Grimdark fantasy descriptor table + thing/place generator

John Blanche

A d40 table of grimdarkish fantasy descriptors! 

1. Pale 
2. Glowing 
3. Sparkling 
4. Dizzying 
5. Miasmic 
6. Skeletal 
7. Florid 
8. Sparking 
9. Diminutive 
10.  Shadowy 
11.  Ghostly 
12.  Viny 
13.  Metallic 
14.  Withered 
15.  Corpulent 
16.  Hulking 
17.  Damp 
18.  Crude 
19.  Melted 
20. Caged  
21. Swarming   
22. Fanged 
23. Cyclopean
24. Rainbonic 
25. Burning
26. Rotting 
27. Ichorous 
28. Hoary 
29. Hideous 
30. Quivering 
31. Fused 
32. Blasphemous
33. Cladded 
34. Crusted 
35. Demonic 
36. Gelatinous
37. Jagged
38. Frigid 
39. Sepulchral
40. Deathly

Combine it with a basic "thing" table to get a universal grimdark thing generator! 

1. Person 
2. Monster 
3. Beast 
4. Vegetation 
5. Treasure 
6. Armour 
7. Weapon 
8. Mineral 
9. Liquid 
10. Atmosphere 

Or, a "place" table to get a universal grimdark place generator! 

1. Single building 
2. Ruin 
3. Estate
4. Dungeon 
5. Village
6. Town 
7. City 
8. Cavern 
9. Cave system  
10. Plain 
11. Forest
12. Jungle  
13. Mountain 
14. Desert 
15. Hills 
16. Lake 
17. Sea 
18. River 
19. Swamp 
20. Beach 

Automated generators, for your generating pleasure: 

Saganarium Sea Beast Generator

I am deep into my Silmarillion inspired play by post game where the players take on the role of creator spirits/mortal and immortal races/heroes from those races. Early in the game I asked the creator spirits for a bunch of ideas for the animals that inhabit the world, and I have taken these and turned them into the following Sea Beast Generator!

Note: 

• The text in the square brackets on the first two lines represents the stars that the creature was created under. This gives the coloration of the creature and a suggested of words to use in the creation of that creatures name.