Saturday, March 11, 2023

D6x6 Trifling Treants

In the game Warcraft 3 the night elf tree buildings could uproot and fight. That was awesome. I used to make armies of just those tree buildings because they were that much cooler than everything else. Can't remember it ever working though.

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D6 This treant is
1 tall, thick, and smooth like a baobab, crowned with greenery.
2 obscured by the coiffured curtain of its dangling leaves, thin and swaying behind like a willow.
3 rough, almost scaly, capped with wide leaves as a palm.
4 broad, and bent under the weight of its many sprouting figs.
5 fused to an a throne of crawling mangrove-roots.
6 hunch-backed, knobbly and knurled, a rotten cavity in its chest.
D6 This treant was born
1 from the attempt of a dryad to save her ailing lover by transmitting their soul into a living wooden idol.
2 as a physical avatar for the emergent, mycorrhizally-networked intelligence of the forest itself.
3 from the same enigmatic process that gives rise to mouselings, owl-folk, and other anthropomorphizations, only applied to a tree instead of an animal.
4 of a wizard trying to steal the Methuselan longevity of trees, and being overwhelmed by the vegetable nature they took in.
5 from a particularly dirty and unhinged druid mating with a tree.
6 on one of the dissident pseudo-elemental planes: the plane of wood.
D6 This treant treats humans
1 as wayward children in need of saving from civilization.
2 as particularly aggressive parts of a larger animal herd that must occasionally be culled.
3 as pawns in plans measured in centuries.
4 as fascinating distractions due to their fast-lived whimsy.
5 as a human might treat goblins - as unnatural, swarming, dangerous pests.
6 as an enemy nation, sometimes at war with them, sometimes in an uneasy truce with them, but they're never fully trusted.
D6 This treant views trees
1 with vague uneasiness, like a person might a manikin.
2 as their rightful property, demanding recompense from even the nibbling squirrel.
3 with envy, as sleepers who get rest while it must work for their good.
4 as its relatively dim and slow family.
5 as a shepherd might their flock.
6 like a fish views water.
D6 This treant can
1 manipulate the minds of beasts that eat its leaves.
2 animate trees to march into battle alongside it.
3 fill the air around it with hyperallergenic pollen that causes mammals that inhale it to go into anaphylactic shock.
4 subtly rearrange the vegetation of its domain to trip you up and get you lost.
5 imbue seeds with energy that makes them rapidly sprout into entangling growths.
6 send its roots rushing through the earth to impale distant targets.
D6 Something you might get from this treant
1 is its bark, which can be crafted into lightweight armour that's especially effective against manufactured weapons.
2 is its heartwood, which can be worked into an amulet that wards off death and strengthens its wearer's vitality.
3 are its flowers, which can be distilled into potent perfumes that induce overpowering emotions in those who inhale them.
4 is its sap, which can be boiled down into a regenerative healing potion.
5 are cuttings that can be used as scions for grafting onto plants or people.
6 is its largest branch - prime material for a magic staff.

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