Friday, April 3, 2020

D6x6 Wanton Wyverns

If you’re one of those people who debate whether a magic flying reptile is a dragon or a wyvern, there’s still hope for you. You can change.



D6 This wyvern has
1 an iron collar dangling a broken chain around its neck, and the names of those it’s killed carved in sharp calligraphy on its scales.
2 a drooling serpent’s head at the tip of its tail.
3 an arrow sunken into its crusty, infected left eye.
4 snaggled, needle-like teeth.
5 noxious green and yellow stripes.
6 a smooth, black carapace instead of scales.
D6 This wyvern’s poison
1 ignites its victims’ blood within their veins.
2 corrodes its victims’ intellect until they’re too dim to breath.
3 turns its victims’ bodies into leathery-skinned eggs that hatch into more wyverns.
4 eats light and annihilates living matter into nothingness.
5 infects its victims and those they come into contact to with a mindless rage.
6 acts as a mutual treacle if one takes it at the same time that they’re affected by another lethal poison. Otherwise it’s still deadly.
D6 This wyvern prefers to hunt
1 by corralling smaller prey in tight quarters so they can’t flank it.
2 by bursting out of ambush in a precarious environment for prey that can’t fly.
3 by charging in to panic its prey and fly off with the weakest-seeming member of the group.
4 by stalking prey from a distance until they’re worn down enough to be easy pickings.
5 by dive-bombing prey from out of the blue.
6 by driving herds to trample and tenderize its true prey.
D6 This wyvern’s territory
1 is the foothills around a bald mountain.
2 is a wasteland stalked by basilisks.
3 is a salt-lashed atoll.
4 is a will-o’-wisp-haunted fen.
5 is a rolling steppe where kurgans loom.
6 has its boundary marked out by mutilated corpses impaled on snapped trees.
D6 This wyvern’s nest
1 is littered with stolen eggs, some now hatched into hybrid abominations.
2 is made from the bones of its prey, melted together by its vitriolic saliva.
3 is home to a fresh brood of hungry, chirping young.
4 is decorated with primitive sculptures of claw-carved rocks.
5 is dug in a deep warren protected by false routes, deadfall traps, and a swarm of symbiotic beetles that live off its scraps.
6 floats in a pond of scummy, parasite-infested water.
D6 People might pay you to hunt this wyvern because
1 they believe it’s a true dragon and desire its miraculous heartblood.
2 if it’s not stopped soon its predation of their herds will drive them to starvation.
3 their local hero fell in battle against it and they desire the return of the magic weapon that hero wielded.
4 they believe it’s responsible for poisoning their crops. It is not. A witch is behind that, and behind scapegoating the wyvern as well.
5 it’s been scaring away the caravans they rely on for vital trade.
6 they want it captured alive so they can tame it and ride it into battle.

2 comments:

  1. There are also wyrms and drakes, to fully confuse the situation.

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  2. Because of Warcraft 3 wyverns will always be brown cat bats to me lol. Like yexils from gamma world without the laser eyes

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