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WarKitty
2011-02-13, 01:46 AM
Ok, I need some help here coming up with some random mutations. I have a post-apocolyptic world where the material plane had a disastrous encounter with the plane of chaos. A significant portion of the surviving population is mutated in some way. I need a mutation table for Joe Commoner. Generally, mutations should be stuff that's fairly minor - I know I've seen a few lists, but I need a pretty long stockpile here - BoVD list simply isn't enough. Stuff like "skin changes color" or "develop vestigal limb" are more what I'm looking for.

Any good ideas?

Serpentine
2011-02-13, 01:50 AM
I've got a series of tables for nature-based drifts. Could that be helpful at all?

WarKitty
2011-02-13, 01:52 AM
I've got a series of tables for nature-based drifts. Could that be helpful at all?

Might be worth it, yeah.

Necro_EX
2011-02-13, 01:58 AM
Heroes of Horror has a list for the effects of the taint on one's body and mind, that might be useful to ya. It's full of things like 'hair falls out in clumps,' 'nose decays to nothing,' and I believe 'grows vestigial twin.'

Serpentine
2011-02-13, 01:58 AM
You can see them here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7625261&postcount=4). Should be easy enough to make most of them grotesque.

TurtleKing
2011-02-13, 02:01 AM
The D20 Post Apopocalytic book has mutations based on radiation. This could also work for what your wanting. Some are becoming hairless, enlargement of a body part, a bum leg that only reduces your speed by 5 ft., or skin thickening up adding +1 natural armor.

RTGoodman
2011-02-13, 02:07 AM
My Google-fu is strong.

http://www.survivalrpg.com/mutate.html

http://www.slackratchet.com/rough2.htm (This one looks really good.)

http://members.cox.net/cyberdungeon/fallout_mutation.html

http://www.users.qwest.net/~bhegr/gm/newtrait.html (This one looks PERFECT.)

RndmNumGen
2011-02-13, 02:09 AM
I would also suggest looking at the mutation list (http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=List_of_mutations) of Dungeon Crawl and the corruption list (http://www.adomgb.info/adomgb-0-10.html) of ADOM for ideas. It's not a table you can roll on, though you can probably convert it to something like that is you wish.

Sdonourg
2011-02-13, 03:20 AM
You can look in my signature.

Lord Loss
2011-02-13, 07:40 AM
I'd give them Deformity feats. They can be found in Book of Vile Darkness, Lords of Madness as well as a few other sources.

WarKitty
2011-02-13, 09:52 AM
Thanks for the tables everyone! I've looked at BoVD and the other 3.5 stuff, but that's way too much for joe commoner.

Clepto
2011-02-13, 10:06 AM
In a pinch, check Complete Divine, and use the Drifts from the Geomancer. The lower level Drifts are pretty much just cosmetic, and they get more severe at higher levels. They're not in a table, but it shouldn't be that hard to randomize in a pinch.