One Million Orcs

[Reynard]

I made a very rough windows app that generates a brief, semi-coherent paragraph from the tables as listed.

Requires .NET to be installed, generates orcish tribes and weapon names/histories.

This is awesome. Thanks!

I created this orcish tribe with it:

The Flesh/Blood of Gruumsh tribe consists of 51 orcs, mostly young males who have been ejected from their former tribes by elder males wishing to reduce competition. There are 5.1 non-combatant female and young and/or non-orc slaves. The live in Mobile camp and they are a cult of gruumsh who capture elves and sacrifie to Gruumsh. Their leader is a Figurehead = Ogrish Young and Powerful Warrior/Hunter real power = Orc-ess witch. With their tribe are a dragon.

That's a lot of consistency for a random generator!

 

[Reynard]

You're not going to let a bunch of goblins beat us, are you? Vote for One Million Orcs as Thread of the Week!!!

 

[~Coxy]

Here's a "version 2", which produces paragraphs which read a lot better. It also fixes a bug whereby rolls on the same table mostly always returned the same result (example a sword most recently owned by X meant it was always being sought by X too.)

Excerpts:

The Weapon is called "Light Drinker/Eater/Devourer". It was forged by Goblinoids and first wielded by a Demi-god. It was famous for being used in defense/service of forger's/owner's nation/race/religion until it was lost by the wielder dying in battle. The weapon reappears each generation. It was most recently owned by a Demi-god and is sought by typical adventurer(s).

The Tusk/Jaw of Gruumsh tribe consists of 40 orcs, mostly young males who have been ejected from their former tribes by elder males wishing to reduce competition. There are 8 non-combatant female and young and/or non-orc slaves. They live in local caves/caverns and they are a warband against other orcs. Their leader is a Orcish Battle Scarred Veteran. With their tribe are 13.3333333333333 wolves who will flee if they can.

 

[HandofMystra]

Here's a "version 2", which produces paragraphs which read a lot better. It also fixes a bug whereby rolls on the same table mostly always returned the same result (example a sword most recently owned by X meant it was always being sought by X too.)

Excerpts:

This looks great. I notice that the number of non-combatants and the numbers of pets are often non-integers.

 

[Thondor]

I Forked a new thread

For some reason the link back to here doesn't work (Shrugs).

Reynard you inspired me to make a more 'sophisticated' vs orc 'barbaric' set of tables the basic names are below. I'll try to make a link to the thread so that if anyone wants to see the rest they can.

table 1
Pre-name
1 Silent
2 Flaming/Flames
3 Lightning/Lights
4 Dawn's
5 Night's
6 Dusk's
7 Singing/Screaming
8 Pale
9 Twilight
10 Iron
11 Violent/Vicious
12 Valient/ Tenacious
13 Soul's/Spirit's
14 Zealous/Subtle
15 Roaring/Howling
16 Frenzied
17 Heaven's
18 Steadfast
19 Thunders/Thundering
20 Brilliant/ Nature's

Table 2
Name
1 Blades
2 Champions
3 Myrmidons
4 Defenders/ Guardians
5 Shadows
6 Rebels
7 Scoundrels
8 Troopers/Warriors
9 Heroes
10 Spellbinders
11 Protectors/ Shield(s)
12 Cavaliers
13 Hammers/Axes/Arrows etc
14 Gambit
15 Vengeance
16 Coterie
17 Cabal
18 Vandals
19 Alliance/Guild/Guide
20 Brotherhood

Link to Band/Adventurer Group names

 

[Sander_Kaa]

Awesome. Just awesome. I've put your tables into excel so I can play around a little bit more.

Any ideas how to stat out the combatants based on EL/CR input?

 

[Rechan]

Y'know, this table can result in some really odd combos.

Sword... Chewer.
Steel... Eater.
Tusk... !@&$!er
Brain of Gruumsh.

 

[garyh]

Y'know, this table can result in some really odd combos.

Sword... Chewer.
Steel... Eater.
Tusk... !@&$!er
Brain of Gruumsh.

The Brain of Gruumsh sounds like some kind of mind flayer / orc hybrid. Which is awesome, and why odd combos are to be appreciated.

 

[megamania]

Ah- this brings back memories....

I had created something like this for Gith in my Darksun days.


Thankyou for the memories.....

 

[Raven Crowking]

Reynard,

Sorry that I have to spread XP around before I can give to you again.

Nice thread.

RC