Showing posts with label customs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label customs. Show all posts

09 April 2022

Table: Foreign Attitudes (Unpredict-O-Bubble Table)

If you happen to find yourself in an unfamiliar land, try to learn as much as you can about local customs and attitudes before introducing yourself. This is the ninth table of the Unpredict-O-Bubble Table.

Foreign Attitudes

Roll 1d12

In this land, strangers are...

1. Acknowledged by extending one arm, palm outward, and looking away.
2. Acknowledged with a condescending breaking of wind.
3. Acknowledged with a limerick of dubious appropriateness.
4. Acknowledged with a spit take.
5. Attacked instantly with whatever is at hand.
6. Ceremoniously distracted and unceremoniously robbed.
7. Greeted with a bow followed by a headbutt to the abdomen.
8. Greeted with an elaborate salute that requires practice to master.
9. Greeted with spontaneous song and dance.
10. Greeted with uproarious laughter.
11. Offered a ride on one's back to the nearest drinking establishment.
12. Offered as sacrifice to the local dragon, pit beast, cult leader, or godling.

01 April 2022

Table: Peculiar Marriage Rituals (Unpredict-O-Bubble Table)

Roll on this table once or twice to generate unusual customs of a matrinmonial nature in phantastic lands. This is the first table of the Unpredict-O-Bubble Table.

[This is an altered and expanded version of the table previously posted here. Since it's my wedding anniversary, I thought it might be appropriate.]

Peculiar Marriage Rituals

Roll 1d20

In this land, weddings are...

1. Conducted at ley line intersections.
2. Conducted in astral form.
3. Conducted in darkness.
4. Conducted whilst standing on one foot.
5. Conducted with no participant closer than 4 cubits* to any other.
6. Followed by a moment of flatulence.
7. Followed by mob foot-balle.
8. Followed by potion-imbibing.
9. Followed by swimming.
10. Followed by tug-of-war.
11. Officiated by a beekeeper.
12. Officiated by a jester.
13. Officiated by a magician.
14. Officiated by a shouter.
15. Officiated by a spirit.
16. Preceded by a donnybrook.
17. Preceded by a hunt.
18. Preceded by a moment of choral humming.
19. Preceded by a moment of primal screaming.
20. Preceded by planting a tree.

* 2 m or 6 feet.