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Rolls To Alarm Your Players II Rolling Table
So these are less rolls and more mental warfare, but hey, potato potato am I right?
Wield your power wisely, young GMs.
![A Table Top Role Playing Game Rolling Table entitled “Rolls To Alarm Your Players II.” Underneath the title is the credit in smaller text that reads “via rollingtablesiguess.”
The table indicates that you should be using a d10 to determine what “rolls” you get.
1. Randomly look at your player with the lowest AC and say, “What was your AC again?”
2. Roll a d12. Look surprised. Check your notes. Roll another d12. Look even more surprised. Check your notes again. Roll a d20 and raise an eyebrow. If asked, say, “don’t worry about it.”
3. Randomly ask one of your squishy players what their current HP is. Raise an eyebrow and say “you have your backup character ready, right?”
4. Ask a player for an insight, investigation, or perception check, and no matter what they get, tell them “yeah, you don’t see anything”
5. Ask the two players furthest apart on the map to roll a perception check
6. Ask your players for a wisdom saving throw. Look/sound disappointed by whatever they roll.
7. Ask one of your players for a perception check. Roll 2d10. Say, “you know what, why don’t we have [other PC] roll a perception check too., maybe they can help.” After the second player rolls, just shake your head in disappointment.
8. Ask your players where exactly they are in relation to one another. What order are they walking in? How far apart are they? Are they in pairs? Say “hm,” and then write something down.
9. Ask one player for a perception check and/or for their passive perception multiple times throughout the session
10. Just grab a handful of dice and roll them](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4140e503111d8ac9c6a2133f97a16d3a/9b75691c3bd45545-1c/s500x750/72f8f89d44dc079d8c1315d23250ffa0bb946971.png)
House Hunters: D&D Edition.
Alright, on a more serious note, I was inspired by a recent ask to redo my original building generator that I made a while back (and add a lot more tables and detail to it). It’s by no means an end-all-be-all set of rolling tables, just an outline to get things started and developed. Have fun looking for a home base for your adventurers!
The artwork used is stock by Fumar-Porros. They create all of it using SketchUp and Photoshop. It’s really impressive!
Buy Me a Coffee?
Stop by Geoff’s Artificery of Arcane Oddities and try out one of his new capsule machines! For the totally reasonable price of 10 gold or 1 platinum, you too can end up with a bizarre little item.
Felspar is back with another potion of alchemy! It’s (in theory) “stronger” than the potion of minor alchemy in that it lasts longer and its effects tend to be more severe, but it’s not any rarer since it’s all just flavor, anyways.
Can’t read the image, well? Open it in The Homebrewery!
“A stone pitcher sits before you. It looks innocent enough, on its own. The inky black tonic poured from it is anything but. It smells of the lower planes, of ash and blood.”
The long-awaited companion to the Tonic of Undiluted Chaos! Havic is back at it again with the outrageous potions. This time, we’re taking a break from Chaos and diving into the lower planes for some Evil. And yes, this potion is made with Yugoloth blood. So there’s that going for it.
Edit: Note that if you roll an 100 and then something, the effects can be removed using Greater Restoration. And in the case of the Polymorphs, those still end if you die.
Table of Scrambled Calls
Oh no, your spell of contacting or divination-targeting got all dorked up! Instead of your intended contactee, your magical link-up instead links up with:
a Rival
a party member’s mom and/or dad
a party member’s long-dead ancestor’s spirit
a minor underling or footsoldier of the big bad
a major lieutenant of the big bad
a Fiend
a Dragon
a God
a colony of Mind-Flayers
a Beholder
a Drow priestess
a talking frog of some sort
some eldritch horror beyond mortal comprehension whose wrath has only been averted from our paltry world by virtue of its never having noticed us before
a skilled tradesperson of some sort
some random dirt-farmer
some random dirt-farmer that, by some amazing coincidence, just so happens to look exactly like the person you were trying to contact. Roll Perception to see if you can tell the difference
the spirit of a famous historical hero
the spirit of an infamous historical villain
the spirit of some random peasant
a seller of magical items
a nervous low-level Wizard needing a project to complete for a grade in Wizard School
a panicky mid-level Warlock desperate to curry favor with their patron
a kindly mid-level Cleric that likes to be helpful
a bored high-level chaotic-neutral Sorcerer
the reception desk at a major magical university
the local chief of security/police
a cell in a high-level prison
the Dungeon-Master from the old D&D cartoon
the actual real actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who annoyed the interplanar magical community with his flippant portrayal of Doctor Strange and has now been cursed with an aura of permeable reality that tends to attract spell-errors like this. Not wishing to annoy any further spell-casters, he is wont to give aid however he can
the players