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Message: <blockquote data-quote="greywulf" data-source="post: 3263162" data-attributes="member: 4285">Now for a little silliness <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I've throw together a random creature generator for Microlite20 called <a href="http://home.greywulf.net/files/critters.cgi" target="_blank">critters</a> . It's based on <a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/" target="_blank">Chris Pound's</a>  werd random word generator, with added M20 goodness thrown in.As an aside, I highly recommend that page if you want random names, words, Cthulhoid creature names, Kung Fu movie titles, whatever. If you need it, he's got it!I've create it as an Perl script and <a href="http://home.greywulf.net/files/critters.cgi" target="_blank">online cgi script</a>  so even you non-Linux using folks can play with it too <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To use the script yourself, you'll need a quality Operating System like Linux to use it. <a href="http://home.greywulf.net/files/critters" target="_blank">Download it</a>, and make it executable. To run it type  ./critters 10 5and you'll get 10 random monsters, max hit dice 5:quoy : HD2 (11hp), AC14, Natural +2 (2d4+4)teiyable : HD5 (38hp), AC16, By weapon +8 (2d2-2)huthe : HD4 (23hp), AC17, By weapon +7 (1d10+3)dubation : HD1 (5hp), AC15, By weapon +3 (2d8+3)veiper : HD3 (24hp), AC16, By weapon +5 (1d6+5)inchube : HD3 (14hp), AC14, Natural +6 (1d8-3)laniss : HD4 (28hp), AC14, By weapon +4 (2d10-2)unove : HD4 (24hp), AC15, Natural +6 (1d12+3)vedition : HD3 (18hp), AC15, Natural +3 (2d6-4)wacker : HD1 (6hp), AC11, By weapon +1 (1d12+3)The first number is the number of critters to generate, the second is the max hit dice.What the creature looks like, what it's weapon or natural attacks are and how it behaves is entirely up to you - consider it an inspiration tool for those times when you want something not in any Monster Manual or the SRD.A few examples from the random goodies above.........The veiper is a small, fast snake-like humanoid which attacks with a curved shortsword while tasting the air in their tongues. Wackers are ogre children trained to raise the alarm if non-ogres approach their cave. They carry a drum and a huge hammer which is devastating in combat.Inchube (pronounced inc'hoo'bey) are water spirits found in fast flowing icy streams. They dance along the snow at the edge of the stream to lure travellers to their deaths.The code took about 10 minutes to put together so it's rough around the edges, but it works! I'll prettify it up another day.Enjoy.</blockquote>

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