Wow.

The post I did on Mesopotamian weapons and armour is getting a lot of hits........


Anyway, does anyone know what happened to that Fight On! book of random tables thing?

Books of Sorcery

Right now I'm listening to some Social Distortion while going through my old rpg stuff and filing it away in my new binder.

While doing this, I came across a small table of b/x 1st level spells organised into six books of sorcery. I picked the idea up from some blog or other a while ago, and decided to make the tables.

So, for the tables: When a new magic-user is created, roll 1d6 to find out which common sorcery book they start out with:

1d6 Result

1. The Adventures of Hurgh

2. The Tome of Common Sorcery

3. Encyclopedia of Easy Magic

4. Compendium of Wondrous Wizardry

5. Rhialto's Easy Instructions on Magic, Volume I

6. Collected Works of Thersin, Volume II

The books themselves:

The Adventures of Hurgh

1. Charm Person

2. Ventruiloquism

3. Sleep

4. Light

5. Magic Missile

Tome of Common Sorcery

1. Magic Missile

2. Sleep

3. Protection from Evil

Encyclopedia of Easy Magic

1. Read Magic

2. Detect Magic

Compendium of Wondrous Wizardry

1. Light

2. Hold Portal

3. Read Languages

Rhialto's Easy Instructions on Magic, Volume I

1. Charm Person

2. Read Magic

3. Ventriloquism

4. Floating Disc

Collected Works of Thersin, Volume II

1. Magic Missile

2. Protection from Evil

3. Shield

4. Hold Portal

5. Read Magic

6. Web (Note: level 2 spell)

If you're wondering how I did these, I just rolled 1d6 to see how many spells they had, and then just rolled d12s to find what spells they had.

d100 chart of character backgrounds

I created this table a while ago for a T&T game that I almost ran (i.e we never played it in the end). If you use it for D&D or something, it might require some modification. Hope you enjoy : )

1. A thief

2. A crusader only just returned

3. A member of the Royal Guard

4. A duelist

5. An errant knight

6. A young noble seeking fame, fortune and glory

7. A hardened mercenary

8. A common thug

9. A conman

10. A bounty hunter

11. A pirate

12. A privateer

13. A corsair from some distant land

14. A farmer

15. A merchant

16. A courtier in exile

17. A soldier

18. A sailor

19. A priest

20. A priest of an exotic religion

21. A murderer on the run

22. A spy

23. A healer

24. An veteran of a recent war

25. An assassin

26. A druidic priest

27. A heretic

28. A marine

29. An escaped slave

30. An officer

31. A cavalryman

32. A pick-pocket

33. A professional gambler

34. An executioner

35. A revolutionary

36. A common peasant

37. A miner

38. A poet

39. A musician

40. A fake priest

41. A wandering charlatan

42. A wandering 'law-giver'

43. a hunter

44. a disgraced condottiere

45. a knight

46. an elf-child*

47. a fake prophet

48. a priest of a dying out faith

49. a political exile

50. a psychologically disturbed war veteran

51. A sage

52. a man from the Moon

53. a man from the seas at the end of the world

54. a survivor of a totally destroyed city (like what the Romans did to Carthage)

55. a beggar

56. a tomb robber

57. a member of the Watch

58. a schizophrenic

59. a witch-hunter

60. a lover of an evil witch

61. a member of a cult

62. an escaped soul from the House of Darkness**

63. a barbarian savage

64. a bandit

65. an artist

66. a diplomat

67. a detective

68. a drug addict

69. a depressed alcoholic

70. an explorer

71. a herdsman

72. a fisherman

73. a decadent noble

74. a madman

75. a shaman

76. a scholar

77. a grave digger

78. someone stricken with wanderlust

79. a cartographer

80. a writer

81. a wandering trader

82. an alchemist

83. a juggler

84. a scientist

85. a taxidermist

86. a psychotic who believes is a deity

87. a disgraced or di

88. a wanted criminal

89. a cannibal

90. a nomad

91. a retired general

92. a demonicist***

93. an inn-keeper

94. a racketeer

95. a gatherer of intelligence

96. a viking

97. a messenger

98. an engineer

99. a prince from a conquered principality

00. a visitor from another world

*an elf-child is someone who was raised by elves

**sort of an underworld, the underworld of Akkaddian religion

***demonicist comes from the English verb (seriously, look it up in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, its under demo-) demonamachy, meaning 'to fight demons', so we get, demonicist, 'someone who fights demons'.