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Random tables for 1970s crime movie RPGs

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.

Or read the tables after the jump-cut:

[Monster] The Pale Menace!

More random monster generation! This time using the article "Random Monsters" by Paul Montgomery Crabaugh, which appeared in The Dragon #10 (link to the annarchive pdf). So already in 1977 the problem of jaded players knowing all the counters to all the monsters in the book existed, and Crabaugh wanted to spice things up with unexpected creatures. The generator is a simple affair, but perhaps it set the framework for latter sets of tables.

The Pale Menace

Intelligence: Highly intelligent

Alignment: Neutrality

HD: 6+1

AC 4 [LotFP AC: 17]

Move: 12"

Attack: claw for 1-10 or bite 1-10 and 1-6 poison

Special attack: Magic Missile as Magic-User 4, once per day

Special defense: regeneration, 1-4 hits per turn

Slim and gaunt, pale and wrinkled, like a hairless bear, but with the fangs of a saber-tooth tiger. Its four eyes are located equidistantly around its head, like a band of glowing red jewels (once per day, it can shoot 4 laser beams; treat as Magic Missile). 

The Pale Menace is a lesser servitor to Ithaqua. Its body irradiates coldness. If damaged, its wounds quickly get covered in hoarfrost and heal (regenerates 1-4 hits per turn). 

Lame art by me

My original rolls:

Intelligence: Highly intelligent

Alignment: Neutrality

Type: Mammal

Speed: 12”

AC: 4 [LotFP AC: 17]

HD: Dungeon level +3 (Mod: +1) [I gave this creature 6 HD]

Specials: 3

                Bite is poisonous 1-6 damage

                Regenerates 1-4 hits per turn

                Has Magic Missile

Damage: 1-10

Characteristics:

                4 eyes

                Unusually long fangs

Size: Medium (3-12’)

Limbs: 2 legs, 2 arms

Cover: Skin

Coloring: White