As you may know, this month I am very much thinking about procedure. Being a fan of procedural generation generally, and Spark tables specifically, I'm building up a mega meta-spark-table where each entry references another spark table (or set of spark tables).
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For level 2 of my megadungeon I rolled "Fungal Wasteland" on my original d100 spark table, so for further inspiration I built some more quick spark tables, for "Fungal" and for "Wasteland" specifically:
Fungal
Adjectives: toadstool, spore, rotting, corrupted, infested, slime, mushroom, fermenting
Places: farm, forest, spore-field, giant cap
Antagonists: mycologists, fungusfolk, harvesters, cultists
(NPCs will come from the above)
Things: world-stool, spores, juice/extract, truffles
Situations: infestation, hallucination, feast, rot
Wasteland
Adjectives: feral, forgotten, jury-rigged, wasted, disused, rusted, barren, scrap/junk
P: ruin, wastes, refuge, camp
A: raiders, survivors, prospectors, treasure hunters
T: artifact, cause (of the desolation), prophecy, scrap heap
S: collapse, ambush, awakening, restoration
Sparking
Rolling a few times on these (an Adjective from one + something from the other) gave me this little lot of potentially useful ideas:
"Rotting survivors"
"Slime refuge"
"Infested prophecy"
"Corrupted collapse"
"Scrap/junk farm"
"Jury-rigged fungus-folk"
"Rusted spores"
"Forgotten feast"
...etc
The idea being that these sub-spark-tables would combine differently if the initial spark was different. For example the lists for "Fungal" combined with e.g. "Labyrinth" would build a different set of spark tables for "Fungal Labyrinth", similarly for e.g. "Antimagic Wasteland" and so on...
I'm behind with my rooms but will try to get caught up next week, but what ideas do the tables give you?
