Being able to describe an object, not just what it is, but what it looks like, is the difference between an OK game and a good game. Besides, many players have picked up the trick that if you (the game master) have taken the time to describe something, it’s important. Here’s a little tool to help you make everything have a description.
Feel free to use this in conjunction with the colors list I posted awhile back.
Instructions: Roll a d100 and choose from the list. Roll more than once for more details. If a roll doesn’t make sense, throw it out and try again.
- Abused
- Adorned
- Battered
- Beautiful
- Bent
- Bland
- Bright
- Broken
- Burned
- Camouflaged
- Carved
- Cheap
- Chipped
- Clean
- Coarse
- Contaminated
- Cracked
- Crisp
- Customized
- Damaged
- Damp
- Dark
- Decayed
- Decorated
- Dirty
- Domestic
- Dusty
- Dyed
- Elaborate
- Engraved
- Expensive
- Extraordinary
- Faded
- Flimsy
- Foreign
- Frayed
- Fresh
- Gleaming
- Gold-Plated
- Hard
- Heavy
- Improved
- Jeweled
- Lacquered
- Large
- Lightweight
- Modified
- Moldy
- Mundane
- Muddy
- Neglected
- New
- Old
- Ornate
- Painted
- Peeling
- Plain
- Polished
- Pristine
- Prosaic
- Quality
- Reinforced
- Repaired
- Ripped
- Rotten
- Rough
- Ruined
- Rusted
- Scarred
- Scorched
- Scuffed
- Scratched
- Sharp
- Shattered
- Simple
- Small
- Smooth
- Smudged
- Soft
- Soggy
- Soiled
- Sooty
- Sparkling
- Splintered
- Stained
- Sticky
- Strong
- Tangled
- Tarnished
- Torn
- Ugly
- Unfinished
- Unused
- Weak
- Weathered
- Well-Loved
- Well-Made
- Wet
- Wooden
- Worn
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Idea (and I might not be the first to suggest this), but a D100 list of “ways an enemy dies” would be cool. I try to keep up new ideas, but I can never find a list of ideas about it.
LOL. “Last words and actions?” I am so on board with this idea!