You have encountered a god?! What do they look like?! (Roll below)
(Maybe of use for this: http://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2022/03/emp-dyn-rpg.html or this: https://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2020/01/star-dogs-galaxy-sector-creation-kit.html )
(An automated version of the tables is at the bottom of the post).
Baroque Science Fantasy God Appearance Generator:
Colour (Roll twice and combine):
- Gold
- White
- Yellow
- Orange
- Cream
- Grey
- Light blue
- Dark blue
- Near clear white
- Glass
- Opaque glass
- Fresh green
- Rainbow
- Glistening pink
- Glistening red
- Mirror chrome
- Clear blue
- Copper
- Iridescent white
- Brown
- Red
- Tan
- Pale pink
- Beige
- Shimmering prismatic
- Purple
- Glistening green
- Pale yellow
- Wine red
- Puss yellow green
- Bronze
- Ash
- Dark silver
- Deep purple
- Rust
- Pale brown
- Translucent grey
- Bone
- Black
- Glowing indigo
Form Base (Roll twice and combine):
- An androgynous human body
- A pair of wings
- A flat geometric shape
- A ray of light
- A cloud of gas
- A cylinder
- A mist
- A storm cloud
- A whirling tornado
- A cloud of tiny spheres
- A sheet of rectangular crystal
- A mound of bubbly foam
- A tangle of writhing vines
- A perfectly cut gem
- A brain
- A heart or other internal organ
- A flat circle of mirror
- A pool of liquid
- A cube
- An ever flowing downpour of milk
- A polygonal shape made of metal framing
- A tree
- A fanged maw
- A twisting column of roots
- A cluster of eyeballs
- A flame
- A column of stone
- A fan of humanoid arms and hands
- A single eyeball
- A humanoid face
- A sphere
- A soft floating flesh membrane or fabric sheet
- A crack in reality
- A hole or pit
- A boulder
- A sphere of sucking darkness
- A swirling ouroboros of dust
- A blade, spike or thorn
- A drop or downpour of blood
- A bone, skeleton or skull
Form Warpage (Roll twice and combine):
- Glowing softly
- Harshly, acutely, angular
- Shining blindingly
- Broken into several, separate floating parts
- Reality bludgeoningly solid-dense
- Shredded into uncountable wispy tendrils
- Swirl bubbling like solid steam
- Vibrating so hard as to shimmer
- Seemingly ever-receding from view but paradoxically staying in place
- Seen as an outline through the environment around it
- Made of tiny iridescent bubbles
- Made of sap like gel
- Formed of glinting metal
- Made of bubbling, glistening flesh coral
- Made of knots of blood veins
- Reflective and mirroring
- Dripping with clear liquid
- Constantly dividing and multiplying versions of itself in a fractal pattern
- Disappearing and reappearing from reality in never ending liquid wave wipes
- Ever folding in on self and then unpacking in a tessellating pattern
- Exploding with hypnotically writhing feathers and or leaves
- Wriggling with endless cillia flesh
- Steaming with warm moisture
- Form replicated into twins swirling around each other in a double helix
- Burning with flame
- Ever crumbling into a heap then reforming
- Spinning
- Appears diffused across the sky
- Made of endless teeth and flesh consuming itself
- Stretches from the lowest point of vision to the highest
- An enveloping dome
- Riven with countless cracks
- Protrudes up from beneath, and composed of the ground
- Made of ancient craggy rock
- Made of light drinking darkness
- Drains the colour from reality around it
- Bleeding profusely from several open wounds
- Leaking endless worms of shadow
- Tumour, puss, boil, sore covered
- One part of its form is impaled on the other
Automated Baroque Science Fantasy God Appearance Generator:
I like this one quite a bit :)
ReplyDeleteGood to hear!
DeleteThis is amazing, great job!
ReplyDeleteThis is right up my alley, strong chance I'm going to use this in world generation for a campaign I'm working on.
ReplyDeleteNice, I've got a few more associated generators coming that may be useful too.
DeleteMirror chrome tree with a red humanoid face, spinning and constantly dividing and multiplying versions of itself in a fractal pattern...
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS GIVING ME SHIVERS!
Some sort of DMT demon...
DeleteGood stuff
ReplyDeleteIf you roll twice and combine, option 1 will never be selected, right? Or am I misunderstanding the process?
ReplyDeleteWell you would have option 1 and option 2. E.g: A cylinder and A pair of wings combined is a cylinder with a pair of wings attached.
DeleteThe roll twice and combine is just a suggestion to get a more complicated god being, but you can just roll once to get a simpler version.
Love worshiping my Iridescent white cube, with its perfectly cut gem form and harsh acute angles.
ReplyDeleteI was gonna rib you a bit about my result being several incompatible shapes at once, but come to think of it, that's basically perfect for a god.
Sort of a hyper cube type situation.
DeleteThis is so cool! Would the next articles address personality or dogma or something?
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it! The planned other parts of the generator are: God size/power, naming convention, personality, communication method, desired form of worship/type of church, artefact manifestation, Oath method, and finally Boon/Bane tables!
DeleteThis is very well timed, I've been working on a setting that I want to populate with weird gods and these are exactly the sort of thing I was looking for!
DeleteOh nice! I will try and finish the other tables soon haha
DeleteHello again! I got around to finishing this god generator: https://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-baroque-science-fantasy-god.html
DeleteHi Michael! I love it, so weird. Thank you so much for letting me know!
DeleteWeird is good! Glad you like it.
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