The Overloaded Double-Ended Oracular Table (ODEOT)
Well, that's a mouthful.
In my search for minimalistic gaming I'm also making the tools for running my games as small as possible. Alongside The Littlest Brown Book by idraluna-archives, I'm also creating a single-sheet quick reference, with a bunch of tables. As I was doing that, I realised a lot of them could fit into one big table.
I also like having options of different probability curves, so it has two ends: a d6 and a 2d6 one, so you can choose the one that's more appropriate to the situation at hand. Anyways, here's how it's going:
1d6 | Oracle | Situation | Retainer | Monster | 2d6 |
1- | No, And | Worst Possible | Ill Will | Attacks | 3- |
2 | No | Worsens | Refuses | Hostile | 4-5 |
3 | No, But | Worsens | Negotiates | Neutral | 6 |
4 | Yes, But | Improves | Negotiates | Neutral | 7 |
5 | Yes | Improves | Accepts | Open | 8-10 |
6+ | Yes, And | Improves | Accepts, Loyal | Friendly | 11+ |
Inspiration for the oracles came mainly from Journeyman Pocket Edition by Zac Bir, OSE and this post by Chris McDowall. Note this deviates a little from the usual B/X likelihoods for Retainer and Monster Reactions.
And yes, I could just use the Oracle column to adjudicate all situations (since the results in that column map pretty well to the ones in the other columns), but having some situations already spelled out is super handy for me. I'm always trying to balance minimalism with ease of use after all.
As always, you can use other dice rolls with this table and it will be just fine (using 1d12, 1d10+1 or 1d10+2 and reading with the 2d6 column is easy enough).
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