A couple of d30-based random tables for gritty 1970s crime/cop/vigilante movie RPGs... Generate NPCs, connections between them, Locations, Objects of interest.
Grab all the tables as a double-sided page PDF here.
NPCs:
|
|
Adjective |
NPC #1 |
NPC #2 |
|
1 |
abusive |
actor |
investor |
|
2 |
addicted |
assassin |
junkie |
|
3 |
alcoholic |
banker |
lawyer |
|
4 |
amateur |
beat cop |
manager |
|
5 |
brainwashed |
billionaire |
mayor |
|
6 |
broken |
burglar |
musician |
|
7 |
brutish |
business(wo)man |
nurse |
|
8 |
charismatic |
carnie |
pawn shop owner |
|
9 |
charming |
chemist |
photographer |
|
10 |
corrupt |
civil servant |
pickpocket |
|
11 |
depressed |
constr. worker |
pimp |
|
12 |
double-crossing |
crime boss |
police detective |
|
13 |
down-on-luck |
cult deprogrammer |
priest |
|
14 |
experienced |
cult leader |
private detective |
|
15 |
fanatic |
dancer |
professor |
|
16 |
honest |
director |
psychiatrist |
|
17 |
idealistic |
doctor |
psychologist |
|
18 |
lucky |
drug dealer |
public servant |
|
19 |
mad |
engineer |
scientist |
|
20 |
one-armed |
everyman |
secretary |
|
21 |
one-eyed |
exotic dancer |
smuggler |
|
22 |
religious |
federal agent |
socialite |
|
23 |
romantic |
femme
fatale |
stock broker |
|
24 |
shrewd |
fortune
teller |
street walker |
|
25 |
smart |
gonzo
journalist |
surgeon |
|
26 |
terminally ill |
gunman |
taxi driver |
|
27 |
tough |
hired gun |
teacher |
|
28 |
veteran |
hitman |
trucker |
|
29 |
well-connected |
industrialist |
vigilante |
|
30 |
young & stupid |
investing.journalist |
weapon dealer |
NPCs, continued
|
|
Quirk |
Connection |
|
1 |
almost unnoticeable |
blackmails… |
|
2 |
always wears sunglasses |
has dirt on… |
|
3 |
behaves deceptively friendly |
has evidence against… |
|
4 |
displays muscles |
helped out… |
|
5 |
dressed too hot for weather |
highly respects… |
|
6 |
dresses as a cowboy |
hires somebody to follow… |
|
7 |
fidgets with a coin |
is disloyal to… |
|
8 |
fidgets with a rubber ball |
is secretly in love with… |
|
9 |
fidgets with a switchblade |
is the illegitimate child of… |
|
10 |
flaunts impeccable manicure |
knows about the shady dealings of… |
|
11 |
fluid movements |
knows the location of… |
|
12 |
grins to display golden teeth |
knows the secret of… |
|
13 |
misuses foreign words |
murdered… |
|
14 |
never hides their intentions |
needs dirt on… |
|
15 |
over-the-top, theatrical |
owes money to… |
|
16 |
periodically takes medicine |
owes their life to… |
|
17 |
quotes movies all the time |
ratted out… |
|
18 |
quotes the Bible all the time |
secretly works for… |
|
19 |
reads people like open books |
stole something from… |
|
20 |
sips booze from a hip flask |
trails… |
|
21 |
smokes fat cigars |
wants something stolen from… |
|
22 |
snorts drugs |
wants to form alliance with… |
|
23 |
speaks with foreign accent |
wants to incriminate… |
|
24 |
surrounded by lackeys |
wants to kill… |
|
25 |
toothpick-chewer |
wants to protect… |
|
26 |
wears a huge belt buckle |
wants to take revenge on… |
|
27 |
wears a lot of jewelry |
wants to weaken… |
|
28 |
wears a uniform |
witnessed crime committed by… |
|
29 |
with facial scar |
witnessed the murder of… |
|
30 |
with visible tattoos |
would never harm… |
Locations
Adjective | Location #1 | Location #2 | |
1 | abandoned | amusement park | moored ship |
2 | dilapidated | apartment block | morgue |
3 | ruinous | back streets | motel |
4 | condemned | bar | movie set |
5 | sealed-off | basement | office building |
6 | old | bowling alley | orphanage |
7 | haunted | carnival | parking lot |
8 | under constr. | cellar | playground |
9 | grimy | chemical plant | police station |
10 | featureless | church | power plant |
11 | corrugated | cinema | prison |
12 | derelict | city library | railway station |
13 | hulking | club | restaurant |
14 | underground | cold storage | rooftop |
15 | empty | condo | school |
16 | windowless | construction site | self-service storage |
17 | glass & steel | dancehall | service tunnels |
18 | labyrinthine | depot | sewers |
19 | burnt-out | drilling platform | shipyard |
20 | smoke-filled | dry cleaner's | social club |
21 | seedy | factory | squat |
22 | graffiti-covered | foundry | steam bath |
23 | vermin-infested | garage | steel mill |
24 | notorious | highrise building | strip club |
25 | cramped | hospital | studio |
26 | filthy | housing project | subway station |
27 | illegal | junkyard | sweatshop |
28 | waterlogged | laboratory | underpass |
29 | collapsed | meat proc. plant | warehouse |
30 | skeletal | mental ward | zoo |
Locations, continued
|
|
Detail |
Darkness |
|
1 |
bullet holes |
grisly murder scene |
|
2 |
chains |
|
|
3 |
cold draft |
|
|
4 |
constant hum |
meeting place for gang |
|
5 |
dried blood |
|
|
6 |
dripping water |
|
|
7 |
dust |
used as a safehouse/hide-out |
|
8 |
echoes |
|
|
9 |
everything boarded-up |
|
|
10 |
exposed construction |
storage for illegal goods |
|
11 |
exposed wiring |
|
|
12 |
fire escape |
|
|
13 |
flickering lights |
drug-manufacturing place |
|
14 |
foul smell |
|
|
15 |
fresh paint |
|
|
16 |
full of crates |
place of imprisonment |
|
17 |
loud machinery |
|
|
18 |
loud music |
|
|
19 |
metal scaffolding |
front for something else |
|
20 |
needles & drug paraphernalia |
|
|
21 |
neon lights |
|
|
22 |
occult symbols |
place for illegal gambling |
|
23 |
open elevator shaft |
|
|
24 |
piles of garbage |
|
|
25 |
pipes & hissing steam |
place of fighting ring |
|
26 |
pools of water |
|
|
27 |
skylight |
|
|
28 |
sparks |
hub of illegal activities |
|
29 |
suffocating heat |
|
|
30 |
sweltering hot |
Objects
|
|
1 (1-5) |
2 (6-10) |
3 (11-15) |
4 (16-20) |
5 (21-25) |
6 (26-30) |
|
1 |
artwork |
booze |
chemicals |
drug |
key or password |
microfiche |
|
2 |
blade |
bullet |
coded message |
explosives |
ledger |
photograph |
|
3 |
blueprint |
car |
deed |
forgery |
letter |
poison |
|
4 |
bonds |
card |
diamond |
gun |
map |
shoes |
|
5 |
book |
cash |
document |
jewelry |
memento |
watch |
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