My Evil Is Law: Adventure Generator
4d12 to inspire your game session
Here's the last significant section of My Evil Is Law, my Samurai Jack inspired setting and system (previous posts: 1, 2, and 3). There are a few miscellaneous bits I've written but they don't feel as fully baked. Here we have a few tables for generating adventures. Roll 4d12 and you're on your way! To further expand on adventure creation, I have a solid system for generating “dungeons” found in Mysteries of the Multiverse. A few tweaks to some of the table results and that would be perfect for a setting like this.
Rumor Source
1. An old laborer who claims to have once a warlord
2. A rug merchant determined to make a sale
3. An escaped prisoner who fears hunters
4. A professor on a lecture tour
5. A group of bounty hunters let it slip while hunting you
6. An old sailor with multiple prosthetic limbs
7. A traditional warrior from an almost extinct culture
8. A massacre victim’s dying words
9. A scientist who regrets his greatest invention
10. A dead man’s parrot
11. A dream/nightmare
12. Your reflection
Premise
1. Alien migrant minorities need crystals to power their secret spaceship
2. A magic portal is held within one of the bellies of a twin-headed beast
3. A monster is bound within a deathtrap dungeon. It seeks freedom in death but may only find final relief from honorable combat
4. A notable figure, with a large bounty, entangles themselves with the PCs
5. Robots are eating all metal and technology in an area
6. An amateur wizard is polymorphing people into exotic animals that he then sells
7. Horrid creatures are kidnapping people and taking them to their sanctuary
8. A grandchild of the Overlord raids the countryside for ancient artifacts and lost technology
9. There’s a wizard who offers free magic to anyone who gets in his van
10. A 100’ giant stomps past where the PCs are resting.
11. Bandits forced villagers into a dangerous search for an ancient artifact. And the villagers found it! Now the villagers have just enough advantage to negotiate
12. A local despot is on their deathbed. Factions vie against each other while upon the precipice of a bloody conflict
Location/ Setting
1. A crashed spaceship
2. Hypno-rave
3. An accursed cave
4. Isolationist monastery
5. A great city of the Overlord
6. Forced labor camp/mine
7. Dino island
8. A secret research lab
9. A near impregnable fortress
10. A city banished beneath the waves
11. The childhood home of one of the PCs
12. A horrid swamp
Complication
1. The Overlord has disguised himself as an ally
2. Spirits protect the location
3. An old friend or mentor suffers from brainwashing
4. A pair of bickering bounty hunters following the PCs
5. Alien saucer abductions
6. Underground/underwater dwellers appear and make demands
7. Someone discovers they are actually a robot
8. One of the Overlord’s spawn takes a personal interest in the situation
9. The MacGuffin is surprisingly sentient and begins to exert its own will
10. Some of the antagonists only act as such because of a curse
11. A trickster spirit enters the fray for sheer amusement
12. A cyborg detective needs to question the antagonist of the current adventure
If I combined all the My Evil Is Law posts and add a starter adventure then that'd be a pretty solid zine. What more would you want for running games of this?
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