#dnd tables

1. You have no idea what type of egg this is. Attempts to identify what creature might hatch from such an egg fail, but you’re certain it is an egg. [When this egg hatches, it is not a creature that hatches but a curse of the GM’s choosing which is placed on those who witness the hatching]

2-5. Cockatrice egg. To the untrained eye it looks just like a regular chicken egg.

6-20. Regular chicken egg.

21-25. Jumbo chicken egg.

26-30. Alligator egg.

31-40. Snake egg.

41-45. Flying snake egg.

46-50. Harpy egg.

51-60. Giant spider egg.

61-65. Hawk egg.

66-70. Turtle egg.

71-75. Mimic egg. It is up to the GMs discretion whether this implies that mimics lay eggs or that a mimic is just pretending to be an egg.

76-80. Easter egg.

81-85. Shark egg.

86-88. Gryphon egg

89-90. Pseudodragon egg.

91-95. Raven egg.

96. Ravenfolk egg.

97. Lizardfolk egg.

98. Phoenix egg.

99. Dragon egg.

D100 TABLE OF QUIRKS & PECULIARITIES FOR NPC’S AND/OR PC’S

So here is the first of my many soon-to-come updates while under quarantine! I came up with this bad boy after a few frustrating nights of trying to find decent quirks for my NPC’s around the internet. It seemed like every list I tried to look up was either lackluster at best or, at worst, was chalk full of offensive “quirks” such as “is a casual racist”, which just... does not quite fly with me.

On top of that all that, it would seem many DM’s don’t really know what a “quirk” is when making NPC’s. They seem to think it’s an entire personality, more so than a small part of the character that makes them unique or different from a simple background or fodder character. It’s something that, when you think of that character, it’s the first thing you notice or remember about them!

So what did I do? Decided to make my own damn quirks. Ones that are brief and simple enough to apply to just about anybody. And ones that are not downright offensive or too specific to even apply to anyone. Once I started, I simply couldn’t stop. I got so excited thinking these up, that before I knew it, I had a hundred of them!

So I figured i’d share my work with y’all and see how you like these. It’s generally meant more for NPC’s, but you can apply a generous handful of these to PC’s as well. I trust y’all to work these into your characters, nonetheless. Download links are listed below, as well as donation links if you’re feelin’ generous.

(Original Concept by @lesbidnd, adapted with permission)

Your party is dead. You, alone, stand against Ikathor of Ten Thousand Cackles, the insane, undead, and unimaginably powerful lich that your party has been pursuing for three months now.

You have ten hit points remaining. It’s your turn. As you scan your spell sheet, dread builds in your stomach as you realize… you’re out of spell slots.

So, is this it? Is this the TPK that you’ve always feared?

It doesn’t have to be!

Welcome to the magical exertion penalty table -- a homebrew mechanic originally devised by @lesbidnd and expanded upon by myself for DMs to utilize during those crucial stand-offs against the BBEG (or assorted mini-villains).

If your spellcasters are out of spell slots, but it would be really really cool if they could just get off that last Fireball, but you don’t want them to cast spells “at exertion” without a cost -- this is the table for you!

Since this system allows magic-users to tap into deep, latent, exhausting reserves of magic, the penalties can be -- and should be -- severe. This isn’t something you do every session (unless you’re running that kind of table). This is a special mechanic reserved for those special boss fights. By all means, this is a last-ditch effort. It’s a great way to give your magic-users a moment to shine, without overpowering them.

In fact, you’ll notice that many of the penalties are extremely severe -- some even result in death, or permanent stat changes. As such, DMs are encouraged only to offer rolling on the table during a life-or-death situation, or when confronting a boss with limited resources.

Reward and drawback; high risk, high reward. That’s the name of the game.

Below, you’ll find a d20 table. When your caster is out of spell slots, have them announce the spell they want to cast at exertion, and then have them roll on the table at the same time their spell is cast. The spell and the penalty occur simultaneously.

I recommend only allowing spells to be cast at exertion once per long rest, week, or month. It’s important to impose scarcity upon this mechanic, because the consequences can be severe — and should be treated as a last resort. For these reasons, I also recommend only allowing magical exertion when DMing mid to higher level play (Levels 5+).

Variant Rule: You can choose to make the Ability Score changes permanent, with nothing short of a Wish spell being able to restore the caster’s scores. You can also do the same with just about everything on this table (such as Blinded/Deafened and becoming Frightened). It depends on how severe you want the consequences to be.

As always, feel free to steal, modify, plunder, pilfer, ignore, rearrange, add on to, and otherwise homebrew this homebrew idea. There is a lot of worldbuilding/RP potential with this idea. For instance, you could have a Warlock PC’s patron be the one exacting the penalty.

Made this to fill time between story encounters and thought I’d share it <3

So here it is! A complete, but simple set of tables to help out the common DM with a common problem-- when the players derail your entire campaign to talk to random, made-last-second NPC’s with little importance. Be it messing around in a tavern, enemies that the players want to interrogate, immersive civilians and passerby’s, or what have you-- this should do the trick in at least getting you started on making you seem prepared and diligent. Simply roll for the information your players want to know, and wallah! You’ve got an immersive, complex NPC that you can easily develop if need be (but lets hope it doesn’t get that far. you’ve got real NPC’s waiting on the back burner that you actually worked on).

Hope you guys enjoy my first sort of homebrew table set here! Criticism and recommendations are welcome, just keep it civil and use common sense when you ask why I didn’t include x, y, or z.

DISCLAIMER:  Complete appearances and backstories are not included for a reason. They’re too long winded and complicated for me to include, because this is all dependent upon varying factors. Your campaign setting, your plot, the race & gender of the character, ect. So these are unfortunately two things you must come up with on your own. Sorry guys. :c

Thus said, you may download this and post it wherever you’d like as long as you credit me back to my blog and DO NOT crop my signature out at the bottom.