"a peculiar planetar, quipping quippers, relentless researchers, a starlight slaad and thirsty thri-kreen"
Tables for P to T using alliteration to create ideas for encounters in D&D's Spelljammer
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Alliterative Adversaries K to O for Spelljammer
If you want a way to combine humour and unusual results to spark ideas
Roll a d10 or choose once on each column to get an Adjective and an Adversary and combine. Or roll once using the Adjective and Adversary in that row.
There is a pdf of these and more tables on DM's Guild as Spelljammer Alliterative Adversaries - Ideas Tables.
Spelljammer Alliterative Adversaries - A-E | F-J | K-O | P-T | U-Z | all spelljammer
P is for Perplexed Plasmoids
| d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | perplexed or plantlike | plasmoids or pegasi |
| 2 | pragmatic or pincered | priest or politician |
| 3 | prying or preposterous | pirates or pythons |
| 4 | psionic or plaguebearing | planetar or predator |
| 5 | playful or political | perytons or puddings |
| 6 | peculiar or pale | pixies or privateers |
| 7 | poisonous or purple | pilgrims or plants |
| 8 | pioneering or plasma | paladin or psychic |
| 9 | persistent or persuasive | poltergeist or pilot |
| 10 | practical or praying | psurlons or pets |
Q is for Questing Quasits
| d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | questing or quaking | quasits or quadrupeds |
| 2 | quivering or quoting | quitters or quarriers |
| 3 | quarrelsome or querulous | queen or quizmaster |
| 4 | quirky or quail-like | quippers or quails |
| 5 | quick or quelled | quaggoths or quintuplets |
| 6 | quantum or quiet | quadrone or quorum |
| 7 | questioning or queasy | questers or quiltmakers |
| 8 | quipping or queenly | quartermaster or quartet |
| 9 | quilled or quaffing | quicklings or quacks |
| 10 | quartz or quipper-like | questioner or quintet |
R (and Wr-) is for a Riddling Reigar
| d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | riddling or rainbow | reigar or wraith |
| 2 | wrathful or rabbitlike | roc or ruler |
| 3 | rich or rocklike | rogues or rhinos |
| 4 | repellent or ridiculous | ranger or recruiter |
| 5 | remorseful or relentless | rats or romantics |
| 6 | ruthless or red | ropers or raiders |
| 7 | restless or restless | researchers or riders |
| 8 | reptilian or ravenous | rivals or ravens |
| 9 | regenerating or rust | revenants or redcaps |
| 10 | radiant or ratlike | rakshasa or remorhaz |
S (and a few C-) is for Singing Scavvers
| d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | singing or scarlet | scavvers or spore servants |
| 2 | spiritual or stubborn | starpriest or sorcerer |
| 3 | spontaneous or snakelike | scouts or swarms |
| 4 | starlight or supernatural | skeletons or satyrs |
| 5 | scary or screaming | slaadi or centaurs |
| 6 | silent or stupid | space swine or shifters |
| 7 | spooky or solid | specters or sharks |
| 8 | spectral or space | star seer or succubus |
| 9 | solar or spiderlike | ssurrans or star spawn |
| 10 | selfless or sensual | shipmates or shadar-kai |
T is for Telepathic Tabaxi
| d10 | Adjective | Adversary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | telepathic or trustworthy | tabaxi or tourists |
| 2 | thirsty or tigerlike | titan or trader |
| 3 | taunting or terrible | thugs or tigers |
| 4 | terrifying or treasure-laden | tortles or tritons |
| 5 | tentacled or tearful | thri-kreen or trolls |
| 6 | truthful or thoughtful | thieves or twins |
| 7 | touchy or tireless | transmuter or tactician |
| 8 | teleporting or time-traveling | treant or tarrasque |
| 9 | telekinetic or trilling | thri-kreen or troglodytes |
| 10 | toxic or threatening | toads or troopers |
Alliterative Adversaries
There is a pdf of these and more tables on DM's Guild as Spelljammer Alliterative Adversaries - Ideas Tables.
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