Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wizards of the Tower Cliffs
The wizards of the Tower Cliffs are a tightly knit community of egocentric misanthropes thrust together by the need to have someone else around who might comprehend their greatness. They only have each other. Whenever two wizards come together, roll once for each to see what their history and relationships are like.
1d20
1. is envious of the (1-3) status or (4-6) skill of...
2. has unknowingly offended...
3. has purposefully offended...
4. has been spying on...
5. has been sleeping with (1-5) apprentice of, (6-7) lover
of, (8-9) spouse of, (10) the wizard him/herself
6. has stolen from...
7. covets the spellbook or magic item of...
8. secretly admires...
9. has betrayed...
10. is an old friend of...
11. has been trying to murder...
12. is the former apprentice of...
13. has stolen an apprentice from...
14. is a (1) friendly (2-6) bitter rival of...
15. is (1-3) openly (4-6) privately dismissive of the work
of...
16. is a former co-apprentice (they studied under the same
master) of...
17. owes...
18. is plotting together with... against...
19. is plotting against... with...
20. became famous through a brutal critique of the
scholarship of...
Inspired by Aristocrat relationships on p. 47 of Vornheim.
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I love it. The idea would work for more than wizards too with a few words changed here and there. Maybe bloggers even?
ReplyDeleteNice post. exactly the sort of thing one needs for a group of contentious wizards.
ReplyDelete@Porky - heh!
Glad you guys like it. Some of the entries came to me by analogy to modern academics. I think with a little concentrated effort, I could expand it quite a bit in that direction if I needed a larger table...
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