Protectors of the Effigies (Beetlemen Broodhouse Generator)

For this version of Guild Dogs: https://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2023/05/guild-dogs-epsilon.html

Building on this method of room generation: https://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-old-imperial-factory-star-dogs.html

Suburb map/Broodhouse location 

Protectors of the Effigies: 

A brood of beetlemen warriors, their thick carapace just hiding an interior of translucent jelly. They wear the chitinous remains of their fallen siblings as talismans. They hunt with organic, grown spears, often poisoned and have a supernatural ability to locate prey (conjecture assumes this ability comes from thrumming interior jellies). They protect and guard the ancient statues of snailbeasts across the suburb. They also have contracts of defence and security with several buildings in the suburb. Non beetlemen are strictly forbidden from entering their broodhouse - home of their birthing jelly hives. Nondescript flesh feeds and grows their hives. 

NPC Suggested Statistics: 

• Level: 1 - 6 / (d6) 
• HP: 5 x level 
• AC: 8 (Jelly) - 18 (Heavy chitin) / (d8+10) 

Weapons: 

• Thrumming Chitin Spear: d6 + 1 for each DEX AND STR value above 15, + double Level To Hit, can attack targets from a distance deemed appropriate by the Referee, 50% chance of breaking after a combat if not used by a beetleman  
• Thrumming Chitin Stinger: d6 + 2 for each DEX value above 15, + double Level To Hit, +Level damage to targets in armour lighter than medium,  50% chance of breaking after a combat if not used by a beetleman  
• Thrumming Chitin Great Sword: d10 + 1 for each DEX AND STR value above 15, +double Level To Hit, +Level damage to targets in armour lighter than medium,  50% chance of breaking after a combat if not used by a beetleman  
• Thrumming Chitin Stinger Bow: d6 + 1 for each DEX value above 16, + Level To Hit, can attack targets from a distance deemed appropriate by the Referee, Reloading requires a successful DEX action,  50% chance of breaking after a combat if not used by a beetleman  

Powers (For NPCs and Spell Laden Treasures): 

Beetleman Spell Lade Treasures require WIS 14 to use. 

• Healing: Increase a target’s HP by d8 + 1 for each WIS value above 16, level, level times a day.
• Regeneration: Grow back a target’s limb, each WIS value above 16 times a day.
• Hivemind: Hearing a visual target’s thoughts, level times a day.
• Battle Poison: Apply poison to your next successful attack, causing d8 + 1 for each WIS value above 16 damage for d6 combat turns, level times a day.
• Bug Empathy: Give a single/group of insects (equal/under your level) a simple command, level times a day.
• Sensor: Know where a target is you have smelt the pheromones of, level times a day. 

Exploring the Broodhouse: 

To generate a room, roll on the mapping/stocking tables. Then roll on the Thing/Descriptor/Desire tables until you get a combination of results you feel summons an interesting/unique/coherent/otherwise gameable room within your mind’s eye. 

(See the bottom of the post for an automated generator)

Room Size, d6 

1. Tiny
2. Small
3. Medium
4. Big 
5. Oddly big (roll two shapes and combine) 
6. Huge 

Room Shape, d6

1. Square 
2. Rectangle 
3. Triangle 
4. Circle 
5. Half Circle 
6. Cross  

Number of Doors, roll a d6 but only Huge rooms have more than four doors. 

Door Type, d6

1. Open
2. Open
3. Open - Leads to stairwell 
4. Locked 
5. Open and trapped
6. Locked and trapped 

Room stocking, d12

1. Empty 
2. Neutral npc/beast  
3. Aggressive npc/beast 
4. Group of neutral npc’s/beasts 
5. Group of aggressive npc’s/beasts 
6. Aggressive great beast 
7. Small supply of a resource 
8. Abundance of a resource 
9. Device 
10. Treasure 
11. Strangeness 
12. Roll twice and combine. 

Thing, d30

1. Hive 
2. Hatchery 
3. Training cell 
4. Feeding vat 
5. Meat storage 
6. Sacrifice pool 
7. Jelly shrine 
8. Jelly womb
9. Rejuvenation pool  
10. Memory jelly 
11. Egg 
12. Grub 
13. Larva 
14. Beetle 
15. Chitin Husk 
16. Blade brutebeetle  
17. Mandible brutebeetle  
18. Spear hunterbeetle  
19. Barbsting hunterbeetle 
20. Winged spearbeetle 
21. Priestbeetle 
22. Snailbeast idol 
23. Chitin plates 
24. Jelly flesh 
25. Chitin horn 
26. Chitin talisman 
27. Jelly cluster 
28. Jelly tube 
29. Slime puddle 
30. Flesh column

Descriptor, d60 

1. Claw 
2. Mandible 
3. Shell 
4. Insect wings 
5. Jelly 
6. Eggs 
7. Slime 
8. Antennae
9. Husk fossils 
10. Pink mist 
11. Red mist 
12. Blood rain 
13. Slime shadows 
14. Holy 
15. Ancient 
16. Huge 
17. Enveloping 
18. Sacrificial
19. Priestly 
20.  Vomiting 
21. Compound eye 
22. Fur 
23. Blood 
24. Meat 
25. Flesh 
26. Bone 
27. Chitin 
28. Claw 
29. Hivemind 
30. Regeneration 
31. Regrowth 
32. Poisoning 
33. Talismanic 
34. Enruned 
35. Graven 
36. Hungry 
37. Pink 
38. Black 
39. Purple 
40. Iridescent 
41. Red 
42. Maggot ridden 
43. Rotten 
44. Organic 
45. Curved 
46. Sharp 
47. Hard 
48. Flowing 
49. Dripping 
50. Scuttling 
51. Stabbing 
52. Impaling 
53. Burrowing 
54. Chittering 
55. Blood sucking 
56. Crawling 
57. Flying 
58. Heavily armoured 
59. Far sensing 
60. Precise sensing 

Thing Desire, d10

1. Meat 
2. Worship of snailbeast 
3. Protect the jelly memory 
4. Protect the larva 
5. Find new genetic memory for the jelly hive 
6. Venerate the ancients husks 
7. Prove self in combat to brood 
8. Prove self in hunting to brood 
9. Grow own jelly fat 
10. Rest in slime bath 

Automated Stocker/Generator: