Appendix
Random Rune Generator You will encounter many opportunities to use cool glyphs, runes, and tattoos in your games. However, it can be pretty tough to come up with a design for the fiftieth rune inscribed in the ancient tomb your characters are exploring. What do all those runes look like?
ere are some lists of potential visual descriptions that can come together to create interesting runic images. Use these lists to create item images, graven images, etched object runes, marks of power, glyphs of warding, or symbols. The results generated by these tables can even serve as evocative hieroglyphs and emblems for organizations in your campaign—for instance, the main image for the coat of arms of a group called the Knights of the Red Curtain.
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Using the Tables Roll once on each of the three tables on these pages, stringing the results together to generate your rune description. If you get a result of “[nothing],” use only the results from the other tables. Reroll anything that doesn’t make sense or does not appeal to you. Alternatively, simply choose results you like, rather than rolling.
Generate Part One d% 01–06 07–10 11–15 16–21 22–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–50 51–52 53–57 58–60 61–64 65–68 69–70 71–75 76–80 81–85 86–90 91–00
Result a dagger plunged into vines growing out of a crown perched atop crossed swords over a pair of hands surrounding demonic eyes peering out of blue lightning arcing out of an axe thrust into a hand bursting from a tentacle reaching out of a spear thrust through a trumpet thrust from tiny stars surrounding a jewel within a hand inside a sword inside a hand within an arrow piercing a hand clutching [nothing]
Generate Part Two d% 01–04 05–07 08–10 11–13 14–16 17–18 19–20 21–24 25–26 27–29 30–33 34–35 35–38 39–40 41–42 43–44 45–47 48–49 50–51 52–53 54–55 56–57 58–59 60–62 63–65 66–67 68–69 70–71 72–73 74–76 77–78 79–80 81–83 84–85 86–87 88–89 90–91 92–94 95–96 97–98 99–00
Result a skull a treasure chest a circle cut into three parts a pyramid a triangle a mushroom a grinning mask a clenched fist a giant human eye a shield a circle a pentagram a pentacle a flagon a circle cut in half a semicircle a heart a large star a wave a diamond an octagon a scroll a spiral a tree a rose a helmet a book a staff a hammer a bone a cat's face a wolf's head a large mouth an upward-pointing arrow a downward-pointing arrow an arrow pointing two directions a circle cut into four parts a ship a six-pointed star a seven-pointed star a pentagon
