| 1 | black | blade | brute |
| 2 | blood | blood | creeper |
| 3 | bone | bond/bound | delver |
| 4 | death | claw | fiend |
| 5 | demon | cloak/cloaked | filcher |
| 6 | doom | doom | foamer |
| 7 | dread | fang | gnasher |
| 8 | flame | fiend | horde/hordling |
| 9 | ghost | fire | howler |
| 10 | grim | gaunt | hulk |
| 11 | ice | haunt | lasher |
| 12 | iron | horn | leaper |
| 13 | night | maw | racer |
| 14 | poison | rake | reaver |
| 15 | razor | scale | ripper |
| 16 | spell | spike | scourge |
| 17 | stone | tusk | sneak |
| 18 | storm | warp/warped | swarm |
| 19 | thunder | wing | titan |
| 20 | wind | wrack | wurm |
With attacks and abilities built right into the name, spelled out in ubiquitous damned adjectival compound nouns, a DM need only decide the creature's level range and role, and let 'er rip.
EDIT [in response to James Mishler]: The beauty of 4e is scalabilty, to wit
| 21 | acid | crawl | bloodbeast |
17 comments:
Thank you! It's been quite a while since I've seen an item about 4e that I like!
Which is ironic, seeing as I set out to satirize one of my main aesthetic peeves about recent editions of D&D! By the time I'd cobbled the chart together I was thinking, gee, some of these sound kinda cool!
Cool chart and and so painfully close to the Truth if the list of D&D minis is to be trusted!
Go Demon Claw Fiend!
Beware the Thunder Cloak-Foamer!
Tee hee hee!
How hard was it not make "zoot horn roller" a possible result? Very.
This is just great! Kudos.
But... but... there's no way to make a Blood Blood Bloodbeast? Dammit, 4E fails me again!
James: I believe the current plan is to address this in future Monster Manual releases, but I've posted an extra preview for now (and thanks for stopping by!)
Awesome!
Of course now Lou Zocchi has a new challenge: the d21!
He'd better get cracking before WotC trademarks that one...
Was this supposed to be some kind of a jab at 4e? Because this is awesome. A random new monster generation chart sounds like roughly the best idea ever.
Thanks for stopping by, Anonymous Commenter. Not so much jabbing at 4e as poking fun of an overused stylistic tic of both the recent and forthcoming editions of D&D. The occasional Ironhorn Reaver is fine and dandy but too much of that sort of thing grates.
And I agree with you on the coolness of random monster building charts! If you got here via Jeff's Gameblog, be sure to check out his link to Jim Raggi's new supplement, Name Too Long to Write Here. It could be just the ticket.
That is absolutely fantastic!
There's a similar random generator elsewhere: http://random-generator.com/index.php?title=New_Monster_Name
Max, would you mind if I added your generator to Abulafia?
That would be great Thanuir, thanks!
After some technical problems: http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=D_and_D_4th_edition_monster
Enough! It's time to finish this, Andalius! And this time, you won't have your precious Staff of Da'Karion to save you....
Awaken the Doom-Doom Demon!
Bwahahahah! :)
Well, as usual, fantasy has become reality. There is a very similar article, the "Semi-Random 4E Monster Name Generator," in the first issue of Level Up! from Geoodman Games.
It has two columns, each rolled using 2d12, to create a single compound adjective (it presumes you are providing the noun yourself, I guess). So actually, the dreaded Bloodblood Bloodbeast can now be a reality...
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