is a parched desert, and became so when a wildly
successful cactus-like plant carpeted its surface, absorbing all bodies
of water into itself.
2
is a bafflingly tremendous, continuous ring of forests
around a star, growing in freefall in a ring of gases, organics, and
water.
3
is the moon of a gas giant, robbed of its precious resources by float-bag raiders from that giant.
4
was the outer shell of a dyson sphere, a
science-fictional Brobdingnag, where they were to the other lifeforms as
various creepy-crawlies are to us.
5
resembles an obsidian orchid blossoming in the void - a
planet with its molten innards eviscerated and exposed to the cosmic
cold - focusing sunlight and scant atmosphere from black-mirror
continents into a habitable dip.
6
was in fact a massive void-dwelling organism that had
laid dormant since the first moment of their evolution, only to be
killed shortly after it awakened in some celestial war.
D6
These thri-kreen got to this world
1
after all their mages sacrificed themselves to create a portal to escape their homeworld.
2
by being brought as a zoo exhibit by aliens.
3
by being summoned by terrestrial wizards who thought they were a sort of insectoid demon.
4
riding a hollowed-out meteor.
5
as cultists sworn to be the vicarious maws of an interstellar locust-god.
6
as the lost, ragtag fragments of a crusade they thought would conquer the stars.
D6
The thri-kreen on this world
1
are physicians and engineers, assassins and sappers,
making use of the lingering remnants of their extraterrestrial
scientific knowledge.
2
are merchants of strange goods, forming caravans that
criss-cross the distant corners of the earth - they seek to barter for
something, but say not what.
3
aim to build a garden-city that replicates the ideal ecosystem of their homeworld.
4
are most populous under the auspice of a kingdom that worships a divine mantis.
5
rule an empire of nomadic warriors, their subjects
enjoying the tolerant peace of their remote perspective on terrestrial
religious and ethnic differences.
6
tend to belong to wandering mercenary war-bands and bandit gangs.
D6
These thri-kreen are viewed by most humans
1
as swarming bugs that must be squashed.
2
as walking crustacean delicacies.
3
as no stranger than any of the other monsters of the world.
4
the same way they'd view any armoured and unreadable other.
5
as good candidates for harem-guards, as they should have no interest in mammalian women.
6
as a karmic punishment for humanity's ruthless extermination of insect-kind.
D6
These thri-kreen's signature weapon
1
is a spring-powered circular saw wound up with a two-handed winch.
2
is an especially-long, telescoping pike that requires their extra hands to stabilize.
3
is a serrated blade compressed and honed from their own shed exoskeletons.
4
is a razor-thin whip-sword.
5
is a bola with explosive-filled balls that collide and detonate once they wrap a target up.
6
is essentially an oversized pair of scissors they wield with one pair of arms.
D6
These thri-kreen have a psionic aptitude for
1
dream-walking, harassing their enemies as nightmares and lingering as nightly advisors even after their bodies have decayed.
2
blocking out their presence from the conscious awareness of others.
3
tactile telekinesis - that is to say telekinesis that
doesn't extend far beyond their own carapace - useful for armouring,
clinging to surfaces, and so on.
4
thoughtography - burning an image onto a surface just by visualizing it intensely enough.
5
psychic surgery, reaching into the mind-body connection
to fix aches and pains, yank out or implant psychosomatic conditions,
and so on.
6
pyrokinesis, for the conjuring and control of flame - tinderboxes are unknown among them.
I really thought you had done thri-keen before but I checked your index and couldn't find it so I guess not 0.o.
I have not thought about thri-keen in quite a while haha but these are really good!
This one, like many of my favorite of your generators, does so much worldbuilding in the synthesis of the generators, on top of some great game applications both from like a social intrigue / factional perspective (on this world... / viewed by humans...) but also in the more action-y stuff (signature weapon / psionic aptitude).
I had a micro-setting I posted a long long time ago that was like a Githyanki Star Wars-y kind of thing, and I feel like these would go really well with that.
I really thought you had done thri-keen before but I checked your index and couldn't find it so I guess not 0.o.
ReplyDeleteI have not thought about thri-keen in quite a while haha but these are really good!
This one, like many of my favorite of your generators, does so much worldbuilding in the synthesis of the generators, on top of some great game applications both from like a social intrigue / factional perspective (on this world... / viewed by humans...) but also in the more action-y stuff (signature weapon / psionic aptitude).
I had a micro-setting I posted a long long time ago that was like a Githyanki Star Wars-y kind of thing, and I feel like these would go really well with that.