A couple of d30-based random tables for gritty 1970s crime/cop/vigilante movie RPGs... Generate NPCs, connections between them, Locations, Objects of interest.
Grab all the tables as a double-sided page PDF here.
NPCs:
| | Adjective | NPC #1 | NPC #2 |
| 1 | abusive | actor | investor |
| 2 | addicted | assassin | junkie |
| 3 | alcoholic | banker | lawyer |
| 4 | amateur | beat cop | manager |
| 5 | brainwashed | billionaire | mayor |
| 6 | broken | burglar | musician |
| 7 | brutish | business(wo)man | nurse |
| 8 | charismatic | carnie | pawn shop owner |
| 9 | charming | chemist | photographer |
| 10 | corrupt | civil servant | pickpocket |
| 11 | depressed | constr. worker | pimp |
| 12 | double-crossing | crime boss | police detective |
| 13 | down-on-luck | cult deprogrammer | priest |
| 14 | experienced | cult leader | private detective |
| 15 | fanatic | dancer | professor |
| 16 | honest | director | psychiatrist |
| 17 | idealistic | doctor | psychologist |
| 18 | lucky | drug dealer | public servant |
| 19 | mad | engineer | scientist |
| 20 | one-armed | everyman | secretary |
| 21 | one-eyed | exotic dancer | smuggler |
| 22 | religious | federal agent | socialite |
| 23 | romantic | femme fatale | stock broker |
| 24 | shrewd | fortune teller | street walker |
| 25 | smart | gonzo journalist | surgeon |
| 26 | terminally ill | gunman | taxi driver |
| 27 | tough | hired gun | teacher |
| 28 | veteran | hitman | trucker |
| 29 | well-connected | industrialist | vigilante |
| 30 | young & stupid | investing.journalist | weapon dealer |
NPCs, continued
| | Quirk | Connection |
| 1 | almost unnoticeable | blackmails… |
| 2 | always wears sunglasses | has dirt on… |
| 3 | behaves deceptively friendly | has evidence against… |
| 4 | displays muscles | helped out… |
| 5 | dressed too hot for weather | highly respects… |
| 6 | dresses as a cowboy | hires somebody to follow… |
| 7 | fidgets with a coin | is disloyal to… |
| 8 | fidgets with a rubber ball | is secretly in love with… |
| 9 | fidgets with a switchblade | is the illegitimate child of… |
| 10 | flaunts impeccable manicure | knows about the shady dealings of… |
| 11 | fluid movements | knows the location of… |
| 12 | grins to display golden teeth | knows the secret of… |
| 13 | misuses foreign words | murdered… |
| 14 | never hides their intentions | needs dirt on… |
| 15 | over-the-top, theatrical | owes money to… |
| 16 | periodically takes medicine | owes their life to… |
| 17 | quotes movies all the time | ratted out… |
| 18 | quotes the Bible all the time | secretly works for… |
| 19 | reads people like open books | stole something from… |
| 20 | sips booze from a hip flask | trails… |
| 21 | smokes fat cigars | wants something stolen from… |
| 22 | snorts drugs | wants to form alliance with… |
| 23 | speaks with foreign accent | wants to incriminate… |
| 24 | surrounded by lackeys | wants to kill… |
| 25 | toothpick-chewer | wants to protect… |
| 26 | wears a huge belt buckle | wants to take revenge on… |
| 27 | wears a lot of jewelry | wants to weaken… |
| 28 | wears a uniform | witnessed crime committed by… |
| 29 | with facial scar | witnessed the murder of… |
| 30 | with visible tattoos | would never harm… |
Locations
Adjective | Location #1 | Location #2 | |
1 | abandoned | amusement park | moored ship |
2 | dilapidated | apartment block | morgue |
3 | ruinous | back streets | motel |
4 | condemned | bar | movie set |
5 | sealed-off | basement | office building |
6 | old | bowling alley | orphanage |
7 | haunted | carnival | parking lot |
8 | under constr. | cellar | playground |
9 | grimy | chemical plant | police station |
10 | featureless | church | power plant |
11 | corrugated | cinema | prison |
12 | derelict | city library | railway station |
13 | hulking | club | restaurant |
14 | underground | cold storage | rooftop |
15 | empty | condo | school |
16 | windowless | construction site | self-service storage |
17 | glass & steel | dancehall | service tunnels |
18 | labyrinthine | depot | sewers |
19 | burnt-out | drilling platform | shipyard |
20 | smoke-filled | dry cleaner's | social club |
21 | seedy | factory | squat |
22 | graffiti-covered | foundry | steam bath |
23 | vermin-infested | garage | steel mill |
24 | notorious | highrise building | strip club |
25 | cramped | hospital | studio |
26 | filthy | housing project | subway station |
27 | illegal | junkyard | sweatshop |
28 | waterlogged | laboratory | underpass |
29 | collapsed | meat proc. plant | warehouse |
30 | skeletal | mental ward | zoo |
Locations, continued
| | Detail | Darkness |
| 1 | bullet holes | grisly murder scene |
| 2 | chains | |
| 3 | cold draft | |
| 4 | constant hum | meeting place for gang |
| 5 | dried blood | |
| 6 | dripping water | |
| 7 | dust | used as a safehouse/hide-out |
| 8 | echoes | |
| 9 | everything boarded-up | |
| 10 | exposed construction | storage for illegal goods |
| 11 | exposed wiring | |
| 12 | fire escape | |
| 13 | flickering lights | drug-manufacturing place |
| 14 | foul smell | |
| 15 | fresh paint | |
| 16 | full of crates | place of imprisonment |
| 17 | loud machinery | |
| 18 | loud music | |
| 19 | metal scaffolding | front for something else |
| 20 | needles & drug paraphernalia | |
| 21 | neon lights | |
| 22 | occult symbols | place for illegal gambling |
| 23 | open elevator shaft | |
| 24 | piles of garbage | |
| 25 | pipes & hissing steam | place of fighting ring |
| 26 | pools of water | |
| 27 | skylight | |
| 28 | sparks | hub of illegal activities |
| 29 | suffocating heat | |
| 30 | sweltering hot |
Objects
| | 1 (1-5) | 2 (6-10) | 3 (11-15) | 4 (16-20) | 5 (21-25) | 6 (26-30) |
| 1 | artwork | booze | chemicals | drug | key or password | microfiche |
| 2 | blade | bullet | coded message | explosives | ledger | photograph |
| 3 | blueprint | car | deed | forgery | letter | poison |
| 4 | bonds | card | diamond | gun | map | shoes |
| 5 | book | cash | document | jewelry | memento | watch |
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