Tuesday, 29 March 2016

The Demon Spawner

We have a list of tables here for creating demons. Start by rolling for each body part, then determine its intelligence and the thing that motivates it. These are entirely aesthetic tables; hit points and damage need to be determined depending on what system and what level you are running this for.

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I have not included tables for size or colouration; as these can be pretty generic. Instead, I have included more detailed tables for the different parts of the demon like mouths and eyes. Take what you want, leave what you want.

You may not want to use this just for demons. These can be used for aliens or gods or simply something you want to draw. You might decide that something awful needs to happen to a player character and roll on the "heads" table to see what their head turns into upon eating a very dodgy looking apple. You might need motivation for an evil NPC and jump down to the "The Motivation" table. You may simply be interested in seeing what horrible pit monster pops up when someone casts a summoning spell or decides to have a chat with something through a portal.

For the Summon spell, in Lamentations of the Flame Princess, I would always recommend this useful web page here. But, if you want something different in appearance then the tables below will be just for you!

If you want to add a little extra, roll a D8 for each table to see how many of that appendage your demon gets.

Creating a Demon



The Head
1 Human, female, beautiful and young 11 A shriveled old hag
2 Human, male, handsome and young 12 A wizened old man
3 Human, female, child and cherub-like 13 A man, a woman, and a child's head, merged together at the cheeks
4 Human, male, child and cherub-Like 14 A large bird
5 A goat or ram 15 A hundred tiny insect heads on stalks
6 An oversized bull or cow 16 A bulbous mass of weeping tumours
7 A large crocodile 17 A massive fish
8 A gelatinous octopus 18 A mass of rocks, soil, and roots
9 Three tusked boar heads stitched together with thick black veins 19 Contorting shadows and black slime
10 A round ballooned alien 20 Nothing


The Eyes
1 Human 11 Chameleon
2 Feline 12 Blackholes (with a small amount of vacum)
3 Black, without a pupil, which roll back into the head for protection 13 Snake
4 Arachnid 14 Zigzagged pupils with thick red veins
5 Insect 15 Milky white with no pupil or colouring
6 Goat 16 Eyes containing star consolations and galaxies
7 Gaping holes which bleed profusely 17 Orbs consisting of 6 lenses that look in multiple directions
8 Glowing orbs on stalks 18 Frog
9 Hawk 19 Beacons of light
10 Canine 20 Nothing


The Mouth
1 Human 11 Horse
2 Shark 12 Feline
3 Canine, filled with fanged teeth 13 Whale, filled with baleen bristles
4 Human, filled with canine fangs 14 A large set of jaws which resemble pink labia with great fangs
5 A toothless human mouth, with crushing gums 15 A mouth (for ripping) within a mouth (for chewing) within a mouth (for swallowing)
6 Circular with serrated teeth 16 A mouth that opens in three segments with rows upon rows of needle teeth
7 An empty black hole 17 Toothless with a sticky amphibian tongue
8 A hard, hooked beak 18 Hundreds of tentacles surrounding a ring of fangs
9 Pincers and mandibles 19 A phallic protrusion from which two hooks emerge to ensnare prey
10 A long elephant trunk 20 Nothing


The Body
1 A spinal column and rib cage made of bone with no flesh or skin 11 A combination of rocks, dirt and roots in the shape of an hulking gorilla
2 A human male adult 12 Mantis
3 A human female adult 13 Hundreds of babies and torn flesh stitched together by tendons and muscle
4 A human male child 14 A hard carapace made from human bones
5 A human female child 15 Tyrannosaurus rex
6 Horse 16 Hawk
7 A sleek feline 17 Whale
8 A fat, bulbous mass of gelatinous flesh that wobbles 18 Tarantula
9 Elephant 19 A long serpentine body
10 A swirling chaotic vortex of lightening and wind 20 Canine


The Tail
1 The tail of a serpent with a rattle on the end 5 A fat bulbous protrusion which emits a stinking chemical gas
2 A scorpions tail with a venomous sting 6 A short stumpy tail that wags happily when someone has been murdered violently
3 A curling feline tail with a mind of its own 7 A short tail with a thick tuft of hair on the end
4 A long slender tail with an arrow headed tip coated in hard iron 8 A long fishy tail


The Arms and Hands
1 Serrated gouging hooks 6 Talons
2 Tentacles 7 Webbed claws
3 Human 8 Feline claws
4 Fins or flippers 9 Wings
5 Scythes 10 Nothing (or slug-like)


The Legs and Feet
1 Cloven hooves 6 Feline
2 Human 7 Sharp blades
3 Crab 8 Flippers or fins
4 Talons 9 Tentacles
5 Canine 10 Nothing (or slug-like)


The Skin/Flesh
1 Human 11 Translucent skin
2 Fish scales 12 Hardened glass
3 Lizard scales 13 Iron plates
4 Thick fur 14 Slime
5 Leathery crocodile hide 15 Crustacean shell
6 Sheep's wool 16 Feathers
7 Rock and gemstone 17 Leaves and bark
8 Exposed muscles and fatty tissue 18 Bone
9 Molten lava 19 Stars and galaxies in a swirling mass
10 Acidic slime coating 20 Smoke and mist


The Intelligence
1 Imbecile; a drooling mess 4 Average human
2 Basic animal 5 High
3 Predatory animal 6 Genius


The Motivation
1 Lust 6 Gluttony
2 Sloth 7 Pride
3 Envy 8 Knowledge
4 Wrath 9 Love
5 Greed 10 Death

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