Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Monster generator spark cards

I made a small 12-card deck monster generator today. Draw two and combine!


The contents as a d12 table:

1.     Ooze

acid, rust, pseudopod, subdividing, natural, lab-grown, medicinal, (a)morphing, mutating

2.     Skeleton

mausoleum, holding shit, bone weapons, femur, teeth, display, pirate, giant, monster, necromancy, skeleton key, grave robbing, tomb

3.     Fungus/Plant

flowers, seeds, pods, tendrils, roots, crawling, stationary, fluorescent, growth, poison, psychoactive

4.     Robot

laser, prosthetic, tracks, lights, hologram, armor, clockwork, steam, replicant, android, mecha, production

5.     Lizard

scales, amphibious, rainbow, reptiloid, swamp gas, thunder, toad, prehistoric, conspiracy, rending claws, running

6.     Ghost

immaterial, haunting, fear, hunger, bound, eerie, screams, want, swamp, chains, murder, fog, treasure

7.     Parasyte

symbiotic, infectious, mind control, autonomous, slow transformation

8.     Octopus

tentacles, floating, sepia, ink cloud, grabbing, reef, alien, weird, unsettling, slimy, suckered, jelly, genius, mastermind

9.     Elemental

air, fire, earth, water, outer planes, transformation, void, harmony, balance, alchemy, philosophy

10. Avian

wing, shriek, egg, flock, claw, migration, dive, beak, nest, sky, plumage, navigation

11. Beast

tail, sentient, cub, mythical, bipedal, fangs, armored, quadraped, uplifted, horns, tribal, magical, camouflage, mutated, hoofs, armed, nocturnal, centaur, cryptid

12. Psychic

mind blast, oracle, clairvoyance, hypnosis, telekinesis, voice, illusion, pyrokinesis, vision

 

Quick examples:

BEAST + ELEMENTAL = a tribe of fire-worshipping pigmen

PSYCHIC + AVIAN = giant bats that navigate using telepathy

OOZE + PARASYTE = jelly that replaces a humanoid’s brain and spinal fluid

FUNGUS/PLANT + OCTOPUS = a tree with lots of grabby roots

GHOST + ROBOT = a malevolent gremlin that possesses machinery

SKELETON + LIZARD = dinosaur on display in museum reanimated


And a drawing by my wife, a PLANT + SKELETON combo which she interpreted as a dried husk of a plant with teeth:



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