Saturday, April 16, 2022

D20x5 Nasty Nagas

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D20This naga’s body is that of
1a python.
2a rattlesnake.
3an eel.
4a larva.
5a velvet worm.
6a centipede.
7a caecilian.
8a slug.
9a caterpillar.
10a millipede.
11a maggot.
12a ferret.
13a lungfish.
14a cobra.
15a coral snake.
16an earthworm.
17a flatworm.
18a mamba.
19an asp.
20an adder.
D20This naga’s face is
1beautiful and youthful.
2gaunt and bearded.
3blandly indistinct.
4brutish, coarse.
5blemished and broken.
6permanently clenched in a wrathful visage.
7scarred and pockmarked.
8half masculine and half feminine.
9stiff and doll-like.
10so pale every vein can be seen beneath.
11scaled and bestial.
12a fleshless skull.
13always covered by a bronze mask.
14dominated by the lidless eye on their forehead.
15a silver mirror on the stump of their neck. They can speak with the image and voice of anyone reflected by it.
16made up of lotus petals.
17fluid, shifting features like ripples on a pond.
18chubby and jovial.
19uncannily elongated.
20tattooed with inhuman poetry.
D20To humans, this naga
1is an anthropophagous monster.
2is a wise guru.
3is an emissary of the gods.
4is a pitiless philosopher-king.
5is a friend to witches and the weird.
6is a guardian of sacred sites.
7is an enigma glimpsed in wild places.
8is a wretched priest of dark powers.
9is a culture hero who taught them the foundations of art and science.
10is an enemy thought defeated by their ancestors.
11is fickle, sometimes an ally and others an enemy.
12is an enforcer of karmic justice.
13is a remnant of a prior yuga, a being of lost glory.
14is the patron divinity of a remote village.
15is the ferocious hunter of an artifact stolen from the heavens long ago.
16is the gatekeeper to a paradisiacal pocket dimension full of earthly riches.
17is a ruthless tester of claimants to holiness and enlightenment.
18is a murderous maintainer of primal boundaries which contemporary humans can’t help but push against.
19is known as a lord of asuras and the risen dead.
20is a sage whose advice has raised and broken kingdoms.
D20This naga has the magical power
1to scry over long distances by staring into stagnant pools.
2to shed its monstrous skin and disguise itself in human form.
3to incubate other creatures’ eggs into humanoid hybrid servitors.
4to transmute its venom into vapour or alloy it into metals.
5to project its soul from its body and into other places and planes of existence.
6to send anything it swallows to a pocket dimension of its design.
7to slither through the air.
8to taste lies.
9to paralyze those who hear the shaking of its tail.
10to command bodies of water and monsoons.
11to peer into the past lives of those that lock eyes with it.
12to haunt its killer after death, and be reborn as their killer’s child should they ever have one.
13to arm and armour itself with supernaturally-potent regalia when engaged in righteous battle.
14to manifest countless arms of pale blue telekinetic force to manipulate things.
15to shoot beams of destructive energy from its eyes.
16to eat spells then disgorge them as mystic gemstones.
17to drain diseases and curses out of those it bites then transmit those afflictions to others through its spittle.
18to see invisible things and tussle with spirits as though they were solid.
19to swallow itself up like an ouroboros and pop back to reality somewhere else after that final moment of non-existence.
20to change its size from as small as a pencil to as large as a train.
D20You might encounter this naga
1swallowing a deer whole.
2doing hyperflexible yoga poses.
3painting its body with esoteric diagrams along internal energy flows.
4holding court in a grove of banyans.
5locked in mortal struggle with a giant bird.
6being pestered by wild monkeys.
7opining on how the world reflected in a drop of dew is no more real than the world itself, as both are merely illusive images.
8reading an ancient scroll written on snake-skin.
9performing astrological calculations.
10meeting with a prince for a forbidden tryst.
11scouting out a suitable spot for its nest.
12tending to a garden of cannabis.
13checking a line of wards it’s set up to keep out hungry ghosts.
14looking for its lost pet human.
15interrogating passers-by on their interpretation of a prophetic dream it had.
16reciting an epic poem about the wars of gods and demons.
17restoring an ancient, overgrown monument.
18mourning at the grave of a long-dead friend.
19enjoying tea with a family of orangutans.
20debating metaphysics with a monk

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