or maybe not slightly.

So today I compiled all the bizarre random tabled I made since the release of my previous booklet, added some more, sprinkled it heavily with some Goblin Dust and voila! The book of Ridiculous Random Results was born.

What to expect from it? Tables about useless garbage, absolutely twisted junk and weird creatures. Think of it as of Towers of Krshal - but on acid. On bad trip. And stabbed in the kidney with a rusty, shit-smeared screwdriver.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS!

THE SECRET OF POWER
ANNOYING TRAITS OF THE HIRELINGS
EXOTIC RACES/ORIGINS OF THE HIRELINGS
WEIRD ITEMS IN A TOOL LOCKER
RIDICULOUS MAGIC ITEMS
ACCURSED FOOTWEAR
USELESS CREATURES
DEITIES FORGOTTEN FOR A REASON
IDIOTIC CHARACTER BACKGROUND DETAILS
BIZARRE ROOMS
THINGS UNEARTHED BY MISTAKE
ARTIFACTS THAT FELL FROM THE SKY
FAKE ELIXIRS
STRANGE SMALL ITEMS
GOBLIN DISHES
USELESS FURNITURE
MORONIC RUMORS
DISAPPOINTING TREASURE
UNWELCOME GUESTS
NASTY LIGHT SOURCES
FAILED FAMILIARS
MAPS & PLANS
UNUSUAL PETS
FESTIVALS & CELEBRATIONS
USELESS OCCUPATIONS
GOBLIN SAINTS

PS. Font on the title page will make your eyes bleed.

Twenty Weird Items in a Tool Locker

 

Roll 1d20:

1. Half-melted wrench;
2. Set of seventeen infrared light bulbs, each of different size and socket type;
3. Welding mask shaped like an ant's head;
4. Circular saw blade covered with autographs of people you don't know;
5. Pair of diver's boots;
6. Five screwdrivers bent and knotted together;
7. Rasp made of crystal;
8. Pair of heavy leather gloves, with someone's severed hands still inside;
9. Denture with teeth replaced with wood screws;
10. Cordless drill modified in a way allowing it to shoot drill bits;
11. Mysterious map made of scraps of sandpaper glued together;
12. Necklace made of mirror-polished screw nuts;
13. A perfect cube of cast iron, with each side measuring exactly 66,6 millimeters;
14. Hard hat adorned with a pair of antlers;
15. Large hammer with a head on each tip;
16. Harp made of a shovel and a flute made of a fragment of copper piping;
    
17. Ginormous screw, at least three feet long and weighing more than 40 lbs;
18. Dildo made of berylium;
19. Huge welding iron, more resembling a sword than a tool;
20. Thirteen metal buckets put in one another and spot-welded together. 

Happy 2025, you bastards! 

Exotic hirelings' races/origins

 

Tired of bland and ordinary meatshields? FUCK 'EM UP! Roll 1d100 and see their totally insane origins:

1. Rhino Man
2. Wooden automaton
3. Sentient Crab
4. Inverted Silver Pyramid
5. Giant Halfling
   
6. Skinless One
   
7. Clay Golem
8. Pink Elf
9. Cat
   
10. Mummy
11. Orc Gentleman
12. Merman / Mermaid
13. Clockwork Man
14. Clock Man
    
15. Glowing Kobold
16. Rusty Iron Dwarf
17. Fire Drake
18. Animated Lead Soldier
    
19. Two-Headed Minotaur
20. Lamprey Vampire
21. Masked Cosmic Horror
22. Animated Sword
23. Eel Lord / Lady
24. Chain Golem
25. Warrior's Spirit
26. Carp Man
    
27. Doppelganger
28. Wererabbit
29. Tortoise Man
30. Elegant Skeleton
    
31. Animated Armor
32. Animated Candelabra
33. Sentient Caterpillar
    
34. Floating Skull
35. Mimic
36. Pig Man
37. Fallen Angel
    
38. Cinder Golem
39. Talking Horse
40. Centaur
41. Spiked Mannequin
    
42. Invisible Stalker
43. Invisible Giant
44. Floating Hypercube
45. Pack of Dogs
46. Eternal Child
47. Floating Eye
48. Gelatinous Man
49. Garden Gnome
50. Heron Man
51. Ice Statue
52. Unshackled Demon
53. Mushroom Man
54. Werepython
55. Snail Man
56. Animated Tree
57. Bison Man
    
58. Barbarian Robot
59. Locust Man
60. Anvilhead
61. Mantis Man
62. Sad Ghost
63. Pygmy Ogre
64. Frog Man
65. Lady in a Painting
66. Alien Amoeba
    
67. Animated Chair
68. Sparrow Prince / Princess
69. Dimensional Snatcher
70. Mandragora
71. Ghoul
72. Color Thief
73. Narwahl Man
74. Headless Horseman
75. Perfumed Zombie
    
76. Flower Man 
77. Goblin Noble
    
78. Scorpion Man
79. Shimmering Gremlin
80. Animated Cloak
81. Trash Golem
82. Phoenix Man
83. Union of Small Goblins
84. Ugly Succubus / Incubus
85. Tin Automaton
86. Antimagical Statue
87. Three-Headed Man
88. Wool Golem
89. Troglodyte Noble
90. Crocodile Man
91. Animated Fossil
    
92. Unbound Marionette
93. Humanoid Ooze
94. Cathedral-less Gargoyle
95. Thawed One
96. Swarm of Sentient Mice
97. Broken Saint
98. Dragon Pup
    
99. Crystal Man
100. Forgotten Deity

Six ridiculous magic items

1. Chromium Skull of Celestial Summoning. Summons an abandoned alien battlecruiser that was hiding on the orbit for the last 12700 years. It will take a warship 5d4 days to arrive and there's a 37% chance it will crash-land, causing major environmental disaster on a continental scale.
2. The Empty Hourglass. When shattered, it removes its user from the time continuum, barring it from interacting with any matter at all, for all eternity. Bear in mind that it's more than certain that he/she isn't the only entity that ended up in that situation.
3. The Obsidian Clock. Massive grandfather clock whose hands seem to not move at all, despite its extremely overcomplicated mechanism clearly being in motion. Resetting the hands will immediately trigger the apocalypse, destroying the world in seven days.
4. Immortality Stone. It grants, well, immortality for anyone who touches it. Sadly, the power lasts only for time the contact is maintained. And the Stone weighs approximately 75 thousand tons.
5. Minotaur's Scroll. When read, it teleports its user to the center of nearest labyrinth, no matter if it's a kindergarten hedge maze, orbital prison or an underwater tomb of antediluvian, cosmic evil.
   
6. Bell of Omnipotence. If put on one's head, it grants access to all spells for as long as it remains worn. Unfortunately, it also strips its wearer of all senses, making him/her unable to see, hear, taste, smell, sense by touch, echolocate, electrolocate, sense direction, sense humidity, sense magic and so on.