Over at Planet Algol was some talk about making spell books and other magical tomes unique. I decided to put together a name generator for such books.
Random Magic Book Name Generator
Roll 1d6
1. Roll once on columns 2 & 32. Roll once on columns 2, 3, & 4
3. Roll once on columns 2, 3, 4, & 5
4. Roll once on columns 1, 2, 4, & 5
5. Roll once on columns 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5
6. Roll once on columns 4 & 5
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 | Alabaster | Book | Accursed | Awful | Alchemy |
2 | Ancient | Codex | Boundless | Black | Arts |
3 | Bound | Compendium | Celestial | Dangerous | Astrology |
4 | Calamitous | Folio | Demented | Dark | Conjuration |
5 | Draconic | Formulaes | Eldritch | Elegant | Demonism |
6 | Enchanted | Grimoire | Forgotten | Forlorn | Diabolism |
7 | Gilded | Inscriptions | Great | Hermetic | Enigma |
8 | Hidden | Lexicon | Hallowed | Infernal | Hexes |
9 | Illuminated | Librium | Insidious | Inscrutable | Magic |
10 | Lost | Manuscript | Luminous | Lunisolar | Magus |
11 | Magnificent | Plates | Master's | Mystagogical | Maleficarum |
12 | Monsterous | Portfolio | Noxious | Numinous | Rituals |
13 | Olde | Primer | Obscene | Onymatic | Runes |
14 | Poisonous | Scroll | Planar | Palladian | Secrets |
15 | Revised | Tablets | Resonant | Resplendent | Sorcery |
16 | Seven | Text | Shadow | Scioptic | Spells |
17 | Trifold | Tome | Terrible | Telestic | Thaumaturgy |
18 | Veiled | Treatise | Unequaled | Umbral | Transformation |
19 | Vile | Vade Mecum | Volatile | Villainous | Unknown |
20 | Wonderful | Volume | White | Whispering | Whitchcraft |
Testing it out I got these results:
Wonderful Librium Hallowed Lunisolar Magic
Manuscript Hallowed Palladian
Magnificent Manuscript Dangerous Astrology
Mystagogical Witchcraft
Scroll Boundless Inscrutable Rituals
Treatise Masters Mystagogical Spells
Olde Vade Mecum Scioptic Whitchcraft
Grimoire Masters
Tablets Obscene
Librium Volatile
Poisonous Compendium Resplendant Magus
Book Eldritch Whispering
Tweaking that a bit the list becomes:
The Wonderful Librium of Hallowed Lunisolar Magic
Palladian's Hallowed Manuscript
A Dangerous Manuscript of Magnificent Astrology
Mystagogical Witchcraft
Inscrutable Scroll & Boundless Rituals
Master's Treatise on Mystagogical Spells
Scioptic Whitchcraft from the Olde Vade Mecum
Masters Grimoire
Tablets of the Obscene
Librium Volatile
Poisonous Compendium of the Resplendant Magus
Book of Eldritch Whispering
Palladian's Hallowed Manuscript
A Dangerous Manuscript of Magnificent Astrology
Mystagogical Witchcraft
Inscrutable Scroll & Boundless Rituals
Master's Treatise on Mystagogical Spells
Scioptic Whitchcraft from the Olde Vade Mecum
Masters Grimoire
Tablets of the Obscene
Librium Volatile
Poisonous Compendium of the Resplendant Magus
Book of Eldritch Whispering
Thanks for making this. Very nicely done. I'm going to post this table over at Dragonfoot along with a link. This will come in quite useful for my home game campaign.
ReplyDeleteVery cool! Although I really shouldn't be reading it in order to avoid any unconscious plagiarism when further working on my table ;)
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ReplyDeleteNice! This will come in handy!
ReplyDeleteHiya... I made a Google Spreadsheet with this idea (after finding this very old post of yours) combined with several big dumps of adjectives from here and there (and some of your own).
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